CHRISTOPHER KULENDRAN THOMAS: PEACE CORE

Gagosian is pleased to present Peace Core, an exhibition by Christopher Kulendran Thomas.

September 4 to October 18, 2025

New York

This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. A gallery dedicated to Kulendran Thomas’s work will be on view starting September 2 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, with other major presentations of his work taking place this winter at the New Museum, New York; K21 museum, Düsseldorf, Germany; the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; and as part of the 14th Taipei Biennial.

For much of the past decade, Kulendran Thomas has been using artificial intelligence tools to question the myths of Western individualism. His paintings metabolize the colonial art history that came to dominate in Sri Lanka after his family, who are Tamil, left escalating ethnic violence there. The artist often exhibits these paintings with video installations that fuse propaganda and counterpropaganda into a speculative vortex of alternate histories.

The six canvases on view are illuminated by Peace Core’s revolving sphere of twenty-four screens suspended in the center of the gallery. Evocative of a newsroom, a trading floor, or video art of the 1980s, the spherical constellation streams television footage that was first broadcast live twenty-four years ago.