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Established in Los Angeles in 1985, Michael Kohn Gallery has exhibited the work of 20th-century arti
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09/15/2026

CHARLES ARNOLDI: STRING THEORY

Opening Saturday, October 3
Michael Kohn Gallery

At 80, Charles Arnoldi stands as an elder statesman of West Coast painting, with more than five decades of exhibitions and a body of work that traces the evolution of late modernist abstraction.

String Theory focuses on a series of paintings Arnoldi created between 2016 and 2019. Inspired in part by Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, the series explores the distinctly human capacity to imagine, invent, and create forms that do not physically exist.

Arnoldi’s fluid lines move across the canvas with the spontaneity of automatic drawing, building layers of gesture, intersection, and color. As the lines accumulate, shapes emerge within their crossings, creating a delicate equilibrium between structure and chance.

The result is a remarkable synthesis of gesture, geometry, color, and movement. In String Theory, Arnoldi continues his longstanding investigation of abstraction while demonstrating the invention and freedom that have defined his influential career.

Arnoldi’s work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the LACMA New Talent Award.

Join us Saturday, October 3, for the opening of Charles Arnoldi: String Theory.

Artwork: “Boost,” 2019; “Impossible Knot,” 2017; “Knot Not,” 2018; “Slide Bite,” 2016

Michael Kohn Gallery Charles Arnoldi

09/09/2026

We are delighted to share that Nir Hod’s artwork is now on view at the newly opened House of Dior Shinsaibashi, in the heart of Osaka, Japan. The House opened in May of this year. Nir Hod Dior Official

Selected works are displayed throughout the space, conceived by architect Peter Marino, reflecting Christian Dior’s history as a gallerist and the friendships he cultivated with artists of his time.

Congratulations, Nir!

09/04/2026

Happy Labor Day weekend!

Michael Kohn Gallery will be closed September 5–7 in observance of the holiday. We will reopen September 8 with a special viewing of paintings by Rosa Loy in honor of her group exhibition at Oklahoma Contemporary.

Michael Kohn Gallery Rosa Loy

Artwork: “Speicher,” 2024; “Remember,” 2025; “ Nähe,” 2023

09/02/2026

Congratulations to Rosa Loy on her inclusion in “Clever, Quick, Magnetic: The Art of Witty Banter”, opening tomorrow at Oklahoma Contemporary.

The exhibition is curated by David Salle and brings together the work of 30 artists, exploring the ways paintings can communicate across differences in style and subject, revealing unexpected connections through intention, spontaneity, energy, and gesture.

Rosa Loy’s work is presented alongside artists including Marina Adams, Ross Bleckner, Joe Bradley, Cecily Brown, John Currin, Alex Katz, Neo Rauch, Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Henry Taylor, Charline von Heyl, and many others.

Opening Celebration: September 3, 5:30–9:00 p.m.

Michael Kohn Gallery Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Rosa Loy

08/31/2026

Charles Arnoldi
Opening October 2
Michael Kohn Gallery

08/28/2026

Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to share Joe Goode’s major exhibition of paintings and works on paper, Torn Skies, opening tomorrow at Zander Galerie in Cologne.

Spanning more than three decades of Goode’s remarkable career, the exhibition brings together key works from some of his most significant bodies of work, tracing his enduring fascination with the sky as both subject and metaphor.

Across Goode’s practice, the sky is never simply a backdrop. Vast, atmospheric, and seemingly infinite, it became a recurring presence through which he explored perception, space, beauty, and the everyday.

Torn Skies
August 29 – October 30, 2026
Zander Galerie, Cologne

Opening: Saturday, August 29, 3–6pm

Congratulations to Zander Galerie on this important presentation of Joe Goode’s work.

Michael Kohn Gallery Joe Goode Estate Zander Galerie

08/25/2026

We’re pleased to share that Lita Albuquerque will join independent curator Grant Johnson for a conversation on the occasion of her High Desert Test Sites Artist Fellowship.

For more than five decades, Albuquerque’s expansive practice has explored land, perception, the cosmos, and the limits of human understanding. Throughout 2026, she will be in residence at High Desert Test Sites developing a new site-specific work, opening to the public November 14, 2026.

Join Lita and Grant on Saturday, September 12 at 3 PM at MOCA Grand Ave for this special conversation.

This program is part of MOCA’s environmental programming and is made possible by the Nora McNeely Hurley Foundation.

Free tickets are available via the link in our bio.

Michael Kohn Gallery The Museum of Contemporary Art Lita Albuquerque

08/20/2026

Summer Holiday! Michael Kohn Gallery will be closed for the summer holiday from Thursday, August 20, resuming normal gallery hours on Monday, August 31.
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08/19/2026

Connections made over 100 years in our Gallery 4 presentation.

A group of works that range in date from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century and, in many ways, share artistic and thematic sensibilities. Antonio Gisbert painted this Spanish-infused portrait in 1868. Taking its cue from Velázquez, this canvas is a magnificent study of blacks and browns, a palette in which Spanish painters excelled. John Altoon’s abstraction in brown, white, and black was executed in 1954, following his return from Spain and France that same year. Later, in 1977, Joe Goode painted this work on paper from his Black Paintings series, in which a minimalist, monochromatic black-and-brown surface is intentionally scarred by slashes, reminding the viewer that they are looking at an “object” as much as an “image.” Finally, two years earlier, in 1975, Richard Pettibone painted his exacting, photorealistic detail after Ingres’ The Princess de Broglie (1853), in which the painted blue satin of Ingres’ original is akin to the black silk of Gisbert’s female portrait, made 15 years later.

Artwork: John Altton, “Untitled,” 1954; Antonio Gisbert, “A Spanish Lady,” 1868; Joe Goode, “Black Drawing 8,” 1977; Richard Pettibone, “Ingres, The Princess de Broglie, 1853; Detail, elbow, hand and dress,” 1975 Michael Kohn Gallery

08/18/2026

Wishing Jinbin a very happy birthday!

Jinbin Chen’s delicate color palettes create environments that house his male subjects in themes of vulnerability, fragility, honesty, and comfort. These spaces seek to uncover a language of intimacy that excludes the sexually explicit, and rather, paint his own vocabulary of desire: a vernacular that absorbs a viewer’s gaze. In his portraiture, the masculine traverses a terrain of liminal gender dispositions that embrace the freedom of becoming sans societal boundaries of gender. In its essence, Chen’s work depicts the encounter of bodies, those significant and seemingly insignificant, that have the potential to impact the trajectory of one’s life. Bridging his practice to the personal, Chen excavates topics on gender temperament, sexuality, inbetweeness, the abject, identification and differentiation.
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Artwork: Jinbin Chen, “Portrait of a Pair of Young Parents,” 2022, oil on canvas, 38 1/2 x 62 1/4 inches

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