Pace will host Robert Nava’s first solo show in Japan at its Tokyo gallery from February 19 through April 1, 2026. The presentation will feature new paintings and works on paper created by the artist between 2023 and 2026, showcasing fantastical scenes of beauty and chaos that invite viewers to reconnect with the limitless imagination of their childhoods.
Nava’s works are populated by real and imagined creatures, angels, witches, and other beings rendered in energetic color. Often imbued with a sense of philosophical and psychological charge, his figures suggest a dark, contemplative, and existential mood despite their vibrancy, liveliness, and humor. Rendered at a range of scales, the works that the artist will show in Tokyo are at once inviting and unsettling, defying traditional standards of figurative and abstract painting with enigmatic passages of paint and pencil that land tantalizingly in-between.
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