DAVID LYNCH – LA

Posted on 2026-10-05

The exhibition marks the first presentation of Lynch’s work in Los Angeles since his death in 2025, and it does so with an unusually clear focus: five photographic series shown together for the first time, each one extending the atmosphere that runs through his films, paintings and sound work.

The exhibition brings together images from 1979 to 2008, including the large-scale color works of Figures and Smoke, where tightly cropped female faces and drifting smoke turn portraiture into something closer to reverie. The Couch Series multiplies and distorts the reclining body, while the nude photographs flatten flesh into landscape-like form. In Kits, Lynch’s deadpan instructions for disassembling fish, chicken and duck reveal a comic attention to mechanism and absurdity. Across the series, the familiar slips toward the uncanny with little warning.

Opposite – Untitled (Nudes and Smoke), c. 1994

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2026

Pace Gallery Los Angeles
1201 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles
CA 90019

www.pacegallery.com

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ILSE BING BETWEEN PARIS AND NEW YORK

Posted on 2026-10-05

Arriving in Paris in 1930, Bing immersed herself in a creative milieu defined by experimentation and speed. Armed with a Leica camera, she adopted a mobile, intuitive approach that allowed her to photograph the city from oblique angles and unexpected vantage points. Her images capture not only the architectural elegance of Paris but also its fleeting gestures: reflections in shop windows, the geometry of staircases, and the quiet drama of everyday life. By the early 1930s, her mastery of the medium earned her recognition among peers, positioning her at the forefront of a generation redefining photographic practice.

Opposite – New York, the Elevated, and Me, 1936

Exhibition runs through to October 18th, 2026

Chrysler Museum of Art
One Memorial Place
Norfolk
Virginia 23510

chrysler.org

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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO – UNNATURAL HABITAT

Posted on 2026-10-05

The exhibition features photographs from Sugimoto’s Diorama series, some created this past year through access to dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History, recently rediscovered negatives enlarged for the first time, and new washi paper screens that transform his images into luminous byōbu. This exhibition unites photographic and sculptural forms to explore perception, artifice, and immersive pictorial depth. While visiting the American Museum of Natural History in 1975, two years after moving to New York, Sugimoto was struck by the lifelike qualities of its dioramas. Combining painted environments with taxidermied animals, these constructed habitats offered a means of representing nature through an inherently artificial form.

Opposite – Lion,1994

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2026

Lisson Gallery New York
504 West 24th Street
New York
NY 10011

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CAROLYN MONASTRA – MYSTERY IN THE NATURAL WORLD

Posted on 2026-09-28

For the past two decades, Carolyn Monastra’s work has focused on creating and discovering mystery in the natural world. She uses photography, video, sound, public art and community-engagement to address environmental issues and examine humans’ relationship with our ecosystems. Through her various photographic series she has researched documenting the climate crisis and species extinction. In the series “lovely, dark and deep,” she aims to depict the woods and forests in a mythical manner, capturing their beauty and secrets. These fragmented, long twilight exposures capture a mystifying but also alluring version of the woods.

Opposite – Lovely, dark and deep #30 (2008)

Exhibition runs through to October 1st, 2026

Susan Eley Fine Art
433 Warren Street
Hudson
NY 12534

susaneleyfineart.com

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LEE FRIEDLANDER – MARIA

Posted on 2026-09-28

Lee Friedlander: Maria presents a seven-decade portrait of the photographer’s wife, companion and most persistent subject.
The exhibition gathers approximately 50 photographs made from the 1950s to the 2020s, following a relationship through marriage, parenthood, grandparenthood and the quieter years that come after.

Maria appears in the ordinary settings of shared life: reading, driving, talking on the telephone, resting in the sun or absorbed in another book. Lee Friedlander also returns to her distinctive style, recording print dresses, large sunglasses and the composed self-possession that gives even casual moments a formal edge. These are not simply records of domestic routine. They show a man repeatedly looking at someone he knows well and still finding reasons to look again.

Opposite – Sydney, Australia, 1977

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2026

Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco
CA 94108

fraenkelgallery.com

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HENRY HORENSTEIN – MILES AND MILES OF TEXAS

Posted on 2026-09-28

Henry Horenstein: Miles and Miles of Texas, presents a Bostonian’s affectionate portrait of the Lone Star State through nearly 100 photographs taken mostly between 2021 and 2024.

The series, published as an eponymous book in 2025 by Honky Tonk Editions, explores the people and culture of Texas through the eyes of Horenstein, who has been fascinated with the state since childhood, influenced by everything from the TV series Davy Crockett to balladeers like Marty Robbins.

Opposite – Dolly Parton Pinball, Arkey Blue’s Silver Dollar Saloon, Bandera, 2023

Exhibition runs through to October 3rd, 2026

Catherine Couturier
2635 Colquitt Street
Houston
TX 77098

www.catherinecouturier.com

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