David Zwirner has announced exclusive global representation of the Robert Therrien Estate. Therrien’s work was recently celebrated in the largest museum exhibition of his work to date at The Broad in Los Angeles (22 November 2025 - 5 April 2026). The exhibition featured more than one hundred and twenty works spanning five decades.

Robert Therrien worked across a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, and installation. Over the course of five decades, he developed an array of motifs based on memory, distinguishing his carefully constructed imagery through a deeply imaginative sensibility, at once familiar and out of reach, allowing for multivalent, open-ended narratives to unfold. The artist submitted everyday objects and forms to a process of abstraction before bringing them back into focus in a new way, or—as in later works—enlarged objects such as tables, chairs, and stacked plates to an uncanny scale. Therrien emerged in Los Angeles in the 1970s, part of a generation of artists who were countering the detachment of the minimal and conceptual works coming out of New York with an accessible, distinctly West Coast vernacular.

Robert Therrien (1947–2019) was born in Chicago. He studied photography and printmaking at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara before earning a graduate degree at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1974. The artist remained in Los Angeles for the next forty-five years as an active member of the Southern California art scene.

photo: Leo Holub