VIEWING ROOM
DANIEL KINGERY
(Self-Portrait — Caravaggio), 2025
Oil and acrylic on linen
100 x 75 cm
Opening reception:
Wednesday 29 April 18.00 – 21.00
Photographs: Ivo Nedyalkov
The Viewing Room presents a focused selection of works by Daniel Kingery from the exhibition Through the Looking-Glass, originally shown in Sofia.
Kingery’s paintings revisit iconic book covers through precise oil renderings, each partially obscured by the reflective surface of a black smartphone. The device functions simultaneously as barrier and mirror, introducing a layer of mediation that shifts the act of viewing back onto the viewer and their surroundings.
The works engage with recognition, reproduction, and the conditions under which images are encountered today.
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Daniel Kingery (born 1980, Urbana, Illinois) is a painter living and working in New York.
Kingery’s practice engages with questions of representation, mediation, and authorship, often through the reworking of culturally charged images drawn from literature, music, and art history. His paintings frequently operate through strategies of concealment, reflection, and displacement, proposing forms of portraiture that resist direct access and fixed identity.
Educated at the University of Chicago and the Universität der Künste Berlin (class of Leiko Ikemura), Kingery has been active between the Berlin and New York art scenes for over two decades. His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States, including presentations at Pace Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Galerie Fridey Mickel, and Kosmetiksalon Babette.
Kingery’s practice engages with questions of representation, mediation, and authorship, often through the reworking of culturally charged images drawn from literature, music, and art history. His paintings frequently operate through strategies of concealment, reflection, and displacement, proposing forms of portraiture that resist direct access and fixed identity.
Educated at the University of Chicago and the Universität der Künste Berlin (class of Leiko Ikemura), Kingery has been active between the Berlin and New York art scenes for over two decades. His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States, including presentations at Pace Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Galerie Fridey Mickel, and Kosmetiksalon Babette.
2024
Oil and acrylic on linen
100 x 70 cm
2025
Oil and acrylic on linen
100 x 75 cm
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100 x 75 cm
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