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Online discussion with Luke Syson, Jake Grewal and Doron Langberg

Luke Syson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, led an online discussion with artists Jake Grewal and Doron Langberg.

Together, they discussed how Grewal and Langberg’s respective painting practices spoke to ideas of queer desire, through their shared interest in and use of art historical references, nature, and spaces of transformation.

This event formed part of the public programme for Jake Grewal, Under the Same Sky.

With special thanks to Major Exhibition Donor Simon Nixon

Headline Supporter: Arif Suherman
Lead Supporters: Thomas Dane Gallery and Alison Deighton
Exhibition Patrons: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund, Joshua Silver and Russell Tovey
Exhibition Circle: Samuel Lewis, Gianluca Longo, Giacomo Negro and Sandesh Sivakumaran. With kind assistance from Simon Oldfield

  1. Jake Grewal (b. 1994, London) lives and works in London. Solo exhibitions include: Some days I feel more alive, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England (2023); Now I Know You I Am Older, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England (2022). Group exhibitions include: Voyage, Morena di Luna, Hove, England (2024); Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London, England (2024); Interior, Michael Werner Gallery, London, England (2022); Shifting Waters, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India (2022); Drawing Attention: Emerging British Artists, The British Museum, London, England (2022); Dissolving Realms, Kasmin Gallery, New York NY (2022); On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India (2021); Deity, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2020); Everyday is Sunday, UTA Artists Space, Los Angeles CA (2020); No Time Like The Present, Public Gallery, London, England (2020).

  2. Doron Langberg (b. 1985, Yokneam Moshava) currently lives and works in New York City. The artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in Europe, Doron Langberg: Part of Your World, was on view at Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2024. Previously, an exhibition featuring new and recent works by the artist was on view at Rubell Museum Miami (2022–2023). In 2022, Langberg’s works were on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston as part of the major group exhibition A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now at The Frick Collection, New York, as part of Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters and at ICA Miami in Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, the first major exhibition to showcase the permanent collection.

  3. Luke Syson is the fourteenth Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. From 2012-19, he was Chairman of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where he led on the complete refurbishment of the British Galleries, a $22m project, which opened in March 2020. Luke has held curatorial positions at the British Museum, V&A and the National Gallery – where he led the successful campaign to acquire Raphael’s Madonna of the Pinks for the nation and curated the highly-acclaimed exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci – Painter at the Court of Milan in 2011. Since arriving in Cambridge, he has overseen a series of acclaimed exhibitions, ranging from Hockney’s Eye to Gold of the Great Steppe to Black Atlantic and Real Families, along with the refurbishment of Fitzwilliam's primary paintings galleries.