Milton Keynes Gallery will present an exhbition celebrating the American artist Andy Warhol in 2025.

Portrait of America, an ARTIST ROOMS Partnership Exhibition with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland, will be opening at MK Gallery on Saturday 15 March 2025, in a move that will celebrate MK Gallery’s 25 year anniversary and is almost 25 years after the gallery exhibited Andy Warhol art in 2001.

Nearly 25 years since Andy Warhol: Cars was shown in 2001, MK Gallery is set to exhibit the seminal pop artist’s work in Milton Keynes.

The gallery confirmed that the upcoming exhibition will be a survey of over 130 of Warhol’s most iconic artworks, including the renowned Marilyn series, and two paintings of British art duo Gilbert & George, who were the focus of MK Gallery’s  inaugural exhibition in 1999.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a leading figure in American Pop art. This exhibition of works from the 1950s – 80s includes early drawings, painted-silkscreens and photographic series featuring Warhol’s collaborations with artists, friends, filmmakers and celebrities.

Images of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Warhol himself, feature alongside icons of American consumerism as well as symbols of the artists fascination with mortality: guns, skulls and war.

Warhol’s fascination with celebrity and commercial culture produced some of the most recognisable images in 20th century  art. Finding success living and working in 1950s New York as an illustrator for magazines, Warhol developed styles and  techniques which propelled him to the centre of America’s cultural scene.

Andy Warhol: Portrait of America will run between 15 March and 29 June 2025.