Hilary Pecis
Growth#38
Egon investment scores
Liquidity
7/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
6/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
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Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Market position
- Pricing
- 2025 2026 Current
- By Type
- Works on paper / small early works $20,000-100,000; mid-size (54 x 44 in.) c. $205,000; large evening-sale scale (74 x 100 in.) high six figures; Crown Point Press aquatint edition of 30 published at $7,500
- Range USD
- 90,000-743,000 at auction (2025 - H1 2026)
- Commentary
- The realized band has compressed sharply from the 2022-2024 band of $50,000-1,260,000. No seven-figure result since November 2024.
- Primary Market 2026
- Editions
- Crown Point Press 'Lemons and Camellias' (2025), color aquatint and sugar-lift aquatint, edition of 30, published at $7,500 (listed unavailable) - entry point c. $5,000-10,000 for prints
- Access Note
- Primary pricing is gallery-controlled and generally undisclosed; works are allocated from waitlists. Contact David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles/New York) or Timothy Taylor (London) for current primary pricing.
- Art Basel June 2026
- 'Cat House' (2026) sold by David Kordansky Gallery for $205,000 - the clearest current primary benchmark for a new large painting
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- Price Ranges by Period
- 2021
- Work: Backyard View (2018); Notes: Sotheby's Contemporary Day Sale - 17x over estimate; Chinese collectors driving force; Realized: £340,000; Low Estimate: £20,000
- 2022
- Range USD: 50,000-1,252,167; Notable Works: Fish and Bird achieved $1.25M record
- 2023-2024
- Trend: Consistently exceeding estimates; strong demand at both primary and secondary market; Range USD: 60,000-700,000
- 2024-2025 Current
- Trend: Record-matching performance; institutional quality works commanding premium prices; Range USD: 60,000-1,260,000
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- Liquidity
- Good and two-sided: 8-12 lots per year, all three major houses, three geographies, high sell-through and real depth at $100k-$300k. Depth above roughly $700k is unproven since 2024.
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- Auction History
- Work
- Wine at J's (2020)
- Notes
- Matched previous record; acrylic on canvas, 76 x 64 in.
- Buy Ins
- No specific bought-in lots identified for 2025-2026 in sources consulted; both Hong Kong March 2026 evening sales in which her work appeared were 100%-sold white-glove auctions.
- Sale Date
- November 21, 2024
- Amount USD
- $1,260,000
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- Auction House
- Christie's New York
- Auction Volume
- Active Period
- 2020-present with significant market acceleration
- Askart Database
- 44 auction lots (40 sold)
- Price Range Overall
- $10,547 - $1,260,000 USD
- Total Lots Recorded
- 63+ auction lots
- Previous Record
- Work
- Fish and Bird (2019)
- Notes
- 50 x 40 in. acrylic on canvas; Property of an Important Private Collector
- Sale Date
- March 2, 2022
- Amount USD
- $1,252,167
- Auction House
- Sotheby's
- Sales 2025 2026
Work Date Venue Note Estimate Poppies (2019), acrylic on canvas, 42 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. 2025-05-16 Sotheby's New York, Contemporary Day Auction — $120,000-180,000 Studio Study (2015) 2025-07-30 Rago Arts and Auction Center Early work at a regional house $20,000-30,000 Coffee Table (2020) 2025-09-28 Sotheby's Hong Kong, Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction — HK$2,400,000-4,000,000 Studio Vases (2022), acrylic on linen, 137.2 x 111.8 cm 2025-10-17 Sotheby's Settled inside the estimate band - a normalised, non-speculative result $201,510-268,680 Untitled (Lily Pads) (2020), 24 x 20 in. 2025-11-19 Sotheby's Catalogued as 'Property from a Prestigious Private Collector'; result not published in sources consulted Cactus Blooms (2017) 2025-11-21 Phillips Well above high estimate - small/early works still clear estimates comfortably $40,000-60,000 Inside/Outside (2020), acrylic on canvas, 188 x 254 cm (74 x 100 in.) 2026-03-27 Christie's Hong Kong, 20th/21st Century Evening Sale — Fish and Bird (2019), acrylic on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm 2026-03-28 Christie's Hong Kong — Cactus Blooms (2017) 2026-07-16 per Artnet listing (auction closed) — Untitled (2008), acrylic, spray paint and printed paper collage on paper, 9 x 11 in. 2026-07-17 Christie's Pre-painting collage-period material now reaching the block - typically a late-cycle supply signal - Volume and Depth
- Artnet shows 63 auction results (54 paintings, 12 works on paper). Roughly 8-12 lots per year across Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips plus regional houses, in New York, London and Hong Kong. Our internal database records 3 settled lots since 2025 at 100% sell-through; the historical AskArt figure of 44 lots / 40 sold implies long-run sell-through near 90%.
