NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced highlights from its 2026 global program across its galleries in New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Seoul, and Tokyo.

The gallery will present New York exhibitions of work by Gideon Appah, David Byrne, Chuck Close, Elmgreen & Dragset, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Li Hei Di, and Wang Guangle. In Los Angeles, solo shows by Lauren Quin, Kohei Nawa, and Mika Tajima will be followed by the first major exhibition of David Lynch’s work since his passing in early 2025.

Loie Hollowell will have her first solo exhibition in London since 2018, and Pace’s Berlin gallery will present paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and early short films—as well as a series of photographs captured in the German capital—by David Lynch. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Lee Kun-Yong’s storied performance practice, an exhibition in Seoul will showcase rarely-seen photographs and videos of the artist’s experimental work in the 1970s. Solo presentations by Robert Longo, Beatriz Milhazes, and Will Monk in Tokyo will highlight the gallery’s contemporary program.

New York

Gideon Appah
510 West 25th Street, January – February

Gideon Appah’s first solo exhibition at Pace’s New York gallery will feature paintings from his Swimmers and Surfers series created in the past year. Inspired by the local surfers, fishermen, swimmers, and seaside architecture at Busua Beach and Kokrobite, Ghana, where Appah’s studio is located, these new works represent a wider exploration of color for the artist, as they capture different times of day and conditions of light.

Richard Pousette-Dart
540 West 25th Street, January – February

Richard Pousette-Dart: Geometry of Summer will showcase a selection of paintings created by Pousette-Dart between 1975 and 1992 within the light-filled, natural environs of his home and studio in Rockland County, New York. Building on the gallery’s 2022 exhibition Richard Pousette-Dart: 1950s Spirit and Substance in New York, this presentation focuses on the final two decades of the artist’s life, in which he continued to explore the complex relationships between light and form, the physical and the visual, and the body and the spirit through simplified geometric shapes.

Wang Guangle
540 West 25th Street, January – February

This exhibition will spotlight ten new canvases by Wang Guangle, a pioneer of conceptual and abstract painting in China. The artist’s first solo show in New York since 2019, this presentation, titled Delayed Gravity, will showcase the durational processes and devotional labors that define his practice. It will also feature a new participatory sculptural installation, One Layer a Day, on the gallery’s second-floor outdoor terrace.

Chuck Close
540 West 25th Street, March – April

This major survey of Chuck Close’s works on paper is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the artist’s creative universe through the prism of paper. Bringing together Close’s dramatic, large-scale watercolors and large-format Polaroids with his drawings and prints, the presentation will highlight the many ways he used paper as a primary material for his influential experiments in image-making.

Maysha Mohamedi
540 West 25th Street, March – April

In March, Pace will open an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Maysha Mohamedi, in which she expands the reach and range of her palette to explore the possibilities of spiritual transformation and enlightenment. A facsimile edition of her studio notebook—with references pulled from sources such as vintage cookbook images and magazine clippings—will be published to accompany the show.

Sam Gilliam
510 West 25th Street, March – April

Expanding upon Sewing Fields—a major solo exhibition of Sam Gilliam’s work at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2025—this presentation will showcase a selection of the wall-mounted, sewn fabric sculptures that figured in IMMA’s show as well as never-before-seen sculptures from the same body of work. Created in the early 1990s, these works reflect the experimental and innovative ethos of Gilliam’s practice and his deep interest in Constructivism. The catalogue accompanying the recent IMMA exhibition will be available on-site at the gallery during the run of this show.

Emmet Gowin
508 West 25th Street, March – April

This exhibition will spotlight approximately 40 works from Emmet Gowin’s Baldwin Street: Photographs 1968–1991, a body of work that centers on the family of Gowin's wife Edith Morris at their home in Danville, Virginia. The selection of photographs on view, many of which were printed for the first time beginning in 2020, represent the artist’s act of looking back at a subject that drew his attention across decades of his practice. Pace’s presentation will coincide with AIPAD's The Photography Show, running April 22–26, 2026, in New York.

Emily Kam Kngwarray
540 West 25th Street, May – August

Pace's first show of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s work in New York will be a chronological survey of the artist's career, featuring her most renowned series. This exhibition—which follows a landmark retrospective of Kngwarray’s art at London’s Tate Modern—will be presented in collaboration with D'Lan Contemporary.

Paul Thek
540 West 25th Street, September – October

Organized in close collaboration with the Paul Thek Foundation, this exhibition presents the first comprehensive survey of Paul Thek’s notebooks. Bringing together examples from across his career—from the late 1960s until his death in 1988—the presentation places these extraordinary objects, which Thek filled with writing and imagery (and which he considered artworks in their own right) in dialogue with his paintings, sculptures, and watercolors from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In conjunction with the exhibition, Pace Publishing will release two publications: a facsimile edition of one of Thek’s notebooks and the first volume of a catalogue raisonné devoted to his notebook practice.

David Byrne
540 West 25th Street, September – October

David Byrne, who presented his first major exhibition with Pace in 2003, will exhibit new work in New York this fall. His upcoming presentation with the gallery will showcase a series of never-before-exhibited photographs he captured while traveling and touring over the past several years. These new images by the artist reflect his experimental, surreal, and playful aesthetic. The show will also feature banners embroidered with Byrne's drawings.

Arlene Shechet
508 & 510 West 25th Street, September – October

Arlene Shechet's exhibition in September will be anchored by three monumental sculptures related to her Girl Group exhibition at Storm King Art Center in 2024. Two of these works will be in color and made of aluminum and paint, and one in corten steel. To accompany these never-before-seen sculptures, Shechet will present a new body of smaller artworks in the adjacent gallery.

