The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces Graciela Iturbide:Between Two Worlds, a retrospective spanning more than five decades of work by the celebrated photographer. This exhibition, organized by Fundación Mapfre in collaboration with SFMOMA, immerses viewers in Iturbide’s dreamlike world of black-and-white photographs. On view from July 11 through November 29, 2026, Between Two Worlds returns Iturbide to SFMOMA, the first U.S. institution to give the Mexican photographer a monographic exhibition in 1990.
Featuring more than 150 photographs from the 1960s to the 2010s, the exhibition narrates Iturbide’s passionate and poetic commitment to revealing the extraordinary in the everyday. Much of her photography reflects her love and appreciation for her home country. She is captivated by a vast spectrum of life in Mexico: from urban markets in Mexico City to festivals, symbols and experiences of birth and death; intimate views of Frida Kahlo’s bathroom; self-portraits; and more. Between Two Worlds highlights the ways in which her photographs function as meditations: acts of attention that honor and contemplate the people, places and rituals that she encounters.
“We look forward to unveiling this stunning Graciela Iturbide exhibition at the museum this summer, honoring one of the most influential photographers of the last half-century,” said Christopher Bedford, Helen and Charles Schwab Director of SFMOMA. “SFMOMA’s connection to Iturbide’s work spans decades—we were the first institution in the United States to present a solo exhibition of her photography in 1990—making it especially meaningful now to share the full breath of her career with our audiences.”
“Graciela Iturbide’s photographs describe an array of life in Mexico that is so intimate and full of wonder that the viewer feels transported into a literary realm, like that of a vivid novel,” said Delphine Sims, SFMOMA’s assistant curator of photography.
