The Hyman Collection has an extensive loan prgramme. In addition to exhibitions of the Hyman Collection we also lend individual artworks to exhibitions across the world. Some recent exhibitions and loans are shown below. For more information please consult registrar@britishphotography.org
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RECENT EXHIBITIONS OF THE HYMAN COLLECTION
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Jo Spence. A Woman's Place?
Photographs from the Hyman Collection. Belfast Exposed, Belfast 17 October - 21 December 2024Press Release - for immediate use New exhibitions at Belfast Exposed to explore 'a women's place' through the lens of photography Ground-breaking works by feminist phototherapist Jo Spence and British-Asian... -
Arpita Shah: Modern Muse
Photographs from the Hyman Collection. Belfast Exposed, Belfast 17 October - 21 December 2024Press Release – for immediate use New exhibitions at Belfast Exposed to explore “a women’s place” through the lens of photography Ground-breaking works by feminist phototherapist Jo Spence and British-Asian... -
Arpita Shaw. Modern Muse
Oxford Festival of the Arts / Photo Oxford 28 June - 14 July 2024Details can be found here: OXFORD The Modern Muse – Arpita Sha h in collaboration with Photo Oxford 28 June – 14 July Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 4pm – 7pm Weekends,... -
Uncharted Streets: Kurt Hutton, Bill Brandt, Edith Tudor-Hart, Charlie Phillips, Markéta Luskačová
Photographs from the Hyman Collection. Ben Uri Gallery and Museum 17 January - 8 March 2024Curated by the Centre for British Photography for the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, Uncharted Streets: Photographers from the Hyman Collection presents five photographers who were born outside the UK... -
Daniel Meadows. Free Photographic Omnibus
Centre for British Photography 5 October - 22 December 2023Curator: James Hyman This exhibition is available for hire. On 22 September 1973, from the car park behind Impressions Gallery in York, Daniel Meadows set off on a long-planned adventure... -
John Blakemore. Seduced by Light.
Centre for British Photography 8 June - 24 September 2023The exhibition, held at the Centre for British Photography, includes black and white landscapes made in Wales and England. These range from early works that respond to the movement of... -
Writing her own Script. Women Photographs from the Hyman Collection
Somerset House, London 10 - 14 May 2023The exhibition charts a course from the 1930s to the present and provides an overview of photography in Britain that focuses on two strands: a humanistic documentary tradition and a... -
Natasha Caruana. Fairytale for Sale
Centre for British Photography 26 January - 28 May 2023Natasha Caruana's Fairytale for Sale is a recent acquisition by The Hyman Collection. The installation explores wedding customs in the UK, revealing the fantasy, performance and trophy moments of the... -
Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox. Spitting
Centre for British Photography 26 January - 28 May 2023In 2015 The Hyman Collection commissioned Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox to respond to the original Fluk and Law Spitting Image puppets of Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet Ministers in... -
Heather Agyepong. Wish You Were Here
Centre for British Photography 26 January - 28 May 2023In 2019 The Hyman Collection commissioned Heather Agyepong to respond to early twentieth century postcard imagery reflecting the dance craze in Europe, The Cake Walk. The resulting series was named... -
The English at Home. 20th Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection
Centre for British Photography 26 January - 28 May 2023The exhibition takes its title from one of the most important twentieth century photography publications, Bill Brandt’s first book, The English at Home (1935) and proposes that to understand contemporary... -
A Different Mirror. Women Photographs from the Hyman Collection
Photo Oxford Festival 15 October - 15 November 2021Specially curated for the Photo Oxford Festival in Oxford, A Different Mirror presents a dialogue between two generations of socially engaged photographers from the pioneering work of Jo Spence and... -
Jo Spence. From Fairytales to Photo Therapy
Arnolfini, Bristol 19 December 2020 - 20 June 2021Spence has been an integral figure within photographic discourse from the 1970s onwards. Throughout her diverse projects she is well known for her highly politicised approach to photography and the... -
A Picture of Health. Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection
Arnolfini, Bristol 14 November 2020 - 1 July 2021The exhibition, which runs from 14 November to 21 February 2021, and its accompanying programme have been co-curated by the Arnolfini and the Hyman Collection as well as Creative Shift... -
Modern Nature. Photographs from the Hyman Collection
Hepworth Wakefield 13 July 2018 - 22 July 2019For the first time in human history, more people are living in urban environments than in the countryside, yet the impulse to seek out nature remains as strong as ever.... -
The Hyman Collection Donation
Yale Centre for British Art, Newhaven, USA 16 January - 28 March 2018The Hyman Collection gift to the Yale Center for British Art includes prints by famed British photographers Bill Brandt (1904-1983), Tony Ray-Jones (1941-1972), and Martin Parr (b. 1952), and it...
