Serpentine Galleries will present a new body of work by David Hockney from March 12, 2026 to August 23, 2026. This marks the museum’s first show with Hockney, which will be staged in the Serpentine North space.
This exhibition will feature a selection of Hockney’s recent iPad drawings, which he began creating in the early 2010s. Among the artist’s digital paintings will be new works from the “Sunrise” series, using his radiant palette to examine changes in light. Similarly, the artist will be debuting new works from the “Moon Room” series, which emerged from the artist’s “lifelong interest in the cycle of light and time passing,” according to the institution.
In a joint statement, Serpentine CEO Bettina Korek and artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist said that “the exhibition promises to be a landmark cultural moment.” The press statement noted that Serpentine is free and open to the public, hoping this exhibition will welcome “audiences from near and far.”
Also featured is A Year in Normandie (2020–21), a sweeping 90-meter frieze that echoes the Bayeux Tapestry. This work traced the changing seasons outside the artist’s former Normandy studio during the height of the pandemic. This show precedes the real Bayeux Tapestry’s return to the United Kingdom after 950 years, which will go on display at the British Museum in September 2026.
Ahead of the Serpentine show, Hockney will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art, which includes new works created over the last six months. This show will also feature the first complete presentation of the artist’s “Moon” series, which includes paintings and digital iPad works. Similar to his “Sunrise” series, these works examine how light changed the landscape outside of his studio.
“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 said in a press release sent out by Annely Juda Fine Art. “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.”
One of the most anticipated shows of the year, Hockney’s major retrospective exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris closed on September 1st. The show featured more than 400 works made between 1955 and 2025.
