The Musée national Picasso-Paris will present an exhibition devoted to Henry Taylor, one of the leading figures in contemporary American painting. Conceived in collaboration with the artist himself, the exhibition will span his entire artistic journey while continuing to explore the reception of Pablo Picasso on the American scene—following exhibitions devoted to Faith Ringgold (2023), Jackson Pollock (2024), and Philip Guston (2025), and ahead of the major retrospective devoted to the Harlem Renaissance movement (spring 2027).
Spanning two floors and thirteen rooms, the exhibition brings together around one hundred works—paintings, sculptures, and installations—through which Henry Taylor explores the richness and complexity of the human experience. Whether depicting friends, loved ones, anonymous individuals, or public figures, his compositions offer a vivid and deeply human vision of our time. Taylor creates original, expressive, and visually powerful work—weaving visual narratives that blend individual journeys with collective realities, combining personal experiences, shared memory, and dialogues with art history. His reinterpretations of inspiring artworks, particularly those by David Hammons, Philip Guston, and Pablo Picasso, show how Taylor draws on the past to reinvent the present. Henry Taylor has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including a major retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2022, followed by the Whitney Museum in New York in 2023. His works are held in leading public collections, including the Studio Museum in Harlem in New-York, the MET, and MoMA. This exhibition at the Musée national Picasso-Paris is the artist's first retrospective in France. The exhibition has received exclusive support from Louis Vuitton.
Admission: From 0 to 16 euros.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Musée Picasso Paris