Saatchi Gallery presents JR: Chronicles

JR: Chronicles - the largest solo museum exhibition to date of the internationally recognised French artist JR, featuring some of his most iconic projects from the past fifteen years. This exhibition will be presented at London's Saatchi Gallery from 28 January – 11 April 2021.

Saatchi Gallery is collaborating with the Brooklyn Museum, with their shared aim to provide public access to contemporary art and support social engagement, for the renowned artist JRs first major exhibition in the UK. Curated by Sharon Matt Atkins and Drew Sawyer from the Brooklyn Museum, JR: Chronicles traces JR's career from his early documentation of graffiti artists as a teenager in Paris, to his large-scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide, to his recent digitally collaged murals that create collective portraits of diverse publics.

Saatchi Gallery is delighted to showcase the expanded London presentation of JR: Chronicles following its success in New York City. The additional recent projects featured in JR: Chronicles includes The Secret of the Great Pyramid (2019), JR's large-scale collaborative piece created in occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Louvre Pyramid, and Tehachapi (2019) which follows JR's experiences with inmates of a maximum-security prison in California.

Born in Paris in 1983 to Eastern European and Tunisian immigrant parents, JR began his career as graffiti artist. After finding a camera in the Paris Metro in 2001, he began documenting his friends in the act of graffitiing and soon started pasting the photographs on building facades throughout urban centres.

Advance tickets available to pre-book on jrtickets.saatchigallery.com