4 July-14 September 2012
Galleries 1, 8 & 9

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The London Open will provide a snapshot of art in London now, showcasing some of the most dynamic work being made across the capital to an international audience. This new incarnation of the Whitechapel Gallery's triennial open submission exhibition is open to all artists aged 26 or over living and working in the London postal district. The first edition of The London Open was selected by editor of Art Monthly Patricia Bickers, artist Rodney Graham, collector Jack Kirkland, curator Marta Kuzma and Whitechapel Gallery curator Kirsty Ogg.

There was an overwhelming response to the call for entries for the 2012 exhibition with over 1800 applications being received from artists living all over London and working in a wide variety of media. The selection took place in late January and was extremely rigorous. With a very high standard of work submitted and limited space in the galleries it was simply not possible to accommodate the work of as many artists as the panel would have liked.

The final selection has now been made and the Gallery is delighted to announce that the following artists will be participating in the first edition of The London Open .

Pio Abad

Peter Abrahams

Caroline Achaintre

Greta Alfaro

Sol Archer

Thomas Ball

Martin John Callanan

Dale Carney

Paul Carter

Alice Channer

Leigh Clarke

Nicholas Cobb

Lucienne Cole

Beth Collar

Chris Coombes

Shona Davies, Jon Klein & Dave Monaghan

Arnaud Desjardin

Sarah Dobai

Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson

Ana Genoves

Mark Harris

Emma Holmes

John Hughes

Nikolai Ishchuk

Robert Orchardson

Heather Phillipson

Ruth Proctor

Amikam Toren

Charlie Tweed

Roy Voss

Paul Westcombe

Rehana Zaman

2012 marks the 80th anniversary of open submission shows at the Whitechapel Gallery. These exhibitions have showcased artists early in their careers who have later gone on to achieve great prominence such as Antony Gormley, Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread. 

The Gallery would like to extend it’s thanks to all those who applied for The London Open for the time and effort that they put into their application and for their support of this historic exhibition.

Image: Design by The 2 Group 2011