Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Glass Slipper marks the first solo exhibition in France by Los Angeles–based Ariana Papademetropoulos. Spanning painting, sculpture, and installation, the presentation centers on an aquarium filled with a shoal of fish, drawing viewers into a dreamlike environment where lush landscapes and psychological interiors quietly collide.

Vintage payphones appear as sculptural elements, inviting visitors to listen in on imagined conversations between the artist and her medium. Meanwhile, Papademetropoulos’s new large-scale paintings – absent of human figures – hum with unseen presences, hovering somewhere between realism and reverie.

Mar 7 – Apr 11, 2026

Ortuzar, New York

Letter to the World introduces the work of Japanese-Brazilian sculptor Megumi Yuasa (b. 1938) in his first exhibition in the United States. Bringing together around thirty works made between the early 1970s and 2025, the presentation traces six decades of Yuasa’s sculptural practice across ceramic, metal, and stone.

From compact early ceramics to vertically oriented constructions that combine clay with iron, steel, and brass, the works chart the evolution of a language grounded in balance, gravity, and quiet transformation. Monumental sculptures such as Personagem Sensível, Tropical, and the early Nuvem anchor the exhibition, while recurring bodies of work like Espássaro and Árvores reveal Yuasa’s long meditation on suspension, weight, and the delicate pull between earth and sky.

Mar 5 – Apr 11, 2026

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

All is Portraiture revisits the work of Barkley L. Hendricks (1944–2017), the influential artist who reshaped portraiture through his luminous depictions of Black Americans. Bringing together paintings, photographs, and works on paper, the exhibition – his first solo presentation in Europe – reflects Hendricks’s expansive practice and the attentive gaze that guided it for more than five decades.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Hendricks turned his lens and brush toward friends, neighbors, and strangers encountered on the street, granting visibility and presence to figures rarely centered in the history of portrait painting. Rendered with meticulous attention to clothing, texture, and personal style, his subjects stand confidently against spare backgrounds, their individuality heightened by the artist’s study of masters such as Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, Caravaggio, and Jan van Eyck. The result is portraiture that is at once classical and contemporary – images of style, presence, and quiet authority that continue to shape generations of artists today.

Feb 6 – April 4, 2026

Cob Gallery, London

Portraiture has long been the instinctive center of Jack Davison’s practice. Portraits: 14–16 November returns to the human face with renewed focus, setting aside experimentation in favor of a more restrained and intimate approach.

Presented in full, the series gathers ninety portraits made over three days in London, where Davison – working with casting director Coco Wu – street-cast individuals from across the city. Printed using photopolymer gravure, the images carry a tactile depth that bridges photography and printmaking, forming the first chapter in an ongoing exploration of presence, encounter, and the quiet power of the face.

Mar 6 – Apr 2, 2026

Gagosian, Los Angeles

A new body of tennis court paintings by Jonas Wood debuts in Los Angeles this spring, marking the gallery’s tenth exhibition with the artist and its first presentation of his work in the city. Opening March 12, just ahead of the Academy Awards, the show continues Wood’s long-running fascination with sports as image and structure.

Created in 2025 and 2026, each painting depicts a match from a major Association of Tennis Professionals, Women's Tennis Association, or Olympic tournament. Seen from behind the baseline, the courts unfold in compressed perspective, rendered without players or officials. Instead, crowds appear as rhythmic patterns of brushstrokes, turning the geometry of the game into a quietly abstract field.

March 12 – April 25, 2026

Mariposa, Los Angeles

Mariposa opens its Los Angeles space in the historic Hollywoodland Realty building on Beachwood Drive with a new body of ceramic sculptures by Peter Schlesinger (b. 1948, Los Angeles). The exhibition marks Schlesinger’s first solo presentation in the city in over a decade – and a return to where his artistic life first began.

Across his practice, Schlesinger folds mythology and fable into his forms: octopi, trees, birds, and vessels that nod to ancient archetypes alongside biomorphic, almost dreamlike shapes. Trained initially as a painter, he turned to ceramics in the 1980s after a formative period in London studying at the Slade and photographing cultural figures including Cecil Beaton, Ossie Clark, Amanda Lear, and Andy Warhol. His sculptures carry that lineage forward – balancing modernism and antiquity, bohemian instinct and formal restraint, surface play and sculptural weight.

