Selected Exhibitions
Southern Guild, Frieze Los Angeles
26 Feb. 2026
The presentation reflects a pivotal moment for the gallery as it prepares to open a permanent space in Tribeca, New York in spring 2026, while acknowledging Los Angeles as a formative site for its U.S. program.
Founded on principles of collaboration and long-term engagement with artists, Southern Guild has established a transcontinental presence through its spaces in Cape Town, Los Angeles, and soon, New York.
Following the gallery's acclaimed booth at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Frieze Los Angeles represents the next expression of the gallery’s evolving program.
Bringing together artists working across generations and geographies, the booth highlights practices rooted in material experimentation, figuration, and sculptural form. Across distinct formal and material languages, the works engage inquiries into identity, visibility, inheritance, spirituality, and the body.
Kearsey & Gold, Unstable Grounds, London
15 Oct. 2025
Kearsey and Gold is pleased to present Unstable Grounds, an exhibition that unites the paintings of contemporary artists Julian Lombardi (b.1996, Philadelphia) and Shane Keisuke Berkery (b.1992, Tokyo) in dialogue with Frank Auerbach, James Brooks, R.B Kitaj, Markus Lüpertz, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland.
Shane Keisuke Berkery is a contemporary Irish-Japanese painter with an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art. Berkery utilises photography, drawing and digitally manipulated compositions to create paintings that blur the boundaries between past and present, intertwining art history with personal, familial and cultural histories. This manifests in complex visual imagery that defy linear narratives. This complexity represents the strangeness of our world whilst acting as a meditation on Berkery’s unconscious mind.
Julian Lombardi is an American painter from Philadelphia and currently based in London. Lombardi earned his MA in painting from the Royal College of Art. Lombardi utilises abstract forms that delve into the spatialisation of psychological and sensory experiences. Lombardi’s visual language is marked by gestural lines, protean forms, and vivid passages of colour, often incorporating tubular motifs.
HDM Gallery, Ways of Seeing, Paris
18 Oct. 2025
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing (1972) challenges traditional ideas about art and visual culture by showing how our perception is shaped by context, power, and ideology. He argues that reproducing artworks changes their meaning, since scale, setting, and framing alter how we experience them.
By combining essays with image-only chapters, Berger demonstrates that seeing is never neutral—it is always shaped by history, culture, and power structures.
Ways of Seeing is a group exhibition that takes its title from John Berger’s seminal essay, which challenged how images are framed, consumed, and understood. Bringing together the practices of Shane Keisuke Berkery, Edward Jones, Gus Monday and Oleksii Shcherbak, the exhibition considers how contemporary painting and image-making continue to negotiate the politics of perception. Each artist, in distinct ways, questions what it means to look—whether through layered processes of erasure,
Chilli, Birds of a Feather, London
24 Apr. 2025
Throughout history, artistic communities have played an important role in building both intellectual and creative dialogues, as well as sewing commercial threads. In an often solitary profession, community becomes not only a lifeline but a catalyst for growth, creativity and visibility. Birds of a Feather showcases the possibilities of a globally connected world through a community of young artists who met at the Royal College of Art in 2024. These artists have worked, studied, taught and exhibited alongside each other, in turn forging friendships that have helped support and inspire each other. Together they form a diverse tapestry of the present moment, reimagining every day life to foster artistic and social conversations from various viewpoints, backgrounds and identities. Grounded in their personal experiences, these artists look outward to create work that is deeply individual, socially engaged, and emotionally resonant.
Belenius, Through Closed Eyes, Darkly Stockholm
21 Feb. 2025
Space is a dominant organising principle that structures the way we experience the world around us. It plays out in the architectures that contextualise and inform embodied experience while also serving as a framework through which we arrange our inner lives. Our relationship to space is intimate, particular, and shaped as much by our psychology as our physicality.
Through closed eyes, darkly brings together three London-based artists who cultivate distinct treatments of space within their practices: Shane Keisuke Berkery, Julian Lombardi and Gus Monday. Referencing the Biblical idiom ‘through a glass, darkly’ and Phillip K. Dick’s 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly, the title of the exhibition describes how our perception of reality is imperfect and inevitably shaped by our own subjectivities. In paintings and works on paper, Berkery, Lombardi and Monday dissolve representational boundaries between internal and external experience, fusing autobiography and collective consciousness, sensation and observation, memory and encounter to explore how the complexities of human experience might be given form through artmaking.
Ames Yavuz, A Gesture, A Room, A Memory Singapore
11 Jan. 2025
Ames Yavuz is pleased to present a gesture, a room, a memory, a group exhibition featuring Shane Keisuke Berkery, Mark Maurangi Carrol, Chen Ching-Yuan, Gus Monday, Alvin Ong and Tom Polo.
A gesture, a room, a memory is a conversation between contemporary painters as they contemplate the domestic, the everyday, and the small epiphanies of the moments in-between. Scenes which at first seem at perfectly mundane are re-examined to reveal diaristic moments of desire, reflections on identity and self, and the intrusive thoughts that enter the daily interiors we inhabit. The subtle pleasures and vagaries of the day-to-day are brought to the fore with tenderness, reverence, and a sense of inevitability, crafting a tapestry of experiences which are at once deeply personal and universal.