Jordan Wolfson Brings AI Images to Gagosian New York
Images of the Twin Towers, Victorian pornography and the poet Allen Ginsberg as imagined by artificial intelligence will go on view in New York on September 18.
American artist Jordan Wolfson will open an exhibition of new work at the Gagosian gallery at 555 West 24th Street in New York on that date. The show runs to October 24, 2026, according to Ocula.
Reports previewing the exhibition point to a dense mix of sources. ARTnews reported that the show includes imagery made with AI and references to the September 11 attacks. Cultured Magazine reported that the works include pictures of the Twin Towers, a depiction of Ginsberg as seen by AI and Victorian porn imagery, with material sourced online and in academic archives.
The New York outing is Wolfson’s first solo show — an exhibition devoted to a single artist — of new work in New York City, according to an interview published by Artnet. Gagosian has announced the presentation as new work for its West 24th Street space. It arrives in the autumn gallery season.
Wolfson was born in New York in 1980 and now lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States in 2003. He received the Frieze Foundation’s Cartier Award in 2009, as listed on his Gagosian artist page.
European museums gave him early large-scale attention. The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent, Belgium, organised the survey Ecce Homo/le Poseur in 2013. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, followed with the two-part solo exhibition MANIC/LOVE/TRUTH/LOVE in 2016.
More recently, his animatronic Female Figure was shown at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in New York from October 12 to December 23, 2022. Gagosian presented Jordan Wolfson: Drawings, an exhibition of works on paper, at its gallery in Basel, Switzerland, from June 12 to July 22, 2023.
What makes this stand out is the collision of registers. Archive photographs, internet finds and machine-made images sit side by side. For visitors, that offers less a single message than a chance to watch how the pictures rub against each other.
