press release

5 May – 29 Jul 2022
New York, 22nd Street

Nicole Eisenman
Untitled (Show)

Nicole Eisenman’s first major solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth New York will open on 5 May, spanning two floors of the gallery’s building on West 22nd Street in Chelsea. Providing a window into the distinct and powerful visual language Eisenman has developed over the course of the past three decades, the exhibition will feature recent paintings and sculptures that speak to contemporary sociopolitical issues with openness and candid ambivalence.

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Nicole Eisenman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. They are a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. Their work was included in both the 2019 Venice Biennale and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Having established themselves as a painter, Nicole Eisenman has expanded their practice into the third dimension.

Nicole will have their first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, New York this year, opening to the public on April 28th, 2022 at the gallery’s 22nd Street location. Other recent solo exhibitions include ‘Heads, Kisses, Battles: Nicole Eisenman and the Moderns,’ at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, traveling to Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, France, and Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands; ‘Nicole Eisenman. Maquette and Paper Pulp Works’ at Anton Kern Gallery, New York; ‘Nicole Eisenman. Giant Without a Body’ at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; and ‘NICOLE EISENMAN. STURM UND DRANG’ at The Contemporary Austin, TX.