{"id":176865,"date":"2026-02-13T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176865\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:54:09","slug":"landmark-graciela-iturbide-exhibition-comes-to-sdma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176865\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark Graciela Iturbide Exhibition Comes to SDMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h-the-museum-of-photographic-arts-at-the-san-diego-museum-of-art-is-opening-a-solo-exhibition-of-work-by-graciela-iturbide-one-of-latin-america-s-best-known-living-photographers-and-it-s-a-rare-opportunity-to-see-this-much-of-her-work-in-one-place-the-exhibition-features-approximately-150-photographs-spanning-more-than-50-years-of-her-career-including-some-of-her-most-iconic-images-if-you-ve-been-following-contemporary-photography-at-all-iturbide-s-name-has-come-up-her-poetic-eye-and-deeply-immersive-approach-to-documenting-mexico-s-indigenous-communities-and-cultures-have-made-her-internationally-recognized\">The Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art is opening a solo exhibition of work by Graciela Iturbide, one of Latin America\u2019s best-known living photographers, and it\u2019s a rare opportunity to see this much of her work in one place. <\/p>\n<p id=\"h-the-museum-of-photographic-arts-at-the-san-diego-museum-of-art-is-opening-a-solo-exhibition-of-work-by-graciela-iturbide-one-of-latin-america-s-best-known-living-photographers-and-it-s-a-rare-opportunity-to-see-this-much-of-her-work-in-one-place-the-exhibition-features-approximately-150-photographs-spanning-more-than-50-years-of-her-career-including-some-of-her-most-iconic-images-if-you-ve-been-following-contemporary-photography-at-all-iturbide-s-name-has-come-up-her-poetic-eye-and-deeply-immersive-approach-to-documenting-mexico-s-indigenous-communities-and-cultures-have-made-her-internationally-recognized\">The exhibition features approximately 150 photographs spanning more than 50 years of her career, including some of her most iconic images. If you\u2019ve been following contemporary photography at all, Iturbide\u2019s name has come up\u2014her poetic eye and deeply immersive approach to documenting Mexico\u2019s Indigenous communities and cultures have made her internationally recognized.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FM000627.jpg\" alt=\"Landmark Graciela Iturbide Exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-78510\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Themes Spanning Decades and Continents<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition explores themes including Indigenous communities in Mexico, rituals of celebration and death, travels abroad to India, Italy, and the United States, botanical gardens, landscapes and objects, and self-portraits. <\/p>\n<p>One particularly intimate section shows Iturbide\u2019s photographs of Frida Kahlo\u2019s bathroom, which was sealed following Kahlo\u2019s death and opened 50 years later for Iturbide to photograph. It\u2019s a glimpse into Kahlo\u2019s life that few people have seen, and it adds another dimension to the exhibition\u2019s exploration of Mexican cultural identity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"558\" data-id=\"78516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/082.jpg\" alt=\"Landmark Graciela Iturbide Exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-78516\"  \/>Courtesy of Graciela Iturbide<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"558\" data-id=\"78517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/042.jpg\" alt=\"Landmark Graciela Iturbide Exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-78517\"  \/>Courtesy of Graciela Iturbide<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"532\" height=\"558\" data-id=\"78518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/102.jpg\" alt=\"Landmark Graciela Iturbide Exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-78518\"  \/>Courtesy of Graciela Iturbide<\/p>\n<p>A Career Built on Immersion and Sensitivity<\/p>\n<p>Iturbide began her career in the late 1960s while studying filmmaking in Mexico City, working with legendary photographer Manuel \u00c1lvarez Bravo. Like \u00c1lvarez Bravo, she focused on capturing Mexico\u2019s rich interweaving of cultures, but she brought her own personal sense of metaphor and symbolism infused with dreams and mortality. <\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s deeply immersed herself in Mexico\u2019s Indigenous communities, often highlighting women\u2019s experiences and bringing a more balanced and sensitive portrayal to marginalized groups. <\/p>\n<p>The early decades of her work centered on Latin American people and customs, and since the 1980s, she\u2019s expanded her travels and focused increasingly on objects and landscapes while creating starker, more abstract compositions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"904\" data-id=\"78511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FM000692.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78511\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"907\" data-id=\"78512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FM000717.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78512\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Internationally Recognized and Collected<\/p>\n<p>Iturbide is the 2025 recipient of the internationally prestigious Princess of the Asturias Award for the Arts, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Hasselblad Foundation Photography Award, and the Lucie Award for Achievement in Fine Art, among many others. <\/p>\n<p>Her works are in the permanent collections of museums around the world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, LACMA, MoMA, and The San Diego Museum of Art. She lives and works in Coyoac\u00e1n, Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"902\" data-id=\"78513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FM000789.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78513\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"78515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FM000807-676x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Landmark Graciela Iturbide Exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-78515\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"836\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"78514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FM000632-836x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78514\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Exhibition Details and Programming<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition was organized by Fundaci\u00f3n Mapfre and was recently on view at The International Center of Photography in New York. San Diego\u2019s presentation also includes works by Iturbide from the SDMA collection, and after its run here, the exhibition will travel to SFMOMA. <\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is complemented by art-making workshops and other community programming, and the most comprehensive survey to date on Iturbide\u2019s work will be available at the MOPA@SDMA Store and online.<\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n<p>Roxana Vel\u00e1squez, Maruja Baldwin Executive Director and CEO of The San Diego Museum of Art, says she\u2019s long admired Iturbide\u2019s work from her time as executive director of national museums in Mexico City, and she\u2019s especially honored to be sharing it in <a href=\"https:\/\/theresandiego.com\/things-to-do-in-san-diego-this-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Diego<\/a>. This is one of those exhibitions worth making time for.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc6 February 14 \u2013 June 7, 2026<br \/>\ud83d\udccd 1649 El Prado, San Diego<br \/>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Get your tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/sdma.ticketapp.org\/portal\/pages\/admission?_ga=2.42792357.1092795096.1770991631-926842338.1769076946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a><br \/>\u2139\ufe0f More info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdmart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See you there, San Diego!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art is opening a solo exhibition of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[967,74,76,54934,75,8419,39756],"class_list":["post-176865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-entertainment","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-museums","tag-san-diego-news","tag-things-to-do-in-san-diego","tag-what-to-see-in-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}