Jenny Saville will be the subject of a major new exhibition at Venice’s International Gallery of Modern Art at Ca’ Pesaro, opening March 28, 2026 and running through November 22, 2026, alongside the 61st Venice Biennale. The show will feature around 30 paintings spanning her career from the 1990s to the present, including seminal works like *Hyphen* (1999) and *Reverse* (2002–13), and will conclude with a new series created in homage to Venice. The exhibition is curated by Ca’ Pesaro director Elisabetta Barisoni and supported by Gagosian.
The exhibition matters because it marks Saville’s first major show in Venice, placing her in dialogue with the city’s Venetian Old Masters such as Titian and Tintoretto, whose influence is evident in her work. Saville, a leading figure among the Young British Artists, has achieved record auction prices—her painting *Propped* sold for $12.4 million in 2018, the highest for a living woman artist at the time—and this show reinforces her status as a modern master of figuration. It also highlights the ongoing synergy between contemporary art and historic institutions during the Venice Biennale.