Brooklyn-based painter Donyel Ivy-Royal opens his debut solo exhibition with Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea on 5 November, less than a year after joining the gallery's roster. Titled By the time the rain comes, we will be home, the show follows his move from working behind the scenes at the gallery as an art handler to exhibiting on its walls.

Ivy-Royal, born in Portland, Oregon in 1993, paints the world closest to him: street corners, vintage cars, his family's home. He builds those everyday subjects into large, layered paintings, treating each one, in his own phrase, as a monument in its own right. His practice reaches across painting, photography, music, poetry and installation, shaped by the do-it-yourself music and art communities he came up in.

The Chelsea show is his first solo presentation with Jack Shainman, which announced his representation in January 2026. He had previously shown in the gallery's group exhibition at The School in Kinderhook, and held his first New York solo show, A flower in the ending, at David Peter Francis earlier this year. In 2025 he curated Garvey Flag, an art show at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.

The opening coincides with his selection for the Artsy Vanguard 2027, Artsy's ninth annual list of ten emerging artists to watch, chosen from more than 900 nominations submitted by galleries around the world. This year the list also introduces the first Artsy Vanguard Acquisition Prize with the Brooklyn Museum, which will bring one of the ten artists' works into the museum's permanent collection, with the winner to be announced on 13 November.