Exhibitions Archive

William Hawkins: An Imaginative Geography

A Traveling Museum Retrospective

16 Feb 2018 - 1 Apr 2019

Although he has long enjoyed a prominent place in the canon of self-taught artists, the Ohio painter William Lawrence Hawkins (1895–1990) has received less than his fair share of attention in recent times. This monograph―the first in 20 years―introduces Hawkins’s exuberant paintings to a wider audience at a time when...

Outliers and American Vanguard Art

Traveling Museum Exhibition

28 Jan 2018 - 18 Mar 2019

Self-taught artists—variously termed folk, primitive, visionary, naïve, and outsider—have played a significant role in the history of modernism, yet their contributions have been largely disregarded or forgotten. Again and again in the United States during the past century, vanguard artists found affinities and inspiration in the work of their untutored,...

Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation

ICA LA

9 Sep - 31 Dec 2017

Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation is the first monographic presentation of the celebrated self-taught artist Martín Ramírez in Southern California. The exhibition will include approximately 50 drawings and collages produced by Ramírez while institutionalized from 1931 until his death in 1963. The exhibition is part of Pacific...