After-Hours: People Who Work Here
Curated by Grace Paola Halio, Jessica Palinski Hoos, and Haley Darya Parsa
June 20—July 19, 2024
After-Hours: People Who Work Here was on view at David Zwirner’s West 19th Street gallery during the summer of 2024. The exhibition brought together more than sixty artists from multiple departments across the gallery’s global locations, presenting a vast range of media, including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, textile work, installation, video, sound, and sculpture. This exhibition marks the third and largest iteration of the People Who Work Here series, which showcases the work of artists on staff at the gallery and debuted in 2012.
The artists featured in After-Hours interweave their creative practices with their day-to-day roles at the gallery, opening a portal between these parallel types of labor. The exhibition explores the exchange of energy between being an artist and an arts worker, laying bare the vibrant collaborative ecosystem of the contemporary art world.
The exhibition invited viewers to appreciate the depth and breadth of creativity that exists within the David Zwirner community and affirmed the idea that art is not confined to the studio or the exhibition space but is woven into the fabric of life itself.
After-Hours: People Who Work Here was curated by gallery staff members Grace Paola Halio, Jessica Palinski Hoos, and Haley Darya Parsa.
Installation views by Chase Barnes and Kerry McFate; courtesy David Zwirner.