David Zwirner

07/20/2024

Beginning today, visitors to Tate can participate in creating a large-scale collaborative work with Oscar Murillo as part of his project The flooded garden.

Inspired by Claude Monet’s paintings of his flower garden in Giverny, The flooded garden transforms the Tate’s Turbine Hall into an enormous painting garden.

07/18/2024

Heads up: Tomorrow (Friday, July 19) is the final day to shop David Zwirner Books’s first-ever archive sale.

Visit our 19th Street gallery to explore deeply discounted titles—starting as low as $5—alongside rare and out-of-print books from our archives. For those not in New York: you can also shop a selection of the sale online at davidzwirner.com/books

06/05/2024

Michaël Borremans: The Monkey opens tomorrow at our London gallery.

To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, we re-released an episode of Dialogues, the David Zwirner podcast, in which Borremans talks with writer, producer, and director Luca Guadagnino about the relationship between painting and film. Listen here: https://link.chtbl.com/FkvwY5VY

05/03/2024

Hey, hey, hey… Mark your calendars | Join us on Thursday, May 23 in Los Angeles to celebrate David Zwirner’s 30th anniversary!

As announced in The New York Times, we’ll be opening the doors to our new flagship Los Angeles location this month with an expansive exhibition celebrating the artists who have shaped the gallery’s program since its founding. Learn more: https://zwrnr.art/DZLA30YEARS

04/18/2024

Oscar Murillo: Serralves, WIELS, Kunsthalle Wien—an online presentation of new works by Oscar Murillo—is now live. Tap to explore: https://zwrnr.art/OMOVR2024

In anticipation of his commission at the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this summer, this online presentation celebrates Murillo’s three concurrent museum shows on view across Europe and features a significant new painting from Murillo’s manifestation series and examples from his new body of work, aesthetic structures.

In celebration of Oscar Murillo’s three major concurrent museum shows in Europe, at Fundação de Serralves, Porto; WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; we are pleased to highlight a selection of works from some of the artist’s most iconic series.

03/22/2024

“In the universe, the moon and the sun are each just one of the polka dots.” —Yayoi Kusama, excerpted from her poem “Polka Dot Café in the Universe”

🎂 Wishing a happy birthday to the legendary Yayoi Kusama.
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WITH ALL MY LOVE FOR THE TULIPS, I PRAY FOREVER, 2011. Courtesy of David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro. ©YAYOI KUSAMA

03/15/2024

A selection of Toshiko Takaezu’s pioneering ceramics is now available via the link in bio as part of our online presentation, Toshiko Takaezu: Beyond Form | https://zwrnr.art/TTOVR

With a focus on her “closed-form” works, this selection reflects the artist’s lifelong pursuit of freedom and expression in clay.

+ This exclusive presentation coincides with the artist’s solo exhibition Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, opening on Wednesday, March 20, at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum.
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Artworks featured in video: Toshiko Takaezu, "Ocean Edge" Momo, c. 1995; Mākaha Blue Closed Form, c. 1997; Manoa, 1987; Pair of Copper Red Closed Forms, 1990–1999; Closed Form, 1990–1999

03/15/2024

We’re so pleased to share that the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, chaired by Ekow Eshun, has selected Andra Ursuța’s sculpture Untitled (2024) to be installed on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square from 2028 through 2030.

The Fourth Plinth is one of the most important art commissions worldwide, putting new work by internationally renowned artists into the heart of London. This year marks 25 years since the first work was unveiled, in 1999, and 14 works have been displayed on this iconic site to date.

“I am touched and humbled by the selection committee’s choice. My work deals with history; history makes sense of us as we try to make sense of it. Trafalgar Square is a place where multiple histories face one another in an open-ended standoff. It will never be finished. This is such a crucial, and beautiful, accident.” —

+ Through Sunday, March 17, visitors to National Gallery can see a small-scale model of this work in the Fourth Plinth Shortlist Exhibition.
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Andra Ursuţa, Untitled, 2024. Photos by

02/27/2024

We are pleased to announce the representation of New Zealand–born and Los Angeles–based painter Emma McIntyre in collaboration with Château Shatto.

An exhibition of the artist’s work—following her solo presentation with David Zwirner last year at our 69th Street location—is planned for our Hong Kong gallery. Learn more: zwrnr.art/EM2024
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Portrait: Photo by Brad Torchia
Artwork: Emma McIntyre, Queen of the air, 2023 (detail)

02/07/2024

We’re pleased to announce the co-representation of American artist Raymond Saunders (b. 1934) with Andrew Kreps Gallery.

