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Keith Tyson

KEITH TYSON

The Generative Universe Hauser & Wirth 28 May–16 August 2026 Los Angeles
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This summer, we’re pleased to present ‘The Generative Universe,’ British artist Keith Tyson’s first exhibition in the city since 2009. Spanning more than three decades of paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works, the exhibition emerges from Tyson’s foundational conviction that the universe operates as a single generative system—a constantly shifting network in which all forms arise, transform and dissolve.

Originally trained as an engineer, Tyson was an early practitioner of generative art, often approaching creativity as the act of setting parameters within systems he set in motion, allowing a blend of chance, material behavior, mathematics and intuition to shape the outcome. A highlight of the exhibition is Tyson’s early-1990s Artmachine works, in which he programmed a device that generates prompts for him to execute by hand, shifting authorship away from the artist’s own preferences. Other works employ chemical processes, mathematical models, meditative painting, biological structures and handmade electronic devices—inviting viewers to consider the mysterious universal processes through which reality, and our consciousness within it, come into being.

Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

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Exhibition view: Keith Tyson, The Generative Universe, Hauser & Wirth (28 May–16 August 2026). Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
Exhibition view: Keith Tyson, The Generative Universe, Hauser & Wirth (28 May–16 August 2026). Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
Exhibition view: Keith Tyson, The Generative Universe, Hauser & Wirth (28 May–16 August 2026). Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
Exhibition view: Keith Tyson, The Generative Universe, Hauser & Wirth (28 May–16 August 2026). Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
About the Artist

‘I don’t believe in a permanent self or in developing an artistic style. Our world is full of intricately connected systems and events. I’m simply trying to make work in collaboration with them.’

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About the Gallery

Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and Vice President Marc Payot. A family business with a global outlook, Hauser & Wirth has expanded over the past 26 years to include outposts in Hong Kong, London, New York, Los Angeles, Somerset and Gstaad. The gallery represents over 70 artists and estates who have been instrumental in shaping its identity over the past quarter century, and who are the inspiration for Hauser & Wirth’s diverse range of activities that engage with art, education, conservation and sustainability.

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