For Art Basel Paris 2026, Ortuzar is pleased to present artists from the gallery’s program with significant figures of the twentieth century, including Lynda Benglis, André Cadere, Claire Falkenstein, Miyoko Ito, Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz, Matt Connors, Takako Yamaguchi, Suzanne Jackson, and Seth Becker.

At the center of the booth are two paintings by the late Japanese-American artist Miyoko Ito from the 1970s, the decade in which she developed the singular visual language for which she is now recognized. Moving between abstraction and representation, Ito transformed suggestions of landscape, architecture, interiors, and the body through subtle gradations of color and dense, controlled brushwork. Steps (1974) was included in the 1975 Whitney Biennial and later featured in “Miyoko Ito: A Review” at The Renaissance Society in 1980. A is for Alan (c. 1970), one of two paintings dedicated to her children, is closely related to E is for Elissa (c. 1970-1975), now in the collection of Glenstone.

Three examples of André Cadere’s peinture sans fin will be dispersed throughout the booth, echoing the artist’s interventions into museums and galleries. Governed by a mathematical system of permutating colored segments, each contains a deliberately introduced error that interrupts its otherwise rigorous internal logic.

A focused selection by Takako Yamaguchi spans fourteen years, from the photorealist Untitled (Skirt and Belt) (2012-2017), to her ongoing series of trompe l’oeil paintings, tracing her movement between representation, abstraction, and illusion.

Also on view is David Wojnarowicz’s Peter Hujar Dreaming/Yukio Mishima: St. Sebastian (1982), a major early painting from the formative period in which the artist developed the stencil-based visual language that would become central to his practice. Bringing together Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and the image of Saint Sebastian, the painting explores themes of desire, intimacy, and mortality and was included in the artist’s 2018 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The booth also features photographs by Peter Hujar, including a portrait of David Wojnarowicz and an image from Hujar’s catacombs series, which was included in Portraits in Life and Death, the only book published by the artist during his lifetime. 

Art Basel Paris will also mark the first presentation of new paintings by Seth Becker at Ortuzar, ahead of his first exhibition with the gallery in 2027. Drawing from observation, memory, and art history, Becker transforms familiar subjects through shifts in atmosphere, scale, and perspective.