Past Henry Moore exhibitions
2025
Encounters
16 April – 2 November 2025
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
A season of stories and events celebrating the inspiring and transformative encounters between Henry Moore and the people, objects and ideas in his orbit during his active career and beyond.
Moore and Malaparte: Rhythm and Form
22 January – 27 March 2025
Gagosian, Paris, France
An exhibition of small-scale sculptures and drawings by Henry Moore in dialogue with three pieces of furniture from Casa Malaparte.
2024
Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore
13 October 2024 – 20 January 2025
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore have long been admired for their extraordinary distillations of natural forms into abstraction – O’Keeffe’s iconic paintings of flowers and Moore’s monumental public sculpture.
Henry Moore and Greece
12 September – 26 October 2024
Gagosian, Athens, Greece
Opening at Gagosian’s Athens gallery on 12 September, Henry Moore and Greece is the first exhibition of Moore’s work in Greece for twenty years.
Henry Moore in Colour
27 July – 3 November 2024
The Lightbox, Surrey, UK
Most know Henry Moore (1898-1986) as one of the most influential and innovative sculptors of the modern era. But he was also a remarkably talented and prolific drawer.
Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall
8 June 2024 – 22 September 2024
The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK
This focused exhibition considers Henry Moore’s celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist’s fascination with images of the wall, during and immediately after World War II.
Henry Moore in Miniature
3 May – 8 September 2024
The Holburne Museum, Bath, UK
Henry Moore in Miniature presents a survey of Moore’s sculptural output from his earliest works through to his last years, in which nothing is more than 30cm in size.
Inspiration, Sculpture and Our Natural World
28 March – 3 November 2024
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Nature was always at the centre of Henry Moore’s work. He preferred to work outdoors and saw the landscape as the ideal setting for his work.
Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore: Giants of Modern Art
10 February – 2 June 2024
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
This groundbreaking exhibition creates a new dialogue between the work of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and Henry Moore (1898-1986), exploring how these iconic 20th-century artists developed their own shape of modern art firmly rooted in the natural world.
2023
O’Keeffe and Moore
30 September – 31 December 2023
Albuquerque Museum, USA
A one-of-a-kind exhibition, O’Keeffe and Moore compares the work of two iconic modernists: American painter Georgia O’Keeffe and British sculptor Henry Moore.
O’Keeffe and Moore
13 May – 27 August 2023
The San Diego Museum of Art, USA
This is the first exhibition to bring together the work of two iconic modernists: Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore.
Henry Moore: Drawing in the Dark
9 May – 26 August 2023
Danum Gallery, Doncaster, UK
Drawing in the Dark is the largest exhibition to date of Moore’s coalmining drawings, completed in 1942 for the War Artists’ Advisory Committee.
Henry Moore: Form and Material
7 April – 22 October 2023
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Netherlands
Organised in partnership with Museum Beelden aan Zee, this large-scale retrospective provides a unique insight into Moore’s creative process and use of materials, focusing on the influence of nature on his work.
Vitality: The Human Landscapes of Henry Moore
5 April – 29 October 2023
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
For Moore, nature and the human body were sources of vitality, expressions of life-force which he could harness in his work, uniting and concentrating their vital energy.
2022
Henry Moore: Drawing in the Dark
16 December 2022 – 16 April 2023
St Albans Museum + Gallery, UK
Drawing in the Dark is the largest exhibition to date of Moore’s coalmining drawings, completed in 1942 for the War Artists’ Advisory Committee.
Henry Moore in Florence
16 September 2022 – 31 March 2023
Piazza Signoria and San Miniato Abbey, Italy
Fifty years after the memorable exhibition at the Forte di Belvedere in 1972, Henry Moore returns to Florence.
Henry Moore: Sharing Form
28 May – 4 September 2022
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
Sharing Form takes as its starting point the Moore’s early fascination with the Neolithic site of Stonehenge. He was inspired by the grandeur of the idea – a powerful and primal work of art set in the landscape.
Henry Moore: The Sixties
1 April – 30 October 2022
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
In the 1960s, Moore embraced new materials and techniques which enabled him to work on an increasingly monumental scale. This exhibition features rarely seen sculptures, drawings, graphics and a wealth of archive material drawn entirely from our collections to illuminate the innovation of an artist at the height of his powers.
2021
Henry Moore: Configuration
17 September 2021 – 23 January 2022
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
This focused display offers insight into Moore’s use of material, space and the humanisation of organic form.
This Living Hand: Edmund de Waal presents Henry Moore
19 May – 31 October 2021
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Moore believed that ‘tactile experience is very important as an aesthetic dimension in sculpture’. In this innovative exhibition, you are invited to touch a collection of Moore’s work in bronze and stone, plus a series of original carved benches created by the curator from Hornton stone – one of Henry Moore’s favourite materials.
2019
Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing
3 April – 27 October 2019
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Henry Moore is best known for his sculpture; but it was thanks to an exhibition of his Shelter drawings at the National Gallery in 1942 that Moore first received widespread recognition in Britain. This new exhibition, featuring over 150 drawings, explores his prolific career on paper.
Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads
6 March – 23 June 2019
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
A ground-breaking exhibition, revealing Henry Moore’s fascination with the armour at the Wallace Collection, and the inspiration behind his celebrated Helmet Head series.
2018
Out of the Block: Henry Moore Carvings
30 March – 28 October 2018
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Carving sculpture out of a block of stone or wood was central to Henry Moore’s practice throughout his career. This exhibition explores how for nearly seven decades Moore continually returned to this method to make some of his most imaginative and inspired work.
2017
Becoming Henry Moore
30 November 2017 – 18 February 2018
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Becoming Henry Moore gives an insight into the influences at play in the mind of Britain’s foremost modern sculptor during his formative years.
Becoming Henry Moore
14 April – 22 October 2017
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
To coincide with the 40th anniversary of our founding, we’re proud to present this exhibition charting the artist’s creative trajectory from 1914 until 1930.
2011
Dear Henry Moore: Connections and Correspondence
3 February – 26 June 2011
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
This exhibition looks at Moore’s associations with a younger generation of sculptors, for whom he was, as the critic Herbert Read described, ‘in some sense a parent’.
Henry Moore: Prints and Portfolios
3 February – 3 April 2011
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
This major exhibition of prints, etchings and drawings explores the stories behind Moore’s graphic work in lavish detail and reveals his connections to literature.