Windy Chien
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Diamond Ring, 2025 -
Crown, 2026
Artist Windy Chien is best known for her 2016 work, The Year of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child's hand to room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. Following long careers at Apple and as the owner of legendary music shop Aquarius Records, she launched her studio in 2015.
Select clients include the National Geographic Society, the De Young Museum, the San Francisco MOMA, Nobu, Google, the U.S. Department of State, the Kronos Quartet, and the Kering Group. In 2025, Windy was recognized by the Eames Institute as one of the inaugural Curious 100, and her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times, and Martha Stewart. Windy’s book about her work was published by Abrams in 2019.
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INTERWOVEN: Everything Touches Everything Else
May 7 - July 30, 2026Dernier Cri announces Interwoven: Everything Touches Everything Else, a group exhibition that considers the ways in which all things are connected-material to maker, object to environment, past to present. Across disciplines, the works in this exhibition reveal a shared language of transformation, where raw elements are shaped, layered, and brought into relation with one another. Threads-both literal and conceptual-run throughout, binding disparate forms into a cohesive whole. At a moment when our relationship to the natural world feels increasingly fragile, the works offer a reflection on interdependence. Everything touches everything else. Interwoven opens to the public on May 7th, 2026.Read more -
Unveiling the Inaugural Exhibition: NIGHT SHIFT
January 29 - March 5, 2026Unfolding in the dark depths of winter, Night Shift gathers works united by a single premise: each is rendered entirely in black. For this debut, Dernier Cri founder Michael McGraw has commissioned a select group of artists and designers to create new work in which darkness becomes both subject and medium. A study in how absence reveals presence, these pieces explore the artistry of restraint, illuminating how form, texture, and light shift within the limits of a single hue.Read more