- Fair Participation
- Paris+ par Art Basel (2022)Art Basel Hong Kong (2025) - new editions with Pace Prints
- Record Status 2026
- Auction record remains 'Wine at J's' (2020), $1,260,000, Christie's New York, 21 Nov 2024. Artsy lists the high auction record as US$1.3m, Christie's 2024. No 2025-2026 result has approached it.
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- Market Characteristics
- Liquidity
- High - regular appearance at major auction houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips)
- Primary Market
- Sold-out solo exhibitions at Timothy Taylor London (2021), Rachel Uffner Gallery (2020)
- Price Trajectory
- Rapidly ascending - works regularly exceeding estimates by 200-600%
- Geographic Strength
- Strong in Asia (China, Hong Kong), US, UK
- Collector Demographics
- Chinese collectors notable driving force; US institutional collectors; Important Private Collectors category
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- Recent Notable Sales 2024 2025
Work Date Result USD Venue Notes Estimate Wine at J's November 21, 2024 $1,260,000 Christie's New York More than three times low estimate $400,000-600,000 Record Collection February 27, 2024 $700,000 Sotheby's Los Angeles (Iovine and Young Center Benefit) 600% above low estimate; star lot of sale $100,000-150,000 Clementine's Bookshelf (2021) November 20, 2024 Sotheby's 74 x 64 in. acrylic on linen $300,000-500,000 Crestline Sunset (2019) May 17, 2024 Christie's 30 x 24 in. $60,000-80,000
- Market Position
- Collector Base
- Originally driven hard by Chinese and Hong Kong buyers - now the principal concentration risk, since the 2026 loss-making resales occurred there. Named US collector activity: George Frederick Mead Merck (bought Flea Market from Timothy Taylor and gifted it to the National Gallery of Art); the Scantland Collection (Columbus Museum of Art); unnamed LA-based collectors who donated 'Red Tulips' to the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum. She featured in Artsy's 2025 collector watch round-up alongside Lesley Vance, Lucy Bull and Christina Quarles.
- Assessment 2026
- A cooling, normalising secondary market sitting on top of durable primary demand. Primary: allocated/waitlisted shows, top-10 placement on Artsy's most-in-demand ranking for 2025, a clean $205,000 fair sale in June 2026. Secondary: the 2021-2024 speculative repricing has partially unwound, and the unwind is concentrated in Hong Kong - the same market that drove the original spike.
- Peer Comparables Art Basel 2026
- On the same Kordansky stand: Jonas Wood $1.5m and $450,000; Sam Gilliam $1m-1.25m; Rashid Johnson $525,000-575,000; Shara Hughes $425,000-475,000; Jenna Gribbon $250,000; Mary Weatherford $250,000; Hilary Pecis $205,000; Lucy Bull $125,000-175,000; Sayre Gomez $125,000-175,000; Lesley Vance $110,000. Pecis sits mid-pack: well below Wood, at or just below Hughes/Gribbon, above Bull/Gomez/Vance.
- Investment Outlook
- Neutral-to-cautious near term, constructive long term. Gallery-level price discipline appears to be holding while the secondary market repriced downward from its peak; one flagship work has now demonstrated a 79% drawdown. Buyers should treat the $1.26m record as a cycle high rather than a level, and should weight Kordansky/Timothy Taylor provenance heavily given there is no catalogue raisonne.
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Institutional presence
- Upcoming
- No museum solo exhibition announced for late 2026 or 2027 in sources consulted. Nearest forward-looking commitments are commercial: the Zwirner-hosted Molesworth group show (to Aug 1, 2026) and continuing fair presentations with David Kordansky Gallery.