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RECENT LOANS FROM THE HYMAN COLLECTION
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Loan of Bill Brandt to Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester April 29, 2025PRESS RELEASE Discover the relationships that shaped the last 120 years of British Art in this remarkable portrait exhibition. 'Even when portraying others, it seems the search is motivated by... -
Loans to Lives Less Ordinary
Loans to new exhibition at Two Temple Place January 17, 2025The Hyman Collection is lending works by Bert Hardy, Ken Grant, and Jo Spence PRESS RELEASE Lives Less Ordinary: Working-Class Britain Re-seen Our 2025 exhibition explores the overlooked richness and... -
Loans to The 80s: Photographing Britain at TATE BRITAIN
November 19, 2024The Hyman Collection is delighted to be major lenders to the exhibition The 80s : Photographing Britain ( 21 November 2024 - 5 May 2025) PRESS RELEASE This autumn, Tate... -
Loans of works by Anna Fox
Loans to The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain at Pallant House May 11, 2024We are pleased to lend works from Anna Fox's celebrated series, 'My Mother's Cupboards and my Father's Words' to The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain , 11 May... -
Loans to Dorothy Bohm. London Street Markets
Centre for British Photography September 22, 2023We are delighted to be lending to the exhibition Dorothy Bohm. London Street Markets at the Centre for British Photography. London's street markets and especially the people who worked there... -
Loans to Daniel Meadows. Free Photographic Omnibus 50th Anniversary Exhibition
Centre for British Photography September 15, 2023Daniel Meadows. Free Photographic Omnibus 50th Anniversary Exhibition (1973-2023) 5 October - 22 December 2023 Centre for British Photography On 22 September 1973, from the car park behind Impressions Gallery... -
Loans of Spitting Image Puppets to new exhibition in Cambridge
Cambridge University Library September 14, 2023We are delighted to be loaning original life-size Spitting Image Puppets to Spitting Image: A Controversial History . Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR 30 September 2023 –... -
Loan of series by Heather Agyepong to Reimag(in)ing the Victorians
Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham August 29, 2023We are pleased to be lending the complete set of Heather Agyepong's Too Many Blackamoors to the upcoming exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham. From taxidermy and photography to forgotten... -
Loans to John Blakemore. Seduced by Light
Centre for British Photography June 1, 2023The Hyman Collection is pleased to loan photographs and unique hand-made artist's books to the exhibition, John Blakemore. Seduced by Light at the Centre for British Photography. -
Loans to Landscape Trauma
Centre for British Photography June 7, 2023The Hyman Collection has loaned works to the major group show at the Centre for British Photography. PRESS RELEASE Landscape Trauma explores the different ways in which we impact the... -
Loans to Jo Spence. Fairy Tales and Photography
Centre for British Photography January 17, 2023Fairy Tales and Photography , staged at the newly opened Centre for British Photography, brings together archive material from the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive and photographs from the Hyman... -
Loans to Headstrong. Women and Empowerment
Centre for British Photography January 23, 2023We are delighted to loan works by Rosy Martin in collaboration wth Verity Welsted and by Paoloma Tendero to the major openng exhibition of the new Centre for British Photography... -
Loans to Bill Brandt / Henry Moore
Yale Centre for British Art, USA November 6, 2022The Hyman Collection is delighted to be one of the main lenders to the exhibition Bill Brandt-Henry Moore , loaning serveral important works by Bill Brandt to the new exhibition... -
Loans of rare Keith Vaughan photographs to new exhibition
Pallant House Gallery, Sussex October 12, 2022We are pleased to be lending rare early photographs by Keith Vaughan to the new Pallant House Gallery exhibition. The first major exhibition to celebrate Sussex as a place of... -
Loans to Radical Landscapes
Tate Liverpool April 30, 2022We are pleased to loan works from the collection by Daniel Meadows and Homer Sykes to the exhibition Radical Landscapes at Tate Loverpool. 5 May – 4 September 2022 In... -
Loan to Me, Myself and I: Artist's Self Portraits
Royal West of England Academy (RWA) April 29, 2022We are pleased to loan a self-portrait by Sam Taylor Johnson to the exhibition Me, Myself, I: Artists’ Self-Portraits . The exhibition provides historical context to today’s selfie culture, through... -
Loans to Actually, the Dead are not Dead
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart October 22, 2021The Hyman Collection is pleased to be a major lender to the group exhibition Actually, the Dead are not Dead. Techniques of Becoming at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. The exhibtion is... -
Loans to Masculinities. Liberation through Photography
