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“To mark the gallery’s 30th anniversary and to inaugurate the completion of our new Los Angeles buildings, we are excited to present a very special exhibition that celebrates the artists who have shaped the gallery’s program since its founding. Many of our artists will be in LA for this happy occasion, as we toast to 30 years of exhibitions, books, spaces, and projects, and look forward to all that is to come.”
—David Zwirner
From the start, artists have been at the very center of the gallery’s journey. When David Zwirner opened his doors, in 1993 in SoHo, he met Stan Douglas, Toba Khedoori, Raymond Pettibon, Jason Rhoades, Diana Thater, Luc Tuymans, James Welling, and Franz West in the first year. Three decades later, they are still part of the gallery, among some eighty extraordinary artists and estates who have joined them—from Leipzig, São Paulo, London, Trinidad, and anywhere else in the world where one can make a studio.
Jason Rhoades (1965–2006), a pivotal figure in the 1990s Los Angeles art scene, at work on his first New York exhibition—and his first show with the gallery—in 1993, our inaugural year.
Neo Rauch working in his Leipzig studio in 2021. Video by Uwe Walter.
Dana Schutz at work in her studio in New York in 2021. Video by Jason Schmidt.
Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), photographed c. 1951 by her close friend and collaborator, the artist Imogen Cunningham. Photograph © Imogen Cunningham Trust. Artwork © 2024 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Raymond Pettibon, who has been showing with the gallery since the 1990s, in his studio in New York in 2019. Photo by Jason Schmidt.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose first exhibition with the gallery inaugurated our Los Angeles spaces in 2023, in the printmaking studio in her first foray into the medium last year. Photo by Bobby Rogers.
Luc Tuymans, one of the first artists to show with the gallery, pictured in his studio in Antwerp in 2020. Photo by Mieke Verbijlen.
Yayoi Kusama working in her studio in Tokyo. Excerpt from Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión infinita, 2013, produced on the occasion of the 2013 exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión infinita, at MALBA in Buenos Aires.
Elizabeth Peyton, Portrait at the Opera (Elizabeth), 2016. © Elizabeth Peyton.
Franz West (1947–2012) in his bedroom in Vienna in 2006. The artist’s show of assemblages in spring 1993 opened the doors of our first gallery and effectively set the tone for the program to follow. Photo courtesy akg-images/IMAGNO/Didi Sattmann, 2006.
Portia Zvavahera in her studio in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 2021. Photo by Gianluigi Guercia.
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) seen in 1983 in her studio in Vétheuil, in the French countryside, where she moved in the late 1960s. © Joan Mitchell Foundation. Photo by Robert Freson, Joan Mitchell Foundation Archives.
Chris Ofili pictured in 2015 in his studio in Trinidad, where he moved from London in 2005. Photo by Ian Allen for TIME.
Lisa Yuskavage in her Brooklyn studio in 2020. Photo by Jason Schmidt.
Oscar Murillo at work in his London studio in 2022. Video by Tim Bowditch, edited by Julian Valderrama.
Bridget Riley working in her West London studio in 1983.
Suzan Frecon painting in her Upstate New York studio.
Stan Douglas, whose video works were shown at the gallery in its first year, filming at Nootka Sound, British Columbia, in 1996.
Josef Albers (1888–1976), whose contributions to color theory are still hugely influential, experimenting in his studio. Excerpt from Homage to the Square, 1969, produced and directed by Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg. A Chelsea House Publishers Production for University-At-Large Programs, Inc.
Anni Albers (1899–1994) at the loom in her weaving studio at Black Mountain College, Lee Hall, Blue Ridge Assembly Campus, North Carolina, in 1937. After emigrating from Germany, where they had taught at the Bauhaus, in 1933, she and Josef founded Black Mountain College’s art department, where Anni taught until 1949. Photo by Helen M. Post. Photo courtesy Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina.
Katherine Bernhardt working on the floor of her studio in St. Louis in 2023. Photo by Whitten Sabbatini.
Shio Kusaka at the potter’s wheel in her Los Angeles studio, in 2022. Video by Dustin Pearlman.
