May 7 – June 26, 2026
Jasper Johns: Copy/Trace
David Zwirner
In Person Viewing:
New York: 20th Street
537 West 20th Street
New York, New York 10011
Online Viewing:
https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2026/jasper-johns-copy-trace
David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by American artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) at the gallery’s West 20th Street location in New York. Conceived by independent curator Jeffrey Weiss, the exhibition focuses on related approaches to process in the artist’s practice, together signified by the terms copy and trace.
On view are drawings and prints spanning the 1960s through the 2010s that demonstrate the various ways Johns has deployed methods of copying and tracing as means of representation—by copying one of his own paintings, by leaving an imprint, or trace, of the body, or by tracing an existing image through a translucent support. Comprising important works borrowed from museums and private collections as well as a selection of loans from Johns’s personal collection, Jasper Johns: Copy/Trace illuminates a significant throughline in the artist’s practice and provides new insights into the relation of meaning to making in his work.
The content throughout this page is excerpted from curator Jeffrey Weiss’s exhibition texts. Weiss has written a new scholarly essay titled “Jasper Johns: Copy/Trace” to accompany this exhibition. Read the full essay here.