Gagosian Gallery has recently announced the global representation of the artist Cy Gavin. The announcement came after Gavin's solo exhibition debut at the gallery in New York in February 2023. As part of the representation, Gagosian will be showcasing an upcoming exhibition of Gavin's new paintings in Rome during the fall season.

In his recent works, Gavin has created metaphorical interpretations of locations that have been shaped by both human intervention and geological or cosmic phenomena. These paintings are characterized by fluid and gestural brushstrokes with striking colors that sometimes extend to monumental proportions.

Gavin was born in Pittsburgh in 1985 and grew up in Donora, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2016. After the death of his father, Gavin traveled to his ancestral homeland of Bermuda in 2015 to study his family's genealogy and the island's history. His paintings from this time include depictions of Gibbet Island, Crow Lane, and Tucker's Town, a black Bermudian enclave that was destroyed in 1920 to make way for an exclusive golf resort. The works are marked by the legacies of colonialism, enslavement, and resistance, visualizing the creation and maintenance of power structures similar to those found in the United States.

In 2016, Gavin moved to New York's Hudson River Valley, where he currently lives and works. He began painting the region's landscape, including the environment surrounding his studio and dramatic features of the area. One of his famous works, Bash Bish Falls (2019), depicts a panoramic view of the waterfall frozen in winter and a clove or gorge. The cascade, located in southwestern Massachusetts, is set in one of the last remaining old-growth eastern hemlock forests and is shown during a full lunar eclipse.

In 2021, Gavin held his first solo museum exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado. The exhibition included paintings of a glacial erratic boulder, a stone dam in disrepair, Comet NEOWISE, and a room-sized depiction of the pitch-dark recesses of a limestone cavern. His work has also been featured in exhibitions such as The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts (2018), Between the Waters at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2018), RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting at the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art in Montreal (2020), and the 2022 Whitney Biennial.

Gavin's works can be found in collections such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Fondazione Memmo in Rome, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

In his upcoming exhibition in Rome, Gavin will be showcasing his latest works, including pieces that depict the area surrounding his studio, such as the meadows he allowed to grow on previously manicured lawns and the shrubs marking the boundaries of his property. With Gagosian's global representation, Gavin's work is expected to reach an even wider audience in the art world.