- Exhibitions
- Assessment
- International REACH is genuine (China, Korea, Italy, Greece, UK) but is carried almost entirely by group exhibitions and commercial galleries. The only institutional solo outside the US is TAG Art Museum, Qingdao (2023), a privately founded Chinese museum; the only US museum solo is at a small college museum (Crisp-Ellert, 2019/2020). There is no first-rank museum-originated solo exhibition and no retrospective.
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- Group Exhibition Additions
Title Year Venue Location California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version) 2026 David Zwirner, 606 N Western Ave Los Angeles Dine In 2025 Buffalo AKG Art Museum Buffalo, NY Map Reading of Painting 2024 Daegu Art Museum Daegu, Korea Day for Night: New American Realism 2024 Palazzo Barberini, organized by the Aishti Foundation Rome, Italy A Journey 2023 Yuz Museum Shanghai, China The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions 2023 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. - Solo and Two Person Additions
Title Year Dates Venue Location Notes Love Letters 2026 May 16 - June 20, 2026 David Kordansky Gallery Los Angeles, CA New acrylic-on-linen paintings including 'Medals' (77 x 92 in.), 'Pool' (92 x 77 in.), 'Picnic' (92 x 77 in.), 'Studio Tulips' (44 x 34 in.), 'Mt. Shasta' (2025) and 'N. Las Palmas Ave.' (2025). Subjects include a friend's studio window, the signage of a Bay Area yacht club, and medals from the artist's own races. Wandering 2025 June 12 - July 19, 2025 Timothy Taylor London, UK CORRECTION: our existing record gave the closing date as July 26; Artsy and Hypebeast both give July 19. Second London solo; accompanied by a public conversation with Katy Hessel. Works included 'Hotel Pool', 'Creek Egret', 'Flat File', 'Silverlake Hillside' and 'Book Vendor'. Solo presentation of new editions 2025 on view through January 7, 2026 Crown Point Press San Francisco, CA — Nostos (two-person with Lily Stockman) 2023 Nov 9, 2023 - Jan 27, 2024 Gagosian Athens, Greece Loosely inspired by Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey. A gallery exhibition; it does not indicate Gagosian representation. - Major Group Exhibitions Recent
Title Year Venue Location Map Reading of Painting 2024 Daegu Art Museum Korea Day for Night: New American Realism 2024 Palazzo Barberini, organized by Aïshti Foundation Rome, Italy A Journey 2023 Yuz Museum Shanghai, China The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions 2023 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. 13 Women: Variation I 2022-2023 Orange County Museum of Art Costa Mesa, CA Common Ground: UCCA 15th Anniversary Patrons Collection Exhibition 2022 UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Beijing, China Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined 2022 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection 2021 Columbus Museum of Art Ohio FEEDBACK 2021 The School at Jack Shainman Gallery Kinderhook, NY - Group Exhibition Additions Meta
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- Publications
- Monograph
- Isbn
- 9781941366400
- Notes
- The artist's first monograph; collects more than 50 works painted between 2017 and 2021. A trade art-book monograph rather than a museum-published scholarly catalogue. No catalogue raisonne exists.
- Pages
- 144
- Title
- Hilary Pecis
- Publisher
- Gregory R. Miller & Company
- List Price USD
- $50
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- Museum Collections
Institution Credit Line Tier National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of George Frederick Mead Merck First-rank Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) credit line not published in sources consulted First-rank (US encyclopedic) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) credit line not published in sources consulted First-rank (US modern/contemporary) Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio credit line not published in sources consulted Strong regional US museum Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL credit line not published; the representing gallery describes it as a gift from LA-based collectors College museum Yuz Museum, Shanghai (Budi Tek) — Private museum - not counted as a first-rank public accession Aishti Foundation, Beirut — Private foundation - not a museum acquisition for scoring purposes; organized 'Day for Night: New American Realism' at Palazzo Barberini, Rome (2024) Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing — Private museum, China Zhuzhong Museum, Beijing — Private museum, China UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing — Non-accessioning centre; work shown in 'Common Ground: UCCA 15th Anniversary Patrons Collection Exhibition' (2022) - Awards and Recognition
- Note
- No new competitive prize, fellowship or biennial invitation identified for 2025-2026. The 2008 San Francisco Arts Commission Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship remains the only competitive award of record.
