‘Slow down and look: the simple complexity of Robert Ryman is revealed in Barbican exhibition’ by Annabel Keenan
2026
Known for his austere white canvases, Robert Ryman (1930-2019) spent his career testing the limits of what the discipline of painting could be. More than 30 years after his last major UK exhibition, the late American artist is the subject of Robert Ryman: The Real Thing at the Barbican. Bringing together works made from the mid-1950s through to the early 2010s, the show aims to introduce Ryman to a new generation of British audiences, while challenging the perception of an artist whose practice has often been reduced to the shorthand of “white paintings”.
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