David Zwirner will present Napoleon and Wild Flowers, an exhibition of work by British artist Rose Wylie, at its Hong Kong space from 24 November 2026, with an opening reception on Tuesday 24 November from 5 to 7pm. The show runs until 6 March 2027 and marks Wylie's ninth solo exhibition with the gallery and her second in Hong Kong. The gallery is at 5-6/F, H Queen's, 80 Queen's Road Central.

The presentation brings together new and recent canvases, a historical painting, multipanel works and works on paper, all in Wylie's bold, immediately recognisable manner: large, loosely painted compositions that mix observation, memory and sly humour, and meditate on the nature of visual representation itself.

The Hong Kong show follows a remarkable year for the 92-year-old painter: her largest-ever survey, Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and a solo exhibition, Henri, Egypt...Bette, Bear, at David Zwirner Paris. She has been represented by the gallery since 2017, and her previous Hong Kong solo show with the gallery, painting a noun..., was presented in January 2020.

Wylie studied at the Folkestone and Dover School of Art and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1981, and held her first solo exhibition in 1985 at the Trinity Arts Centre in Kent. She came to wide attention only in her late seventies, and her work is now held by museums including Tate, the Hammer Museum and the High Museum of Art. Her earlier solo presentations include the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia, the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, and the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, where she held her first solo museum presentation in the United States in 2020.