On February 22, a two-part exhibition of Saunders’s work entitled Post No Bills, curated by Ebony L. Haynes, will open across both gallery’s spaces in New York and span 4 decades of the artist’s work: https://zwrnr.art/492pR1y

Portrait: Raymond Saunders, 1970s. Photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images
Artwork: Raymond Saunders, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, American Painting, 1988 (detail)

01/31/2024

“What might happen if the real reality and the constructed fiction are indistinguishable?” —Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff: Doors of Perception—a new set of prints related to the artist’s ongoing d.o.pe. series—is now available. Purchase these works, available individually or as a set of four: https://zwrnr.art/3HG5Jqa

01/10/2024

🎧 Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast is back! The 8th season debuts next Wednesday, January 17, and with it the return of host Helen Molesworth.

Look out for a new episode every week, with guests including George Clinton, R. Crumb, Carroll Dunham, Lauren Halsey, Rujeko Hockley, Ira Sachs, Laurie Simmons, Hank Willis Thomas, and Hua Hsu, among others.

12/06/2023

Kerry James Marshall: "Now and Forever" | Now live on Art21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKID5YWHgGQ

Amidst the grand architecture and intricate stained glass of the Washington National Cathedral, artist Kerry James Marshall stands before an audience gathered for the unveiling of his new work Now and Forever.

[Episode 291]: Amidst the grand architecture and intricate stained glass of the Washington National Cathedral, artist Kerry James Marshall stands before an a...

12/04/2023

Exceptional Works at Art Basel Miami Beach by Marlene Dumas: https://zwrnr.art/ABMB2023

The Schoolboys (1986–1987), presented here, is part of a small group of portraits made in the late 1980s by Dumas primarily depicting schoolchildren. These works were included in the artist’s earliest solo exhibitions and demonstrate her singular approach to the human form, exploring the complexities of identity and the shifting boundaries between her figures’ public and private selves.
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Artwork: Marlene Dumas, The Schoolboys, 1986–1987
Portrait: Photo by Philippe Vogelenzang, 2017

11/22/2023

Neo Rauch: Field Signs, now on view at , brings together a new repertoire of invented characters, settings, and motifs, elaborating on the artist’s ever-expanding lexicon of enigmatic subjects. The paintings in this exhibition personify Rauch’s ongoing interest in the tension between the public and the private realm while suggesting his compositions as allegories of the creative process.

On the occasion of the show, Neo Rauch invited curator Ralph Keunig into his Leipzig studio for a conversation on his work and process. Watch the full conversation on YouTube:

Neo Rauch: Field Signs is on view at David Zwirner Hong Kong from November 16, 2023--February 24 2024.Learn more about the exhibition: https://www.davidzwirn...

10/26/2023

🌚 Marcel Dzama’s first evening-length performance, To Live on the Moon (For Lorca), debuts during this year’s Performa NYC biennial. The performance features a film by the artist presented alongside live dance, music, and poetry and takes place nightly at Abrons Arts Center, from Saturday, November 11 through Tuesday, November 14.

🎟️ Get your tickets: https://zwrnr.art/toliveonthemoon

Photo by Bill Gentle

10/24/2023

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘: Untitled by Lucas Arruda is now live • Explore Arruda’s new limited edition diptych, signed and numbered by the artist: https://zwrnr.art/LAUEOVR23

Untitled is comprised of two single-plate etchings inspired by the artist’s meditative Deserto-Modelo series. Arruda created the prints over the course of a year at Atelier René Tazé, a Parisian intaglio studio founded in 1978.

10/18/2023

🩶 Josh Smith's limited-edition Studio Jewels launch on PLATFORM on Thursday, November 2. Join the presale list for early access to the pendant collection, inspired by the artist’s new sculptures: https://www.platformart.com/exclusive/josh-smith-platform-exclusive-limited-edition-studio-jewels-will-shott-jewelry-necklaces

Created in collaboration with gallerist and jeweler Will Shott, these necklaces transform four of the hanging sculptures soon to be installed at Shott’s gallery, WWW, into sterling silver jewelry.

10/05/2023

Kerry James Marshall has donated his portrait of the author, scholar, and award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis “Skip” Gates—his first formal portrait of a living person—to University of Cambridge. Marshall’s portrait of Henry Louis Gates is now on public display at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, only the second institution in the UK to acquire a work by Marshall.

Learn more: https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/kerry-james-marshall-donates-portrait-of-henry-louis-skip-gates-jr-to-the-university-of-cambridge
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Kerry James Marshall, Henry Louis Gates Jr, 2020. Photo by Anna Arca

09/29/2023

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary edition of Frieze London, a new sculpture by Josh Smith is on view—now through October 29—at the historic English Garden in Regent’s Park, part of Frieze Sculpture: https://zwrnr.art/FL23

+ Visit us at Booth B02, October 11–15, 2023, at Frieze London where a smaller version of this work, Little Friend, will debut alongside works by Frank Walter, Rose Wylie, Shio Kusaka, and Portia Zvavahera, among others.

