“Hockney Reproduction(s)” explores the artist’s innovation through reproductive media at the Manship Artists Residency. Opens September 11, 2026
David Hockney, “25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed)”, Photographic Drawing, © David Hockney, assisted by Jonathan Wilkinson
The Manship Artists Residency is proud to present Hockney Reproduction(s), an exhibition examining one of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, David Hockney (1937-2026). The exhibition explores Hockney’s six-decade fascination with reproducing, reimagining, transmitting, and sharing his work through emerging technologies. With prints, books, multi-page faxes, photographs, and over 90 posters, the show reveals how reproduction served as a central force that shaped the artist’s practice.
“I’ve always been interested in printing as a medium and also as a medium through which my work can be known — can reach a public. So, I’ve taken an interest in any technology to do with image-making: printing, cameras, reproduction itself. Lots of artists aren’t interested…but I am interested.”—David Hockney
Hockney Reproduction(s) brings together works from the collection of Bing McGilvray, other private collectors, and generous contributions from the David Hockney Foundation (UK), Salts Mill, Yorkshire, UK; and other friends. The exhibition reveals Hockney’s playful and persistent engagement with technologies ranging from photocopiers and fax machines to computers, iPhones, iPads, and multi-screen videos.
While Hockney is celebrated internationally for his paintings and drawings, this exhibition argues that reproduction was a through-line in his artistic life. He embraced new technologies not as replacements for traditional media but as opportunities to see differently, communicate in new ways, and reach a growing audience.
The exhibition was conceived and implemented by 2025 Manship Resident Artist Bing McGilvray, an artist, curator, writer, and Hockney’s friend of more than forty-five years. “David was endlessly curious,” says McGilvray. “Whenever a new technology appeared, he wasn’t interested in whether it was fashionable, he wanted to know what it could do visually. He saw uses for new technology that the inventors could not have imagined.”
Hockney Reproduction(s) will be open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (1PM – 5PM), from September 11 to October 18. Tickets for timed entry to the exhibition are available on the Manship Artists Residency website.
This exhibition has been generously supported by The David Hockney Foundation (UK). The Foundation is proud to have assisted the Manship Artists Residency in presenting this exhibition to the public free of charge.