Deitch Gallery, New York
Ryan McGinley turns his lens back on New York for Night Shift, a body of work that picks up the raw, kinetic spirit of his early career and sets it loose after dark. Shot between 9pm and 5am across all five boroughs through Spring and Winter 2025, the series uses slow shutters, long lenses, and radio flash to turn bodies and city into one glowing, blurred-out organism — neon, brake lights, and halogen doing most of the talking.
McGinley calls it "my poem to New York City," and you can feel it: cherry blossoms pushing through sidewalk cracks, fire hydrants steaming off summer asphalt near Yankee Stadium, the K Bridge and Coney Island's Cyclone reduced to abstract shapes in the dark. It's the city at its quietest and strangest – equal parts grit and magic, post-apocalyptic and a little bit of a love song. A publication accompanies the show, available at the gallery.
Jun 13 – Aug 8, 2026
Gagosian, Athens
Eugène Atget presents new paintings by Urs Fischer, marking his first solo exhibition in Athens. Drawing on photographs, found imagery, and digital manipulation, Fischer constructs layered urban landscapes that capture the sensory overload of contemporary Los Angeles – a city experienced as a constant stream of signs, faces, architecture, and motion.
The exhibition takes its title from Eugène Atget, whose documentation of old Paris transformed the everyday streetscape into a living archive. In a similar spirit, Fischer turns his attention to the overlooked fragments of urban life, combining figuration and abstraction into dense, collage-like compositions. The result is a vivid portrait of the contemporary city – chaotic, fleeting, and endlessly in flux.
Jun 9 – Sep 12, 2026
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Matinee presents new photographs by Los Angeles–based Alex Prager, using the city as both subject and psychological backdrop. Through four large-scale works, Prager explores the ways memory, mythology, and perception intertwine, turning Los Angeles into a place that feels at once familiar and imagined.
Known for her meticulously staged photographs and films, Prager constructs scenes that hover between reality and dream, every detail built and photographed in-camera. Here, overlooks, ceremonies, and cinematic fragments become vehicles for exploring the city’s contradictions – glamour and uncertainty, performance and intimacy, spectacle and everyday life. The result is a body of work that captures Los Angeles not as a location, but as a state of mind.
Jun 11 – Aug 14, 2026
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
A solo exhibition of work by David Wojnarowicz brings together photography, painting, film, and writing produced throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Moving between personal narrative and political urgency, the presentation reflects Wojnarowicz’s singular voice and his deep connections to New York’s downtown creative community, including Peter Hujar, Kiki Smith, and Marion Scemama.
A central focus of the exhibition is the Hudson River piers, the abandoned waterfront spaces that became gathering points for artists and the queer community during the 1970s and 80s. For Wojnarowicz, these charged and transient environments offered a place where desire, freedom, and meaning could coexist, becoming recurring symbols within a body of work that remains as vital and uncompromising today as when it was first made.
Jun 5 – Aug 28, 2026
Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
One Becomes The Other presents new paintings by Los Angeles–based Nery Gabriel Lemus, continuing the artist’s exploration of identity, memory, and the ways cultural histories are carried through objects, images, and everyday spaces.
Working in watercolor and incorporating traditional Guatemalan textiles, Lemus looks both backward and forward – tracing the influences of family, migration, and community while imagining how identity evolves over time. Flowers, fabrics, family photographs, and symbolic forms become vessels for larger questions of belonging and inheritance. Throughout the exhibition, personal history and collective memory intertwine, revealing how stories, traditions, and acts of care persist across generations.
Jun 5 – Jul 4, 2026
Karma Gallery, Los Angeles
Origins (1946–1959) revisits the formative years of William Turnbull, tracing the emergence of a visual language that would define his career across painting and sculpture. Working in the aftermath of World War II, Turnbull looked to ancient forms, archaeology, and the physical presence of materials, treating art as a bridge between prehistory and the present.
Moving between postwar London, Surrealist Paris, and Abstract Expressionist New York, the exhibition follows the evolution of recurring motifs – horses, heads, and standing figures – as they shift between representation and abstraction. Throughout, Turnbull’s work remains rooted in a belief that objects carry history within them, connecting contemporary experience to something older, deeper, and enduring.
Jun 4 – Jul 17, 2026
OCHI, Los Angeles
Volume is the first solo exhibition with OCHI by Los Angeles–based Adrienne Maki, bringing together a new body of paintings that blur the boundaries between sculpture, painting, and design.
Working with shaped supports that reject the traditional rectangle, Maki treats painting as an extension of form itself. Influenced by Lucio Fontana, Agostino Bonalumi, and Gio Ponti, her works balance structure and spontaneity through curved forms, restrained gestures, and carefully calibrated color. The result is a body of work that feels at once architectural and intimate – paintings that occupy space as much as they describe it.
Jun 6 – Jul 3, 2026
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
The first West Coast solo exhibition by Zhang Enli presents a new series of abstract portraits that continue the artist’s gradual shift away from direct representation. Though rooted in specific subjects, the paintings favor atmosphere and sensation over likeness, using increasingly loose brushwork to suggest character rather than describe it.
Known for chronicling the overlooked details of everyday life in Shanghai, Zhang has spent the last decade moving toward a more open and abstract visual language. Here, familiar motifs from earlier still lifes – ropes, tubes, and wires – reappear as drifting forms within enigmatic compositions, where attention shifts from objects themselves to the conditions that make them visible.
