Sasha Gordon has become the youngest artist to join the roster of David Zwirner after the gallery announced its representation of the 26-year-old painter today. The mega gallery will co-represent Gordon with Los Angeles and New York–based tastemaker Matthew Brown.
David Zwirner will debut a new painting by Gordon as part of its booth at Frieze London next month, and a solo exhibition of the artist’s work is planned for September 2025 at the gallery’s 19th Street location in New York.
Gordon, who was featured in The Artsy Vanguard 2022, has rapidly found acclaim for her hyperrealistic and uncanny paintings, which explore the artist’s identity as a biracial queer woman. The artist had her first solo show “Enters Thief,” with Matthew Bown in 2021 and her New York solo debut with Jeffrey Deitch the following year. Last year, Gordon was the subject of a solo presentation at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami, “Surrogate Self,” as well as a solo show with Stephen Friedman Gallery in London.
“I saw Sasha Gordon’s work for the first time late last year at the ICA in Miami and was floored by the power of those paintings,” Zwirner said. “I felt that I was in the presence of an artist of our time and for our time, an entirely new voice, a painter who is pushing the genre into uncharted territory. I’m excited for our first show together next year, and I am especially pleased that I can collaborate with Matthew Brown, one of the most talented gallerists of his generation.”
Gordon’s work is held in several museum collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Matthew Brown added: “Sasha is a force—working with her since the gallery’s inception five years ago has been a formative experience. Her work is psychological, meticulous, resonant, and continuously evolving. I’m excited to collaborate with David Zwirner to further support her expanding career and bring her work to wider audiences.”
This is not the first time that Brown has shared an artist representation with another gallery. Last January, the Croatian artist duo TARWUK joined the roster of White Cube, which staged their first solo exhibition in London.
The announcement is also the latest in a string of recent artist co-representations between large galleries and their smaller counterparts. Last year, Hauser & Wirth launched its “Collective Impact” model where it shares artist representations in a “new kind of alliance between galleries of different scales in which full transparency and the sharing of resources can support both artists’ careers and the ongoing health of the wider gallery field itself.” The gallery represents artists including Uman in collaboration with Nicola Vassell Gallery, and Ambera Wellman with Company Gallery.
