The best art exhibitions to see in Fitzrovia — November 2026

Fitzrovia is home to a multitude of contemporary art galleries, cultural institutions and exhibition spaces. Discover the best exhibitions to see this November, from embroidery, painting and design to immersive installations.

Discover the exceptional work of the Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery 2026 finalists at the Building Centre. Now in its 26th year, the annual Prize has become the world’s most prestigious embroidery competition, giving artists and designers the opportunity to showcase their work to an international audience, gain valuable industry exposure and develop their creative practice.

From hundreds of first-round entries, an expert judging panel has selected 24 finalists. Bringing together a diverse collection of embroidered art and fashion, the exhibition celebrates the innovation, imagination and technical skill shaping the future of embroidery.

On view at the Building Centre, 26 Store St, WC1E 7BT, until 6 November 2026

RHODES presents Hold On Tight, the fifth solo exhibition by London based American artist Cat Spilman. 

Spilman returns to colour for this new body of work, marking an important shift within the development of her practice, introducing a renewed sense of openness into the work.

Here, colour becomes a way of addressing nature, instability and the need for human connection. Greens and blues recur throughout the exhibition, drawing on the natural world while reflecting a familiar feeling of encountering an increasingly uncertain world and bracing for what might come next.

On view at RHODES, 65 Great Portland St, W1W 7LW, 6 – 21 November 2026

Alice Amati presents Sophie Birch: The eye lives in this texture (...), Birch’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in London. 

Bringing together a new body of paintings that move between the intimate and the elusive, the exhibition is a space where drawing, memory, and atmosphere become ways of thinking through states of becoming. Inspired by her time during her residency at Domus Nostra in Rome, the new works emerge alongside readings of Carl Jung’s ‘Memories, Dreams, Reflections’ and sustained observations of the artist’s surroundings.

On view at Alice Amati, 27 Warren St, W1T 5NB, until 14 November 2026

An exhibition organised in three chapters, Taring Padi's Rakyat Pasti Menang takes its title from the protest chants heard during the sociopolitical upheaval of Indonesia’s Reformasi movement in the late 1990s.

A collective of art workers founded in Yogyakarta in 1998, Taring Padi work together to produce large-scale banners, woodcut prints, posters, and cardboard puppets, approaching art as a tool for political education, mobilisation, and collective struggle. In this final chapter at Ibraaz, the exhibition looks at Taring Padi’s recent practice. Over the last few years, the collective have worked increasingly beyond Indonesia, alongside other artist collectives around the world, to build progressive alliances. 

On view at Ibraaz, 93 Mortimer Street, W1W 7SS, until 22 November 2026

Mandy Zhang Art presents Dolly’s Clinic, a new immersive installation and performance by Annie Trevorah, guest curated by Joséphine May Bailey and staged off-site at the Coningsby Gallery in Fitzrovia.

Trevorah transforms the gallery into a meticulously realised aesthetics clinic for animals. The familiar language and rituals of the contemporary beauty industry are reimagined through a cast of six sculpted animal patients, each with their own signature procedure, consultant’s notes and recovery plan. Beneath a playful and humorous surface, the exhibition raises fundamental questions about humanity’s relationship with other species.

On view at Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham St, W1T 4RJ, from 4 — 14 November 2026

Curated by Professor Murray Fraser and Michiko Sumi of the Bartlett School of Architecture, Future Healthy Homes brings together students from the Bartlett, the Welsh School of Architecture, the Leicester School of Architecture, and the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in response to one of the most pressing challenges facing architects today: designing healthy, affordable social housing. 

A selection of the most compelling, intriguing, and thoughtful designs from the four schools have gone on display, alongside contributions from architectural practices. Together, the work demonstrates the many ways we can design better, more affordable housing in the UK and imagines healthier housing as a major future asset for British society.  

On view at UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, WC1H 0QB, until 19 November 2026

DES BAINS presents NO EXCUSE, a solo exhibition by the Italo-Lebanese duo Désirée Nakouzi De Monte and Andrea Parenti. Their practice moves between sculpture, installation, film, furniture, image-making and staged environments, and is marked by a sustained interest in objects that have already accumulated a history before arriving in the work.

A social satire on our incapacity to confront the obvious meaning behind unequivocal events, the exhibition brings together a selection of new works and films through which the aesthetics of collapse take centre stage, raising questions about the radical trauma of aesthetics, performativity and desire, a desire never fully satisfied.

On view at DES BAINS, 20 Great Portland St, W1W 8RQ, until 17 January 2027

The third solo exhibition by Chicago-based painter Celeste Rapone, How We're Doing at Josh Lilley features intimate domestic scenes of entangled couples, spotlighting moments of intimacy and isolation.

Educated and living in Chicago but born and raised in New Jersey, Rapone’s paintings are imbued with both the sophistication of a former Art Institute lecturer and the sensitive observation of a family member and spouse. Rapone does no preparatory drawing for her paintings; each one is an opportunity to explore and learn, discovering the purpose of the picture and the characters of the protagonists within it spontaneously.

On view at Josh Lilley, 40, 46 Riding House St, W1W 7EX, until 28 November 2026

Niru Ratnam presents Amal Ghosh, an exhibition exploring Ghosh's paintings from 1982 – 2000. Born in 1933 in Calcutta, Amal Ghosh moved to London in 1958 to undertake postgraduate studies at Central School of Art and Design. 

Ghosh’s paintings from the 1980s and 1990s show a consistent intertwining of the languages of Western Modernism with Indian art history and visual culture. The strange figures who inhabit Ghosh’s paintings do not seem particularly interested in resolving where they might belong; instead, they are witnesses to the peculiarities of the journeys and migrations that have characterised the world since the middle of the last century.

On view at Niru Ratnam, 71 Great Portland St, W1W 7LP, until 12 December 2026

THE TAGLI presents Extinction Point, a solo exhibition by Cypriot artist Andreas Stylianou whose work spans ceramics, metal and neon. 

Extinction Point considers the point as both a mark and a moment: something that can be carved, excavated, recorded, created or reached. Through metal and neon works that borrow from the visual vocabulary of animation, entertainment and cultural history, the exhibition raises questions about the value we assign to things that can happen only once, whether naturally, culturally, or through their deliberate creation.

On view at The Tagli, 67 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PT, from 17 — 22 November 2026