Rawlins’ work has been shown at major international venues including the Saatchi Gallery, London; Hauser & Wirth; Somerset House; the National Portrait Gallery; the Horniman Museum; and the Museum of Art and Design, New York. Highly commended at the RBSA Drawing Prize and nominated for the Evelyn Williams Prize at Trinity Buoy Wharf, he has participated in Drawing Room’s Drawing Biennial across multiple editions and exhibited in Paraguay, Belgium, New Zealand, China, India, Brazil, Jamaica, and across the Caribbean. His practice has been presented in institutional, biennale, and community contexts from Port of Spain to Oxford, Miami to Kochi.

2026

  • Historical Showcase: 35th Anniversary of Festival Permanente do Minuto, CAIXA Cultural Curitiba. (June 16 to 21, 2026)
  • Drawing Biennial 2026, Drawing Room, London,  (April 16–June 23, 2026)

2025

  • Alice Yard: An Instigator’s Handbook for Play, Friendship, Generosity and Autonomy, Simi Warehouse, Kochi-Muziris Bienniale, India
  • Winsor & Newton Christmas Gifting Campaign 2025 in aid of Hospital Rooms
  • Barbican Arts Group Trust Artworks Open 2025, Artworks Project Space, London (29-7 December)
  • The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, (14-23 November)
  • Is All of We, Is We in Truth, Central Bank Museum, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (1-23 May)

2024

  • Guest House Hotels UK. Drawing Commission: Jab Jumbie Recoil. No. 124 Brighton
  • As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, Saatchi Gallery, London (Nov. 5, 2024–Jan. 20, 2025)
  • Trinity Buoys Drawing Prize, Turnpike, Wigan (July 13–Sept. 14, 2024)
  • Trinity Buoys Drawing Prize, The Arts Institute, Plymouth University (May 4–June 29, 2024)
  • Assembly, Rye Creative Centre, Rye (May 3–18, 2024)
  • Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London (May 3–July 3, 2024)
  • Duos: The Art of Collaboration, Charleston, Lewes (March 27–Sept. 8, 2024)
  • 46 (They wouldn’t listen to Diane), 27.05-minute durational performance, The Stade, Hastings (March 18, 2024)
  • Trinity Buoys Drawing Prize, TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth (Feb. 2–April 16, 2024)

2023

  • The Shadow Show, The Frame Shop, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Nov. 11–Dec. 9, 2023)
  • 茶, चाय, Tea (Chá, Chai, Tea), Horniman Museum, London (Oct. 7, 2023–July 7, 2024)
  • Trinity Buoys Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoys Wharf (Sept. 28–Oct. 15, 2023)
  • RBSA Drawing Prize, Birmingham (Sept. 5–Oct. 15, 2023)
  • Holding Space, Hauser & Wirth (Aug. 17–Sept. 12, 2023)
  • World Reimagined Project, Rhodes House, Oxford (Aug.–Oct. 2023)
  • Conversations Over Tea performance, Hastings Contemporary (June 3, 2023)
  • We Out Here, Hastings Contemporary (Apr. 1–June 4, 2023)

2022

  • World Reimagined Project, Trafalgar Square (Nov. 19–20, 2022)
  • The Lord Kitchener Show, The Frame Shop, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Nov. 12–Dec. 3, 2022)
  • Like There Is Hope and I Can Dream of Another World, Hauser & Wirth (Aug. 19–Sept. 14, 2022)
  • World Reimagined Project, City of Leicester (Aug.–Nov. 18, 2022)
  • Breaking Bread, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth (July 21–Aug. 28, 2022)
  • Unstable Monuments, Former Magistrates Court, Bristol (April 9–10, 2022)
  • Derwent Art Prize, gallery@OXO, London (Feb. 24–Mar. 6, 2022)

2021

  • Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair – Curated Hang at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021 (Nov. 10–28, 2021)
  • ART + PSYCHIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE, Cork Street Galleries, London (Nov. 3–Dec. 4, 2021)
  • Titian Ward PICU, Another Horizon commission, Goodmayes Hospital, London (2021)
  • Reconquête de Tintin (New Media), Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Sept. 22–28, 2021)
  • Hauser & Wirth Auction in Aid of Hospital Rooms Arts Charity #2/10 The True Black Crown (Sold) (2021)
  • Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London (July 17–Aug. 22, 2021)
  • Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London (May 21–July 5, 2021)
  • Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces (May 18–Aug. 1, 2021)
  • Caribbean In/Securities (CARICUK), curated by Dr. Marsha Pearce (April 2021)

