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Now on view: 'Olga de Amaral: Weaving the Infinite' at Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Photograph by Sam Fentress. © Pulitzer Arts Foundation
The Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum have co-organised a major retrospective devoted to the career of Olga de Amaral, the Colombian artist known internationally for her virtuosic textile works, which blur the boundaries between weaving, sculpture, and painting.
The exhibition at the Pulitzer opened on 10 September 2026 and will open at Cooper Hewitt in April 2027. 'Olga de Amaral: Weaving the Infinite' is co-curated by Stephanie Weissberg, Senior Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, and Christina L. De León, Associate Curator of Latino Design, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Featuring 130 textiles and works on paper created over the span of 65 years, 'Olga de Amaral: Weaving the Infinite' is the most comprehensive examination to date of the artist’s foundational contributions to the fiber arts movement and design. The exhibition underscores the ways in which Amaral’s experiments with dimensionality and scale in weaving reflected her background in architectural drafting. It offers new insights into the relationship between her commercial and fine art practices through the first-ever presentations of materials from her Telas Amaral design studio.