Marlene Dumas leading a walkthrough of her 2010 exhibition Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall at our West 19th Street gallery in New York. In the background is her 2009 self-portrait The Sleep of Reason.
Michaël Borremans in 2020. Photo by Alex Salinas.
Huma Bhabha in her studio in Upstate New York. Photo by Daniel Dorsa.
Alice Neel (1900–1984) seen at work in an excerpt from the 1978 documentary They Are Their Own Gifts. © Rhodes/Murphy Venture.
Emma McIntyre in her Los Angeles studio, in 2023, ahead of her first exhibition with David Zwirner. Photo by Chantal Anderson.
Doug Wheeler in his studio in Venice, California, in 1968.
Raymond Saunders, 1996. © Jock McDonald, 1996.
Raoul De Keyser (1930–2012) visiting a large-scale traveling retrospective of his work at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, in 2001. Courtesy Piet De Keyser.
Thomas Ruff in his Düsseldorf studio in 2021. Photo by Juergen Staack.
Kerry James Marshall seen in his studio in Chicago, 2016. Photo by Lyndon French.
Paul Klee (1879–1940) in his studio, Bern, Switzerland, in 1939. Photo by Felix Klee. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Schenkung Familie Klee. © Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Image Archive.
Michael Armitage, who lives and works in both Nairobi and London, pictured in 2022. Photo by Tom Jamieson.
Rose Wylie in her studio on the upper floor of her cottage in Kent, 2023. Photo by Will Grundy.
Gerhard Richter, who joined David Zwirner in 2023 and first showed with the gallery in 1994.
When he was planning to open his first gallery space, one of the maxims David Zwirner absorbed from the great German gallerist Konrad Fischer was, in effect, “Make every show count.” More than 650 shows later, a testament to that ethos—and to the innovative work of our pioneering artists—is how many works have gone on from our galleries to be shown in museums all over the world.
Installation view, Franz West: Investigations of American Art, 43 Greene Street, New York, 1993
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Installation view, Franz West’s 2 to 2 (do too 2 [too do 2 {to do two}]) (1994), on view in Franz West: Rest, Dia Center for the Arts bookshop, New York, 1994
Installation view, Jason Rhoades: CHERRY Makita - Honest Engine Work, 43 Greene Street, New York, 1993
Installation view, Jason Rhoades’s Garage Renovation New York (CHERRY Makita) (1993), on view in Jason Rhoades: Four Roads, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2014. Photo by Aaron Igler/Greenhouse Media
Installation view, Gerhard Richter: Prints & Multiples 1966–1993, 43 Greene Street, New York, 1994
Installation view, Diana Thater: China, Crayons & Molly Numbers 1 through 10, 43 Greene Street, New York, 1996
Installation view, Diana Thater: Selected Works 1992–1996, Kunsthalle Basel, 1996. Photo by Mancia/Bodmer, Zürich
Installation view, Toba Khedoori: Paintings, 43 Greene Street, New York, 1996
Installation view, Toba Khedoori, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016
Installation view, Luc Tuymans: Mwana Kitoko. beautiful white man, 43 Greene Street, New York, 2000
Installation view, Luc Tuymans: Mwana Kitoko – Beautiful White Man, Belgian Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale, 2001
Installation view, Gordon Matta-Clark: Bingo, David Zwirner, New York, 2004
Installation view, Contemporary Art from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010. Photo by Thomas Griesel
Installation view, On Kawara: Paintings of 40 Years, David Zwirner, New York, 2004
Installation view, 1965–1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1995, The Temporary Contemporary. Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio
Installation view, Christopher Williams: For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 4), David Zwirner, New York, 2006
Installation view, Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014
Installation view, John McCracken, David Zwirner, New York, 2006
Installation view, John McCracken, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, 2011. Photo by Paolo Pellion
Installation view, Neo Rauch, David Zwirner, New York, 2008
Installation view, Neo Rauch, The Broad, 2015. Photo by Bruce Damonte
Installation view, Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions, David Zwirner, New York, 2009
Installation view, Dan Flavin’s untitled (to Helga and Carlo, with respect and affection) (1974), on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2011. Photo by Cathy Carver
Installation view, Doug Wheeler, David Zwirner, New York, 2012
Installation view, Doug Wheeler’s D-N SF 12 PG VI 14 (2012), on view at The Illusion of Light, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2014. Photo by Fulvio Orsenigo
Installation view, Ad Reinhardt, David Zwirner, New York, 2013
Installation view, Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa, David Zwirner, New York, 2014
Installation view, Stan Douglas: Interregnum, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, 2015. Photo by Sven Laurent