2020

  • Ingram Prize 2020 (Nov. 20–Dec. 31, 2020)
  • Wells Art Contemporary 2020 (Oct. 1, 2020–Feb. 28, 2021)
  • Hauser & Wirth Auction in Aid of Hospital Rooms Arts Charity #5/10 Empowerment (Sold) (2020)
  • PHOTOFRINGE 2020, Worthing (Oct. 3–31, 2020; extended until spring 2021)
  • Island State of Mine (Video) (New Media), Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Sept. 9–15, 2020)
  • I Am Sugar (Video) (New Media), Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Sept. 9–15, 2020)
  • Public Interventions 1, 2, 3, 5 (Trafalgar Square, Parliament Square, Hastings Old Town, Queen St., St. Leonards Warrior Square) (June 16–17, July 7, 2020)
  • WE ARE MORE THAN A MOMENT, Gallery-51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, curated by Genevieve Gaignard (Aug. 12, 2020)

2019

  • Capitalism and Slavery: An Illuminated History (art exhibition installed for the Capitalism and Slavery – 75 Years Later symposium), The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad (Nov. 13–14, 2019), curated by Marsha Pearce, PhD
  • Transoceanic Visual Exchange 2019 (Beijing, China, Cache Space, Nov. 9; Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Bridgetown, Barbados, Nov. 15, 2019)
  • Get Up Stand Up, Somerset House, London (June 12–Sept. 15, 2019), curated by Zak Ové
  • Here Is Not a Happy Place, Medulla Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad (March 18–28, 2019)
  • Eyes of Many Kinds (RCA Print Department Interim Show), CGP London (Feb. 23–24, 2019)

2018

  • CGP Gallery, 34th Annual Open Exhibition, London (Nov. 21–Dec. 9, 2018)
  • FINDING BLACK 24-Hour Instastory Virtual Exhibition @rmraffinity in honor of Black History Month, UK (Oct. 24, 5:00 p.m. – Oct. 25, 5:00 p.m., 2018)
  • Americas in Britain 2018 Caribbean Edition, National Portrait Gallery, London, Black History Month UK Celebrations (Oct. 22, 2018), curated by Dr. Marsha Pearce and the NPG
  • OVERPR!NT, AG!TATE, ACT!VATE, Museum Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium (April 28–Sept. 16, 2018), curated by Jean Pierre Muller
  • CONGO, OVERPR!NT, Museum Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium (June–Sept. 16, 2018), curated by Jean Pierre Muller
  • Most Things Happen When I Am Asleep, ARTSPACE NZ, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand (April 6–May 19, 2018)
  • A Dress to the Nation (Video), Dublin Smartphone Film Festival (Jan. 27, 2018), Official Selection

2017

  • A Dress to the Nation (Photo), Prizm Art Fair, Miami Art Week, Miami, USA (Dec. 6–10, 2017), curated by Mikhale Solomon
  • A Dress to the Nation, Here Is Not a Happy Place (suite of paintings), Caribbean Quarterly Journal, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 445–450 (Nov. 2017)
  • A Dress to a Nation (Video) (Winner), 1 Minuto Festival de Permanente de Minuto, Brazil (Oct. 11, 2017), Official Selection https://vimeo.com/233646186
  • A Dress to the Nation (Video) (New Media), Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Sept. 22 and 25, 2017), Official Selection
  • Polite Line Do Not Cross; Line, Y Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad (May 22–June 3, 2017)
  • A Dress to the Nation, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad (March 3–8, 2017)

2016

  • NeoGlobal AHFMB, Miami Art Week, Miami, USA, curated by Rachael Barrett (Dec. 1–4, 2016)
  • Resting on Our Laurels (installation), Out of Place Action 5, Ana Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad, co-curated by Christopher Cozier and Blue Curry (Oct. 1–31, 2016)
  • Digital, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica (April 24–July 4, 2016)

2015

  • Finding Black, Medulla Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Oct. 22–Nov. 12, 2015)
  • 1st Bienal Internacional de Asunción, Paraguay (Oct. 1–31, 2015), curated by Royce Smith, Osvaldo González Real, and Denisse Monte De Oca
  • The General Public, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Sept. 1–4, 2015)

2014

2013

  • Flag Party (Independent Film, Video), Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Sept. 20–27, 2013)
  • STEUPPS! (solo), Medulla Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad http://www.richardmarkrawlins.com/steupps-an-essay/ (June 26–July 24, 2013)

2012

  • Primary Property, Bohemia, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Sept. 2012)
  • Season of Renewal (group), UWI Mona, Jamaica (June 7–11, 2012)

2010

  • GLOBAL AFRICA PROJECT, Museum of Art and Design, New York City, USA (Nov. 17, 2010–May 15, 2011)
  • CHINESE WORKER (solo), Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Aug. 26–28, 2010)
  • BUTTON PROJECT (solo), Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad (May 21, 2010)

2009

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