David Zwirner is pleased to present concurrent exhibitions of new work by Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street and 34 East 69th Street locations in New York. This will be the gallery’s first presentation of Bhabha’s work since the announcement of her representation in 2022. 

On view in Chelsea will be new cast-iron and patinated-bronze sculptures, among Bhabha’s largest to date. These totemic figures are constructed with an array of sculptural techniques, resulting in deeply resonant hybrid forms that examine notions of permanence, monumentality, and history. Featured at the uptown gallery will be a selection of new smaller-scale sculptures alongside a suite of new works on paper. An enduring and crucial aspect of her practice, Bhabha’s large-format multimedia drawings are conceived in tandem with her sculptures, presenting enigmatic visages that appear at once monstrous, animal, alien, and deeply human— further exemplifying the artist’s radical reinvention of the figure and its expressive possibilities. 

A solo exhibition of the artist’s work, Huma Bhabha: A fly appeared, and disappeared, is currently on view at MO.CO., Montpellier, France, until January 28, 2024. This presentation previously traveled from M Leuven, Belgium, as Huma Bhabha: LIVIN’ THINGS. In April 2024, a large-scale installation by Bhabha, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, will be unveiled at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. Image: Huma Bhabha, Even Stones Have Eyes, 2023 (detail).