MASSIMODECARLO has opened 'The Studio', a solo exhibition by American painter Jonathan Gardner at its London space, on view from 12 October to 18 December 2026. For the show, Gardner takes the artist's studio itself as his subject: rooms within rooms, paintings within paintings, built in equal parts from memory, imagination and art history. Gardner is known for stylised, dreamlike interiors that turn the oldest subjects in art — the nude, the still life, the landscape — into invented scenes, at once intimate and archetypal. The new body of work extends his long-standing investigation of how paintings stage their own making, with invented interiors that fold the space of creation into the space of the picture. Born in 1982 in Lexington, Kentucky, Gardner lives and works in New York. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Almine Rech in London and Paris, Casey Kaplan in New York and Jason Haam in Seoul, and he received the Prix Jean-François Prat in 2017. His paintings are held in public collections including LACMA and the Daegu Art Museum. The London opening is one of three launches across the gallery's spaces this week, alongside Dominique Fung's first Italian solo show in Milan and Giorgio Griffa's first solo exhibition in Asia in Hong Kong. Together, the three openings give the autumn programme a deliberately international shape — an American painter in London, a Canadian artist of Chinese descent showing drawings for the first time in Milan, and an Italian master surveying five decades in Hong Kong — reflecting the gallery's footing across three continents. MASSIMODECARLO's London space at 55 South Audley Street has increasingly focused on emerging American voices, and 'The Studio' continues that line: a painter's painter exhibition, built around the oldest subjects in art and the rooms in which they get made.