Li Hei Di
540 West 25th Street, November 2026 – January 2027

Li Hei Di’s first solo exhibition in New York will spotlight new works by the artist, who is known for their explorations of human embodiment, displacement, and intimacy in luminous paintings that blend abstraction and figuration. The presentation will be accompanied by a catalogue from Pace Publishing.

Lynda Benglis
540 West 25th Street, November 2026 – January 2027

This presentation will feature a selection of paper works by Lynda Benglis, whose exhibition at the Barbican in London—organized as part of a series pairing contemporary artists’ work with Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures—runs from February 12 to May 31, 2026.

Elmgreen & Dragset
508 & 510 West 25th Street, November 2026 – January 2027

For their next solo presentation with the gallery, the duo Elmgreen & Dragset will debut a major new installation. This exhibition will follow the artists’ show, The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, at Pace Los Angeles in 2025.

Los Angeles

Lauren Quin
January – March

This exhibition of dynamic new paintings by Lauren Quin marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with Pace since she joined its program in 2025. Spotlighting large format works that explore the idea and feel of monochrome through new experimentations with grayscale and tonality, the presentation—which coincides with Frieze LA—will be accompanied by a new catalogue from Pace Publishing.

Kohei Nawa
April – June

Pace will present Japanese multidisciplinary artist Kohei Nawa’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. This will mark Nawa’s first installation in which he juxtaposes new works from two of his iconic sculptural series: PixCell and Prism. Creating a cohesive environment in which his sculptures engage directly with the architecture of Pace Los Angeles’s main exhibition space, the installation fully manifests itself on the edge of artifice and reality.

Mika Tajima
June – August

In June, an exhibition of multimedia work by Mika Tajima will spotlight her new Diffraction Painting series, an ongoing project in which the artist encodes data corresponding to news headlines captured over the course of a single day into the laser-etched holograms. The works are a measurement of daily ‘light’ or capture of daily events, manifesting as a ‘portrait’ of specific days. The works appear as reflective surfaces with cloud-like forms of shifting, prismatic colors. The series—which will be accompanied by Negative Entropy and Art d'Ameublement works in the presentation at Pace Los Angeles—is an evolution of Tajima’s longstanding interest in incorporating new technologies into her practice.

David Lynch
September – November

Pace will present the first major exhibition of David Lynch’s work since his passing in early 2025. The exhibition, which will feature a comprehensive range of works across different media, represents a homecoming for the late artist, who lived and worked in Los Angeles beginning in the 1970s.

London

Loie Hollowell
March – May

Loie Hollowell’s first solo exhibition in London since 2018 will feature new paintings from her Overview Effect series, in which she uses abstraction to capture the sensations of contractions during childbirth and to explore the relationship between shifting scales of consciousness.

Krzysztof Grzybacz
September – October

In September, the gallery will mount an exhibition of work by Kraków-based artist Krzysztof Grzybacz. A close artistic colleague of Paulina Olowska—who is part of Pace’s program—Grzybacz will present new paintings of flowers that reflect both pure aesthetics and representations of queer identity.

Kylie Manning
October – November

Kylie Manning’s first solo exhibition in the UK will open in October, coinciding with London’s Frieze Week. It will showcase lyrical paintings of varying scales that engage deeply with the sublime and will follow the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, Traces of the Body, at Villa Schöningen in Potsdam, Germany, which remains on view through March 5, 2026.

Berlin

David Lynch
January – March

In Berlin, the gallery will present an exhibition of work by David Lynch that will highlight his vision across media, bringing together a select group of paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and early short films. It will also include a series of photographs taken in Berlin, touching on Lynch’s history with the German capital and Europe at large. This presentation precedes a major exhibition of Lynch’s work slated for fall 2026 at Pace’s gallery in the artist’s hometown of Los Angeles.

Seoul

Lee Kun-Yong
February – March

This presentation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Lee Kun-Yong’s storied performance practice. The exhibition will feature paintings by the artist and rarely-seen archival materials from the mid 1970s, including photographs and videos of his performances. Holistically, it will spotlight formative works from Lee’s career and showcase his contributions to the development of Korean avant-garde performance.

The full 2026 program in Seoul will be announced in due course.

Tokyo

Robert Nava
February – April

In February, Pace Tokyo will host Robert Nava’s first solo show in Japan. Spotlighting the motifs and techniques that characterize his oeuvre—hybrid creatures, angels, witches, and other beings rendered in energetic color—the presentation will feature new paintings and works on paper created by the artist in 2025.

Robert Longo
April – June

In his first solo exhibition in Japan in four decades, Robert Longo will present over 20 new charcoal drawings and seven new sculptures across the gallery’s two floors as he examines his personal understanding of Japanese and American cultural influences. The artist’s investigations into allegorical mythologies and ancient archetypes that span cultures incorporate an array of loaded icons: a crashing wave, a submerged whale, a blooming peony. While creating work for this exhibition, Longo was inspired by Paul Klee’s watercolor monoprint Angelus Novus (1920), in which a curious angel is poised to take flight or surrender.

Will Monk
July – August

For his first solo exhibition in Japan, Will Monk will present new and recent paintings referencing both real and fictive images. The British artist, whose first comprehensive monograph was published by Phaidon in 2025, is known for his atmospheric, vibrant compositions that feature mysterious and otherworldly forms.

Beatriz Milhazes
October – December

Beatriz Milhazes will present a selection of paintings and collages created in her studio in Rio de Janeiro. This will be her first presentation with Pace in Japan, following the 2018 unveiling of her permanent installation Yellow Flower Dream on Inujima Island for the Inujima Art House Project.