Dear Friends, 

This year marks a major milestone for the gallery: 30 years of Lehmann Maupin.

Founded in New York in 1996, our gallery has always been rooted in the spirit of openness—across borders, generations, and disciplines. What began as a commitment to showing bold, boundary-pushing work has, over time, evolved into something bigger: a sustained effort to build bridges across geographies, nationalities, and identities. This cross-cultural sensibility is in our DNA and more resonant than ever.

Throughout the past 30 years, we have championed artists whose practices are united by their innovative approaches to their respective mediums and introduced international artists in new geographies. We have mounted over 20 historic debut shows for our artists in the US, Asia, and Europe, such as: Do Ho Suh’s first solo show in New York in 2000; Mr.’s first solo show in New York in 2007; Liza Lou’s first solo show in Hong Kong in 2017; Nari Ward’s first solo show in Asia in 2016; and Kim Yun Shin’s first solo shows in New York and London in 2025, among others. And as one of the first New York–based galleries to expand into Asia with the opening of our Seoul location in 2017, we also continue to view the region as an essential and dynamic part of our program.

We are proud to have cultivated enduring relationships with many artists—several of whom have collaborated with us for over two decades—including Teresita Fernández, Gilbert & George, Shirazeh Houshiary, Tony Oursler, David Salle, Do Ho Suh, and Nari Ward. Furthermore, at the core of our mission is a commitment to championing and sustaining the work of artists who have historically been underrecognized, such as Heidi Bucher, Cecilia Vicuña, Kim Yun Shin, and McArthur Binion.

Today, with galleries in New York, London, and Seoul—and a roster of 43 artists from around the world—our commitment to internationalism and ambitious, risk-taking work remains unwavering. Over the past two years, we have welcomed Teresa Solar Abboud, Freya Douglas-Morris, Anna Park, Oren Pinhassi, and Loriel Beltrán to the program, and we look forward to presenting several of their debut exhibitions with the gallery this year.

Institutional Exhibitions

Excitingly, eight of our artists will participate in the 61st Venice Biennale this May. More details will be announced soon!

This winter, Catherine Opie will be the subject of two concurrent European museum exhibitions: The Pause that Dreams Against Erasure at the Fridericianum in Kassel—her first museum show in Germany—and To Be Seen at the National Portrait Gallery in London, her first in the UK.

Gallery Programming

Across our global galleries, we’ll present solo exhibitions by McArthur Binion, Teresa Solar Abboud, Erwin Wurm, Anna Park, Dominic Chambers, and Kader Attia, among others.

This year also marks the centennial of the late Swiss artist Heidi Bucher, whose work is increasingly recognized as groundbreaking for the way it re-imagines the relationships between the body, memory, space, and materiality.