Events
Auction
Iovine and Young Center for High School Education Benefit Auction
Online auction: February 13–27, 2024
Live auction: February 27, 2024
This online benefit auction, hosted by Sotheby’s for the Iovine and Young Center for High School Education, features eleven donated works by contemporary artists including Jennifer Guidi and Ed Ruscha. The Iovine and Young Center is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District, and all proceeds from the sale will directly support its educational programming and contribute to the advancement of its impactful initiatives.
Jennifer Guidi, Into the Expanse of the Sky, 2024 © Jennifer Guidi
In Conversation
Jennifer Guidi
Heidi Zuckerman
Sunday, January 28, 2024, 3pm
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California
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Join the Orange County Museum of Art for a conversation between Jennifer Guidi and OCMA CEO and director Heidi Zuckerman on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition And so it is., on view through February 18, 2024. The pair will discuss exploring the spiritual and metaphysical world, the importance of place, and Guidi’s rich history growing up in Orange County. The event is free to attend.
Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: And so it is., Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, September 15, 2023–February 18, 2024. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Yubo Dong, ofstudio
In Conversation
Great (Women) Painters
Jennifer Guidi, Tschabalala Self, Genesis Tramaine, Lisa Yuskavage
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 6:30pm
Dallas Museum of Art
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Join Phaidon and the Dallas Museum of Art to celebrate the publication of Great Women Painters. This survey, which explores the work of over three hundred women painters spanning five centuries, champions a more diverse history of art, showcasing both well-known historical figures and contemporary emerging artists. Jennifer Guidi and fellow artists Tschabalala Self, Genesis Tramaine, and Lisa Yuskavage will discuss their practices and reflect on artists and mentors—past, present, and future—in a conversation moderated by Anna Katherine Brodbeck, senior curator of contemporary art at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Great Women Painters (London: Phaidon, 2022)
Auction
LAXART
2020 Benefit Auction
September 15–29, 2020
The nonprofit visual art space LAXART is hosting a benefit auction, featuring works by Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will help the organization continue its mission to promote emerging and under-recognized talent and engage with key issues of our time through exhibitions, publications, and public programs. The live auction begins at 5pm edt on September 15 on Artsy. The works will also be available for viewing at LAXART by appointment beginning September 15. To register to bid, visit artsy.net.
Ed Ruscha, Street Cred, 2019 © Ed Ruscha
Online Reading
Jennifer Guidi
Heliocentric
Jennifer Guidi: Heliocentric is available for online reading from April 22 through May 21 as part of Artist Spotlight: Jennifer Guidi. Her first exhibition with Gagosian, Heliocentric featured fourteen luminous paintings with surfaces that oscillate between color and texture. Images of these works, as well as installation views of the exhibition, are accompanied by an essay by Stuart Krimko in this accompanying publication.
Jennifer Guidi: Heliocentric (Hong Kong: Gagosian, 2018)
Visit
Gagosian at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées
Opening reception: Saturday, October 12, 6:30–8pm
October 12–20, 2019
Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris
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In celebration of FIAC in Paris, Gagosian is pleased to collaborate with Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées on a two-floor pop-up takeover featuring products related to Gagosian artists. On the first floor, the Coin Culture section will feature catalogues, posters, apparel, and audio productions. The second floor, the Library, will house an additional selection of limited-edition books, publications, and catalogues raisonnés.
Download the full press release in English (PDF) or French (PDF)
Gagosian at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, Paris, 2019
Announcements
Video
The Afghan Carpet Project
Lisa Anne Auerbach, Liz Craft, Meg Cranston, Francesca Gabbiani, Jennifer Guidi, Toba Khedoori
For The Afghan Carpet Project, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles invited six artists, including Jennifer Guidi, to travel to Afghanistan to learn about the history and process of hand-weaving carpets and then to create designs to be produced by Afghan weavers. The project was initiated by the nonprofit organization AfghanMade, along with carpet producer Christopher Farr, Inc., with proceeds benefiting Arzu Studio Hope. This video provides an account of the project, including interviews with the participating artists and footage from their trip to Kabul and Bamiyan in March 2014, as well as views of the resulting carpets displayed at the Hammer Museum.
Still from “The Afghan Carpet Project”
Auction
(RED) Auction
Live auction: Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Online auction: November 12–December 7, 2018
Exhibition: December 1–7, 2018
Moore Building, Miami
Gagosian is pleased to announce the third (RED) Auction to support the fight against AIDS, organized in partnership with (RED) and Sotheby’s.
