An artist’s first exhibition is one of the landmarks of their career, so as part of our mission to bring you everything that’s new, here is a round-up of great exhibitions on now which are the first time the artist has shown with the gallery or the first time they’ve been presented in that city.
 Allison Katz. Outta the Bag @ Hauser & Wirth, New York the Montreal-born, London-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York “proposes painting as a medium uniquely capable of holding disparate registers within a single, shifting field of vision” until Jul 24 |
 Angel Otero: Agua Salada @ Hauser & Wirth, Bruton in an expansion of his practice, Otero’s UK debut presents deeply personal work completed during a residency at the gallery in Somerset, translating his fascination with process, materiality and time into sculptural installations and moving image until Oct 18 |
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 Carol Rama. I See You You See Me @ Hauser & Wirth, New York organized by Carlo Knoell, the gallery’s first exhibition dedicated to the radical Italian artist brings new focus to her wildly original experimentations in paint, textile, sculpture, and bricolage until Jul 31 |
 Carolina Aguirre: It murmurs @ Palmer Gallery, London Aguirre’s first solo exhibition at the gallery is an immersive installation of sculpture, painting, film, and audio exploring “the intersections of body, land, memory and migration through the construction of mythopoetic landscapes” until Jun 13 |
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 Catherine Opie: To Be Seen @ National Portrait Gallery, London the first major UK museum exhibition of the American artist’s photographic portraits includes her first major work, and pieces both in dialogue with each other as well as with works from the permanent Collection until May 31 |
 Celeste Rapone: Hyperarousal @ Esther Schipper, Berlin Rapone’s first presentation with the gallery debuts three paintings where she explores “the heated juncture of sensuous stimulation and nervous irritation in narratively dense compositions” until Jun 20 |
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 Donald Locke: Resistant Forms @ Camden Art Centre, London “explore the expansive resonances of a body of work, produced through a life-long commitment to experimentation” in London’s first comprehensive survey of the Guyanese-British ceramicist, painter and sculptor until Aug 30 |
 Edie Baskin: Live From My Studio @ The Gallery at Soho Grand, New York a rare and immersive presentation of more than forty of Baskin’s hand-tinted photographs in the first comprehensive exhibition of work by one of the greatest pop culture witnesses of our time until Sep 13 |
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 Eleanor Ekserdjian: We Are Our Mountains @ Messums Org, London the painter and film artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in London “explores cultural memory through landscape and examines our shifting ideas of homeland from the perspective of diaspora” until Jun 27 |
 Emily Kraus: In Relation @ Luhring Augustine, New York new large-scale abstract works which engage with the history of abstract expressionism and color-field painting, in the London-based artist’s first solo show with the gallery and in New York until Jun 13 |
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 Expressions in Blue: Monumental Porcelain by Felicity Aylieff @ Petworth House and Park, Petworth on show for the first time at Petworth - and extending thoughout the house and grounds - towering sculptures by the renowned ceramicist until Sep 27 |
 Firelei Báez. Feet squelching on wet grass, nourished by uncertainty @ Hauser & Wirth, New York Báez first NYC exhibition with the gallery presents “an ambitious, enveloping constellation of radiant new paintings and works on paper” shown alongside new large-scale bronze sculptures until Jul 31 |
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 Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame @ Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, New York works on paper, paintings, neon sculpture, and installation celebrating Dominican players in US Major League Baseball, in the first posthumous exhibition of the Dominican-born New York-based artist until Sep 12 |
 Glen Baxter: The Response from the Parisian Art Critics is Swift and Decisive @ Semiose, Paris the first exhibition of Baxter at the gallery stands as a tribute to the artist, who sadly passed away in March of this year until Jun 20 |
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 Gregor Schneider: Rheydt NOW @ Sprovieri, London Schneider’s first solo exhibition at the gallery centres on his ongoing Gesamtkunstwerk “Haus u r” - with two livestream projections, shown for the first time, alongside key works from the house until Jun 7 |
 Ida Ekblad: EAT AN EGGPLANT @ Galerie Max Hetzler, London new oil on linen paintings, oils on paper, enamel on steel works, hand-painted bronze sculptures, and a large glass lantern encompassing Ekblad’s instinctive and expansive practice in her first exhibition at the gallery’s London space until Aug 8 |
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 Isabelle Young: Venice As I Was @ Canopy Collections, London the British photographer’s first exhibition with the gallery - "Young’s Venice is both elegy and diary. The city appears suspended at the threshold of submergence … both shielded and already defeated” - Alona Pardo until Jul 3 |
