Ted gahl
Roam
25 MARCH – 7 MAY
Ted Gahl, Peponi’s Edge, 2026, Acrylic, casein, graphite, colored pencil, chalk on canvas, 91.4 x 121.9 cm
Dates
25 March – 7 May 2026
Location
VILLEPIN
53-55 Hollywood Road
Central, Hong Kong
At VILLEPIN, we are delighted to present Ted Gahl’s quietly arresting world. His paintings hold that rare, suspended moment in which recollection becomes image, and image becomes feeling. We invite viewers to step into this atmosphere of roaming and return, to encounter works that are at once deeply personal and universally familiar. In witnessing Gahl’s practice, one is reminded of how we move through life: carrying an interior world across shifting landscapes, remaining grounded even as everything around us seems to blur and re form. We welcome you to experience these paintings, and to find within them traces of your own journey.
“I collected my first work by Ted in 2021, when Villepin was a still a young gallery. At the time, I didn’t know him personally, but I fell in love with his world. His universe drew me in long before we ever spoke, and the more I lived with his work, the deeper I followed its quiet power. Eventually, I had the privilege of getting to know the person behind the paintings, and that relationship has only deepened my admiration. After presenting his work in our 2024 group exhibition, it is an honour to now dedicate a full exhibition to Ted, not only as one of the key artists of his generation, but as a companion whose vision has accompanied me since the very beginning of Villepin.”
Arthur de Villepin, Founder of VILLEPIN
Featured works
Ted Gahl, Beached (Blue Fish), 2025, Acrylic, casein, graphite, colored pencil on canvas, 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Ted Gahl, Rocks With Lichen, 2025, Acrylic, graphite, chalk, colored pencil on unstretched canvas, 134.6 x 162.6 cm
Ted Gahl, Goshen Weather, 2025, Acrylic, graphite, chalk, colored pencil on unstretched canvas, 132.1 x 154.9 cm
Ted Gahl, Sister, 2025, Acrylic, graphite, chalk, colored pencil on unstretched canvas , 139.7 x 174 cm
Ted Gahl, Quitting Time (Collinsville), 2025, Acrylic, casein, graphite, colored pencil, chalk on canvas, 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Ted Gahl, Untitled (Pétanque), 2026, Oil, Acrylic, casein, graphite, colored pencil on canvas, 101.6 x 91.44cm
ted gahl
Ted Gahl (b.1983) received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2006 and his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2010. Gahl has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Recent exhibitions include Duarte Sequeira, Seoul, South Korea, MAMOTH, London, UK; Harkawik, Los Angeles and New York; Sarah Brook, Los Angeles, CA; Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY; Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; Towards, Toronto, Canada; Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada; 56 Henry, New York, NY; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; Freddy, Harris, NY; Zach Feuer, New York, NY; RETROSPECTIVE, Hudson, NY; DODGE, New York, NY; Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, and ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; White Columns, New York, NY; Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA; Analog Diary, Beacon, NY; Lindon & Co, London, UK; S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE; Petzel, New York, NY, and Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, Cirrus gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Gahl is a 2022 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and lives and works between Queens, New York and Winsted, Connecticut.