Bono, the driving force behind (RED), invited artist Theaster Gates and architect Sir David Adjaye to cocurate a selection of contemporary art and design that will be auctioned by Sotheby’s on December 5, 2018, during Art Basel in Miami Beach and Design Miami/ 2018. Gagosian will present a preview exhibition of the works at the famed Moore Building in Miami, which will open on World AIDS Day, December 1.
Artists donating works include Ai Weiwei, Christo, Rachel Feinstein, Teresita Fernández, Frank Gehry, Jennifer Guidi, Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson, Jeff Koons, Guillermo Kuitca, Marilyn Minter, Wangechi Mutu, Jenny Saville, and Sean Scully; Adjaye and Gates will also contribute unique pieces.
Proceeds from this year’s auction will support community-based programs in Africa through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, while also providing assistance to fight HIV through community-strengthening programs in Chicago with Theaster Gates’s Rebuild Foundation. For additional information, please contact Lidia Andich at redauction@gagosian.com.
View the auction catalogue (PDF)
Theaster Gates, Bono, and David Adjaye. Photo: Rankin
Auction
Baby2Baby
Jennifer Guidi has donated an artwork to the 2018 Baby2Baby Gala silent auction, taking place November 10. Baby2Baby provides low-income children ages 0–12 years with diapers, clothing, and all the basic necessities that every child deserves. The organization will serve more than 180,000 children in Los Angeles this year and hundreds of thousands more across the country through the Baby2Baby National Network.
Jennifer Guidi, By the Sea (Black-Red Mountain, Purple-Pink Sky), 2017 © Jennifer Guidi
Museum Exhibitions
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Jennifer Guidi
And so it is.
September 15, 2023–February 18, 2024
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California
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And so it is.—Jennifer Guidi’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States—surveys the artist’s work over the last ten years and features a number of new paintings. Using a methodical system in which sand is applied directly to the surface of the canvas while wet, Guidi creates a ritualistic, repetitive choreography—one entirely her own. Focusing on the importance of place, especially evident within Guidi’s embrace of the colors of California—the fleeting pink and red of its sunrises and sunsets, the hazy light of Los Angeles—the show reveals an intricate body of work that operates as its own energy source.
Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: And so it is., Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, September 15, 2023–February 18, 2024. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Yubo Dong, ofstudio
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Jennifer Guidi
Mountain Range
June 20–September 3, 2023
Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
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Jennifer Guidi has conceived a unique installation of her work in response to the architecture of Château La Coste’s Richard Rogers Gallery and the context of the Provence region in the South of France. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Gagosian, features two large paintings, hanging back-to-back and suspended in midair, which bisect the gallery and playfully interrupt the expected vista of the Luberon mountain range with Guidi’s imagined landscapes. On the walls, smaller mountainscapes, acting almost as windows, lead visitors through the space and provide unique vignettes rich in color, form, and texture.
To learn more watch Guidi speak about the project in a video produced by Château La Coste for Gagosian Quarterly.
Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: Mountain Range, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, June 20–September 3, 2023. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Frédéric Desimoni
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Jennifer Guidi
Full Moon
July 1–October 16, 2022
Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
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Full Moon—Jennifer Guidi’s first solo institutional exhibition in China—surveys the artist’s work to date and features a number of new paintings. The exhibition’s title emphasizes the cosmological and mystical roots of Guidi’s practice. Her abstract compositions refer to the natural world literally and visually as she mixes sand with paint to depict arresting natural and metaphysical phenomena.
Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: Full Moon, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, July 1–August 21, 2022. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi
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Artists Inspired by Music
Interscope Reimagined
January 30–February 13, 2022
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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To mark the thirtieth anniversary of Interscope Records, the company invited artists to select albums and songs from Interscope’s groundbreaking catalogue and fostered exchanges between artists and musicians to generate resonant pairings. The exhibition, which includes more than fifty works, brings an intergenerational group of visual artists into dialogue with iconic musicians from the last three decades, providing a fresh perspective on influential music for the present moment. Work by John Currin, Jennifer Guidi, Damien Hirst, Titus Kaphar, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, and Anna Weyant is included.
