Solo show
Louise Bourgeois: Paintings
12 Apr 2022 — 1 Jan 2023 at Metropolitan Museum of Art
· New York City
This exhibition showcases the paintings of Louise Bourgeois, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Spanning her career from the 1930s onward, the works on view reveal the artist's profound engagement with color, form, and emotional expression. Bourgeois's paintings range from intimate abstractions to large-scale compositions, each reflecting her distinctive visual language and psychological depth. The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022–2023) offers visitors an opportunity to experience the full breadth of her painterly practice and its evolution over decades.
About the artist
Louise Bourgeois
1911–2010 · abstract expressionism
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family…
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
· New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas. With 5,727,258 visitors in fiscal year 2025, it was the most-visited museum in…
