On view from May 11 to June 15, this presentation, which marks the artist’s first-ever solo show in Asia, will spotlight photographs from his On the Beach, Shorebreak and Icarus Suite series along with his never-before-exhibited Elephant Parable body of work. Together, these mesmeric images—exhibited across two floors of Pace’s Seoul gallery—meditate on humans’ relationships to the natural world and one another.

A champion of color photography since the 1970s, Misrach is known for his poignant, large-scale images that lean into social, political, and environmental issues of the present while also engaging with the history of photography. Subjects for his work have included desert fires, nuclear test sites, and animal burial pits in the American West; San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge; and the landscape of the US-Mexico border. In his radiant, contemplative works, Misrach—who lives and works in Berkeley, California—often examines the destructive effects of human intervention in the natural world. Recent solo exhibitions by the artist include his 2022 presentation At the still point of the turning world, 2002–2022 at Pace Gallery in New York and Border Cantos, which opened at the San José Museum of Art in California in 2016 and later traveled to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. His works can be found the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California; the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra; and many other institutions around the world.