Lehmann Maupin is pleased to return to Frieze Seoul with a selection of new and significant works by a dynamic group of Korean artists from the gallery’s program, including Kim Yun Shin, Anna Park, Do Ho Suh, and Sung Neung Kyung, underscoring the gallery’s decades-long connection to Korea and its commitment to supporting and amplifying voices from the region. The presentation also foregrounds artists with current and forthcoming programming in the city, including Teresita Fernández, concurrent to her first solo exhibition in Seoul in over a decade at Lehmann Maupin; David Salle, whose survey exhibition Under One Roof is on view at Storage by Hyundai Card; and Lari Pittman, who will return to Lehmann Maupin Seoul in November. Finally, the gallery will also present a selection of works by conceptual artist Tom Friedman, coinciding with the artist’s solo exhibition Detritus, which opens at Lehmann Maupin New York on September 4 and will debut the artist’s first-ever series of paintings on canvas. Additional highlights include works by Hernan Bas, Loriel Beltrán, Dominic Chambers, Billy Childish, Mandy El-Sayegh, Chantal Joffe, Liza Lou, Tammy Nguyen, Catherine Opie, Tony Oursler, OSGEMEOS, Alex Prager, Cecilia Vicuña, and Erwin Wurm.
Anchoring the presentation is a focused selection of works by Do Ho Suh, including a work from his celebrated series of “thread drawings,” Myselves (2014). Internationally acclaimed for his deeply personal and technically meticulous explorations of home, memory, and identity, Suh’s inclusion coincides with the survey show The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House, which is currently on view at Tate Modern in London and marks the artist’s largest institutional exhibition to date. Kim Yun Shin’s historical paintings and sculptures will be on view alongside Suh, following the artist’s recent debut solo exhibitions at Lehmann Maupin in London and New York and her participation in the 60th Venice Biennale. Kim’s practice, which spans both painting and sculpture, is rooted in an elemental connection to nature. Her richly textured paintings, such as Song of My Soul 2010-251 (2010), embody a spiritual energy, with fluid, fragmented forms that evoke emotional landscapes shaped by memory, growth, and transformation.
The presentation also features Sung Neung Kyung, a foundational figure in South Korea’s avant-garde, whose experimental practice has helped shape the trajectory of performance and conceptual art in the country. Known for interrogating systems of language, media, and power, Sung’s Venue: difficult (1985) exemplifies his hybrid approach. Part of his long-running Venue series, the work uses found press photographs overlaid with editorial symbols and personal interventions to question the constructed nature of media narratives. Meanwhile, Korean-American artist Anna Park, who joined the gallery’s program in March, brings a dynamic voice to contemporary art with her charcoal and ink drawings that navigate the tension between abstraction and figuration. Her new work Brighter Days (2025) critiques visual culture and idealized beauty, offering a bold and urgent commentary on contemporary image-making.
The presentation also highlights artists with concurrent or upcoming exhibitions in Seoul, including a work from the new Liquid Horizon series by Teresita Fernández, who will debut the full body of work in a solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Seoul on August 27. Including a large-scale glazed ceramic wall installation and luminous sculptural panels, the exhibition extends Fernández’s ongoing interest in subterranean landscapes—soil horizons formed by geological and human-formed layers. Here, her inquiry moves into the stratified depths of the ocean, revealing layers of shifting density and transparency that expand the visual and conceptual language beyond the terrestrial. David Salle is currently the subject of Under One Roof, a comprehensive survey at Storage by Hyundai Card. On view at the fair, selections from his recent New Pastoral series employ AI as a tool to reimagine the classical pastoral through vivid color, surreal juxtapositions, and layered imagery, blending art history with familiar imagery. Looking ahead, Lari Pittman will open a solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Seoul in November. In Sparkling Cities With Egg Monuments #3 (2023), Pittman merges symbolic intricacy with speculative urbanism, envisioning future civilizations shaped by alternative societal structures and artistic creation.
The gallery’s presentation will include a focused selection of new and recent work by Tom Friedman. Detritus, his first New York solo show in a decade, will be on view September 4–October 18 at Lehmann Maupin and debut his first-ever series of paintings on canvas. Throughout his nearly four-decade career, Friedman has continually expanded the scope of his practice, exploring materials and objects, photography and drawing, video, and large-scale public sculpture, consistently pushing his work into new and unexpected directions. The compositions in Detritus reflect the exhibition’s title, portraying debris collected from the artist’s own life, including scraps of garbage, remnants of past sculptures, and discarded packaging. In conjunction with the exhibition, the booth will feature a new painting, entitled Still Life (2025)—a vibrant composition that extends this theme through pop cultural fragments and studio remnants including a paper cup, a Play-Doh container, crumpled magazine covers, and strings of tangled yarn. The composition captures Friedman’s signature blend of humor, material play, and layered commentary on consumption and image-making.
Additional highlights include: a new painting by Tammy Nguyen, on the heels of her first major solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin New York, A Comedy for Mortals: Paradiso; a new painting by Dominic Chambers, ahead of his first exhibition with Lehmann Maupin in Seoul in 2026; a new work by Liza Lou, whose to-scale installation Security Fence (2005), crafted from glass beads on steel and razor wire, is on view at PODO Museum in Jeju Island, South Korea through September 2026; new and historical works by Cecilia Vicuña, ahead of her solo exhibition Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey, opening November 7 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; and a new work by Hernan Bas, inspired by his visit to a bustling fish market in Seoul earlier this year.
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