THE WORK OF DONALD LOCKENews & Events
London, England
Artwork Acquisition, February 2026
The Victoria and Albert Museum has acquired a second sculpture by Donald Locke, Village Square.
Village Square, 1974
wood, vinyl, ceramic, stainless steel
15 x 9 x 14.5 ″
Richmond, VA
Artwork Acquisition, January 2026
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts recently acquired Donald Locke’s artwork, 63 Black Squares, to be part of their Modern and Contemporary Art Collection!
63 Black Squares, 1978-1979
mixed media on canvas
35 x 44.5 ″
Birmingham, England
October 1, 2025 – February 22, 2026
Donald Locke: Resistant Forms explores the development of Donald Locke’s work across Guyana, the UK and the United States from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. It features over eighty works, from early ceramics to mixed-media sculptures, and monochromatic black paintings from the 1970s to several large-scale mixed media paintings from the 1990s.
These materials reflect Locke’s evolving approach to the use of different media, his formal ingenuity and the growing influence of African American vernacular art and iconography, following his relocation to the United States.
Bristol, UK
May 31, 2025 – September 7, 2025
Donald Locke: Resistant Forms explores the development of Donald Locke’s work across Guyana, the UK and the United States from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. It features over eighty works, from early ceramics to mixed-media sculptures, and monochromatic black paintings from the 1970s to several large-scale mixed media paintings from the 1990s.
These materials reflect Locke’s evolving approach to the use of different media, his formal ingenuity and the growing influence of African American vernacular art and iconography, following his relocation to the United States.
metz, France
January 25, 2025 – September 1, 2025
After the End. Cartographies for Another Time, Centre Pompidou-Metz. Curated by Manuel Borja-Villel, the exhibition brings together the work of 40 international artists to explore new, ancestral, popular and modern narratives shaped by our colonial and post-colonial history. It questions the idea of diaspora and community, and invites us to imagine other worlds beyond our own time.
Donald Locke’s work is represented by two sculptures from the 1970’s: Plantation Series X/1 and Village Square.
Miami Beach, FL
December 6 – 8, 2024
Donald Locke’s artwork, “The Water Carrier (Pomona and the Water Carrier),” was at Miami Basel, represented by the Allison Jacques Gallery.
atlanta, georgia
October 24, 2024 – February 2, 2025
Solo exhibit, Donald Locke: Nexus at Atlanta Contemporary, showcased Donald Locke’s artwork from the early 1990s when he was an artist resident at the then-called Nexus Studios, now known as Atlanta Contemporary.
London, UK
October 9 – 13, 2024
Donald Locke’s work was on display through the Alison Jacques Gallery for the London Frieze Art Fair. The gallery devoted the entire booth to his work. The gallery was located in the “Spotlight” section of fair which was curated by Valerie Cassel-Oliver, Curator at Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA.
University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, UK
September 8, 2023 – January 7, 2024
Four artworks by Donald Locke are featured in Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance.
On view September 8, 2023 – January 7, 2024.
London, England
Ongoing
Donald Locke’s Dageraad from the Air has been installed in the last room (1965-1980) of the Walk Through British Art collection display.
On view now.
New York, new york
September 15, 2022 – May 22, 2023
Newly unveiled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Facade Commission Gilt by Hew Locke, Donald Locke’s son.
On view September 15, 2022 – May 22, 2023.
LONDON, ENGLAND
March 22, 2022 – January 22, 2023
Hew Locke’s “The Procession,” is on view until January 2023 at Tate Britain. This commissioned work which Hew created specifically for the Tate encourages viewers to “reflect on the cycles of history, and the ebb and flow of culture, people and finance and power” by immersing viewers in the procession.
On view March 22, 2022 – January 22, 2023.
LONDON, ENGLAND
December 1, 2021 – April 3, 2022
Three of Donald Locke’s works, Plantation K/140, Trophies of Empire, and Dageraad from the Air, were on display at Tate Britain for the exhibit, “Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art, 1950s-Now.”
On view December 1, 2021 – April 3, 2022.
Glasgow, Scotland
March 11, 2022
Donald Locke’s work was featured in the exhibition, “AfroScots: Revisiting the Work of Black Artists in Scotland through New Collecting,” at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow, Scotland.
San francisco, ca
January 19 – 23, 2022
Donald Locke’s work was showcased at the 2022 FOG Art Fair in San Francisco and was represented by the Jenkins Johnson Gallery.
On view January 19 – 23, 2022.
london, England
January 13 – February 26, 2022
Three of Donald Locke’s drawings from the Pork Knocker Series: Buccaneer Fish, Big Nose Tooloo, and Man of Sorrow, were featured in the Maximillian William Gallery exhibition, “Exploratory Drawings,” which showcased drawings and photographs from sculptors and filmmakers.
On view January 13 – February 26, 2022.
Miami, fl
December 5, 2021
Donald Locke’s sculpture, Plantation X/1, was showcased in the Miami Basel Art Fair in December 2021.
london, england
July 23, 2021
Tate Britain acquired two of Locke’s works. One was the mixed media painting, Dageraad from the Air, and the other was the sculpture, Plantation K/140.
Tate Britain
london, england
2018
Tate Britain installed a version of their ongoing series, “Walk Through British Art: Sixty Years, 1960s to Present Day,” which included Trophies of Empire #1.
Student Ceramic Sculptures Discovered
Edinburgh, scotland
2018
Three 1963 student ceramic sculptures by Donald Locke were recently discovered in a private collection in Edinburgh, Scotland. Two of the sculptures were acquired by the Glasgow Museums.
High Museum
atlanta, ga
2018
When the High Museum of Art reorganized and re-installed its permanent collection in mid-October, 2018, Donald Locke’s painting, Conspiracy of Icons #1, was also re-hung and put on view.