Jupiter Miami is pleased to present Serenity Now, a solo exhibition of new works by New York-based artist Adam Himebauch (b.1983).
Throughout his career, Adam Himebauch has built quite the reputation as a prankster; first, as street artist ‘Hanksy’, then through his social media performance works Back to the Future and Never Ever Land. His persona, for better or worse, often precedes his paintings. For his forthcoming exhibition, Serenity Now, Himebauch’s stunt is that there is no stunt. Instead, he shocks us with the simplicity of a new series of monochromatic landscapes inspired by pre-urban Miami and a recent trip to Jamaica.
The monochromatic landscape is not a new subject for the artist. In 2020, Himebauch, who is self-taught, created a series of hyper saturated and highly rendered forest-scapes as a way to prove, mostly to himself, that he could paint. These paintings became the visual backbone of his performance work Back to the Future, which was an experiment in media time travel that manifested in a largely black and white instagram feed punctuated by these intensely vibrant paintings.
About the Artist:
Adam Himebauch (b. 1983) is a Manhattan-based artist who is best known for his multifaceted approach to painting and performance art. Since moving to New York from Wisconsin in 2011, Himebauch has become a fixture on the Lower East Side, where he first found success under the moniker Hanksy. Using a pseudonym inspired by the famous British street artist, Banksy, Himebauch embarked on a six-year-long performance that utilized irony and viral imagery to satirize American politics and popular culture in the public sphere.
Himebauch has had solo exhibitions at Gana Art, Ceysson & Bénétière (2024) Shin Gallery (2023) and Trotter&Sholer (2022). His work has been presented in several group shows, including those at Albertz Benda (2023), David Zwirner (2023), Trotter&Sholer (2019), GR Gallery (2019), Moberg Gallery (2019), and Agnes B. Galerie (2018), and his works are in numerous private collections worldwide. Himebauch has been profiled in the New York Times and Rolling Stone, among others, and is a founding partner of the restaurants Kiki’s and Forgtmenot on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. As a commercial artist, Himebauch collaborated with Comme des Garçons and Nike, among others. In 2019, Taschen named him one of the top illustrators in the world. The artist did not attend art school.