- Additions
- Artsy '10 Most In-Demand Artists on Artsy in 2025' (18 Dec 2025) - platform-data demand validation
- Master-class faculty for advanced painters, Anderson Ranch Arts Center
- Charitable edition: hand-painted ceramic amphora with Timothy Taylor in support of charity: water
- Collections Assessment
- Every credit line we could actually retrieve is a GIFT from a private individual or collector group. No 'Purchase, [X] Fund' and no acquisitions-committee purchase has been located for any Pecis holding at any institution. Her strongest line - the National Gallery of Art - was bought at a commercial gallery by a collector and given to the museum within the year. This is offered-and-accepted collecting rather than curatorial initiation, and it materially tempers any reading of her institutional standing as first-rank validated. Chinese holdings are concentrated in privately founded museums, which do not count as public-collection depth.
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Career & Biography
- Career
- Working Method
- Takes reference photos on phone during daily runs, commutes, and travels. Sketches composition onto canvas, then builds up with large swaths of saturated color before adding details. Works tentatively, often moving between multiple paintings. Uses Nova Color acrylic paint, a local Culver City brand. Describes process as slowing down to really see moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
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Year Event 2023 Two-person exhibition 'Nostos' with Lily Stockman at Gagosian, Athens (Nov 9, 2023 - Jan 27, 2024) - an EXHIBITION, not a representation change 2025 Second Timothy Taylor London solo, 'Wandering' (June 12 - July 19, 2025); public conversation with art historian Katy Hessel on the occasion 2025 Solo presentation of new intaglio editions at Crown Point Press, San Francisco, on view through January 7, 2026 2025 Named to Artsy's '10 Most In-Demand Artists on Artsy in 2025' (published 18 Dec 2025) 2026 Solo exhibition 'Love Letters', David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, May 16 - June 20, 2026, concurrent with Evan Holloway's 'ROYGBIV' 2026 Included in 'California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version)', organized by Helen Molesworth, David Zwirner, Los Angeles, June 4 - Aug 1, 2026 2026 Presented at Art Basel (Basel), June 2026, by David Kordansky Gallery; 'Cat House' (2026) reported sold for $205,000 - Working Method Update
- Continues to work from her own reference photographs of friends' homes and studios, streets and landscapes. In a 2025 interview she described representing spatial recession by shrinking pattern scale rather than by muting or blending colour, and said she rarely lets colours blend into one another on the canvas - an explicit statement of her flat-fill, hard-contour system. She also described a more paced studio routine, and likens distance running (the subject of the 2026 painting 'Medals') to the endurance of painting.
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- Identity
- Gender
- Female
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- Nationality
- American
- Personal Life
- Married to artist Andrew Schoultz; one child born 2012. Grew up in Redding, California with two siblings to civil servant parents who encouraged creativity. Influenced early by PBS show 'The Secret City Adventures' with Mark Kistler.
- Age As of 2026
- 47 (b. 1979, Fullerton, California); described in Artsy's December 2025 feature as 46 at that time
- Current Location
- Los Angeles, California (Frogtown/Elysian Valley studio)
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- Artistic Evolution
- Early career focused on maximalist abstract collages using paper, magazine scraps, spray paint, and digital elements during graduate school. After 2014 move to Los Angeles, transitioned to painting focusing on still lifes and landscapes. Working methods involve photographing scenes on phone during daily activities, then translating to canvas with acrylic paint, prioritizing memory and vibrancy over photographic accuracy.
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- Artistic Context
- Peer Context
- Situated among LA-based representational painters - Jonas Wood, Lily Stockman, Sayre Gomez, Lucy Bull, Shara Hughes, Jenna Gribbon - several sharing the Kordansky roster and appearing beside her in the same fair-sales reports and collector watch lists.
