David Zwirner is pleased to present concurrent exhibitions of new work by Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) at the gallery's 537 West 20th Street and 34 East 69th Street locations in New York. This will be the gallery's first presentation of Bhabha's work since the announcement of her representation in 2022.
On view in Chelsea will be new cast-iron and patinated-bronze sculptures, among Bhabha's largest to date. These totemic figures are constructed with an array of sculptural techniques, resulting in deeply resonant hybrid forms that examine notions of permanence, monumentality, and history. Featured at the uptown gallery will be a selection of new smaller-scale sculptures alongside a suite of new works on paper. An enduring and crucial aspect of her practice, Bhabha's large-format multimedia drawings are conceived in tandem with her sculptures, presenting enigmatic visages that appear at once monstrous, animal, alien, and deeply human— further exemplifying the artist's radical reinvention of the figure and its expressive possibilities.
A solo exhibition of the artist's work, Huma Bhabha: A fly appeared, and disappeared, is currently on view at MO.CO., Montpellier, France, until January 28, 2024. This presentation previously traveled from M Leuven, Belgium, as Huma Bhabha: LIVIN' THINGS. In April 2024, a large-scale installation by Bhabha, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, will be unveiled at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York.
April 13, 2022 – David Zwirner is pleased to announce the representation of Huma Bhabha. The gallery will present new work by the artist in New York in 2024. Bhabha will continue to work on special projects with Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, and will continue to be represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and Xavier Hufkens in Brussels.
David Zwirner is a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Hong Kong, and currently represents more than eighty artists and estates. The gallery has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. Active in both the primary and secondary markets, David Zwirner 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.
