Lehmann Maupin will now represent 28-year-old, New York–based artist Anna Park, it announced today. The gallery will co-represent Park, now the youngest artist on its roster, alongside BLUM. The Korean American artist is set to present her first solo exhibition with the gallery in London in 2026, marking her solo debut in the United Kingdom.
Park is known for large-scale satirical charcoal and ink drawings that often critique the cultural commodification of women. These black-and-white works explore themes of identity and sexuality, and range from images borrowed from advertising and film to more abstract, gestural compositions.
“Anna’s work examines our contemporary experience through a feminist lens, using her large-scale charcoal and ink drawings to look at the societal pressures imposed on women in the media,” David Maupin, co-founder of Lehmann Maupin, told Artsy. “As a gallery, we’re committed to championing artists who challenge traditional perspectives, including pioneering women artists like Anna who now make up over fifty percent of our program.”
Born in 1996 in Daegu, South Korea, Park immigrated to the United States with her family at a young age. She spent her childhood in Salt Lake City, where she learned to draw in after-school programs. After studying illustration and animation at the Pratt Institute, where she earned her BA in 2017, she pursued an MFA from the New York Academy of Fine Art, graduating in 2020. In the years since, Park has been the subject of solo shows at Half Gallery in New York, BLUM in Tokyo, and the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. Her work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, titled “Look, look. Anna Park,” which closed in September 2024.
Park’s work is in the collections of prestigious institutions worldwide, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the K11 Art Foundation in Hong Kong, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami.
Lehmann Maupin’s announcement comes after several other blue-chip galleries have added young artists to their roster in recent months. In September 2024, 27-year-old artists Sasha Gordon and Li Hei Di became the youngest artists on David Zwirner and Pace’s rosters, respectively.
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