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| USA | 26 |
| Mexico | 7 |
| Argentina | 4 |
| United Kingdom | 4 |
| Germany | 4 |
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El Museo del Barrio, USA |
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Mexico |
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Biography: 
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7.6.1907 Born in Coyoacán (MX)
Kahlo was born in 1907 in the "Blue House" in Coyoacán, a quiet town in the outskirts of Mexico city. Her father Wilhelm Kahlo, was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who arrived in Mexico in 1891 and married a Mexican native. He changed his first name to Guillermo and worked as a photographer specializing in architectural monuments of the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras. Soon after his first wife died in childbirth, Kahlo's father married Matilde Calderón, a mestiza, a Mexican of mixed European and American Indian ancestry, who was to become Frida's mother.
A tragic bus accident in 1925 left Frida with a fractured spine, a crushed pelvis, and broken foot. She was to remain partially handicapped and in pain for the rest of her life. This life-changing event set in motion the practice of faithfully recording the painful episodes of her life through her art.
Kahlo first met the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera at the Ministry of Education in Mexico City. Having just returned from Paris and enjoying a certain level of fame in his native country, Rivera was perched high on a scaffold and absorbed in the creation of his first fresco when Kahlo interrupted "el Maestro" by boldly requesting he come down from the scaffold to critique her work. Rivera graciously complied and was impressed with Kahlo's original style and mode of expression. Twenty-four years his junior,Kahlo married Diego Rivera in 1929, marking the beginning of a complex relationship defined by mutual admiration, painful separations and reconciliations.
In 1942, Kahlo began teaching and her ardent followers and students were collectively known as "Fridos". She was, however, forced to abandon her teaching because of numerous painful surgeries to correct her spine and foot. Her physical suffering, coupled with the torment of her husband's waywardness became the primary subjects of her art, well documented in a
lifetime's worth of emotionally charged canvases. These sad chapters of Kahlo's life were the subjects of some of her most powerful and notable works of art.
Near the end of her life, in response to the many critics who had said her work belonged to the school of Surrealism, she replied, "They thought I was a Surrealist but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."
13.7.1954 Died in Coyoacán (MX)
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Public exhibitions 67
until 24.5.2010
until 10.1.2010
until 3.1.2010
until 22.11.
Solo shows 13
2008
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| Frida Kahlo - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Frida Kahlo - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
2007
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| Frida Kahlo - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Frida - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
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| Frida Kahlo 1907-2007 Homenaje Nacional - Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City |
2006
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| Five Fridas - Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL |
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| Frida Kahlo - Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg |
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| Frida Kahlo - Centro Cultural de Belém - CCB, Lisbon |
2005
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| Frida Kahlo - , London (England) |
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| Frida Kahlo - Portraits of an icon - NPG - National Portrait Gallery, London (England) |
2003
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| Frida Kahlo's Intimate Family Portrait - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
1982
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| Frida Kahlo - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
1978
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| Frida Kahlo - Blaffer Gallery - The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX |
Group shows 50
2009
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| Camino A La Modernidad - The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Painting - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
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| Cumplicidades - Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo - MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro |
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| North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Obras 1900 - 1960. Colección pictórica del Banco Nacional de México - MALBA Colección Costantini - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires |
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| Love! Art! Passion! - Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague |
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| Latitudes: Mestres Latino-americanos na Coleção FEMSA - Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo |
2008
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| Blake to Kahlo to Warhol: Masterworks from the Harry Ransom Center - El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), El Paso, TX |
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| Latitudes: maestros latinoamericanos en la colección FEMSA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - MNBA, Buenos Aires |
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| Künstlerpaare - Liebe, Kunst und Leidenschaft - Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne |
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| Historia de mujeres - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
2007
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| Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920–1950 - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| El espejo y la máscara. El retrato en el siglo de Picasso - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Frida Kahlo - Images of an Icon - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
2006
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| Mascarada - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Territorios de Diálogo - Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires |
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| Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Bacon. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch - Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna |
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| On View - Stellar Works from the Collection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Self Portrait Renaissance to Contemporary - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
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| Surrealism - Theater of the Mind - Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA |
2005
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| Naturaleza Muerta - Latin American Still Life from South Florida Collection - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| Mexikanische Moderne - Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg |
2004
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| Mexique-Europe, Allers-Retours, 1910-1960 - Musée d'art moderne Lille métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq |
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| MoMA at El Museo. Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of the Mu - El Museo del Barrio, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Diego Rivera and Twentieth Century Mexican Art - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV |
2002
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| 7 dilemas - Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico City, Mexico City |
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| México y sus imágenes - Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan |
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| Siglo XX - Grandes Maestros Mexicanos - País de realidad y sueño - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
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| Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo - Places of Their Own - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art - El Museo del Barrio, New York City, NY |
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| Surrealism - Desire Unbound - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera & Mexican Modernism - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| Siglo XX - Grandes Maestros Mexicanos - Batallas al amanecer - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
2000
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| Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Sol y Vida - Mexican Modern Art: 1900-1950 - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
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| Latin American Still-Life - Reflections of Time and Place - El Museo del Barrio, New York City, NY |
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| Latin American Still-Life - Reflections of Time and Place - El Museo del Barrio, New York City, NY |
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| Viva la Vida: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington |
1999
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| Mexican Modern Art - 1900-1950 - The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Surrealism - Two Private Eyes - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Arte Mexicano - Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires |
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| Petits Formats - Yoshii Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1998
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| Frida Kahlo - Diego Rivera - Regards Croisés - Musée Maillol - Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris |
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| The Hause of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera - Watari-Um - Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
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| Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| Diego Rivera - Frida Kahlo - Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny |
1996
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| Colección Costantini - Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo |
1992
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| El Corazón Sangrante/The Bleeding Heart - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1982
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| Frida Kahlo / Tina Modotti - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1956
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| Let’s Face It: An Exhibition of Contemporary Portraits - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 4 |
USA
| | Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Leon Tovar Gallery, New York City, NY
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Venezuela
| | Galeria Acquavella, Caracas
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Public collections 9
Argentina
| | MALBA Colección Costantini - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
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Mexico
| | Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City
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USA
| | Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX
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| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
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| | MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
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