Automa Mon Amour

Greene Naftali is pleased to present Paul Chan’s Automa Mon Amour, featuring kinetic sculptures, models, and works on paper in the artist’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. The works on view include new entries in Chan’s ongoing series called the Breathers: nylon vessels filled and animated by currents of air, which the artist calls “clothing for spirits.” These pneumatic objects collapse art historical differences between figuration and abstraction, positing what a work that makes no distinction between sculpture, performance, and the moving image might look like. Alongside the Breathers, Chan exhibits new drawings that diagram the flow of air that brings them to life, and the fabric models that materialize his experimental approach to this self-propelling art. Paul Chan lives and works in New York. A solo exhibition of new work will open at Greene Naftali on March 12. Chan was named a 2022 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. His work is currently featured in Big Things for Big Rooms at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, and in the 2025 Singapore Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis (2024); Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, Richmond (2023); M+, Hong Kong (2023); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2022); Greene Naftali, New York (2020, 2019, 2017); Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (2018); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2017); Deste Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra (2015); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015); Schaulager, Basel (2014); The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2009); New Museum, New York (2008); and Serpentine Gallery, London (2007). The 2014 recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize, Chan co-curated the exhibition Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection (2019), and in 2007 he collaborated with Creative Time and The Classical Theatre of Harlem to stage a site-specific presentation of Waiting for Godot in New Orleans. His work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Art Institute of Chicago; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; M+, Hong Kong; Magasin III, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of

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