The RA Press Office hours are 9.30am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday.
High res images of Royal Academy exhibitions can be found towards the end of the relevant press release or contact the Press Office.
For images for commercial use in books and documentaries, please contact picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
Please view or download press releases in advance of your visit.
All press must contact us and have a pre-booked press ticket in order to access our exhibitions.
Limited press tickets are available to pre-book for current exhibitions. Unfortunately we cannot provide free press tickets to all those who request them. If you have a confirmed commission and would like to request a press ticket, please contact the Press Office with at least two working days’ notice.
One press ticket is available per exhibition and press tickets are for journalists only.
For information on press access and how to book: Press Access Guidance
Please note, during the final two weeks of an exhibition we are unable to offer press tickets.
We hold dedicated Press Views for every exhibition, please contact the Press Office for information.
All filming and photography must be arranged via the Press Office in advance. We are not able to accommodate last minute requests. For enquiries, please fill in and return the form below. Filming/photography request form
We also allow filming and photography at our dedicated Press Views for every exhibition. Please contact the Press Office in advance.
If you have an enquiry about commercial filming and photography, please contact the Press Office.
Main Galleries
23 September 2023 – 1 January 2024
Download the catalogue press release
The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries
25 November 2023 - 10 March 2024
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Main Galleries
3 February - 28 April 2024
The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries
1 March - 30 June 2024
Main Galleries
18 June - 18 August 2024
The RA announces the 256th Summer Exhibition Committee with Ann Christopher RA as co-ordinator
From Saturday 17 February 2024 until Sunday 12 January 2025, Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA’s iconic painting, Flaming June, c.1895, will be on free display in the RA’s Collection Gallery. It will be a rare opportunity to see one of the most recognisable and celebrated works from the Victorian period.
Taller Gabriela Carrillo Wins Prestigious Royal Academy Dorfman Award
Batia Ofer appointed new Chair of the Royal Academy Trust
Daria Blum is winner of first Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize announced by Marina Abramović Hon RA
Two new Trustees appointed to the Royal Academy Trust
The Royal Academy of Arts announces election of two new Royal Academicians
Shane de Blacam is awarded the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize and Finalists announced for £10,000 Royal Academy Dorfman Award
The Royal Academy announces the Summer Exhibition 2023 prize winners
The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries
Two new Trustees appointed to the Royal Academy Trust
The Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition Programme 2024
The Royal Academy of Arts announces election of two new Royal Academicians
The Royal Academy of Arts and Claridge’s announce new art prize for young artists
The Royal Academy of Arts announces the Genesis Future Curators Programme in partnership with the Genesis Foundation
The Royal Academy of Arts announces election of three new Royal Academicians, a new Honorary Royal Academician and a new Honorary Fellow
The Royal Academy of Arts announces Artists on Art, a special series of lectures by leading Royal Academicians celebrating Joshua Reynolds’s 300th Anniversary
The Royal Academy of Arts announces the 255th Summer Exhibition Committee with David Remfry RA as Co-ordinator
Two new Trustees appointed to the Royal Academy Trust
Wallmakers wins prestigious Royal Academy Dorfman Award
The Royal Academy of Arts announces new offer for young visitors
The Royal Academy of Arts announces prize winners for the Summer Exhibition 2022
The Royal Academy of Arts announces election of three new Royal Academicians
The Royal Academy of Arts announces the Charles Wollaston Award winner 2022
The Royal Academy of Arts celebrates the career of French architect Renée Gailhoustet with 2022 RA Architecture Prize
The Royal Academy of Arts announces its 2023 Exhibition Programme
The Royal Academy of Arts announces election of three new Royal Academicians
Two new Trustees appointed to the Royal Academy Trust
The Royal Academy of Arts announces election of three new Royal Academicians and two new Honorary Fellows
The Royal Academy of Arts announces the 254th Summer Exhibition Committee with Alison Wilding RA as co-ordinator
The Royal Academy of Arts announces election of a new Royal Academician and two new Honorary Royal Academicians
The Royal Academy of Arts announces the Charles Wollaston Award winner 2021
Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts 2021/22
2022 Exhibitions