Turner Prize

We’re teaming up with Tate to bring the Turner Prize to Bradford.

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Event Details

Date 27 Sep 2025 – 22 Feb 2026

Location Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

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The world’s most exciting visual arts prize is coming to Bradford for the first time.

The annual Turner Prize showcases and celebrates the most exciting new developments in British art. In the year the UK celebrates the 250th anniversary of JMW Turner’s birth, the Turner Prize heads to Bradford.

The shortlisted artists – Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa – were announced on 23 April 2025, 250 years to the day since the birth of Turner. Their work will feature in the annual Turner Prize exhibition, which takes place at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. The winner will be announced in Bradford on 9 December 2025.

Learn more about the shortlisted artists →

Plan your visit

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School and educator visits

Find out how to plan a school visit to the Turner Prize, and discover more ways for learners to get involved.

Turner Prize education programme →

Credits

Produced by Bradford 2025. Delivered in partnership with Tate, Bradford District Museums & Galleries and Yorkshire Contemporary.

Artist Nnena Kalu working on a colourful textile artwork, with a busy studio behind her. She wears a purple apron.

Nnena Kalu. Courtesy of the Artist and ActionSpace.

Artist Rene Matić looks towards us. They are wearing a black tank top and patterned blue and white trousers. They are sitting in front of a plain wooden background.

Rene Matić. Photo: Diana Pfammatter; Courtesy the Artist and Arcadia Missa, London.

Artist Mohammed Sami in a darkly lit portrait. He is lit mostly in green with a dark background and wears a long sleeved shirt.

Mohammed Sami. Photo: Sarel Jansen.

Artist Zadie Xa looks towards us. She is standing in front of a painting that shows a woman with wildlife including a large cat.

Zadie Xa. Photo: Charles Duprat. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery.

Nnena Kalu, Hanging Sculpture 1 to 10, installation view, 2024. Photo courtesy of Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana. Photo credit: Ivan Erofeev.

Rene Matić, AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, Installation view, CCA Berlin, 2024. Photos: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin.

Installation view Mohammed Sami, After the Storm, Blenheim Art Foundation, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 9 July–6 October, 2024. Photographer: Tom Lindboe.

Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo, Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything, 2025. Installation view. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Danko Stjepanovic.