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Dan Flavin

DAN FLAVIN

Grids David Zwirner 15 January–21 February 2026 New York: 20th Street
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David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Dan Flavin featuring the artist’s grids, a key body of work that he began in 1976. The first focused examination of this form, this presentation will include several re-creations of the way Flavin installed the grids in significant exhibitions during his lifetime, and will feature loans from important public collections as well as the Estate of Dan Flavin.

From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold fluorescent lamp installed diagonally on a wall, until his death in 1996, Flavin produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially available fluorescent lamps to create installations (or “situations,” as he preferred to call them) of light and color. Through these light constructions, Flavin was able to literally establish and redefine space.

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Installation Views

Exhibition view: Dan Flavin, Grids, David Zwirner, 20th Street, New York (15 January–21 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Dan Flavin, Grids, David Zwirner, 20th Street, New York (15 January–21 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Dan Flavin, Grids, David Zwirner, 20th Street, New York (15 January–21 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Dan Flavin, Grids, David Zwirner, 20th Street, New York (15 January–21 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Dan Flavin, Grids, David Zwirner, 20th Street, New York (15 January–21 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Dan Flavin, Grids, David Zwirner, 20th Street, New York (15 January–21 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Dan Flavin, Grids, David Zwirner, 20th Street, New York (15 January–21 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
About the Artist

From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold, fluorescent lamp that is installed on a diagonal on the wall—a work which marks the artist’s first use of fluorescent light alone, until his death in 1996, Dan Flavin (1933–1996) produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially-available fluorescent lamps to create installations, or “situations” as he preferred to call them, of light and color. Through the construction of light, Flavin was able to literally establish and redefine space.

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About the Gallery
Since opening its doors in 1993, David Zwirner has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. The gallery has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today, and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists and estates. Based in New York with spaces in Chelsea and the Upper East Side, David Zwirner expanded to Europe in 2012 with a gallery in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse in London’s Mayfair district, and opened its first gallery in Asia in January 2018 in Central Hong Kong.
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