Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich is hosting Josh Smith's eighth solo exhibition with the gallery, a presentation centred on his Destiny series of 2025 paintings and on view through December 11. The new body of work follows a Grim Reaper figure astride a bicycle through a succession of New York locations, an unlikely pairing of the macabre and the everyday that has become one of the artist's most recognizable recent motifs. Smith's process behind the series moves from photography through digital collage to canvas, translating found and staged imagery into paintings built in the long hours of the night. In conversation, he has described suffering in the studio as simply normal, a frank account of a working method that is deliberately laborious and physical. The resulting canvases carry both the speed of their photographic sources and the drag of hand-painted gesture, the Reaper rendered at once comic and unsettling against the grain of the city. The Zurich show extends a long relationship between Smith and Presenhuber, whose gallery has presented his work across two decades and eight exhibitions. Smith's profile has broadened in recent years beyond painting: he released a self-titled debut album in August 2025, and his work is held in major collections including the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art and The Broad. Destiny continues Smith's habit of building a show around a single, insistently repeated image, tested until it gives way to something unexpected. The Grim Reaper, pedalling through New York with deadpan persistence, becomes a vehicle for the artist's abiding interests in seriality, mortality and the strange pleasure of making the same thing over and over until it turns strange.