 Ishita Chakraborty: East Is Everywhere @ Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris Chakraborty’s first solo show in France “places the landscape, understood as territory, memory, and political space, at the center [and] reveals these entangled histories of capital, extraction, and control embedded within both landscapes and bodies” until Jul 25 |
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 Jack Milroy: Bibliophilia @ Shapero Modern, London the London and Sussex-based 3D-artist’s first exhibition at the gallery in New Bond Street centres on works created from books until May 31 |
 Kelly Akashi: Heirloom @ Lisson Gallery, New York Akashi’s first exhibition with the gallery in New York reflects on heirlooms, not as tokens of nostalgia but as material conditions in which matter itself carries history forward until Jul 25 |
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 Li Ran: Like a Stranger @ Lisson Gallery, Shanghai in his first solo exhibition with the gallery in Shanghai, new and recent works by Li highlighting the evolving direction of his painting, with a deepened focus on material painterliness and pictorial storytelling until Jul 4 |
 Lindsay Adams: SOIL @ Sean Kelly Gallery, New York new works in Adam’s debut solo exhibition in New York examining “how paintings can emerge from a black ground, using darkness, not as absence, but as a generative foundation from which color, gesture, and form unfold” until Jun 6 |
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 Liu Xiaodong: Host @ Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles the renowned figurative artist’s first exhibition in Los Angeles presents his documentation of a stay in Detroit, with a single focus on John Mcintyre, a Detroit-based tattoo artist and member of a local medieval fighting team until Jun 13 |
 Lucia Laguna: Apenas meus cabelos são brancos [Only my hair is white] @ Galerie Lelong, New York “poignant, exuberant distillations of how it feels to be human in a rapidly changing world” - organized in collaboration with Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, new paintings in the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition in the US until Jun 27 |
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 Matthew Cole: Cabin Fever @ BEERS London, London Cole’s first exhibition at the gallery sees the American artist translating the external world into uncanny, psychologically charged paintings of interior spaces until Jun 27 |
 Max Liebermann: A Key to the Garden @ Bastian, Berlin the gallery’s first exhibition of the leading Impressionist focusses on his paintings of the gardens of his own summer residence on the west shore of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee until Aug 1 |
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 Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire @ Autograph, London including newly commissioned work presented for the first time, this is the first solo exhibition of the French Vietnamese artist who works at the intersection of art and fashion photography until Sep 19 |
 Olivia Sterling: Jelly @ Dirimart, Istanbul Sterling’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Istanbul - “involving food, the body, and stains, Sterling’s paintings appear playful and exaggerated … yet reveal underlying hierarchies, processes of objectification, [and] microaggressions” until Jun 14 |
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 Rodney McMillian: In Other Realms @ Capitain Petzel, Berlin new paintings and sculptures anchored by a film based on a civil rights text against lynching, in the Los Angeles–based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery until Jun 13 |
 Shara Mays: Runaway @ Ronchini, London large-scale, vibrant, abstract paintings exploring movement, displacement, and survival in Mays’ first solo exhibition at the gallery until Jun 6 |
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 Virginia Chihota: Kutera mutsara / Hearing Inner Lines @ Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York new works on paper and large-scale canvases in Chihota's first solo presentation with the gallery - “a fluid exchange between media … to explore profound questions of being, belonging, and the mutability of self” until Jun 13 |
 William Braithwaite: Formed in Repetition @ Twilight Contemporary, London the Yorkshire-based sculptor’s debut solo exhibition explores the tension and connections between sculpture and architecture until Jun 6 |
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 Woody De Othello: Guardian Spirit @ Public Art Fund, New York curated by Jenée-Daria Strand, Othello’s first solo outdoor exhibition in the city presents large-scale bronzes and new totemic redwood sculptures exploring ritual, spiritual, and healing objects from Western and Central Africa until Mar 8, 2027 |
 Yuji Agematsu: Zip: 01-01-2024 - 12-31-2024 @ Galerie Buchholz, Berlin Agematsu’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Germany is in two parts, the first featuring a year of “zips” - tiny devotional sculptures made of detritus from New York’s streets inside the cellophane sleeves of cigarette packs until Jun 20 |
