Robert Longo The Weight of Hope Upcoming Sep 10 – Oct 25, 2025 New York Taking over Pace’s entire 540 West 25th Street gallery this fall, Robert Longo will present a monumental exhibition—organized in collaboration with the Milwaukee Art Museum and curated by Margaret Andera, the institution’s Senior Curator of Contemporary Art—across the flagship’s first, second, third, and seventh floors. Read More The show will include large-scale hyper realistic drawings, films, and studies, including private and institutional loans, created between 2014 and 2025. Titled The Weight of Hope, this presentation will showcase the artist’s enduring engagement with social and political happenings in his work across mediums, drawing inspiration from news photography and images of protests, civil unrest, and war on the Internet. Over the past decade, Longo has increasingly turned his focus to images from American media, including coverage of the January 6 United States Capitol attack and the Black Lives Matter movement. His upcoming exhibition with Pace in New York follows the Milwaukee Art Museum’s presentation of Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History from October 2024 to February 2025. Read More Photography © Martin Kunze About the ArtistRobert Longo lived and works in New York. He received a BFA from State University of New York College at Buffalo, in 1975. Important one-artist exhibitions of his work include Robert Longo: the Freud drawings, Haus Lange/Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany, which traveled to The Albertina Museum Vienna (2003); Robert Longo: The Capitol Project, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2013); Robert Longo: The Destroyer Cycle, Metro Pictures, New York (2017); Robert Longo: Storm of Hope: Law & Disorder, Palm Springs Art Museum, California (2021); Robert Longo Drawings: Engines of State, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2023); Robert Longo, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2024), which traveled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2025); and Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (2024–2025).Learn More EXHIBITION DETAILSRobert LongoThe Weight of HopeSep 10 – October 25, 2025Above: Robert Longo, Untitled (Ascending Flag), 2023 © Robert Longo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. GALLERY540 West 25th StreetNew York CONNECT (opens in a new window) @robert_longo_studio (opens in a new window) @pacegallery Journal View All Films Across the River: Li Hei Di’s Painted Explorations of Selfhood May 23, 2025 Films The Intimacies of Drawing: Joan Jonas and Adam Pendleton in Conversation May 23, 2025 Films How Alicja Kwade Traps Time in Her Monumental Exhibition “Telos Tales” May 23, 2025 Films Artists on Artists: Robert Longo x Robert Irwin May 22, 2025 Overview About the Artist Exhibition Details Journal