For Frieze London 2025, Arcadia Missa is pleased to present new and seminal works by programme artists Janiva Ellis, Penny Goring, Onyeka Igwe, Nnena Kalu, Brad Kronz and Reina Sugihara.
Janiva Ellis (b. 1987, Oakland, US) is an American painter based in New York, US.
Recent solo exhibitions include Fear Corroded Ape, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA (2025); StackedPlot, 47 Canal, New York (2024); Hammer Projects: Janiva Ellis, Hammer Museum, LA (2022); Janiva Ellis & Donald Rodney, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2022); Rats, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2021) and Park Ass Somebody, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2018) amongst others.
Ellis has been included in group exhibitions such as He Said/She Said: Contemporary Women Artists Interject, Dallas Museum of Art, TX (2024); Introverse: Allegory Today, 80WSE Gallery, New York (2022); Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2020); Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019) amongst others.
Works are included in public collections such as Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, (US); Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (US); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US); ICA Miami, Miami (US); Rubell Museum, Miami (US); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US) amongst others.
Penny Goring (b. 1962, London) lives and works in London, UK.
Recent solo exhibitions include Cold Hunt Corsage, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2025); Sudden Explicit Everywhere, Treize, Paris, FR (2024); Amelie von Wolffen & Penny Goring, Conceptual Fine Arts, Milan, IT (2024); Chronic Forevers, Galerie Molitor, Berlin, DE (2023); PENNY WORLD, ICA, London, UK (2022); No Escape from Blood Castle, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2021); Those Who Live Without Torment, Galleria Federico Vavassori, Milan, IT (2021); Escape from Blood Castle, Campoli Presti, Paris, FR (2020).
Recent selected group exhibitions include Portraits, Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE (2025); Monopolis, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier, FR (2025); Women In Revolt!, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK (2024); Women In Revolt!, Tate Britain, London, UK (2023); Contested Bodies, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK (2023); Feels Like MemeplexTM, KARST, Plymouth, UK (2023); Poor Things, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2023); Paint, Also Known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PO (2019); I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker, ICA, London, UK (2019); Virginia Woolf, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK (2018).
Penny Goring’s works are in major public collections including Art Institute of Chicago (US); FRAC des Pays de la Loire (FR); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Artothek (DE); Tate Britain (UK).
Onyeka Igwe (b. 1986, London, UK) lives and works in London, UK.
Recent solo exhibitions include our generous mother, Tate Britain, London, UK (2025); The Miracle on George Green, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2024); history is a living weapon in yr hand, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK (2024); A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver), MoMA PS1, New York, US (2023); The Miracle on George Green, Highline, New York, US (2022); a so-called archive, LUX, London, UK (2021); The real story is what’s in that room, Mercer Union, Toronto, CA (2021); There Were Two Brothers, Jerwood Arts, London, UK (2019).
Recent group exhibitions include Nigeria Imaginary, Nigeria Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT (2024); Lagos Biennial, Lagos, NG (2024); anywhere in the universe, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK (2023); Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage To The Lakes, South London Gallery, London, UK (2023); Unschöne Museen, ETH Zurich, CH (2023); Living with Ghosts, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US (2022); Echoes, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE (2022) amongst others.
In 2018, Onyeka Igwe joined Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), a QTIBIPOC sound system based in South London. B.O.S.S. received a nomination for the Turner Prize in 2021.
Igwe’s works are part of the British Film Institute Collection (UK); Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (DE); Arts Council Collection (UK); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (DE).
Nnena Kalu (b. 1966, Glasgow) lives and works in London, UK. Her practice is rooted in two-dimensional works, sculptures and installations. Through binding, layering and wrapping materials, Nnena Kalu explores space, scale and materiality with repetitive and durational sculptural processes. Her installations often begin with multiple compact ‘cocoons’ or ‘boulders’ of textiles and paper tightly packed in cellophane and tape. With an emphasis on colour and volume, these spheres of bound materials are clustered together around frameworks and existing structures. Kalu’s energetic installations become an extension of her physical movements, focusing on an important relationship between the artist’s body and her sculptural forms.
Kalu’s two-dimensional works are also viewed as sculptural explorations of space dictated by the length and reach of Nnena’s arms, as well as the size of the paper. Drawings and paintings are frequently produced in pairs, the second an echo of the first, a rhythm is built up and multiple layers are constructed. As with Nnena’s sculptural works, the drawings are an exploration of continuous line, shifting and ever-evolving forms.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include Creations of Care, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, NO (2025); Nnena Kalu, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2024); Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2024); Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana, Barcelona, ES (2024); Infinite Drawing, Deptford X, London, UK (2022); Studio Voltaire elsewhere, London, UK (2020); Wrapping, Humber Street Gallery, East Yorkshire, UK (2019).
Kalu’s works are a part of the Tate Collection (UK), and the Arts Council Collection (UK).
Nnena Kalu has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025.
Brad Kronz (b. 1986, San Diego, CA) lives and works in New York, US.
Recent solo exhibitions include Gaylord Fine Arts, Los Angeles, US (2024); Gandt, New York, US (2024); Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg, CH (2023); Lars Friedrich, Berlin, DE (2021).
Selected group exhibitions include Graffiti, Museion, Bolzano, IT (2025); On Education, Amant, New York, US (2025); 2019, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AU (2025); Baltic Triennial 15, CAC, Vilnius, LT (2024); P’ for Perspective, Simian, Copenhagen, DK (2022) amongst others.
Reina Sugihara (b. 1988, Tokyo, JP) lives and works in Tokyo, JP.
Recent solo exhibitions include Respirare, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, HK (2024); Island that does not know the sea, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2024); relics, 47 Canal, New York, US (2023); Frame, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, JP (2022).
Selected group shows include, Unbearable Lightness, ROH Projects, Jakarta, ID (2024); The Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2024, Tokyo, JP (2024); An Index of Being of Alive, Park View / Paul Soto, Los Angeles, US (2022); Memory of Rib, N/A, Seoul, KR (2022); Onsen Confidential 2022, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, JP (2022) among more.
In 2026, Sugihara will present her first institutional solo exhibition at Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, US. She will also exhibit a large scale installation at the 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US.