David Zwirner, Los Angeles
Zvibereko zvemweya wangu, its third solo exhibition with Portia Zvavahera, on view at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. Featuring a new series of paintings, the exhibition extends Zvavahera’s ongoing experiments with process and narrative, weaving her carefully charted dream worlds into the textures of lived experience – daily rituals, memory, and the quiet intensity of belief.
In these new works, familiar motifs return with fresh charge. Symbolic creatures move through the compositions as spiritual messengers – conduits for vision, reflection, and the larger questions that sit between the sacred and the everyday.
Through Feb 7, 2026
Camden Art Centre, London
Following his win of Camden Art Centre’s Emerging Artist Award at Frieze in 2024, London-based Nat Faulkner presents his first major UK institutional exhibition.
Spanning the Central Space and Gallery 3, the show introduces new works that deepen Faulkner’s ongoing relationship with analogue photography – where the studio becomes both darkroom and testing ground, hovering in the work as a kind of spectral collaborator. Titled Strong water – a nod to aqua fortis, the Latin name for nitric acid – the exhibition leans into the artist’s fascination with chemistry, process, and transformation.
In the opening room, iodine and light take center stage: two foundational forces in photography’s early history. Contained in bespoke vessels, an iodine solution stains the space in a warm, orange cast as daylight pours down through the Victorian skylights, turning the gallery itself into an image-in-progress.
16 Jan – 22 Mar, 2026
Karma, Los Angeles
In ABC, Henni Alftan presents twenty-six drawings, each keyed to a letter of the Roman alphabet. Set against flat, monochromatic grounds, familiar objects hover in isolation – A for aspirin and ants, B for Band-Aids, buttons, and buckles, and so on – forming a quiet, methodical visual lexicon.
Bound by the scale of the paper itself, Alftan limits her selections to objects that could physically fit within each roughly ten-by-eight-inch sheet. Working inside this tight frame, ABC opens onto larger questions of pictorial space and illusion, of order and hierarchy, and of how images and words shape one another. The result is restrained, precise, and gently conceptual – an alphabet built through looking.
Jan 17 – Feb 14, 2026
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Precious Moments, a new exhibition by Sayre Gomez, marking his first solo show with the gallery. On view from January 16 to March 1, 2026, the exhibition unfolds across all three Los Angeles spaces, bringing together new paintings, sculpture, and video.
Known for his sharp eye on American urban life, Gomez turns his focus back to Los Angeles – its surfaces, symbols, and contradictions. Large-scale photorealistic paintings sit alongside meticulously crafted objects and new moving-image work, tracing questions of memory, authenticity, and how history is absorbed in the present tense. Precious Moments pushes this inquiry closer to home, reflecting on how his children navigate a landscape saturated with the imagery of late capitalism, and how those encounters reshape his own way of seeing. The result is Gomez’s most expansive statement to date – critical and romantic, precise yet open, reading the built environment as both personal archive and cultural mirror.
Jan 16 – Mar 1, 2026
Art Institute Chicago
Over seven decades, Lucas Samaras built a practice unlike anyone else’s. Working across photography, sculpture, and drawing, he repeatedly turned inward, using his own body and personal belongings as both subject and material.
This exhibition centers on Samaras’s radical photographic work, where performance, self-image, and technical experimentation collide. Using instant Polaroid film – prized for its privacy and autonomy – he worked alone, at home, without a darkroom or intermediaries. But rather than accept the medium’s limits, Samaras pushed it to extremes, physically manipulating the pigments to distort his body, merge figure and space, and remake the image from the inside out.
Jan 31 – Jul 20, 2026
David Zwirner, Los Angeles
Zvibereko zvemweya wangu, its third solo exhibition with Portia Zvavahera, on view at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. Featuring a new series of paintings, the exhibition extends Zvavahera’s ongoing experiments with process and narrative, weaving her carefully charted dream worlds into the textures of lived experience – daily rituals, memory, and the quiet intensity of belief.
In these new works, familiar motifs return with fresh charge. Symbolic creatures move through the compositions as spiritual messengers – conduits for vision, reflection, and the larger questions that sit between the sacred and the everyday.
Through Feb 7, 2026
Camden Art Centre, London
Following his win of Camden Art Centre’s Emerging Artist Award at Frieze in 2024, London-based Nat Faulkner presents his first major UK institutional exhibition.
Spanning the Central Space and Gallery 3, the show introduces new works that deepen Faulkner’s ongoing relationship with analogue photography – where the studio becomes both darkroom and testing ground, hovering in the work as a kind of spectral collaborator. Titled Strong water – a nod to aqua fortis, the Latin name for nitric acid – the exhibition leans into the artist’s fascination with chemistry, process, and transformation.
In the opening room, iodine and light take center stage: two foundational forces in photography’s early history. Contained in bespoke vessels, an iodine solution stains the space in a warm, orange cast as daylight pours down through the Victorian skylights, turning the gallery itself into an image-in-progress.
16 Jan – 22 Mar, 2026
Karma, Los Angeles
In ABC, Henni Alftan presents twenty-six drawings, each keyed to a letter of the Roman alphabet. Set against flat, monochromatic grounds, familiar objects hover in isolation – A for aspirin and ants, B for Band-Aids, buttons, and buckles, and so on – forming a quiet, methodical visual lexicon.
Bound by the scale of the paper itself, Alftan limits her selections to objects that could physically fit within each roughly ten-by-eight-inch sheet. Working inside this tight frame, ABC opens onto larger questions of pictorial space and illusion, of order and hierarchy, and of how images and words shape one another. The result is restrained, precise, and gently conceptual – an alphabet built through looking.
Jan 17 – Feb 14, 2026
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Precious Moments, a new exhibition by Sayre Gomez, marking his first solo show with the gallery. On view from January 16 to March 1, 2026, the exhibition unfolds across all three Los Angeles spaces, bringing together new paintings, sculpture, and video.
Known for his sharp eye on American urban life, Gomez turns his focus back to Los Angeles – its surfaces, symbols, and contradictions. Large-scale photorealistic paintings sit alongside meticulously crafted objects and new moving-image work, tracing questions of memory, authenticity, and how history is absorbed in the present tense. Precious Moments pushes this inquiry closer to home, reflecting on how his children navigate a landscape saturated with the imagery of late capitalism, and how those encounters reshape his own way of seeing. The result is Gomez’s most expansive statement to date – critical and romantic, precise yet open, reading the built environment as both personal archive and cultural mirror.
Jan 16 – Mar 1, 2026
Art Institute Chicago
Over seven decades, Lucas Samaras built a practice unlike anyone else’s. Working across photography, sculpture, and drawing, he repeatedly turned inward, using his own body and personal belongings as both subject and material.
This exhibition centers on Samaras’s radical photographic work, where performance, self-image, and technical experimentation collide. Using instant Polaroid film – prized for its privacy and autonomy – he worked alone, at home, without a darkroom or intermediaries. But rather than accept the medium’s limits, Samaras pushed it to extremes, physically manipulating the pigments to distort his body, merge figure and space, and remake the image from the inside out.
Jan 31 – Jul 20, 2026