Rencontres d'Arles Photo Festival July 5, 2021Claire and James Hyman are delighted to loan Anna Fox's important series of works My Mother's Cupboards and My Father's Words to the Arles Photo Festival exhibition Masculinities. Liberation through... -
Loans to Bill Brandt / Henry Moore
Sainsbury Centre, Norfolk May 17, 2021The Hyman Collection is delighted to be one of the main lenders to this important touring show. “From blitz victims to dust-coated miners and the rocks of Stonehenge, the affinities... -
Loans to Bill Brandt / Henry Moore
Hepworth Wakefield January 17, 2020Claire and James Hyman are delighted to be major lenders to the pioneering exhibition Bill Brandt/Henry Moore , which opens at Hepworth Wakefield before travelling to the Yale Center for... -
Loans to Masculinities. Liberation through Photography
Barbican Art Gallery January 29, 2020Claire and James Hyman are delighted to loan Anna Fox's important series of works My Mother's Cupboards and My Father's Words to the Barbican exhibition Masculinities. Liberation through Photography. 20... -
Loan of Anya Gallaccio's Red on Green
Scottish National Galleries May 29, 2019Red on Green is Anya Gallaccio's most famous work and has been extensively exhibited across the world. It was one of the first artworks acquired by the Hyman Collection in... -
Loans to Seaside: Photographed
Turner Contemporary, Margate May 25, 2019We have laoned works by Bill Brandt and Daniel Meadows to the new exhibition at Turner Contemporary. Seaside: Photographed This major exhibition examines the relationship between photographers, photography and the... -
Loan to Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain
Hepworth Wakefield July 22, 2018The Hyman Collection is pleased to lend an extremely rare vintage photograph by Paul Nash to the exhibition Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain at Hepworth Wakefield. This is the... -
Loans to "Play it Again"
Firstsite, Colchester June 30, 2018The Hyman Collection is lending a series of 9 works by Heather Agyepong to the exhibition 'Play It Again: The art of remaking' at Firstsite, Colchester. The programme features 'remade'... -
Anna Fox. The Moon and a Smile
The Moon and a Smile, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (4 Mar 2017 - 23 Apr 2017) April 12, 2017The Moon and a Smile exhibition was based on the contempoary responses of nine photographers to a period in the 1840s and 1850s, when Swansea was at the centre of... -
Loans to London Nights
Museum of London May 11, 2018The Hyman Collection is loaning vintage photographs by Bill Brandt and Bert Hardy to the Museum of London for their major exhibition, London Nights . Fusing portraiture, documentary, conceptual photography... -
Loans - Here We Are. An exhibition to celebrate the Burberry September collection, Old Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green
September 18, 2017The Hyman Collection is a major lender to the exhibition Here We Are. The exhibition celebrates the very best of British photography on the occasion of Burberry's September collection for... -
Loans to Creating the Countryside: 1600-2017
Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park March 18, 2018The Hyman Collection is delighted to be lending around twenty works from the collection, including photographs by Anna Fox, Paul Hill, Paul Reas, Jo Spence and Homer Sykes, to the... -
Loans to Roger Law: From Satire to Ceramics
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich November 18, 2017The Hyman Collection is delighted to be one of the main lenders to the exhibition Roger Law: From Satire to Ceramics . We are lending many of our original Spitting... -
Loans to Máquinas de Vivir. Flamenco y arquitectura en la ocupación y desocupación de espacios.
October 19, 2017We are delighted to be lending a large group of works by Jo Spence from her gypsies and travellers series to the substantial international exhibition on the subject Máquinas de... -
Loans to A Green and Pleasant Land: Landscape and the imagination, 1970-now
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne August 30, 2017The Hyman Collection is delighted to be the largest lender, after the Arts Council of England, to the exhibition A Green and Pleasant Land: Landscape and the imagination, 1970-now at... -
Loans to Street View: photographs of Urban Life
Graves Gallery, Sheffield Museum October 15, 2016The Hyman Collection is pleased to be loaning photographs by Colin Jones, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Paul Reas to the following exhibition: Graves Gallery, Sheffield Museum Street View: photographs of Urban... -
Loans to Edward Heath Spitting Image puppet
Arundells, Salisbury August 29, 2016The Hyman Collection is delighted to lend our life size Spitting Image puppet of former Prime Minister Edward Heath to the following exhibition: Arundells, Salisb ury Heath at 100: A... -
Loans to View Ireland
Landskrona Museum, Sweden June 30, 2016The Hyman Collection is delighted to me lending works by Paul Seawright from his celebrated Sectarian Murders series to the following: View Ireland Landskrona Museum, Sweden Landskrona Foto View, Ireland...
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