June 23, 2026
Scott Kahn Opening September 10, 2026 537 West 20th Street
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition by Scott Kahn (b. 1946) at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Over more than five decades, Kahn has maintained a commitment to a representational mode of expression, using a distinctive formal language to achieve a nuanced and poetic rendition of the simultaneous splendor and mundanity of the world around him. Focusing on the artist’s singular landscapes—a genre that is central to his practice—the exhibition will bring together new and recent paintings that explore Kahn’s most enduring motifs.
Rooted in his everyday life and experiences, Kahn’s enigmatic landscapes blend real and surreal elements. Many read as near facsimiles of lived experience shot through with electric color or ghostly shadows: billowing clouds that seem to come alive, ominous moonscapes, bare trees electrified by unexpected hues, and picture windows that open onto worlds both known and unknown. Seasons turn and day recedes into night, change often sweeping across a single canvas. As writer and poet John Yau has observed: “Standing before a painting by Kahn, we begin to see ourselves seeing a world, which, despite its plethora of precise details, remains a mystery, like a beautiful box that cannot be opened up.”1
Emma McIntyre September 18–October 24, 2026 52 Walker Street
David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by New Zealand–born and Los Angeles–based artist Emma McIntyre (b. 1990) at the gallery’s Tribeca location in New York. Thrumming with color and gestural energy, McIntyre’s abstractions explore the alchemical possibilities of the painted medium. The artist initiates a call and response between her hand and her materials, which include oils as well as unconventional substances such as oxidized iron. She pours and combines these pigments across the canvas, creating atmospheric and multilayered works that revel in a state of flux; slipping between order and chaos, spontaneity and deliberation, their surfaces constantly shift as the artist works, and as the viewer beholds them. Further broadening her experimentations with medium, scale, and hue, this will be McIntyre’s third solo show with the gallery, following An echo, a stain in New York in 2023 and Among my swan in Hong Kong in 2025.
Nate Lowman September 10–October 17, 2026 519 West 19th Street
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Nate Lowman (b. 1979), opening at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street location in New York. The exhibition debuts a body of shaped canvases, and paintings, among them canvases that take the form of keys—objects freighted with associations of access, security, and exclusion.
Lowman deftly mines images culled from art history, the news, and popular media, transforming visual signifiers from these distinct sources into a diverse body of paintings, sculptures, and installations. Since the early 2000s, the artist has continually pushed the boundaries of his multimedia approach with works that are at turns critical, humorous, political, and poetic. In his work, Lowman stages an encounter with commonplace, universally recognizable motifs, questioning and revisiting their intended meanings while creating new narratives in the process. The exhibition follows Lowman’s 2024 solo exhibition at David Zwirner Los Angeles, as well as his recent presentations at the Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris (2025) and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (2024).
Thomas Ruff jpegs ny September 10–October 17, 2026 533 West 19th Street
David Zwirner is pleased to present an important group of photographs by Thomas Ruff at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street location in New York. Featuring images from jpegs ny, a subset of the artist’s larger jpegs series, the twelve works on view are derived from images of the World Trade Center attacks in New York on September 11, 2001. Coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the attacks, this exhibition was conceived by the artist as a commemoration of that day. Prior to the exhibition in New York, this group of works was on view as part of Unlimited at Art Basel 2026.
Ruff was in New York on September 11, 2001, and he shot numerous photographs documenting that day and its aftermath, but when he returned home to Germany several days later he realized there were no images on his camera. Three years later, in 2004, the event was still front of mind for the artist. Seeking an appropriate artistic response to tragedy on such an unimaginable scale, he began to source and appropriate imagery of September 11 from the internet. Using digital techniques, Ruff altered the selected images by changing their structure, often increasing their compression, lowering the number of pixels per centimeter, and adding color. Through these manipulations, he initiated a process of abstraction that would make these otherwise ubiquitous images his own. Blown up to the scale of traditional nineteenth-century history paintings, these works remain legible yet noticeably blurred, producing an almost painterly effect wherein grids of mechanical pixelation substitute for the expressiveness of a brushstroke, and, like the works of the impressionists, the full image only comes into view at a distance. The resulting large-format prints appear overtly pixelated and at times almost abstract.
Other editions from jpegs ny are held in the collections of The Broad, Los Angeles; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Concurrent with this exhibition, a related work from this series will be on view at a group exhibition at the New York City Fire Museum organized by Ground Zero 360, which will also commemorate the anniversary.
Roy DeCarava the sound i saw Curated by Ebony L. Haynes September 19–October 31, 2026 606 N Western Avenue
David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) curated by Ebony L. Haynes at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. On view will be the sound i saw, DeCarava’s unwavering exploration of the relationship between the visual and the aural created between the late 1940s and the 1960s. First assembled as a handmade artist’s book, it was later condensed and exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1983. This body of work juxtaposes images of everyday life in New York City—elegiac street corners, deliverymen working, children playing, riders waiting for the train—with images of jazz musicians, glimpsed both mid-set and off-stage in moments of repose. Taken together, DeCarava’s tonally rich silver gelatin photographs redirect the viewer’s attention to the sounds of life, offering—as he noted—“images for the head and for the heart.”
Presented in an adjacent gallery will be a listening room inspired by the artist’s personal playlists and favorite jazz albums.
The exhibition at David Zwirner Los Angeles marks only the fourth solo presentation of DeCarava’s work in LA, following on the acclaimed 2019 exhibition Roy DeCarava: The Work of Art at The Underground Museum. In 1996, Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective was presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and prior to that the artist’s work was featured at the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies in 1982.