May 29 – Aug 22, 2026
Deitch Gallery, New York
Ryan McGinley turns his lens back on New York for Night Shift, a body of work that picks up the raw, kinetic spirit of his early career and sets it loose after dark. Shot between 9pm and 5am across all five boroughs through Spring and Winter 2025, the series uses slow shutters, long lenses, and radio flash to turn bodies and city into one glowing, blurred-out organism — neon, brake lights, and halogen doing most of the talking.
McGinley calls it "my poem to New York City," and you can feel it: cherry blossoms pushing through sidewalk cracks, fire hydrants steaming off summer asphalt near Yankee Stadium, the K Bridge and Coney Island's Cyclone reduced to abstract shapes in the dark. It's the city at its quietest and strangest – equal parts grit and magic, post-apocalyptic and a little bit of a love song. A publication accompanies the show, available at the gallery.
Jun 13 – Aug 8, 2026
Gagosian, Athens
Eugène Atget presents new paintings by Urs Fischer, marking his first solo exhibition in Athens. Drawing on photographs, found imagery, and digital manipulation, Fischer constructs layered urban landscapes that capture the sensory overload of contemporary Los Angeles – a city experienced as a constant stream of signs, faces, architecture, and motion.
The exhibition takes its title from Eugène Atget, whose documentation of old Paris transformed the everyday streetscape into a living archive. In a similar spirit, Fischer turns his attention to the overlooked fragments of urban life, combining figuration and abstraction into dense, collage-like compositions. The result is a vivid portrait of the contemporary city – chaotic, fleeting, and endlessly in flux.
Jun 9 – Sep 12, 2026
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Matinee presents new photographs by Los Angeles–based Alex Prager, using the city as both subject and psychological backdrop. Through four large-scale works, Prager explores the ways memory, mythology, and perception intertwine, turning Los Angeles into a place that feels at once familiar and imagined.
Known for her meticulously staged photographs and films, Prager constructs scenes that hover between reality and dream, every detail built and photographed in-camera. Here, overlooks, ceremonies, and cinematic fragments become vehicles for exploring the city’s contradictions – glamour and uncertainty, performance and intimacy, spectacle and everyday life. The result is a body of work that captures Los Angeles not as a location, but as a state of mind.
Jun 11 – Aug 14, 2026
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
A solo exhibition of work by David Wojnarowicz brings together photography, painting, film, and writing produced throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Moving between personal narrative and political urgency, the presentation reflects Wojnarowicz’s singular voice and his deep connections to New York’s downtown creative community, including Peter Hujar, Kiki Smith, and Marion Scemama.
A central focus of the exhibition is the Hudson River piers, the abandoned waterfront spaces that became gathering points for artists and the queer community during the 1970s and 80s. For Wojnarowicz, these charged and transient environments offered a place where desire, freedom, and meaning could coexist, becoming recurring symbols within a body of work that remains as vital and uncompromising today as when it was first made.
Jun 5 – Aug 28, 2026
Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
One Becomes The Other presents new paintings by Los Angeles–based Nery Gabriel Lemus, continuing the artist’s exploration of identity, memory, and the ways cultural histories are carried through objects, images, and everyday spaces.
Working in watercolor and incorporating traditional Guatemalan textiles, Lemus looks both backward and forward – tracing the influences of family, migration, and community while imagining how identity evolves over time. Flowers, fabrics, family photographs, and symbolic forms become vessels for larger questions of belonging and inheritance. Throughout the exhibition, personal history and collective memory intertwine, revealing how stories, traditions, and acts of care persist across generations.
Jun 5 – Jul 4, 2026
Karma Gallery, Los Angeles
Origins (1946–1959) revisits the formative years of William Turnbull, tracing the emergence of a visual language that would define his career across painting and sculpture. Working in the aftermath of World War II, Turnbull looked to ancient forms, archaeology, and the physical presence of materials, treating art as a bridge between prehistory and the present.
Moving between postwar London, Surrealist Paris, and Abstract Expressionist New York, the exhibition follows the evolution of recurring motifs – horses, heads, and standing figures – as they shift between representation and abstraction. Throughout, Turnbull’s work remains rooted in a belief that objects carry history within them, connecting contemporary experience to something older, deeper, and enduring.
Jun 4 – Jul 17, 2026
OCHI, Los Angeles
Volume is the first solo exhibition with OCHI by Los Angeles–based Adrienne Maki, bringing together a new body of paintings that blur the boundaries between sculpture, painting, and design.
Working with shaped supports that reject the traditional rectangle, Maki treats painting as an extension of form itself. Influenced by Lucio Fontana, Agostino Bonalumi, and Gio Ponti, her works balance structure and spontaneity through curved forms, restrained gestures, and carefully calibrated color. The result is a body of work that feels at once architectural and intimate – paintings that occupy space as much as they describe it.
Jun 6 – Jul 3, 2026
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
The first West Coast solo exhibition by Zhang Enli presents a new series of abstract portraits that continue the artist’s gradual shift away from direct representation. Though rooted in specific subjects, the paintings favor atmosphere and sensation over likeness, using increasingly loose brushwork to suggest character rather than describe it.
Known for chronicling the overlooked details of everyday life in Shanghai, Zhang has spent the last decade moving toward a more open and abstract visual language. Here, familiar motifs from earlier still lifes – ropes, tubes, and wires – reappear as drifting forms within enigmatic compositions, where attention shifts from objects themselves to the conditions that make them visible.
May 29 – Aug 22, 2026