Hauser & Wirth Exhibitions Announces Representation of Artist Nicole Eisenman

© Nicole Eisenman
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, Vielmetter Los Angeles and Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Portrait of Nicole Eisenman Photo: Nathan Perkel

Hauser & Wirth Exhibition now represents artist Nicole Eisenman worldwide. Considered one of the most important painters of her generation, Eisenman has developed a powerful and timely new figurative language that combines elements of factual and fictive, mainstream and counter-cultural works.

Her oeuvre is distinctive in its emphasis upon the allegorical and its deft mingling of autobiographical elements with historical and fictional narratives that draw attention to contemporary sociopolitical conflicts.

“We are honored and delighted to announce our collaboration with Nicole and welcome her to the Hauser & Wirth family,” says Marc Payot, Partner and Vice President of Hauser & Wirth. “While formally astonishing, her work is particularly powerful because it explores and lays before us all the undercurrents of American society. In this way, her practice resonates with the work of artists central to our program. Hauser & Wirth is devoted to supporting and advancing the efforts of creative pioneers whose talent is placed in the service of sociopolitical dialogue. We are excited about projects ahead with Nicole and look forward to introducing her work to ever-broader audiences worldwide.”

Going Down River on the USS J-Bone of an Ass 2017
Oil on canvas
325.12 x 264.16 cm / 128 x 104 in

Eisenman’s art has attracted critical admiration for its skillful, subversive appropriation of compositional and stylistic elements of the great painterly traditions, including Old Master and Italian Renaissance art, to interrogate the corruption of contemporary life by politics, technology, and consumerism. Eisenman’s art has been the subject of major international exhibitions, including a mid-career retrospective, ‘Al- Ugh-Ories,’ at the New Museum, New York (2016); and the traveling exhibition ‘Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993 – 2013,’ at The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2015), The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2014), and the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis (2014). In addition, she was included in the decennial ‘Skulptur Projekte Münster,’ Münster, Germany (2017), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (where she presented a solo exhibition of her work in 2018), and   large-scale outdoor sculptural ensemble ‘Procession,’ (2019) was a highlight of the Whitney Biennial in 2019.

Eisenman will continue working relationships with her current galleries, Anton Kern in New York City and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in California.