Installation view, Jordan Wolfson, David Zwirner, New York, 2014
Installation view, Jordan Wolfson: MANIC / LOVE / TRUTH / LOVE, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2017. Photo by Dan Bradica
Installation view, Kerry James Marshall: Look See, David Zwirner, London, 2014
Installation view, Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, The Met Breuer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2016. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Installation view, Richard Serra: Equal, David Zwirner, New York, 2015
Installation view, Richard Serra’s Equal (2015), on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2020. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
Installation view, Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love, David Zwirner, New York, 2015
Installation view, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2017. Photo by Cathy Carver. © YAYOI KUSAMA
Installation view, Isa Genzken, David Zwirner, New York, 2015
Installation view, Isa Genzken’s Untitled (2018), on view in Isa Genzken: 75/75, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2023
Installation view, Sigmar Polke: Eine Winterreise, David Zwirner, New York, 2016
Installation view, Ruth Asawa, David Zwirner, New York, 2017
Installation view, Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 2018. Photo by Alise O’Brien
Installation view, Wolfgang Tillmans, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, 2018
Installation view, Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022. Photo by Emile Askey
Installation view, Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals, David Zwirner, New York, 2018
Installation view, Marlene Dumas: open-end, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2022. Photo by Marco Cappelletti and Filippo Rossi. © Palazzo Grassi
Installation view, Alice Neel: Freedom, David Zwirner, New York, 2019
Installation view, Alice Neel: People Come First, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021
Installation view, Josh Smith: Emo Jungle, David Zwirner, New York, 2019
Installation view, Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me, David Zwirner, New York, 2019
Installation view, Joan Mitchell, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2021
Installation view, Raymond Pettibon: Frenchette, David Zwirner, Paris, 2019
Installation view, Francis Alÿs: Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River, David Zwirner, Paris, 2021
Installation view, Francis Alÿs: The Nature of the Game, Belgian Pavilion, Biennale Arte 2022, Venice. Photo by Roberto Ruiz
Installation view, Andra Ursuţa: Void Fill, David Zwirner, Paris, 2021
Installation view, works by Andra Ursuţa, on view at 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, 2022. Photo by Dario Lasagni
Installation view, Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge, David Zwirner, New York, 2021
Installation view, Hilma af Klint’s Tree of Knowledge (1913–1915), on view in Iconoclasts: Selections from Glenstone’s Collection, Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland, 2023. Courtesy Glenstone
Installation view, Barbara Kruger, David Zwirner, New York, 2022
Installation view, Barbara Kruger: THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU., Art Institute of Chicago, 2021
Installation view, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Zwirner, New York, 2023
Installation view, Gerhard Richter, David Zwirner, New York, 2023. © Gerhard Richter 2023 (16032023)
Installation view, Gerhard Richter: Painting After All, The Met Breuer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Installation view, Rirkrit Tiravanija: The Shop, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, 2023
Installation view, Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE, MoMA PS1, 2024. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo by Kyle Knodell
Installation view, Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Coming Back to See Through, Again, David Zwirner, Los Angeles, 2023
Installation view, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, 2022. Courtesy Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Installation view, Lisa Yuskavage: Rendez-vous, David Zwirner, Paris, 2023
Installation view, Dana Schutz: Jupiter’s Lottery, David Zwirner, New York, 2023
Installation view, Dana Schutz: Le monde visible, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 2023. Photo by Pierre Antoine
Installation view, Robert Ryman: 1961–1964, David Zwirner, New York, 2023
Over the years, we’ve grown along with our artists. From our first location at 43 Greene Street in Manhattan—“by today’s standards, little more than a coat closet,” noted one artist—the gallery now comprises twelve distinct spaces across New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and, most recently, Los Angeles, where we are opening a new building in May 2024, designed by longtime collaborator Annabelle Selldorf, the architect who has designed all of the gallery’s spaces.