- Influences Confirmed
- Henri MatisseDavid HockneyPierre BonnardAndre DerainGabriele MunterErnst Ludwig KirchnerEdouard VuillardRoy De ForestJoan Brown
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Artistic Profile
- Style
- Absence of human figures - 'portraits without people'Exaggerated, vibrant colors that exceed photographic realityLayering of patterns and texturesFlattened picture plane with surprising spatial juxtapositionsObjects as signifiers of identity and aspirationCalifornia light as defining characteristic
- Evolution
- Early Period 2006 2014
- Abstract maximalist collages using paper, magazine scraps, spray paint, ink, glitter, digital elements. Conceptually-driven, theoretical.
- Transitional 2014 2017
- Move to Los Angeles catalyzed shift to painting. Smaller scale works depicting immediate surroundings. Focus on direct observation over theory.
- Mature Period 2017 Present
- Confident synthesis of still life and landscape traditions with contemporary sensibility. Increasing scale. Expansion from domestic interiors to public spaces. Integration of memory with observation.
- Influences
- Artistic Influences Stated
- Henri Matisse and FauvismDavid HockneyPierre BonnardAndré DerainWayne ThiebaudAgnes MartinGabriele MünterErnst Ludwig KirchnerCalifornia Funk and Pop artRoy De Forest
- Themes and Subjects
- Identity through objects and spacesQuotidian beauty and overlooked momentsSouthern California light and aestheticMemory and perceptionDomestic intimacy without human figuresTime and temporality in everyday life
- Movements and Periods
- Positioning 2026
- Contemporary observational painting reworking the still-life and landscape traditions through Fauvist colour and post-Pop flatness. Helen Molesworth's 2026 grouping situates her within a 21st-century reading of California Light and Space, which reframes her work as a Californian light-and-perception project rather than purely a domestic-still-life one.
- Primary Subjects
- Still lifes of domestic interiorsLandscape paintings (Southern California)Urban streetscapes (Los Angeles)Floral arrangementsPersonal objects (books, records, art)Public spaces (storefronts, markets, street vendors)
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- Technical Characteristics
- Brand
- Nova Color (Culver City-based)
- Medium
- Primarily acrylic on canvas/linen
- Composition
- Flattened perspectives, geometric patterning, bold linework
- Scale Range
- Small intimate works to large-scale paintings (up to 100+ inches)
- Color Palette
- Saturated, vivid colors; Fauvist intensity
- Surface Quality
- Distinct flatness achieved through acrylic; textural mark-making
- Art Historical Positioning
- Contemporary reinterpretation of still life and landscape traditions through Fauvist color sensibility and post-Pop flatness. Bridges modernist formal concerns with contemporary subject matter. Part of broader LA contemporary painting scene alongside artists working in observational realism with heightened palette.
- Critical Reception of Style
- Praised for 'kaleidoscopic compositions,' 'jubilant energy,' ability to make viewers 'feel seen' through recognition of curated domestic signifiers. Critics note sophisticated color relationships and pattern integration. Work described as both 'casual comfort' and meticulously composed.
- Techniques and Mediums
- Acrylic on canvas and linen (Nova Color); watercolour and graphite on paper; aquatint and sugar-lift aquatint editions; painted ceramic. Flat opaque fills, hard contours, no glazing or impasto, matte finish.
- Fingerprint Verification
- Additions
- Watercolour and works on paper are a real secondary body (e.g. 'Angeles Crest', watercolour, 12 1/4 x 9 in.); 12 of 63 auction lots are works on paper
- Printmaking is now substantive: colour aquatint and sugar-lift aquatint with Crown Point Press (2025), plus Pace Prints and Cirrus editions
- Ceramics: a hand-painted amphora edition (2025, charity: water) - first documented three-dimensional output
- Studio scale has settled into repeatable formats: 92 x 77 in. and 74 x 64 in. for major paintings; 54 x 44 in. and 44 x 34 in. for mid-size
- Confirmed
- Flatness, planarity and a compressed picture plane - CONFIRMED by the artist herself in a 2025 interview: she conveys recession by shrinking pattern scale rather than by tonal modulation, and rarely blends colours into one another on the surface
- Saturated, complementary and warm palettes; hard contour drawing; uniform matte surface
- Themes of domestic life, still-life objects and the everyday; intimate, joyful, playful mood register
- Representational, Decorative and Pop registers; Contemporary / 2010-present bracket
- Absence of figures and the 'occupied absence' reading - the 2026 'Love Letters' works are explicitly portraits-by-proxy of specific people through their objects and places
- Disagreements with Fingerprint
- MEDIUM ERROR: the fingerprint tags 'oil' (2 of 11 tier-1 images) and its per-axis narrative repeatedly says 'oil on canvas' and 'opaque flat-fill oil paint'. Every verified source - David Kordansky Gallery, Timothy Taylor, Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, and Colossal's 2026 checklist - records ACRYLIC on canvas or linen (Nova Color brand). The oil attribution should be corrected across the fingerprint.
