Yorkshire Sculpture Park announces 2026 programme
In 2026, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) presents a bold year-long programme of exhibitions, commissions and residencies that reflects on how artists navigate resilience, inheritance and transformation in a rapidly changing world.
From 13 June, and at the heart of the new programme, YSP hosts a landmark exhibition in collaboration with Tia Collection. Marking the first ever group show held in the Underground Gallery, this is an important milestone for YSP and presents contemporary Indigenous North American art on an unprecedented scale in the UK. Artists including Rose B. Simpson, Raven Halfmoon, Jeffrey Gibson, Nicholas Galanin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Marie Watt, Emmi Whitehorse and Yatika Starr Fields explore land, identity and materiality, honouring ancestral knowledge while imagining new futures.
From 14 March, LR Vandy will transform The Weston Gallery with an exhibition rooted in maritime and textile histories, exploring communal rituals and joyful resistance. From 18 July, Jakob Rowlinson presents ROTATOR in the YSP Centre. An installation of suspended sculptures made using leather coloured with oak-gall dyes, it examines queer archives, craft, labour and the ecology of the Bretton Estate, in which YSP is situated. Yorkshire Graduate Award recipient Jim Ever also draws on connection and renewal, reimagining our relationship to nature during his site-based period of research and development.
Outdoors, Andi Walker’s new slate quilt sculpture Wrapped in Cold Hard Comfort challenges our expectations of materials, and Thabo Mkwananzi creates a space for conversation and reflection in the landscape, drawing on ancestral wisdom and future-facing thinking.
YSP’s public and learning programmes will amplify and extend the themes of the 2026 programme. Through creative workshops, talks, resources and participatory projects, these programmes invite audiences to reflect, question and deepen their connection with the artwork and landscape that inspires them.
Complementing the main programme, the YSP shop and retail programme presents exhibitions by Louise Lockhart (The Printed Peanut) (7 March – 28 June 2026), Annie Montgomerie (11 July – 1 November 2026) and Angela Harding (14 November – 28 February 2027), highlighting heritage, craft and a playful reinterpretation of pattern, texture and nature.
Together, these projects affirm YSP as a place where land, art and community meet, and where the future is shaped through making, material and dialogue.
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