Robert Ryman /
May 28 – Aug 1, 2025 /
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 28, 5pm – 7pm /
Walkthrough led by Susan Dunne, Senior Director at David Zwirner, starting at 6pm /
David Zwirner
5-6/F, H Queen’s
80 Queen’s Road Central
Central, Hong Kong
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm
+852 21195900
David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Robert Ryman (1930–2019) at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Marking Ryman’s first solo presentation in Greater China, this exhibition will feature a range of works from the early 1960s through the 2000s, offering a concise survey of the materials, supports, painterly treatments, and ways of engaging with the wall that Ryman utilized over the course of his six-decade-long career.
Ryman is widely celebrated for his tactile works using white paint in all its many permutations, which he executed using a range of painterly mediums on various supports including paper, canvas, linen, aluminum, vinyl, and newsprint. Emerging in the 1960s, Ryman eschewed self-contained representational and abstract imagery, instead giving precedence to the physical gesture of applying paint to a support. His works are novel and sensitive explorations of the visual, material, and experiential qualities of his mediums that exist in a dialogue with their surroundings.
Installed nonchronologically across the Hong Kong gallery’s two floors, the exhibition visualizes how Ryman’s early works maintain a compelling dialogue with those from later in his career and vice versa, underscoring the continued vibrancy and inexhaustibility of his art.
Featured image: Crazy II by Robert Ryman, oil and graphite on stretched sized linen canvas, 189.2 x 189.2 cm, c. 1962-1964. © 2025 Robert Ryman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
