David Zwirner now represents the Robert Therrien Estate

May 6, 2026

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

George Herms (1935-2026)

May 5, 2026

L.A. Louver has announced the death of artist George Herms, who passed away last week at the age of 90.

Born in Woodland, CA in 1935, Herms moved to Los Angeles in 1955 when he was twenty years old. He took up residence in Topanga Canyon and soon fell in with the community of Beat poets, artists, and musicians, including Wallace Berman, Bob Alexander and others. These artists would become among Herms’s closest friends and collaborators.

In the late 1950s, Herms began his life-long devotion to assemblage. Poet Michael McClure later described Herms as “someone who is near saintly in his care for the objects that are put together.” The materials selected by Herms were almost always used and worn, embedded with the evidence of age and the patina of personal or shared histories. Through the combination of these remnants, Herms created objects representative of treasured moments, places, people or events, including The Alcove of Beginnings (1979, LACMA), The Berman Peace (1986, Walker Art Center), and The Librarian (1960, Norton-Simon Museum).

George Herms was one of the first artists to exhibit at L.A. Louver, with the solo exhibition George Herms: Works of Assemblage (1976). Over the years, he presented five solo exhibitions and took part in numerous group shows at the gallery. Additionally, in June 1992, coinciding with the exhibition Poem Makers: Wallace Berman, George Herms, and Jess, L.A. Louver published the facsimile edition of Wallace Berman’s Semina journal. George Herms—who aided Wallace and Shirley Berman with the original publication of the journal—oversaw each part of the facsimile printing process to ensure highest quality and veracity to the original journals.

Throughout his nine decades, George Herms worked across sculpture, paintings, prints, installation, and performance. He had notable retrospectives at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (1979) and The Santa Monica Museum of Art (2005, curated by Walter Hopps). He was awarded three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships (1968, 1977, 1984); the Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture (1983-84); and the prestigious Prix de Rome Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (1982-83). His work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Menil Collection (Houston, TX); the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA).

photo: Sue Henger

Galerie Peter Kilchmann announces representation of Matthias Odin

April 24, 2026

Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to announce the representation of Matthias Odin.

The relationship to movement is omnipresent in my work, and I think also in my life but I feel that it is something inherent, a condition of being human: that vital impulse to move within an environment that itself changes around us, sometimes more, sometimes less, with varying intensity. What interests me is our porosity, to such fluctuation.

Matthias Odin was born in 1995 in Lyon, France and lives and works in Paris, France. While he engages with universal themes such as wandering, encounter, disorientation, self-construction, and adaptation, the work of Matthias Odin is deeply introspective. His practice revolves around assembling and transforming collected objects, which anchor reflections on relationships to spaces and perception. Experiences in marginalized and sometimes clandestine urban environments have profoundly shaped his reflections on the occupation of urban space and on the strategies individuals develop to inhabit it.

photo: Raphaël Massart

Alison Jacques now represents Sky Glabush

April 23, 2026

Alison Jacques is delighted to announce representation of Canadian painter Sky Glabush (b.1970, Alert Bay, British Columbia; lives and works in rural southwestern Ontario). The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery will take place in November 2026.

‘The materials themselves have to guide the painting to present an image or idea that didn’t come from me’, Sky Glabush observes, ‘There’s no recipe, there’s no formula, there’s no direction. I never know if and when a painting is going to feel real or if it’s going to feel alive’. Paintings emerge through an intuitive, materially driven process in which landscape becomes less a subject than a platform for experimentation. Glabush continues, ‘If the world around you can become subject matter or inspiration, then there’s no limit because it’s inexhaustible’.

Glabush paints intuitive interpretations and emotional responses to landscape, which he experiences as a platform for experimentation. Images are not predetermined but arrive through an ongoing exploration of material, memory and sensation, pushing the work beyond its source material and allowing forms to develop through their own internal logic. Although recurrent elements – trees, flowers, fields or shifting horizons – appear throughout Glabush’s work, the paintings resist fixed narratives, instead offering spaces of discovery that unfold gradually through colour, gesture and texture. The work evokes a sense of place, moving between familiarity and discovery. As he notes, ‘I hope visitors take away a feeling of being transported – not just to a physical place, but to a state of mind where they feel a connection to nature and the passage of time’.