In 1993, the gallery opened in a small space at 43 Greene Street in SoHo in New York, with the intention to show challenging art without compromise. Here, the building’s exterior during the run of Diana Thater: Late & Soon (Occident Trotting), 1993.
In 2002, the gallery relocated from SoHo to West 19th Street in Chelsea. Here, David Zwirner stands on the roof of 525 West 19th Street holding a scale model of the gallery’s expansion into 533 West 19th Street, c. 2006.
Waiting for Yayoi Kusama. The line down 19th Street for the 2023 exhibition I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers.
In February 2013, a new five-story gallery at 537 West 20th Street in New York was inaugurated, on the site of an old parking garage, designed by the architect Annabelle Selldorf.
John McCracken’s Fair (2011) at the base of the staircase at the 20th Street gallery.
In September 2017, the gallery opened a space at 34 East 69th Street, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, with Selldorf’s touch evident within the stately 1907 townhouse.
A Fred Sandback installation in the 69th Street gallery, 2022.
In October 2021, we opened 52 Walker, a new space in New York’s Tribeca, programmed and led by senior director Ebony L. Haynes. Here, the exterior windows during the run of the exhibition Bob Thompson: So let us all be citizens in 2023. Photo by Ojive DeLungela.
Installation view of Tau Lewis: Vox Populi, Vox Dei at 52 Walker in 2022.
In May 2023, the gallery’s first Los Angeles spaces at 612 and 616 North Western Avenue opened with solo exhibitions by Njideka Akunyili Crosby—her first with the gallery since joining in 2018—and Stan Douglas, one of the first artists represented by David Zwirner. Built in the 1930s, these two existing one-story adjacent buildings were renovated by Selldorf Architects.
The crowd at the opening of Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Coming Back to See Through, Again in Los Angeles in 2023.
David Zwirner: 30 Years will inaugurate our new flagship building at 606 North Western Avenue, designed by Selldorf Architects. Photo by Elon Schoenholz.
In 2012, we opened our first gallery space in London, in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse at 24 Grafton Street, in the heart of Mayfair. Here, visible through the ground-floor window, is Marcel Dzama’s Death Disco Dance (2011), part of the 2013 exhibition Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets.
Super 8 film of the opening of Luc Tuymans: Allo!, the inaugural show for David Zwirner London by senior preparator, Justin Davis Anderson, October 3, 2012.
In October 2019, we opened our first gallery in Paris, at 108, rue Vieille du Temple, a space occupied first by the legendary French gallerist Yvon Lambert and, more recently, by VNH Gallery. Located in Le Marais, around the corner from Musée Picasso, the gallery occupies an 8,600-square-foot skylit, column-free ground-floor space. It’s currently under renovation, until the summer of 2024, overseen by Selldorf Architects and Paris firm Studio Razavi, to preserve the building’s historic architectural features.
Installation view of Philip-Lorca diCorcia at the Paris gallery in 2020.
We opened our Hong Kong gallery with the exhibition Michaël Borremans: Fire from the Sun in January 2018, featuring new works by the Belgian painter. With interiors by Selldorf Architects, the gallery consists of 10,000 square feet on two floors of H Queen’s, located in the city’s Central district.
Installation view of Michaël Borremans: Fire from the Sun in Hong Kong in 2018.
In 2014, David Zwirner Books was launched to produce catalogues, monographs, historical surveys, artists’ books, and catalogues raisonnés of the same rigor and quality as the gallery’s exhibitions. Now in its tenth year, the publishing house has also won wide recognition for a burgeoning series of children’s books, as well as the “reliably excellent” ekphrasis collection of rare, rediscovered writings.
Rose Wylie at her book signing in our London gallery in 2019. Photo by Dan Weill.
R. Crumb signs a copy of Sauve qui peut ! (Run for Your Life) (2022), a zine designed by the artist, his late wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and his daughter, Sophie Crumb, on the occasion of their 2022 exhibition in our Paris gallery.