Jennifer Guidi, Seeking Hearts (Black MT, Pink Sand, Pink CS, Pink Ground), 2021 © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Brica Wilcox
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One Day at a Time
Manny Farber and Termite Art
October 14, 2018–March 11, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Inspired by American painter and film critic Manny Farber and his legendary underground essay “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art” (1962), One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art features approximately thirty artists and more than one hundred works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and sound dating from the 1950s to the present. Work by Jennifer Guidi and Jonas Wood is included.
Jennifer Guidi, Eclipse (Painted Mandala Mountain SF #1A, Black Sand, Blue, Yellow, Purple, Red), 2017 © Jennifer Guidi
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Generations Part 1
Female Artists in Dialogue
February 22–June 30, 2018
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
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Sammlung Goetz celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2018 with a three-part exhibition dedicated to artistic creations by women. On display are nearly two hundred works by more than forty artists in an intergenerational dialogue. Generations Part 1 focuses on the appropriation of ordinary materials and practices rooted in advertising and design. Work by Ellen Gallagher, Katharina Grosse, and Jennifer Guidi is included.
Jennifer Guidi, Becoming the Mountain (Painted White Sand SF #1F, White and Yellow), 2016 © Jennifer Guidi
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Jennifer Guidi
Visible Light/Luce Visibile
July 1–September 24, 2017
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
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Villa Croce presents Visible Light/Luce Visibile, the first solo museum exhibition by Jennifer Guidi. Painted in spectral tones evoking the colors of the rainbow, the new body of work on view continues the artist’s investigation of light, color, and energy. To create her paintings, Guidi uses a system of underpainting in which she first applies a thick layer of sand to the surface of the canvas; while this is still wet, she makes marks with a dowel in controlled and repetitive movements, often adding sand and paint along the edges of the divots.
Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: Visible Light/Luce Visibile, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy, July 1–September 24, 2017. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi
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Unpacking
The Marciano Collection
May 25–September 16, 2017
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
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Unpacking: The Marciano Collection is the debut presentation of the collection’s holdings organized by Philipp Kaiser. The title and theme of the show are derived from Walter Benjamin’s essay “Unpacking My Library,” in which he discusses the chaotic potentiality inherent in unpacking and recontextualizing one’s collection. Work by Mark Grotjahn, Jennifer Guidi, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Sterling Ruby, Cindy Sherman, Franz West, Jonas Wood, and Christopher Wool is included.
Installation view, Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, May 25–September 16, 2017. Artwork, left to right: © Albert Oehlen, © Christopher Wool
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No Man’s Land
Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection
September 30, 2016–January 8, 2017
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
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Drawing from the Rubell Family Collection, the paintings and sculptural hybrids in N0 Man’s Land demonstrate the expressive and technical range of work by a generationally, aesthetically, and politically diverse group of contemporary women artists. Collectively, they populate “no man’s land”—an open, liberated, and adaptable creative space. The presentation focuses on the traditional mediums of painting and sculpture as a way to highlight how women artists have pushed and redefined the boundaries of such categories. Work by Cecily Brown, Jennifer Guidi, and Mary Weatherford is included.
Installation view, No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, September 30, 2016–January 8, 2017. Artwork, left to right: © Mary Weatherford, © Kerstin Brätsch, © Sonia Gomes
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The Afghan Carpet Project
June 13–September 27, 2015
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
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The Afghan Carpet Project features six carpets designed by Los Angeles–based contemporary artists and handmade by weavers in Afghanistan. The exhibition is the culmination of a project that began with the artists traveling to visit weavers in Kabul and Bamiyan in March 2014. The trip provided the artists with insight into the craft and the production process, as well as the living and working conditions for the weavers. Following the trip, each artist created an original design for her carpet. Work by Jennifer Guidi is included.
Installation view, The Afghan Carpet Project, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 13–September 27, 2015. Artwork, left to right: © Jennifer Guidi, © Liz Craft
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Field Paintings
May 17–June 28, 2014
LAXART, Los Angeles
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This exhibition features Jennifer Guidi’s new series of large-scale abstract oil paintings inspired by the rich patterning of traditional Moroccan rugs. Upon returning from a trip to Morocco, Guidi brought with her a collection of these rugs and began to photograph their intricate woven surfaces. Painting from these photographs led her to focus in on the delicate stitching that form the structure of each pattern.
Installation view, Jennifer Guidi: Field Paintings, LAXART, Los Angeles, May 17–June 28, 2014. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi