Berry Campbell has opened a survey of Elaine de Kooning's painting in New York, the first major solo presentation of the artist's work since the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition of 2015–2016. The show opened on 29 October and runs at the Chelsea gallery until 19 December 2026.

The exhibition spans four decades, from 1948 to 1988, gathering works that trace de Kooning's development from her early abstractions through the portraiture and landscape-inflected paintings of her later career. At its centre stands California, a painting made between 1958 and 1960 that stretches eleven feet wide and anchors the gallery's main space.

A reception marked the opening on 29 October, and the gallery has scheduled further programming around the show, including a lecture by the artist Denise Lassaw on 31 October and a panel discussion on 19 November. The events underline the gallery's aim to place de Kooning's achievement in conversation with the artists and writers who knew her work first hand. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, and the gallery presents it as the most substantial look at her painting in New York in a decade.

Elaine de Kooning, who lived from 1918 to 1989, was a central figure in the New York School, known for gestural portraits and abstractions painted with a speed and directness that set her apart from her contemporaries. The Berry Campbell show is the gallery's attempt to give that career the sustained attention it has rarely received in a commercial setting, presenting the full arc of a practice that ran from the late 1940s to the final years of her life.