Pace Presents Li Hei Di's Year of Mud
Pace's New York gallery hosts new paintings by London-based artist Li Hei Di in her first solo show with the gallery there.
Updated on Nov. 7, 2026 in Fine Art
Pace presents the year of mud, an exhibition of new paintings by Li Hei Di, at its 540 West 25th Street gallery from November 6 through December 19. The show marks Li's first solo exhibition with Pace in New York, following her joining the gallery's program in 2024.
Why it matters
The paintings document a year of personal transformation and reckoning, presented as a continual process of discovery in which works and relationships unfold as visitors move through the space. A monograph documenting the exhibition will follow its close.
The exhibition runs from November 6 through December 19 at Pace's 540 West 25th Street gallery. No attendance, sales, or viewership figures have been reported, and the source does not indicate how the show will be received.
The players
Li Hei Di
A London-based artist whose new paintings are the subject of the exhibition, and who joined Pace's gallery program in 2024.
Pace Gallery
A New York gallery presenting the exhibition at its 540 West 25th Street location and publishing the accompanying monograph through Pace Publishing.
Tyler Blackwell
Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, who contributed a new text to the forthcoming monograph.
The details
The paintings are rendered in a rich palette, with forms surfacing, receding, and transforming gradually as the compositions reveal themselves. Pace Publishing will release a monograph following the close of the show, with a new text by Tyler Blackwell, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Timeline
November 6, 2026: Exhibition opens at Pace's 540 West 25th Street gallery.
December 19, 2026: Exhibition closes.
2024: Li Hei Di joined Pace's gallery program.
Market Landscape
Pace's practice of publishing a monograph after each show extends its catalogue-driven approach to exhibitions, situating Li's first New York solo presentation within the gallery's broader program. The forthcoming text by a museum curator places the work in an institutional frame that connects the gallery and museum sectors.
Visitors can see the paintings in person at Pace's 540 West 25th Street gallery through December 19, 2026. The forthcoming monograph will offer a printed record of the exhibition for those who cannot attend.
The takeaway
The exhibition shows how an artist's new body of work can be read as a continuous process, with meaning arising from movement through the gallery rather than from any single canvas. Visitors who want to revisit the ideas after the show can look for the monograph Pace will publish.
What happens next
The exhibition closes December 19, 2026, after which Pace Publishing will release the monograph documenting the show.
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Source note: This article includes information reported by Artdaily.
