GLOUCESTER, MASS.- Manship Artists Residency will present Hockney Reproduction(s), an exhibition examining one of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, David Hockney (1937-2026), through a lens rarely given sustained attention: his lifelong engagement with the reproduction of his own imagery. The exhibition explores Hockney’s six-decade fascination with reproducing, reimaging, transmitting, and sharing his work through emerging technologies. With prints, books, multi-page faxed works, photographs, and more than 75 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

On view from September 11 through October 18, 2026, Hockney Reproduction(s) brings together works from the private collection of Bing McGilvray, other private collectors, and generous contributions from Salts Mill, Yorkshire, U.K., revealing 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 one of the through-lines of 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 for his work.

Among the exhibition’s highlights is a rare public presentation of Hockney’s fax works, including a remarkable twenty-four-sheet beach house drawing that transformed a now-obsolete office machine into a vehicle for artistic invention.





The exhibition was conceived and implemented by Manship Artist Bing McGilvray, an artist, curator, writer, and Hockney’s friend of more than forty-five years. “David was endlessly curious,” said 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.”

“By focusing on reproduction as a unifying thread throughout Hockney's career, this exhibition invites audiences to reconsider one of the most innovative artists of our time,” said Rebecca Reynolds, Executive Director of Manship Artists Residency. “It reveals a body of work that anticipated many of the ways we create and share images today while remaining deeply rooted in artistic inquiry, experimentation, and a profound commitment to craft and the joy of artmaking.”

This exhibition has been generously supported by The David Hockney Foundation (UK). The Foundation is a charity established to advance the education of the public in the appreciation of art. The Foundation is proud to have assisted the Manship Artists Residency in presenting this exhibition to the public free of charge.