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Elizabeth Peyton

ELIZABETH PEYTON

daystar hakuro David Zwirner
Ryosokuin Temple 591 Komatsucho Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto 605-0811 8–24 September 2024
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A solo exhibition of new work by Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965) will be presented at the historic Ryosokuin Temple in the Gion district of Kyoto, Japan. Ryosokuin is a subtemple of Kyoto’s oldest Zen Buddhist temple. Organised by David Zwirner, the exhibition will include a selection of paintings and works on paper by Peyton. Presented in the temple with site-specific works, this will be the artist’s first solo show in Japan since her 2017 exhibition Elizabeth Peyton: Still Life, held at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

Founded in 1358, Ryosokuin is a temple of the Rinzai sect of Buddhism. It was established by Zen Master Ryuzan Tokken, who inherited the Rinzai school’s Oryo lineage. In the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism, tea ceremonies and art have long served as objects of Zen contemplation. A number of site-specific contemporary art exhibitions have been staged within Ryosokuin’s walls.

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About the Artist

Elizabeth Peyton is an American painter and printmaker known for intimate, stylised portraits of friends, historical figures, and contemporary icons that helped reassert figurative painting within the context of 1990s and 2000s contemporary art.

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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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Ryosokuin Temple 591 Komatsucho Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto 605-0811
Opening Hours
Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 7pm
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Hong Kong 5-6/F, H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road Central
David Zwirner contemporary art gallery in Hong Kong
David Zwirner
5-6/F, H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
+852 211 959 00
http://www.davidzwirner.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 7pm
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