David Zwirner has announced the co-representation of New York-based painter Sasha Gordon with Matthew Brown. David Zwirner will debut a new painting by Gordon at Frieze London, and a solo exhibition of the artist’s work will be on view in September 2025 at the gallery’s 19th Street location in New York.
In her luminous and hyperrealistic paintings, Gordon often renders her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. Executed with technical precision and rigor, the artist’s visceral compositions treat her own corporeal form as a kind of unorthodox avatar that communicates subjective, psychological experience. Gordon lets her surreal narratives unfold intuitively on the canvas, depicting bodies in sometimes absurd, darkly humorous scenarios or disorienting spatial compositions and portraying faces that translate a range of feelings. In illuminating detail, she reimagines fragments extracted from her inner life while boldly envisioning worlds within worlds that bear uncanny resemblance to our own. Complicating the genre of self-portraiture and engaging the canon of art history, her work expresses multiple psychic registers at once, addressing viewers with a candor that is both familiar and unsettling in its intimacy.
David Zwirner states,
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. 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.
Matthew Brown states,
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.
Sasha Gordon was born in Somers, New York, in 1998. She received a BA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 2020.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, presented a solo exhibition of Gordon’s work titled Surrogate Self in 2023. Other recent solo presentations featuring the artist’s work include The Flesh Disappears, But Continues to Ache, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2023); Hands of Others, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2022); and Enters Thief, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2021).
Her work has been included in group presentations including Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration, Jewish Museum, New York (2024); and Heroic Bodies, Rudolph Tegners Museum og Statuepark, Dronningmølle, Denmark (2022). Since 2023, a work by Gordon has been a part of Love Languages, a thematic collection display installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Gordon’s work is held in the Baltimore Museum of Art; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California; Dallas Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
