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Vital Signs: Artists and the Body
November 03, 2024 – February 22, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art announces Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, which will be on view from November 3, 2024, through February 22, 2025. The international, cross-generational group of artists in this exhibition use depictions of the body to address the question of what it means to be an individual within society—and how socially sustained categories of gender, race, and identity are rooted in abstraction. Vital Signs will present over 100 works by approximately 65 artists, primarily drawn from the Museum’s collection. A majority of works in the exhibition were made by artists who are women or gender-expansive, highlighting ways in which human forms and gender intersect in these artists’ practices. While the exhibition includes celebrated works from the Museum’s collection, new acquisitions will provide fresh perspectives—as will lesser-known collection works that will be on view for the first time.
Vital Signs is organized by Lanka Tattersall, Laurenz Foundation Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, with Margarita Lizcano Hernandez, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints.
Support for the exhibition is provided by the Annual Exhibition Fund. Leadership contributions to the Annual Exhibition Fund, in support of the Museum’s collection and collection exhibitions, are generously provided by the Sandra and Tony Tamer Exhibition Fund, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Eva and Glenn Dubin, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Kenneth C. Griffin, Alice and Tom Tisch, the Marella and Giovanni Agnelli Fund for Exhibitions, Mimi Haas, The David Rockefeller Council, The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Marie- Josée and Henry R. Kravis, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, and The Young Patrons Council of The Museum of Modern Art. Major contributions to the Annual Exhibition Fund are provided by The Sundheim Family Foundation.
Press Kit
Images
Belkis Ayón. Resurrección (Resurrection). 1998. Collagraph on nine sheets of paper, overall 9′ 13/16″ × 7′ 1″ (276.5 × 215.9 cm). Unpublished. Printer: the artist, Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, Cuba. Edition: 4. Riva Castleman Endowment Fund. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2024 Belkis Ayón. Courtesy of the Artist’s Estate. Digital image © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, photo by Robert Gerhardt
Claude Cahun. M.R.M (Sex), c. 1929-30. Gelatin silver print. 6 × 4″ (15.2 × 10.2 cm). Gift of Helen Kornblum in honor of Roxana Marcoci. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2024 Estate of Claude Cahun. Digital image © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, photo by Jonathan Muzikar
Mrinalini Mukherjee. Yakshi, 1984. Dyed hemp. 8′ 1″ × 48″ × 29″ (246.4 × 121.9 × 73.7 cm). Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds, and acquired through the generosity of Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin and the Modern Women’s Fund. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2024 Mrinalini Mukherjee. Courtesy of the MM Foundation. Digital image © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, photo by John Wronn
Rosemary Mayer. Galla Placidia, 1973. Satin, rayon, nylon, cheesecloth, nylon netting, ribbon, dyes, wood, acrylic. 8′ 2″ × 6′ 6″ × 7′ (248.9 × 198.1 × 213.4 cm). Gift of Alice and Tom Tisch and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2024 Courtesy of the Estate of Rosemary Mayer. Digital image © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, photo by Jonathan Muzikar
Maria Lassnig. Encounter, 1970. 16 mm film (color, sound), 1 min. Gift of the Maria Lassnig Foundation. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2024 Estate of Maria Lassnig. Digital image © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Margo Humphrey. The History of Her Life Written Across Her Face. 1991. Lithograph with copper leaf and collage additions, composition (irreg.): 29 15/16 × 29 5/8 in. (76 × 75.3 cm); sheet: 32 5/16 × 29 5/8 in. (82 × 75.3 cm). Publisher and printer: Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Edition: 30. Purchase. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2024 The Margo Humphrey Trust. Digital image © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, photo by Robert Gerhardt