Through Apr 4, 2026

Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Glass Slipper marks the first solo exhibition in France by Los Angeles–based Ariana Papademetropoulos. Spanning painting, sculpture, and installation, the presentation centers on an aquarium filled with a shoal of fish, drawing viewers into a dreamlike environment where lush landscapes and psychological interiors quietly collide.

Vintage payphones appear as sculptural elements, inviting visitors to listen in on imagined conversations between the artist and her medium. Meanwhile, Papademetropoulos’s new large-scale paintings – absent of human figures – hum with unseen presences, hovering somewhere between realism and reverie.

Mar 7 – Apr 11, 2026

Ortuzar, New York

Letter to the World introduces the work of Japanese-Brazilian sculptor Megumi Yuasa (b. 1938) in his first exhibition in the United States. Bringing together around thirty works made between the early 1970s and 2025, the presentation traces six decades of Yuasa’s sculptural practice across ceramic, metal, and stone.

From compact early ceramics to vertically oriented constructions that combine clay with iron, steel, and brass, the works chart the evolution of a language grounded in balance, gravity, and quiet transformation. Monumental sculptures such as Personagem Sensível, Tropical, and the early Nuvem anchor the exhibition, while recurring bodies of work like Espássaro and Árvores reveal Yuasa’s long meditation on suspension, weight, and the delicate pull between earth and sky.

Mar 5 – Apr 11, 2026

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

All is Portraiture revisits the work of Barkley L. Hendricks (1944–2017), the influential artist who reshaped portraiture through his luminous depictions of Black Americans. Bringing together paintings, photographs, and works on paper, the exhibition – his first solo presentation in Europe – reflects Hendricks’s expansive practice and the attentive gaze that guided it for more than five decades.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Hendricks turned his lens and brush toward friends, neighbors, and strangers encountered on the street, granting visibility and presence to figures rarely centered in the history of portrait painting. Rendered with meticulous attention to clothing, texture, and personal style, his subjects stand confidently against spare backgrounds, their individuality heightened by the artist’s study of masters such as Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, Caravaggio, and Jan van Eyck. The result is portraiture that is at once classical and contemporary – images of style, presence, and quiet authority that continue to shape generations of artists today.

Feb 6 – April 4, 2026

Cob Gallery, London

Portraiture has long been the instinctive center of Jack Davison’s practice. Portraits: 14–16 November returns to the human face with renewed focus, setting aside experimentation in favor of a more restrained and intimate approach.

Presented in full, the series gathers ninety portraits made over three days in London, where Davison – working with casting director Coco Wu – street-cast individuals from across the city. Printed using photopolymer gravure, the images carry a tactile depth that bridges photography and printmaking, forming the first chapter in an ongoing exploration of presence, encounter, and the quiet power of the face.

Mar 6 – Apr 2, 2026

Gagosian, Los Angeles

A new body of tennis court paintings by Jonas Wood debuts in Los Angeles this spring, marking the gallery’s tenth exhibition with the artist and its first presentation of his work in the city. Opening March 12, just ahead of the Academy Awards, the show continues Wood’s long-running fascination with sports as image and structure.

Created in 2025 and 2026, each painting depicts a match from a major Association of Tennis Professionals, Women's Tennis Association, or Olympic tournament. Seen from behind the baseline, the courts unfold in compressed perspective, rendered without players or officials. Instead, crowds appear as rhythmic patterns of brushstrokes, turning the geometry of the game into a quietly abstract field.

March 12 – April 25, 2026

Mariposa, Los Angeles

Mariposa opens its Los Angeles space in the historic Hollywoodland Realty building on Beachwood Drive with a new body of ceramic sculptures by Peter Schlesinger (b. 1948, Los Angeles). The exhibition marks Schlesinger’s first solo presentation in the city in over a decade – and a return to where his artistic life first began.

Across his practice, Schlesinger folds mythology and fable into his forms: octopi, trees, birds, and vessels that nod to ancient archetypes alongside biomorphic, almost dreamlike shapes. Trained initially as a painter, he turned to ceramics in the 1980s after a formative period in London studying at the Slade and photographing cultural figures including Cecil Beaton, Ossie Clark, Amanda Lear, and Andy Warhol. His sculptures carry that lineage forward – balancing modernism and antiquity, bohemian instinct and formal restraint, surface play and sculptural weight.

Through Apr 4, 2026