David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, inaugurating the gallery’s new Los Angeles location. This will be Akunyili Crosby’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, which will travel to David Zwirner New York in September 2023. Born in Nigeria, Akunyili Crosby moved to the United States as a teenager in 1999, and her work reflects her hybrid cultural background and experiences. In her methodically layered figurative compositions, Akunyili Crosby combines painted depictions of people, places, and subjects from her life with photographic transfers derived from her personal image archive as well as Nigerian magazines and other mass media sources. The resulting works are visual tapestries of contemporary life that evocatively express the intricacies of African diasporic identity. Akunyili Crosby currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The artist was awarded an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College in May 2019. She was the recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship in addition to a number of awards and grants, including the Prix Canson, 2016; Next Generation Prize, New Museum, New York, 2015; the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, 2015; and the James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., 2014. She was an artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, from 2011 to 2012. Akunyili Crosby’s work has been represented by David Zwirner since 2018. ____ David Zwirner is pleased to announce the West Coast debut of Stan Douglas’s major two-channel video installation ISDN (2022), along with a group of related photographs, which together inaugurate the gallery’s 612 North Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. This is Douglas’s first solo presentation in more than twenty years in Los Angeles, where he lives (in addition to Vancouver) and serves as the Chair of the Graduate Art program at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Douglas was one of the first artists to be represented by David Zwirner. He had his first American solo exhibition at the gallery in 1993—the second show after David Zwirner opened its doors in New York’s SoHo neighborhood earlier that year—and this will be his sixteenth exhibition at the gallery overall.