Felix & Spear announces representation of Errol Lloyd

April 20, 2026

Felix & Spear Gallery is pleased to announce representation of Errol Lloyd

Errol Lloyd (b 1943, Lucea) is a Jamaican-born British artist, writer, and illustrator working across painting, sculpture, and literature. He was educated at Munro College, Jamaica, where he excelled academically and in sport, representing the school in athletics, hockey, gymnastics, football, and debating, serving as Head Boy and gaining distinctions in all A Level art examinations. A formative influence was visiting the studio of African American sculptor Richmond Barthé, who settled in Jamaica in 1948.

Lloyd moved to the UK in 1963 to study law at the Council of Legal Education, during which he produced commissioned bronze portrait busts of figures including C. L. R. James, Sir Garfield Sobers, Richard Small, Lord Pitt, John La Rose, and Linton Kwesi Johnson. His bust of John La Rose was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (2004), and his painted portrait of Kamau Brathwaite, commissioned by Pembroke College, Cambridge (2019), is on permanent display in its dining hall.
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He was active in the Caribbean Artists Movement (1966–1972), a key force in Black British art, later designing book covers for Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, New Beacon Books, and Pearson Longman, and teaching Advanced Painting at Camden Arts Centre (1975–1976).

Alexis Ralaivao joins Pilar Corrias

April 9, 2026

Pilar Corrias is delighted to announce the representation of Alexis Ralaivao (b. 1991, Rennes; lives and works in Rennes, France), in partnership with Olney Gleason, New York.

Ralaivao’s first UK solo exhibition, Flirter avec l’abstrait, is currently on view at Pilar Corrias’s Conduit Street gallery in Mayfair, London, through 23 May 2026.

Ralaivao’s intimate, diaristic oil paintings combine classical traditions with a distinctly contemporary sensibility. Drawing on Old Master techniques associated with 17th-century Dutch painting and its meticulous attention to fabric and surface, his work is marked by a precise and attentive gaze, capturing fleeting gestures and lending them both immediacy and a sense of timelessness. The paintings that emerge draw out the emotional depth of everyday scenes, inviting sustained looking, at once revealing and withholding.

Pilar Corrias commented: “We are delighted to be working with Alexis. The reception of his current exhibition at the gallery, his first UK solo show, has been phenomenal, and it has been an honour to introduce his work to new audiences. Alexis is one of the most exciting young painters working today, distinguished by a masterful handling of paint and a nuanced, contemporary reimagining of art historical traditions.”

photo: Charlie Rubin

NıCOLETTı announces representation of Tarek Lakhrissi

March 31, 2026

NıCOLETTı is delighted to announce representation of Tarek Lakhrissi (b. 1992, Châtellerault, FR), in collaboration with Galerie Allen, Paris, FR.

Tarek Lakhrissi is a French-Moroccan artist whose practice spans video, installation, performance, and poetry. Grounded in literature and informed by pop and visual culture, his work critically examines the ways language, desire, race, and power shape bodies and subjectivities. Through symbolic and affective forms, he constructs speculative narratives that challenge dominant representations and foreground questions of visibility, vulnerability, and otherness.

Lakhrissi’s first solo exhibition at NıCOLETTı, SPIT, inaugurated the gallery space in Shoreditch in 2024. In 2026, the artist will present a major commission at Bold Tendencies, London, UK.

photo: Horst Diekgerdes

Pat Steir, 1938 – 2026

March 26, 2026

Hauser & Wirth have announced the passing of New York-based artist Pat Steir, shortly before her 88th birthday.

One of the great innovators across contemporary painting, drawing and printmaking, Steir rose to prominence in the late 1970s and 1980s for her iconographic canvases and immersive installations. She gained critical acclaim for her inventive approach to painting, including the rigorous pouring technique she developed for her Waterfall series, in which she harnessed gravity and gesture to achieve works of remarkable lyricism.

