Visitors to the Manship Artists Residency will encounter David Hockney's work through a new lens, as the program positions reproduction as a driving principle across his six-decade career. Hockney Reproduction(s) gathers material that treats image-making technologies not as afterthoughts but as methods Hockney used to extend how his work could be seen and shared.
The exhibition, on view Fridays through Sundays, 1PM to 5PM, opens September 11 and closes October 18. Timed tickets are available on the Manship Artists Residency website, and the David Hockney Foundation (UK) supported the presentation so the public may attend free of charge.
On display are prints and books, multi-page faxes, photographs and more than ninety posters, selected to demonstrate the variety of media Hockney turned to when reproducing and circulating his images. The installation traces a sequence from mechanical copying devices to digital tools, highlighting photocopiers and fax machines alongside computers, iPhones, iPads and multi-screen video work as recurring resources in his practice.
The selection comes from the collection of Bing McGilvray, who conceived and implemented the show as the 2025 Manship Resident Artist, together with loans from private collectors and institutions including the David Hockney Foundation (UK) and Salts Mill, Yorkshire, UK. McGilvray, a friend of Hockney's for more than forty-five years, emphasises the artist's openness to new visual possibilities: "David was endlessly curious," he says, noting that Hockney pursued technologies for what they could show, not for fashion.
Although Hockney is often celebrated for painting and drawing, Manship's focus insists that reproduction was integral to his methods and ambitions. The exhibition presents those reproductive strategies as both a way to rethink individual works and as a means Hockney used to reach wider audiences during a career that spanned from 1937 to 2026.