- 'Naive rendering' and 'self-taught directness' mischaracterise the work: she holds a BFA (2006) and MFA (2009) from California College of the Arts, and the flatness is a deliberate, articulated spatial system rather than naivete.
- 'No visible brushwork' is too absolute - the flat fills carry textural mark-making and dense internal patterning.
- Recent Subject Expansion
- The 2025-2026 work moves further outdoors and further from her own home: hotel pools, creeks and egrets, Mt. Shasta, Silverlake hillsides, N. Las Palmas Ave., a Bay Area yacht club sign, a book vendor's stall, a friend's studio window, and her own accumulated race medals. The still life increasingly functions as portraiture-by-inventory of other people's spaces.
- Signature Works Extension
- Cat House (2026)Medals (2026)Pool (2026)Picnic (2026)Studio Tulips (2026)Mt. Shasta (2025)N. Las Palmas Ave. (2025)Book Vendor (2025)Flat File (2025)Silverlake Hillside (2025)Inside/Outside (2020)Wine at J's (2020) - auction record workFish and Bird (2019)Flea Market (2021) - the National Gallery of Art work
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Critical Reception
- Academic Discourse
- Art-historical positioning is still journalistic: repeated placement in a Matisse-Hockney-Bonnard lineage and, as of 2026, into a 'California Light and Space, 21st-century version' framing by Helen Molesworth. No peer-reviewed or museum-authored scholarship located.
- Critical Reception
- Scholarly Gap
- Still no academic monograph, no museum-published scholarly catalogue and no catalogue raisonne. Serious writing continues to originate from gallery texts, market press and lifestyle media rather than from independent art-historical scholarship. This is the clearest structural limiter on her institutional standing, and it is unchanged since our last review.
- Update 2025 2026
- Coverage remains warm, high-volume and largely descriptive rather than scholarly. Hypebeast's June 2025 notice on 'Wandering' framed the paintings as a return to wonder and childlike curiosity, singling out 'Hotel Pool' and 'Creek Egret'. Colossal covered 'Love Letters' in May 2026. Artforum's coverage has framed the work around finding pattern in the everyday, and Juxtapoz has described her scenes as dioramas that expand and sprout detail, invoking Matisse and Hockney. Kordansky's 2026 curatorial text positions the new paintings as 'counterarguments against nihilism' - affection and connection as explicit subject matter. Coverage has also spread beyond the art press (Brian T. Allen, National Review, Aug 2024).
- Critical Consensus
- Widely praised for synthesis of Fauvist color, domestic intimacy, and contemporary Los Angeles aesthetic. Compared favorably to David Hockney, Wayne Thiebaud. Critics note her ability to elevate quotidian moments through vivid color and pattern, creating 'portraits without figures' that capture identity through objects and spaces.
