Sarah Lucas & Cerith Wyn Evans

Gladstone presents Je Pense, a two-person exhibition bringing together works by Sarah Lucas and Cerith Wyn Evans in New York. Longtime friends whose practices have developed in markedly different formal directions, Lucas and Evans share an abiding interest in the friction between abstraction and sensual expression.

Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London) lives and works in London. She studied art at The Working Men's College (1982–83), London College of Printing (1983–84), and Goldsmiths College (1984–87) in London. Lucas' work has been the subject of recent solo presentations at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2024); Tate Britain, London (2023); The Perimeter, London (2021); the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (2021); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2020); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019); and New Museum, New York (2018). Her work is in major public collections including: Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Daegu Art Museum, South Korea; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois; MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; National Portrait Gallery, London, England; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, among others.

Cerith Wyn Evans was born in 1958 in Llanelli, Wales. He lives and works in London and Norfolk, England. Evans studied at St. Martin's School of Art in London and the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career as a short and experimental filmmaker, before turning to visual and conceptual art in the 1990s. Evans makes work in a variety of materials, notably neon, sound, photography, and glass. His work seeks to create an immersive environment that challenges the viewer's notions of perception and reality.

Numerous international museums have devoted monographic exhibitions to Evans' work, including the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2024); and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2025); Aspen Museum of Art, Colorado (2021); Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy (2019); the National Museum Wales, UK (2018); the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2018); Tate Britain, London (2018); the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (2017); the Museion Bolzano (2015); the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London (2014); the MUSAC in Leon (2008); the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (2004); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2004). In France, his work was shown in 2006 in the solo exhibition In Which Something Happens All Over Again for the First Time at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and previously at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2004. Evans also participated in Documenta 11 in 2002 and was the first artist to represent Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2003. His works are part of the permanent collections of such international institutions as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York; the Tate Modern in London; the Centre Georges Pompidou; the Fondation Louis Vuitton; and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.