A clip from the book trailer for Diane Arbus Documents, published in 2022. Through an assemblage of articles, criticism, and essays from 1967 to the present, the book charts the reception of Arbus’s work and offers comprehensive insight into the critical conversations, as well as misconceptions, around the highly influential artist.
The line to get books signed by William Eggleston in our London gallery in 2016.
William Eggleston, always worth the wait, signing books in London in 2016.
Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon in 2013 during a joint book signing inside the exhibition Raymond Pettibon: To Wit, at our 19th Street gallery in New York. Photo by Jason Schmidt.
Kids Day, David Zwirner Paris, 2022, featuring Making a Great Exhibition (2021) by Doro Globus and illustrated by Rose Blake, an exciting insight into the workings of artists and museums.
Since its inception, the gallery has supported and encouraged artists’ explorations in printmaking. In 2021, we launched Utopia Editions, the gallery’s print publisher, which provides contemporary artists opportunities to work with master printers all over the world.
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones at work on his first lithograph, hand-drawn on stone, in 2022 for Utopia Editions.
Inspecting color tests in the printers’ studio at Wingate Studio, 2023. Photo by Tony Luong.
Lucas Arruda working with the Parisian intaglio studio Atelier René Tazé to create prints that echo the artist’s uniquely meditative and sensorial approach to landscape painting. Photo by Matthew Avignone, 2023.
Cynthia Talmadge hand-finishes a screenprint. Photo by Vincent Tullo, 2023.
Printmaking at Marginal Editions in New York. Photo by Vincent Tullo.
Nate Lowman working at 10 Grand Press in New York. Photo by Marco Anelli, 2023.
Stanley Whitney at work at Two Palms Press in New York. Video by Sam Fleischner, 2021. Courtesy Two Palms.
A Njideka Akunyili Crosby print in the studio at High Point Press in Minneapolis. Photo by Bobby Rogers.
Three lithographs by Marcel Dzama, created in collaboration with printmaker Maurice Sanchez of Derriere L’Etoile Studios in Queens, New York, in 2021.
Cynthia Talmadge with her screenprints. Photo by Vincent Tullo, 2023.
Gerhard Richter’s 1994 exhibition of prints and multiples at our original Greene Street gallery, featuring ninety-six different editioned works by the artist.
Printmaker Leslie Diuguid, who frequently collaborates with 52 Walker, working at her Brooklyn fine-art screenprinting studio, Du-Good Press in New York.
Marcel Dzama with one of his lithographs created at Derriere L’Etoile Studios in 2021.
Katherine Bernhardt holding up her print Ditto (2022), at her St. Louis studio.
Raymond Pettibon’s edition No Title (Our Secret Spot.) (2022) on the printing press at Derriere L’Etoile Studios, where Pettibon has collaborated with printer Maurice Sanchez for more than two decades.
An installation view of Unrepeated: Unique Prints from Two Palms, a 2022 exhibition of prints made at the visionary print studio Two Palms, at the gallery’s 20th Street location in New York, featuring works by Marina Adams, Mel Bochner, Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Carroll Dunham, Chris Ofili, Elizabeth Peyton, Dana Schutz, Stanley Whitney, and Terry Winters.
A work in progress by Lisa Yuskavage.
A print in progress by Hayley Barker at Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Photo by Tony Luong, 2023.
Neo Rauch in the Lithographisches Atelier Leipzig, in 2019. Photo by Uwe Walter.
Josh Smith talking about a series of monotypes that build upon the artist’s signature paintings, featuring sunsets and palm trees.
Ruth Asawa at the legendary Tamarind Lithography Workshop in New Mexico in 1965. © Hank Baum.
Hayley Barker at Wingate Studio, 2023. Photo by Tony Luong.
Mel Bochner, who has collaborated with Two Palms for nearly three decades, prepares a work for the press with Two Palms staff in 2021.
Many things work together to shape the narrative of an artist. Whether it’s a musical performance that animates an exhibition, a curator talk that illuminates an idea, or online films and podcasts that bring art to a streaming audience, the stories we tell about our artists always start with them.
