Overview
- Pace Gallery will show David Lynch: LA in mid-September through October 24, 2026 at its Los Angeles space with a public opening and a gallery reception planned early in the run.
- The exhibition brings together five photographic series made between 1979 and 2008: Figures and Smoke, architectural studies of Los Angeles, black-and-white nudes, the Couch Series, and Kits.
- Pace and the David Lynch Estate organized the presentation to emphasize how Lynch used still photography to extend the formal and thematic concerns of his films.
- The show is the first major presentation of Lynch’s work in Los Angeles since his death in 2025, and his family advised Pace on arranging the works for this posthumous display.
- Pace frames the exhibition as a prelude to a broader LACMA retrospective now in early planning, a development that could prompt larger institutional reassessment of Lynch’s multi-disciplinary career.