"Horizons", Perrotin Los Angeles, 2026

Horizons, JR’s first solo exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles, brings together four ongoing global projects realised across California — in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tehachapi, and along the U.S.–Mexico border near Tecate. Since 2011, JR has repeatedly returned to the state, installing large-scale photographic interventions across its varied terrains. Together, the works reflect JR's enduring engagement with visibility and community, using perspective to collapse distance and render visible what is often invisible.

The exhibition includes two works from The Wrinkles of the City, Los Angeles (2011), in which JR's large-scale portraits of elderly people, pasted across the facades of buildings throughout the city, animate its architecture with the faces of those who have long inhabited it.

Three works from Kikito (2017) document JR's monumental image of a toddler peering over the border wall in Tecate, Mexico. After the installation, JR invited communities on both sides of the border to gather for a picnic, its tablecloth bearing the eyes of Mayra, a Dreamer living in the United States, transforming the wall into a temporary site of encounter.

The exhibition also features The Chronicles of San Francisco (2018), a monumental composite portrait of over 1,200 city residents, created with JR’s traveling photo booth that visited 21 neighborhoods. First exhibited at SFMOMA in 2019, the work draws on the tradition of Diego Rivera's murals to compose a collective portrait of a city in motion. 

From Tehachapi (2022), two works capture JR's ongoing collaboration with incarcerated men at the California Correctional Institution. Working alongside incarcerated individuals and staff, JR transformed the prison yard into a space of collective labor and shared visibility, while wheat-pasting a trompe l'œil road across a new housing unit, and gathering participants around a closing picnic.

Alongside the series, video screenings share behind-the-scenes footage from certain installations. Horizons is on view until April 25, 2026, at Perrotin’s Los Angeles gallery. 

Learn more about Horizons at Perrotin.