Zeng Fanzhi at Hauser & Wirth, New York — 5 Nov 2026–16 Jan 2027
Hauser & Wirth presents Zeng Fanzhi at its 22nd Street gallery in Chelsea — the Beijing-based painter’s first exhibition in New York City in over a decade, following his 2024 presentation in Venice, “Zeng Fanzhi: Near and Far/Now and Then”, organised by LACMA. The show pairs a suite of new large oil paintings, all titled Untitled and dated 2024–2026, with a new sculpture: a banded blue-and-cream stone stabile in the form of an obelisk. The paintings rest on what the gallery calls “mélange optique”: Zeng sets colours side by side on the canvas instead of mixing them on the palette, painting wet-on-wet with several brushes at once so that each layer disturbs the one beneath. From a distance the surfaces read as imagined alien or celestial landscapes — jagged terrain, dark horizons, grids that suggest mapping and excavation — while up close they dissolve into pure pigment. The gallery likens the sculpture to an artefact unearthed from one of these painted planets.
| Exhibition | Zeng Fanzhi |
|---|---|
| Artist(s) | Zeng Fanzhi (b. 1964, Wuhan, China; lives and works in Beijing) |
| Gallery | Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street |
| Exhibition type | Solo exhibition — new oil paintings on canvas (2024–2026) and one stone sculpture |
| Dates | 5 November 2026 – 16 January 2027. Opening reception: not stated — check with the gallery |
| Address | 542 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, United States |
| Opening hours | Tuesday–Saturday 10:00–18:00 |
| Phone | +1 212 790 3900 |
| [email protected] | |
| Gallery website | hauserwirth.com |
| Official exhibition page | Zeng Fanzhi — Hauser & Wirth New York |
| Artist page | Zeng Fanzhi at Hauser & Wirth |
| Social media | Gallery: Instagram · Facebook · YouTube. Artist: no verified handles |
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Our in-depth article on this exhibition traces Zeng’s path from the Mask series to the optical abstraction of his new “planetary” landscapes. For more openings in Istanbul, Ankara, London, Paris, Spain, Dubai and the United States, see Upcoming Art Exhibitions in Leading Galleries.
Cover image: Zeng Fanzhi, Untitled. © Zeng Fanzhi. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Please confirm details with the gallery before visiting.