Image: Jealous, London
Alma Singer will present ‘Alma Singer Has Left The Group’, a solo exhibition examining ageing, womanhood and authenticity, at Jealous Gallery in London this September. The exhibition will run from 10 to 26 September at Jealous, 53 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, with an opening event scheduled for Thursday 10 September from 6:30 to 8:30pm.
Presented as Singer’s most personal exhibition to date, the show follows her 2024 solo presentation at Jealous, ‘Not Big or Clever’. The new body of work continues her use of naïve-style drawings, humorous text and playful reworkings of familiar sayings, while turning towards the pressures placed on women to conform to social, familial and personal expectations.
Jealous says the exhibition will include more than 50 original works, alongside interactive installations and a video piece. The presentation is described as an immersive gallery display, bringing together mixed-media works that address the human condition through what the gallery calls Singer’s signature naïve style, tongue-in-cheek figures and phrases.
The exhibition’s stated concerns are closely connected to Singer’s reflections on turning 40. In a statement published by Jealous, the artist writes that she was less concerned with looking older than with recognising that she was “becoming someone else”, whom she suggests may be closer to her authentic self. She describes a lifetime of trying to meet the standards of society, friends, family and partners, and frames the exhibition as a departure from an earlier version of herself.
Singer’s practice has previously used deliberately childish or apparently unsophisticated imagery to approach questions of identity, value and sexuality. Jealous’s account of her 2024 exhibition describes a “purposely naive” approach that combines text and image, while the gallery’s artist information identifies Alma Singer as the working name of Kent-based artist Carla Nizzola. The same profile says that Nizzola’s work explores value, art, identity and female sexuality, and that working under a pseudonym enables her to present aspects of herself that are often hidden from view.
The 2026 exhibition extends that relationship between pseudonym, self-presentation and artistic identity. Its title suggests a refusal of group expectations, while the accompanying material positions Singer’s drawings and phrases as a way of confronting unrealistic standards with humour. The works are intended to be accessible to visitors of all ages, according to the gallery, without further details of individual pieces or the video work being released in the exhibition announcement.
The opening will take place at Jealous’s Shoreditch venue, whose address is 53 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3PT. Jealous has invited visitors to contact the gallery for a works list. ‘Alma Singer Has Left The Group’ remains on view through Saturday 26 September.
