The Light Has Always Been the Point
This new exhibition carries that conversation forward with a new generation of artists working in the same tradition.
There is a reason people move to Southern California and never leave. It isn't just the weather. It's the light.
On June 4th, David Zwirner Los Angeles opens California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version), a group exhibition running through August 1, 2026. It's a show that takes one of the most distinctly Californian art movements ever produced — the Light and Space movement born here in the 1960s — and asks what it means now, in this century, in this city. Oma-online
The original Light and Space artists — James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell — made work that didn't hang on walls so much as inhabit rooms. They worked with perception itself: the way light bends, how space feels, what happens when you slow down enough to actually see where you are. It was art that could only have come from California. From this particular quality of sun. From this particular relationship between the interior and the open air.
This new exhibition carries that conversation forward with a new generation of artists working in the same tradition — pushing it into new materials, new technologies, and new questions about what it means to truly see.
For anyone who has ever stood in a Turrell and felt the floor disappear, this show is mandatory. For anyone who hasn't — this is the place to start.
Where: David Zwirner Los Angeles, 10034 Capitol Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90035 When: June 4 – August 1, 2026 Admission: Free More info: davidzwirner.com