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- Publications and Media
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Title Date Significance Publication What Sold at Art Basel 2026 2026-06-22 Documents her $205,000 primary fair price beside named peers Artsy Hilary Pecis Work Sells for $259,500 But Delivers a 79% Negative Return 2026-03-28 The most consequential market article of the cycle for this artist HENI News The 10 Most In-Demand Artists on Artsy in 2025, from David Lynch to Amy Sherald 2025-12-18 Demand validation on platform-inquiry data Artsy Hilary Pecis's 'Wandering' Brings Tender Vignettes to Timothy Taylor 2025-06 — Hypebeast Hilary Pecis Paints Saturated Snapshots of West Coast Life 2026-05 — Colossal Interview with Hilary Pecis 2025 Primary-source statement of her spatial method Emergent Magazine — 2024-08-01 — National Review Hilary Pecis - first monograph, 144 pp., works from 2017-2021 — — Gregory R. Miller & Company - Additions Meta
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- Books Catalogues
- Note
- Based on Sound & Vision podcast by Brian Alfred
- Year
- 2022
- Title
- Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work
- Editor
- Ananda Pellerin
- Publisher
- Atelier Éditions
- Major Publications
Title Date Author Publication 'She's Kind of Our David Hockney': How Hilary Pecis Set the Art World Aflutter With Charming Paintings of Life in Los Angeles June 10, 2021 Taylor Dafoe Artnet News — Summer 2017 Prudence Peiffer Artforum — 2020 Emmalea Russo Artforum Curtis Talwst Santiago / Hilary Pecis at Rachel Uffner 2018 Johanna Fateman The New Yorker Hilary Pecis's Rose-Tinted Los Angeles Is Not All Fantasy March 13, 2023 Jonathan Griffin Cultured Magazine 5 Reasons Why LA Is the Place To Be Right Now February 23, 2023 Jacoba Urist Cultured Magazine Hilary Pecis Captures the Layers of Los Angeles's Landscapes 2021 Nancy Gamboa Cultured Magazine Artists to Watch: Hilary Pecis 2023 Janelle Zara Galerie Magazine Hilary Pecis's Still Lifes Are Anything But Still 2024 Jen Wang Vogue Meet the Women of Frogtown, An Artist Community Like No Other 2022 — Vogue — August 1, 2024 Brian T. Allen National Review Snap Review: Hilary Pecis at The Pit 2019 Lee Purvey CARLA Hilary Pecis's 'Wandering' Brings Tender Vignettes to Timothy Taylor June 2025 — HYPEBEAST - Media Coverage Highlights
- Featured by major art publications consistently since 2017Profile pieces in lifestyle publications (Vogue) indicating crossover appealRegular coverage of exhibitions and market performanceDescribed as post-lockdown 'it painter' (2021)
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Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- 2025
- Art Basel Hong Kong (editions with Pace Prints)
- 2026
- Art Basel (Basel), June 2026, with David Kordansky Gallery - 'Cat House' (2026) reported sold at $205,000
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- Current 2026
Locations Gallery Status Tier Los Angeles, New York David Kordansky Gallery Primary; confirmed active - mounted 'Love Letters' (May 16 - June 20, 2026) and sold her work at Art Basel Basel in June 2026 Tier 1 London, New York Timothy Taylor Confirmed active; Artsy in Dec 2025 described Timothy Taylor explicitly as her representing gallery in London; mounted 'Wandering' (2025) Tier 1/2 - Print Publishers
- Pace PrintsCrown Point PressCirrus Gallery & Cirrus Editions
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- Gallery Evolution
Period Note Galleries 2011-2018 — Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco), Joshua Liner Gallery (New York), Halsey McKay Gallery 2018-2021 Period of accelerating recognition Rachel Uffner Gallery, Timothy Taylor, The Pit (Los Angeles) 2021-present Top-tier gallery representation established David Kordansky Gallery (primary), Timothy Taylor, others - Print Publishers Update
- Crown Point Press, San Francisco - new 2025 intaglio editions including 'Lemons and Camellias', edition of 30, published at $7,500; plus Pace Prints and Cirrus Editions.
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- Ben Brown Fine Arts (Hong Kong, London)Gagosian (Athens - featured work)
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- Clarification Gagosian and News Label
- CORRECTION TO OUR INTERNAL NEWS LABEL: the Dec 2025 item in our feed was provisionally tagged 'Gallery Move'. The quoted evidence says only that she mounted 'Wandering' in London with her representing gallery Timothy Taylor - that is an EXHIBITION, not a move. The quote wins; the label is wrong. Separately, Gagosian maintains an artist page for Pecis, which derives from the 2023 two-person show 'Nostos' at Gagosian Athens, not from representation. No change of representation has occurred: Kordansky and Timothy Taylor are both active as of mid-2026.
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- Geographic Reach
- US (Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Buffalo), UK (London), Greece (Athens), China (Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai), Korea, Italy, Switzerland (fair). Asia remains simultaneously her deepest demand pocket and her main secondary-market risk concentration - the 2026 loss-making resales were both in Hong Kong.
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