Image: Eyestorm, London
Stanley Donwood’s audiovisual installation ‘Radiohead: Motion Picture House’ is listed for presentation in Brooklyn, Chicago, Mexico City and San Francisco, according to an Eyestorm announcement dated August 29, 2026. The announcement says the project will continue until January 2027, but does not provide specific opening or closing dates, venues, addresses or details of the installation’s individual presentations.
The listing places the work within Donwood’s long-running creative relationship with Radiohead. Eyestorm’s artist biography states that Donwood has produced artwork for the band’s album and single sleeves since 1994, beginning with the artwork for ‘My Iron Lung’. His work has also extended to Radiohead’s posters, websites, official merchandise and the visual identities of albums including ‘The Bends’ (1995), ‘OK Computer’ (1997), ‘Kid A’ (2000), ‘Amnesiac’ (2001) and ‘Hail to the Thief’ (2003).
Donwood’s practice, as described in the biography, frequently addresses society, sexuality, war, conformity and politics. The same source identifies a parallel body of work rooted in urban imagery and language. Works including ‘Pacific Coast’, ‘Baghdad’ and ‘Manhattan’ were produced in connection with the visual world of ‘Hail to the Thief’ and drew on words from the album’s lyrics alongside advertising text observed in Los Angeles. The works use a restricted palette of seven colours, according to the biography.
The artist began his career with the ‘Stanley Donwood Outdoor Gallery’ in Plymouth in 1992, where he painted on disused buildings. He has subsequently been included in exhibitions and has published books, including ‘Slowly Downward; A collection of miserable stories’ in 2005. The biography also records his involvement in charitable projects, including a cow painted for the Dublin Cow Parade, with proceeds directed to Dublin Simon Community and the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation.
Donwood received a Grammy in 2001 with Doktor Tchock for packaging and artwork associated with the special edition of Radiohead’s ‘Amnesiac’. In 2006, Eyestorm published four limited-edition prints based on Donwood’s artwork for ‘Kid A’: ‘Teeth’, ‘Borealis’, ‘Realistic’ and ‘Avert’. The four works remain listed on Eyestorm’s Stanley Donwood page, which identifies the artist as British and born in 1975.
The current announcement supplies no further information about the audiovisual installation’s format, duration, sound or moving-image components. It identifies only the title, the medium and the four cities: Brooklyn and San Francisco in the United States, Chicago in the United States, and Mexico City in Mexico. The presentation is listed as running until January 2027.
