“Hurvin Anderson” at Tate Britain

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British artist Hurvin Anderson is renowned for his color-drenched landscapes and interiors that explore his Jamaican heritage. His first major survey, at Tate Britain, explores an identity lived between cultures — the U.K. and Caribbean — through more than 80 vibrant paintings drawn from across his 30-year career, including new and never-before-seen works. Often relying on photographs as source material, Anderson returns repeatedly to familiar subjects across multiple works, as in the “Ball Watching” series, drawn from a single image of his friends watching their football in the water. Among his best-known paintings are his “Barbershop” series, which reimagines the makeshift barbershops Caribbean immigrants established in their homes in the 1950s and 1960s — intimate spaces that doubled as social gathering places. Making its U.K. debut is “Passenger Opportunity” (2024–25), a sweeping 24-panel work tracing Jamaican emigration to Britain, based on two murals painted by Carl Abrahams for Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport in 1985.

^{Hurvin Anderson, “Hawksbill Bay,” 2020. Tate: Lent by Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of Mala Gaonkar 2023. © Hurvin Anderson, courtesy of the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and VeneKlasen}