09/27/2023

🎧 DIALOGUES • A special episode on Ruth Asawa | Listen here: https://zwrnr.art/DZDialoguesRuthAsawa

In this episode of Dialogues, a David Zwirner podcast—released on the occasion of the first major museum exhibition to focus on Ruth Asawa’s works on paper at the Whitney Museum of American Art—Helen Molesworth interviews EJ Hill and Sarah Sze on the legacy of the artist, using archival audio from the Smithsonian Institute of Art and the California State University, Sacramento.
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Ruth Asawa, Sculptor, 1951; Photos by Imogen Cunningham; © Imogen Cunningham Trust; Artwork © 2023 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

09/14/2023

In a special live episode of Dialogues, the David Zwirner podcast, host Helen Molesworth talks with Njideka Akunyili Crosby about her practice and process | https://zwrnr.art/DZDialogues-NAC

The episode was recorded in July at David Zwirner Los Angeles during the artist’s exhibition Coming Back to See Through, Again which has traveled to New York and opens tonight at our 519 W 19th Street gallery.

08/31/2023

A preview of our presentation for the second edition of Frieze Seoul | Find us at Booth B9: https://zwrnr.art/FRIEZE2023

At this year’s fair, the gallery will debut a group of monotypes and paintings by Katherine Bernhardt alongside paintings by Mamma Andersson and significant works by Yayoi Kusama. We will also present works by Josef Albers, Huma Bhabha, Suzan Frecon, Donald Judd, Joan Mitchell, Giorgio Morandi, Oscar Murillo, Alice Neel, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Rose Wylie, and Lisa Yuskavage, among others.

Explore more works, and visit us at the fair beginning Wednesday, September 6.
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Artwork details in order of appearance: , Bacterium Run, 2023; , Artefakter med Fikus / Artifacts with Ficus, 2021; , INFINITY-NETS [KLN], 2015; , News Reader, amelioration, 2022

08/04/2023

Meet the Artist: Michael Armitage | Watch the full video, presented by Art Basel: youtube.com/watch?v=_hOxyPTisRw

Journey to Nairobi to meet Michael Armitage, a Kenyan-born British painter whose work weaves together East African history, folklore, and current events with Western painting traditions.

+ Michael Armitage: Pathos and the Twilight of the Idle is on view at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria through October 29, 2023

_Art Basel’s ‘Meet the artists’ series presents contemporary creatives shaping today’s cultural landscape_In this episode of ‘Meet the artists,’ we journey t...

08/01/2023

“What Yuskavage ultimately seeks to provoke, in this view, is empathy: for the figure, for the painter, for the victimizer and the victimized, the low and the high, the self who is staring, lost, at the conflagration of color.” —Ariel Levy, “Lisa Yuskavage’s Bodies of Work” out today in The New Yorker

A dedicated profile on Lisa Yuskavage in The New Yorker—published on the occasion of the artist’s recent exhibition, Rendez-vous at —features interviews with Yuskavage, David Zwirner, Kerry James Marshall, chronicling her decades-long career. Read more: https://zwrnr.art/3DEOaVn
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07/28/2023

📣 Marcel Dzama has been commissioned to create a performance for the 2023 Performa NYC biennial this November: https://zwrnr.art/44Nt8zK

Dzama is transforming his immediately recognizable visual language into a multilayered performance with live musicians, animated film, and dance inspired by “Trip to the Moon,” a poem by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, written during a trip to New York in 1929. A co-production with the Federico García Lorca Foundation in Madrid, it will be presented at Abrons Arts Center.

Set to run from November 1–19 in New York, the show marks Performa’s 10th biennial since the organization’s founding in 2004.

07/27/2023

Saturday, July 29, is the final day to visit Lisa Yuskavage: Rendez-vous at

In our latest episode of PROGRAM, Lisa Yuskavage joins host Helen Molesworth for a visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the artist’s hometown, following a discussion in her New York studio. Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuB4xcFnqFI

07/19/2023

Heji Shin: THE BIG NUDES | Join us for the opening reception of 52 Walker's eighth exhibition this Friday, July 21, 6–8 PM | https://zwrnr.art/3ObjRf4

In this presentation at 52 Walker, Heji Shin will debut a new body of work that continues her exploration of stimulating touchpoints of contemporary society and culture. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York since 2020.

52 Walker is pleased to announce its eighth exhibition, which will feature the work of New York–based artist Heji Shin (b. 1976).

07/17/2023

Now representing: Sarah Michelson

Michelson will be developing a new residency program at David Zwirner, inviting dancers to work in and perform at the gallery’s spaces.

To read more about the artist, who will present new work at our Los Angeles gallery in early 2024, visit: zwrnr.art/SMFB

07/13/2023

The flowers are calling your name 🌸 There are 5 days left to visit Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers. Don’t miss the exhibition described as “a late-career triumph” by ARTnews: zwrnr.art/YKNY23

Video by Danilo Lauria