A clip of Marcel Dzama in his Brooklyn studio for a conversation on drawing, dance, fatherhood, and more in 2023.
Josef Albers on the magic of color in our 2023 film. Excerpt from To Open Eyes: A Film on Josef Albers, directed by Andre Bittleman and Carl Howard. Original film produced by Educational Communications, State University of New York at Albany (1969). Digital Version Copyright Bittleman Works, 2014.
Stan Douglas taping an episode of Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast with the musician Jason Moran in 2018.
A talk with the curators Christopher Bedford and Lynn Zelevansky, moderated by Helen Molesworth, on the occasion of Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers at our 20th Street gallery in Chelsea in 2023. Photo by Scott Rudd.
Josh Smith in front of the green screen of his YouTube series Studio News, 2023.
Photographer and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell leading a walkthrough of Roy DeCarava’s exhibition Light Break at our 19th Street location in 2019.
A clip from the Felix Gonzalez-Torres episode of our Program film series from 2023.
The conga line at the opening of Oscar Murillo: A Mercantile Novel at the 19th Street gallery in 2014.
A still from the Lisa Yuskavage episode of Program, with Helen Molesworth in the artist’s New York studio in 2023.
David Zwirner seen activating the works in a benefit exhibition for Performance Space, New York, in 2022 at our 19th Street location. Photo by Santiago Felipe.
A special Philip Glass performance inside Richard Serra’s 2015 exhibition Equal at the 20th Street gallery. Photo by Scott Rudd.
A clip of Katherine Bernhardt’s Instagram tour of her studio in St. Louis in 2023.
Jockum Nordström in the studio taping a 2020 episode of the Dialogues podcast.
Curator and writer Hilton Als leading a tour of the exhibition he curated Alice Neel, Uptown at our Chelsea gallery in 2017.
A 2017 video message straight from Yayoi Kusama’s studio. © YAYOI KUSAMA.
Marlene Dumas at our Paris gallery during a discussion on her book Venus & Adonis in 2019.
Chris Ofili, Dialogues host Lucas Zwirner, and the classicist Emily Wilson during a live taping of the podcast at the 69th Street gallery in New York, in 2019.
R. Crumb (left) playing with the East River String Band at the opening of R. Crumb: Art & Beauty at the London gallery in 2016.
A panel at the POWER/CULTURE lecture series, featuring Jeremy O. Harris, Elizabeth Alexander, Lisa Yuskavage, Fran Lebowitz, and Daniel Mendelsohn on “The Power of the Artist,” at The Kitchen in New York in 2020.
The art historian Benjamin H. D. Buchloh during a live podcast taping in the exhibition Gerhard Richter in New York in 2023. Photo by Will Ragozzino.
Oscar Murillo during a walkthrough of his exhibition Oscar Murillo: Manifestation in London in 2019.
Chris Ofili and Cameron Shaw, then the gallery’s research manager, participating in the reading of On Kawara’s One Million Years during On Kawara: One Million Years at our Chelsea gallery in 2009.
Mamma Andersson at a walkthrough of her exhibition Mamma Andersson: Adieu Maria Magdalena in Paris in 2023.
Manohla Dargis, Antwaun Sargent, Jillian Steinhauer, and Daniel Mendelsohn during a 2019 POWER/CULTURE panel, held at the Chelsea gallery, on “The Power of the Critic.”
Opening Thursday, May 23, David Zwirner: 30 Years is a special exhibition that will inaugurate our new flagship building at 606 North Western Avenue in Los Angeles, designed by Selldorf Architects, and will span our adjacent spaces, which first opened to the public last year. Featuring works by all of the gallery’s artists, the exhibition will present new paintings, sculptures, and installations made specifically for the show, alongside recent and historic works.
“Building and running a gallery for three decades is a great expression of teamwork. Front and center are the artists and their amazing work. Behind them is the gallery, with its many hardworking people, and then, of course, all around, the audience—other artists, curators, critics, collectors, advisors, colleagues, and all the people who love to look at art. So many individuals had to chip in to bring the gallery to this milestone; I am endlessly thankful to every one of them for the help I have gotten along the way.”
—David Zwirner