Louis Fratino September 18–October 31, 2026 24 Grafton Street
David Zwirner is pleased to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition with New York–based artist Louis Fratino (b. 1993) since the announcement of his representation earlier this year. Fratino creates paintings, drawings, and sculptures that depict intimate personal experiences, frequently centering contemporary queer life and the male body. In portraying all manner of subjects garnered from his immediate circles and through observation, he connects an exuberant palette of bold colors with an expressive figuration that cites his considered study of classical and modern Western art history and literature. For this exhibition, which features all new paintings, Fratino expands his thematic repertoire, approaching moments of public and private life with the propinquity that charges his views of the glorious and the everyday.
This presentation will be Fratino’s first solo exhibition in London, and follows the opening of Fratino and Matisse: To See This Light Again at the Baltimore Museum of Art, which places the two artists in dialogue and is on view through September 6, 2026. The FLAG Art Foundation presented Spotlight: Louis Fratino in New York in 2025. The year prior, the solo presentation Satura was held at Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy. The artist’s work was also featured in the Central Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere, in 2024.
Daichi Takagi Suchness Opening September 24, 2026 24 Grafton Street
David Zwirner is pleased to announce Suchness, an exhibition of new paintings by Japanese artist Daichi Takagi (b. 1982), on view in The Upper Room at the gallery’s London location. Blurring the boundary between figuration and abstraction, Takagi’s recent work is introspective and reflective, focusing on phenomena observable in his everyday environment. Motifs such as trees, stones, rain, and the moon recur across compositions, alluding to the natural world but more powerfully to the fleeting nature of perception.
As Takagi describes, his practice begins with seeing and perceiving objects as pure experience. In his work, boundaries between subject and object, inside and outside, are not fully resolved, and the world emerges as a raw and immediate presence. The exhibition’s title, Suchness (真如), refers to a state in which things simply are as they are. Rather than interpreting or controlling his subjects, Takagi attempts to give form to their presence, the space that arises around them, and the essence of experience. Underlying this approach is an affinity with modern Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida’s notion of “pure experience,” as well as Eastern philosophical ideas of non-duality in which the divisions between self and world are understood as fluid rather than fixed.
Born in Gifu, Japan, Takagi received his BFA and MFA from Tama Art University, Tokyo. The artist lives and works in Kanagawa.
Au 108 rue Vieille du Temple September 8–October 10, 2026 108, rue Vieille du Temple
Opening at David Zwirner’s Paris location in September 2026, this group exhibition will celebrate the legacy of the gallery space at 108, rue Vieille du Temple, in Le Marais, and its history as the former site of Galerie Yvon Lambert. Marking forty years since the inauguration of Lambert’s gallery at the same address on September 20, 1986, the exhibition at David Zwirner will highlight the resonances and overlaps between the two gallery programs and will showcase the artist-centric approach that both gallerists have shared. Featuring works by a diverse range of international artists, the presentation will illustrate the critical cross-pollination and artistic exchanges that have occurred between Paris and New York—a transatlantic dialogue that formed the fabric of Lambert’s legendary program.
As Lambert has recalled, “To open a gallery you just need a space and the best artists. The thing that interests me has always been the true artists, the ones who bring something genuinely new.”2
This exhibition will feature works by Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean-Charles Blais, Christian Boltanski, Robert Combas, Christo, Dan Flavin, Nan Goldin, On Kawara, Anselm Kiefer, Barbara Kruger, Bertrand Lavier, Louise Lawler, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Giulio Paolini, Nathalie du Pasquier, Richard Serra, Andres Serrano, David Shrigley, Niele Toroni, Cy Twombly, Richard Tuttle, Lawrence Weiner, and Jordan Wolfson, among others.
While the exhibition reflects on the history of 108, rue Vieille du Temple, the project initiated by Yvon Lambert and carried forward with his daughter Ève continues to evolve at 14, rue des Filles du Calvaire. Bringing together a bookstore, publishing house, and exhibition space, the venue represents the evolution of an unwavering commitment to artists and contemporary art.
Oscar Murillo Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps October 19–December 23, 2026 108, rue Vieille du Temple
David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Oscar Murillo (b. 1986) at the gallery’s Paris location, Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps.
Murillo writes:
Speed of flight, 600mph, the sea, geographies, terrain.
Labor! repetition, people, many, more public, more people, profound statements
buried—utterance of love, protest, an emoji, a sea of marks, condensed time—the harnessing
of thoughts, energies, spirits, all manifestations in color. frenetically! Awareness of places.
Time defaults thought into a stream of unconscious scores.
Scars of people as well as terrain... surface residue, euphoric emotion, color, line, more
scars, Colombia, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Philippines, UK, Poland, Germany so much
more—the collective is a field of Spirits.
Perpetually.
Nocturnal Opening September 23, 2026 5–6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central
David Zwirner is pleased to present a group exhibition organized and conceived by gallerist Matthew Brown. This exhibition, titled Nocturnal, will present works by Uri Aran, Patricia Ayres, Julie Beaufils, Sedrick Chisom, Carroll Dunham, Nat Faulkner, Sasha Gordon, Kenji Ide, Olivia van Kuiken, Heidi Lau, Jack O'Brien, Kent O'Connor, Trevor Shimizu and Michelle Uckotter.
1 John Yau, “Scott Kahn’s Inimitable Views,” davidzwirner.com (2024).
2 Yvon Lambert, interview with Donatien Grau, “Gallerist’s Page,” Flash Art (February 18, 2016), accessed online.