DAVID HOCKNEY

Featuring fifteen iPad paintings of the night sky produced between April and December 2020, Pace’s exhibition will be the first showing of the Moon Room series in New York. In these meditative compositions, Hockney captures the moon’s changing phases from various vantage points on his twelve-acre farm. Inspired by his daily observations, he devoted himself to the iPad, a medium of unique immediacy that allowed him to be prolific in his depictions of his home and the changing seasons in the surrounding countryside.

“Once, when we were just sitting outside the house, we put all the lights off in the house to see the moonlight more clearly,” Hockney has said of the making of this series. “The moon could then be seen to cast shadows of the trees on the grass, so with my backlit iPad, I could draw it. This would have been virtually impossible without it.”

This body of work reflects his deep and enduring interest in light and nature’s ephemerality and renewal. Poetic and dreamlike, the Moon Room paintings made their public debut in 2024 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, the largest city and capital of Normandy. A full gallery was also dedicated to the Moon works in the artist’s monumental survey at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris in 2025