Charles Ray

Matthew Marks and Jeffrey Deitch are pleased to present Charles Ray, the next exhibitions in their galleriesin Los Angeles. The exhibition includes three new sculptures at Matthew Marks and three earlier sculptures at Jeffrey Deitch.

Fallen Horse (2026), at Matthew Marks, is a sculpture Ray has been working on for nearly ten years that depicts a life-size horse lying on a base carved from a single large block of granite. Also at Marks, is The Animation of Pandora (2026), a sculpture of three over life-size figures in painted white bronze, inspired by the ancient Greek myth about the first woman created by the gods.

Among the works shown at Jeffrey Deitch are two of Charles Ray’s most iconic yet rarely exhibited earlier sculptures. Firetruck (1993), on loan from The Broad, is based on a child’s toy enlarged to life-size proportions and Pepto-Bismol in a Marble Box (1988), a key work from the 1980s, is a white marble box filled with bright pink Pepto-Bismol.

Charles Ray (b. 1953) lives and works in Los Angeles. One of the preeminent sculptors of our time, his work has been featured in Documenta, three Venice Biennales and five Whitney Biennials, and has been the subject of numerous one-person museum exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998), the Kunstmuseum Basel (2014), the Art Institute of Chicago (2015), and the Centre Pompidou, Paris and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (both 2022).