Perrotin New York is closing October with a three-artist presentation bringing together Izumi Kato, Nancy Graves and JR. The show opens on 28 October 2026 at the gallery's Lower East Side space at 130 Orchard Street and runs through 23 December, with the gallery open Tuesday to Saturday. The pairing is deliberately cross-generational. Kato, the Japanese painter born in 1969 in Shimane, is known for eerie, childlike figures with dark, penetrating eyes, painted not with brushes but directly with his hands — a technique rooted in his break with the formal academic training of his youth and in the animist beliefs of his upbringing, where every object is understood to hold a spirit. His figures hover between painting and sculpture, sometimes built from wood, stone or bound textiles. Graves (1939–1995) was a sculptor and painter whose giant Camels series made her, in 1969, the youngest artist ever given a solo show at the Whitney Museum, at 29. Her work moved between natural-history forms — fruits, plants, skeletal fragments arranged in precarious balance — and research-driven abstraction informed by satellite imagery and ancient artefacts. The Nancy Graves estate joined Perrotin's roster in 2025, and its inclusion here signals the gallery's renewed push behind her legacy. JR, the French artist, is known for monumental photographic interventions pasted across buildings and landscapes around the world, from favelas to border walls. Kato has shown with Perrotin across New York, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong over the past decade. Together, the three presentations make the exhibition part of a busy October turnover on the Lower East Side, where several galleries are mounting new programmes ahead of the winter season.