Gagosian will present Jordan Wolfson’s first exhibition with the gallery in New York, opening September 18 at 555 West 24th Street. The exhibition brings together a group of new sculptures and runs through October 24, 2026. An opening reception will take place on September 18 from 6 to 8pm.
EXHIBITIONS
The presentation introduces a selection of uniformly scaled sculptures that incorporate color and black-and-white photographs. Wolfson sourced the images online and from personal and academic archives, drawing material that connects with art history, popular culture and subjects that have long occupied his practice.
Photography plays a direct role within these new works. Wolfson uses existing images as material and places them within sculptural forms, continuing his interest in visual culture and the ways familiar imagery can acquire different psychological associations. Gagosian has yet to release further details about individual works in the exhibition, leaving the initial description focused on their shared scale and photographic content.
Wolfson, born in New York in 1980, lives and works in Los Angeles. His practice includes sculpture, installation, video, photography, digital animation and performance. He often draws from online media, broadcast imagery and digital technologies while creating invented characters and scenarios that examine uncomfortable social and existential subjects.
Technology has played a major part in several of his best-known works. Female Figure, created in 2014, introduced an animatronic figure that used programmed movement, facial-recognition technology and direct eye contact with viewers. Colored Sculpture from 2016 used motors, software, sound and a suspended figurative form. Wolfson later explored virtual reality in works that placed viewers inside computer-generated environments.
Recent projects have continued that interest in physical and digital experience. The National Gallery of Australia presented the world premiere of Body Sculpture in 2023, an installation built around a large robotic form and an expansive mechanical system. In June 2025, Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland premiered Little Room, a virtual reality installation by the artist.
Wolfson studied sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and received his BFA in 2003. His institutional exhibition history includes presentations at Kunsthalle Zürich, Swiss Institute in New York, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle Wien. The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent organized Ecce Homo/le Poseur in 2013, while the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presented the two-part solo survey MANIC/LOVE/TRUTH/LOVE in 2016. His work also appeared in the 2006 and 2017 editions of the Whitney Biennial.
The September exhibition marks Wolfson’s first New York presentation with Gagosian and places his newest sculptures within the gallery’s Chelsea program. Gagosian has confirmed the exhibition at its 555 West 24th Street location from September 18 through October 24. The gallery will extend the project into print this fall. A conversation between Wolfson and novelist Ottessa Moshfegh will appear in the Fall 2026 issue of Gagosian Quarterly, offering further context around the artist and his current work.
