Lehmann Maupin returns to FOG Design+Art for the fourth time with a group presentation of new paintings, sculptures, and photographic works, including works by Billy Childish, Teresita Fernández, Todd Gray, Tammy Nguyen, Do Ho Suh, and Kim Yun Shin, highlighting forthcoming programming around the world. This presentation comes on the heels of institutional shows for many of these artists—including Fernández, Nguyen, and Kim—and precedes a major milestone for Suh, who will have a survey at the Tate Modern later this year. Additionally, most of these artists will have solo exhibitions with Lehmann Maupin in the coming months, including Fernández in Seoul, Childish and Kim in London, and Nguyen in New York.
Additional highlights include works by Kader Attia, Loriel Beltrán, McArthur Binion, Mandy El-Sayegh, Klara Kristalova, Mr., Catherine Opie, Oren Pinhassi, Alex Prager, Cecilia Vicuña, and Nari Ward.
New paintings by Billy Childish will debut at the booth. Childish’s artistic practice is all encompassing, spanning poetry and prose, punk rock music, and photography, printmaking, and painting. Concurrent to the fair, Childish will present a solo exhibition of new paintings at Lehmann Maupin in London. Known for his vivid, emotionally charged paintings on warm linen canvas, the artist works quickly and intuitively to realize each work, sketching the underlying composition in charcoal within a hand-drawn frame and using a rich palette of oil paint to render light, shadow, volume, and form. The subjects in Childish’s paintings are often taken from his immediate environment—the River Medway in South East England, self-portraits, the chalk cliffs of Margate—and images of his family make frequent appearances. salish fishermen and moon with sycamore (both 2024) expand the artist’s primary sources, with Childish finding inspiration in his own internal dreamscapes as well as in the natural world.
New works from Teresita Fernández’s Stella Maris and Soil Horizon series will be on view at the fair. In her Stella Maris series—which translates to “star of the sea”—Fernández speaks to the feminine qualities universally associated with water. This “star of the sea” is evident in sculptural paper panels on view titled Stella Maris(Net) 3 and Stella Maris(Net) 7 (both 2024), which both seem to conceal something, creating liminal spaces between what can and cannot be known. Created through an accumulation of paper pulp and pigments, each work becomes a palimpsest where multiple layers are hidden from view, like invisible geologies. In addition, Soil Horizon 8 continues the artist’s eponymous series—a singular copper panel with a luminous, immersive horizon as its throughline. Fernández is currently included in the group exhibition Shifting Landscapes, on view at the Whitney Museum in New York through January 2026. Recently, she was both co-curator of and exhibiting artist in the two-person exhibition Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson, which closed last October at SITE Santa Fe. This autumn, Fernández will have her first solo exhibition with Lehmann Maupin in Seoul.
Photo-based artist Todd Gray aims to destabilize assumptions about the veracity of photography and provoke reconsiderations of long-accepted norms and beliefs surrounding the medium, including the role of the viewer in constructing meaning. His lush photo assemblages are composed of images ranging from imperial European gardens, West African landscapes, and architecture, to rock icons and portraits of the artist himself—all carefully arranged to create critical juxtapositions that examine ideas of African diaspora, colonialism, societal power structures, and dominant cultural beliefs. In Slippin' Into Darkness (2020), Gray utilizes his signature layered framing technique. Often made from simple wood, either in natural tones or occasionally painted in black or gold, Gray stacks his frames on top of one another, deliberately obscuring certain elements of his photographs and striking a delicate balance between revealing and concealing his subject matter. Gray’s debut solo exhibition with Lehmann Maupin in New York will be on view from January 23 through March 22, 2025.
In Tammy Nguyen’s new multimedia paintings, literary narrative serves as a metaphor for geopolitical theater. Nguyen’s multidisciplinary practice is highly research-driven, exploring the intersections between geopolitics, ecology, and history, using narrative to intertwine disparate subjects through artmaking. Across her mediums, Nguyen’s work aims to unsettle, and the tension between her elegant forms and harmonious aesthetics often belies the nature of her storytelling. She probes this contrast between form and content by confusing the visual plane, working with watercolor and vinyl paint, and repeatedly obscuring and revealing her subjects to build friction. The artist’s debut solo exhibition with Lehmann Maupin in New York, Paradiso, will open in June 2025, concluding a three-part exhibition series based on Dante’s Divine Comedy. This presentation comes on the heels of Nguyen’s solo exhibition Timaeus and the Nations, which is on view through January 19 at the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida.
A selection of sculpture and painting from the early 2000s to the present by Kim Yun Shin probes the fundamental qualities of materials and nature, navigating themes of confrontation, introspection, and coexistence. Kim uses solid wood as her primary sculptural medium, visualizing the intersection between nature, time, and history to reconsider the very essence of human existence. Her paintings are marked by distinctive surface fragmentation; across her compositions, large sections gradually divide into smaller shapes. The resulting artworks evoke a primordial energy, at once expansive and concise, concentrated and diffused. Kim’s debut solo exhibition in the United Kingdom will open at Lehmann Maupin in London in February, in tandem with a major solo exhibition in New York to follow, opening April 3. Recently, Kim was included in the 60th Venice Biennale and named one of the most influential artists in 2024 by Artsy.
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