UpcomingGroup Exhibition

Frida: The Making of an Icon

Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonHouston, TXmuseum
Frida Kahlo, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Ana Mendieta, Carlos Almaraz, Delilah Montoya, Judy Chicago, Kiki Smith
January 18, 2026 - May 17, 2026

About the Exhibition

This ambitious exhibition traces Frida Kahlo's posthumous transformation from a relatively unknown painter to global brand. Featuring more than 30 paintings by Kahlo that capture the arc of the painter's artistic legacy, the exhibition presents Kahlo and her art within the context of 120 works by five successive generations of artists: painters, sculptors, and photographers from an array of artistic and social communities and movements, who mined Kahlo's paintings and personal history to claim her as their own.

Curator

Mari Carmen Ramírez

Exhibition Details

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Frida Kahloposthumous transformationiconLatin American artfeminist artChicana/o movementLGBTQ influenceactivismart historycontemporary art responses
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