Steir is survived by her husband Joost Elffers and niece Lily Sukoneck-Cohen.

photo: Grace Roselli

Perrotin now represents Sigrid Sandström

March 20, 2026

Perrotin is pleased to announce the representation of Stockholm-based artist Sigrid Sandström on the occasion of her third solo exhibition with the gallery, which will be presented in London and will feature a series of new paintings. This follows her solo exhibitions at Perrotin Shanghai in 2024 and Perrotin Tokyo in 2025.

At the core of Sandström’s practice is an inquiry into painting as image, explored through her engagement with abstract landscapes. Drawing on references from geography, sociology, and philosophy, she constructs compositions that articulate states of perception and reflection. Recurring elements such as circular discs, poured paint, and stains serve as shapeshifting strategies, allowing forms to move between painterly abstraction and imagery evoking mountains, water, earth, and light. Through this fluid visual language, Sandström examines how paintings unfold as sites of perception, prompting viewers to consider where, when, and how an image emerges.

Her compositions traverse within the dual notion of site, both conceptual and experiential, creating a dynamic relationship among artist, artwork, and viewer. As her work moves toward greater abstraction, her expansive landscapes continue to challenge the boundaries of painting as a medium. This ambiguity remains central to both the formation of the work and its encounter with the viewer.

In addition to Perrotin, Sandström will continue to be represented by Anat Ebgi Gallery, Cecilia Hillström Gallery, and Inman Gallery.

Sigrid Sandström: Squall at Perrotin London opens with a private view on Thursday 26 March.

photo: Per-Erik Adamsson

The Carlos Cruz-Diez Estate joins Cristea Roberts Gallery

March 12, 2026

Cristea Roberts Gallery is delighted to announce global representation for the original prints from the Carlos Cruz-Diez Estate, the Estate’s first gallery representation in London.

Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923 – 2019) was one of the great twentieth-century thinkers, writers and innovators in the realm of colour. During his lifetime he made paintings, sculpture, prints, architectural interventions and site-specific installations. His radical approach to art anticipated the immersive and experimental works that define much of contemporary art today.

The artist made a significant body of printed work throughout his lifetime, picking it up at important points in the development of his research and practice. Cristea Roberts Gallery’s first showing of Cruz-Diez’s prints will be at Art Basel Hong Kong. Following further presentations at art fairs throughout 2026, the gallery will stage a solo exhibition of works from the Estate in London in 2027.

photo: Atelier Cruz Diez / Lisa Preud'homme

Perrotin announces global representation of Alma Allen

March 10, 2026

Perrotin is pleased to announce global representation of Alma Allen.

Allen (b. Utah, 1970, lives and works in Tepoztlán, Mexico) is a self-taught sculptor who works in wood, stone and bronze, often with material sourced from his immediate surroundings. The artist’s biomorphic works appear psychically charged and talismanic, simultaneously inviting and resisting classification.

His first solo exhibition with Perrotin will open in Paris in October 2026.

Resembling roots, seed pods, molluscs and fossils, Allen’s sculptures appear to relate to the vast expanses of territory and monolithic natural formations that have punctuated his life: Utah where Allen spent his childhood; Joshua Tree, California, where Allen lived for over a decade; and Tepoztlán, Mexico, where the artist currently has his studio. Other works are reminiscent of torsos with clumsily protruding limbs, empty plinths or deconstructed architectural columns, which may be read as anti-monuments.

Allen’s artistic trajectory has seen him progress from humble origins, selling hand-carved miniatures on the streets of Soho, New York, to his breakthrough inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Allen will represent the United States of America in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2026 and his first solo exhibition with Perrotin will open in Paris in October 2026.

photo: Luis Garva

Stacey Gillian Abe to represent Uganda at 2026 Venice Biennale

March 6, 2026

The Uganda Pavilion has been announced for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, taking place from 9 May to 22 November 2026.

Commissioned by Acaye Kerunen and curated by Taga Francis Nuwagaba, the pavilion will present works by Stacey Gillian Abe alongside Joseph Ntensibe, Lilian Nabulime, Ronex Ahimbisibwe, Lakwena Maciver, Sheila Nakitende and Aloka Trevor.

Foregrounding a range of practices shaped within and across East Africa, the presentation explores shared themes of material culture, spirituality and social memory, while reflecting the diversity of contemporary artistic production connected to Uganda.

