Summer

Take a tour of the artwork on being shown across Leeds in art galleries, cafes, museums, shops, community centres and outdoor spaces.

We've found beautiful ceramics, mind-blowing video installations, fine art shows, photography exhibitions, student showcases and sculpture work.

Take a look and see what's out there!

Photo of art on cafe wall
Wed 9 Jul 2025 - Tue 30 Sep 2025
The Joy of Sonic – Art Exhibition & Celebration
Flamingos Coffee House
Exhibitions , LGBT+ , Visual Art
Installation image of Mia Mai Symonds' exhibition 'A Life if its Own' at BLANK_ gallery, Leeds. The photo shows small sculptural works both on walls and plinths with materials including, charred wood, bronze casts, framed images, ceramics and concrete.
Thu 10 Jul 2025 - Fri 22 Aug 2025
A Life of its Own
BLANK_
Exhibitions , Visual Art
A blue ceramic tile featuring a scene of a river and vegetation and mountains.
Fri 11 Jul 2025 - Sun 16 Nov 2025
Friends of Beckett Street Cemetery 40th Anniversary Display
Abbey House Museum
Exhibitions , Heritage
A repeating pattern of objects that feature in the exhibition on a background that looks like lined notepaper, including a typewriter, medieval tile, ipod, laptop, champagne bottle, Victorian ladies boots, ancient Greek coin, old style library card, model of a building (the Moot Hall), variety of pens (quill, fountain and medieval stylus), ink well, police truncheon and a bird (stonechat)
Fri 11 Jul 2025 - Sun 8 Mar 2026
Literature in Leeds: Prose, Poetry and Plays
Abbey House Museum
Exhibitions , Heritage
The black and white image shows three women in an old industrial space with drawn-on moustaches with a white sheet held infront of them.
Sat 12 Jul 2025 - Sun 5 Oct 2025
Many Hands
Sunny Bank Mills
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Newspaper image of a cinema audience wearing 3D glasses
Tue 15 Jul 2025 - Thu 16 Jul 2026
Reel-ise
Leeds Industrial Museum
Exhibitions , Heritage
Detail of an abstract sculpture, with burned materials and rusty chicken wire at the centre, with rusted metal bars bent around it.
Fri 18 Jul 2025 - Sun 2 Nov 2025
Fragment and Form: Emii Alrai, Mónica Mays, Dominique White
Henry Moore Institute
Exhibitions , Visual Art
A sculpture made from several brown leaves stuck together to make a cube shape
Fri 18 Jul 2025 - Sun 2 Nov 2025
Passing Strange: British Land Art Through Time
Henry Moore Institute
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Ten gouache illustrations in white frames hung on a corkboard wall in a bar space. The room is dimly lit with fairy lights and candles.
Sat 26 Jul 2025 - Fri 17 Oct 2025
Not Far From Here
Further North
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Two exhibition attendees viewing artwork on a wall
Fri 1 Aug 2025 - Fri 12 Sep 2025
Pyramid Summer Exhibition
Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Ceramic figure of sitting hybrid human/dog with large necklace
Thu 7 Aug 2025 - Sun 31 Aug 2025
The Sculpture Gallery August - Fernanda Cortes
Leeds Corn Exchange
Exhibitions , Visual Art
Four images, top row: a close up of an architectural model of a block of flats; a hanging sculpture made from hessian fabric. Bottom row: a close up of the inside of a model house with ceramic people; three hanging lamps against a grey background"
Fri 8 Aug 2025 - Sat 1 Nov 2025
FUAM 2025: The Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Exhibitions , Visual Art