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Elisheva Biernoff

ELISHEVA BIERNOFF

Elsewhere David Zwirner 8 January–14 March 2026 New York: 69th Street
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David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by San Francisco–based artist Elisheva Biernoff (b. 1980) at the gallery’s 34 East 69th Street location in New York, marking her first solo show on the East Coast.

This presentation spans Biernoff’s career, featuring a representative selection of her intimately scaled paintings as well as examples from her recent body of larger-format multimedia compositions that explore the rich historical tradition of the trompe l’oeil. Exploring the slippage that occurs between the experience of reality and the memories that remain after the fact, Biernoff’s poignant and visually captivating paintings serve as, in the artist’s words, ‘reservoirs of time.’

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Installation Views

Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: Elisheva Biernoff, Elsewhere, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (8 January–28 February 2026). Courtesy David Zwirner.
About the Artist

Elisheva Biernoff’s paintings of photographs involve close looking and slow painting: lingering over pictures of strangers and paying attention to the overlooked and undervalued. The paintings are simulated artifacts, remade to scale as truly as possible. To create this work, the artist finds photographs of domestic scenes and anonymous people who wouldn’t necessarily be the subject of paintings. The source photographs touch on shared experiences but also have some slightly remarkable or unusual aspect. By painting the photographs, Biernoff brings the latent emotional content to the surface.

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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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34 East 69th Street
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