The announcement follows Stacey Gillan Abe’s fourth solo exhibition at Unit, Garden of Blue Whispers. Her new body of work develops narratives of reclamation, exploring both personal and social ancestry through her signature use of indigo and hand-embroidered silk detailing.

Roberts Projects announces representation of Esmaa Mohamoud

March 3, 2026

Roberts Projects is pleased to announce its representation of Esmaa Mohamoud. This announcement follows the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the artist in 2025, What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?

Known for her conceptual practice that incorporates familiar objects and symbols from Black visual culture—including football equipment, peacock chairs, lowriders, butterflies and shea butter—Mohamoud reimagines her source materials by transforming their scale and layering cultural references to recontextualize their conventional meaning. Grounded in extensive research and painstaking production, her work displays not only a mastery of a given material, but also a nuanced understanding of its symbolic power. By investigating Black history through its material culture, Mohamoud bypasses monolithic racial stereotypes to envision a world rich with complexity and diverse experiences.

Through her critique of Black body politics, Mohamoud considers how subjects are made to navigate spaces where they have already been objectified and racialized. In creating work that demystifies these unspoken social codes, Mohamoud simultaneously celebrates and reconfigures a visual language rooted in time-honored traditions of resistance and resilience.

Esmaa Mohamoud (b. 1992 London, ON, Canada; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a conceptual artist working at the intersection of sculpture and installation. Her sculptures explore the politics of race and identity through references to and recontextualizing of objects from popular culture. Making use of materials that carry both personal and historical significance, Mohamoud creates symbolically rich and metaphorically complex works that consider the legacy of racial violence and the possibilities for future renewal.

photo: Jeremy Clemente

Galerie Peter Kilchmann now represents Amol K Patil

February 23, 2026

Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to announce the representation of Amol K Patil.

Amol K Patil (b. 1987, Mumbai, India; lives and works in Mumbai and Amsterdam) is a conceptual and performance artist whose practice unfolds across sculpture, installation, drawing, video, sound, and performance. Grounded in personal and collective histories, his work excavates the layered experiences of labour, migration, and social marginalisation, particularly as they resonate through the hierarchies of caste and class that shaped his upbringing in Mumbai’s chawl neighbourhoods. Drawing on the archival legacies of his grandfather, a Powada poet, and his father, an avant-garde playwright, Patil treats artistic production as a form of counter-memory - inviting audiences into poetic yet exacting reflections on labour, movement, and visibility.

Working at the intersection of memory and materiality, Patil employs kinetic devices, repeated gestures, bodies in motion, and architectural traces to unsettle dominant narratives of urban life and human disposability. His installations often operate as choreographed environments, where light, sound, and fragmented bodies hover between presence and erasure.

Amol K Patil’s upcoming exhibition at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, The Shadow of Lustre, opens with a reception on Thursday 26 February.

The Estate of Carol Rama now represented by Hauser & Wirth

February 19, 2026

Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Marc Payot, Presidents of Hauser & Wirth, announced today that the gallery will represent the Estate of Carol Rama alongside Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.

Over more than seven decades, Carol Rama (b. 1918, Turin; d. 2015) developed a radical body of work that addressed connections between desire, sacrifice, eroticism and repression. By constructing a visual cosmos where transgression leads to liberation, Rama countered assumptions about gender, sexuality and representation, offering a retort to the societal conventions and the prevailing far-right political ideologies that defined the fascist-dominated Italy of her youth. She set neither boundaries nor hierarchies between painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking, pulling all of these mediums into her image universe. ‘My self-assurance exists only across from a sheet of paper that needs to be filled in,’ Rama once declared. ‘Work is the only way to drive off my fears. My rebellion consists of painting.’

Today, Rama is considered one of the most original and individualistic artists to emerge from the 20th Century. Yet while she exhibited regularly in Italy, her work was largely absent from international contemporary discourse until the late 1990s when it finally attracted interest among a new generation of artists, curators and critics. Rama’s art has since galvanized ever-expanding attention and avid scholarship. She was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and major solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998); MACBA, Barcelona (2014); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris (2015); New Museum, New York City (2017); and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2024), among others.

Carol Rama’s first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth will open in May 2026 in New York.

photo: Pino Dell’Aquila