SFMOMA to Present Major Retrospective of Photographer Graciela Iturbide
On May 1, 2026, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds, a retrospective featuring more than 150 photographs from the 1960s to the 2010s. The exhibition, organized by Fundación Mapfre in collaboration with SFMOMA, opens July 11 and runs through November 29, 2026, at the museum in San Francisco. It returns Iturbide to SFMOMA, which presented the first U.S. monographic exhibition of the Mexican photographer in 1990, and includes images of Mexico City markets, festivals, Indigenous communities in Oaxaca and the Sonoran Desert, Frida Kahlo’s bathroom at Casa Azul, and later landscapes.
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The show reinforces SFMOMA’s decades-long institutional focus on Iturbide’s work and signals sustained curatorial interest in her documentation of Mexican rituals and daily life. Collectors and curators will note the exhibition’s emphasis on her mentorship under Manuel Álvarez Bravo and the presence of vintage prints by both artists in the museum’s collection, underscoring her place in the history of Latin American photography.
- Artists: Graciela Iturbide
- People: Christopher Bedford, Delphine Sims, Manuel Álvarez Bravo
- Museums: SFMOMA, Fundación Mapfre
- Locations: San Francisco
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