This August, the DMA presents Frida: Beyond the Myth. Composed of over 60 works across media—paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs—the exhibition will explore the life of one of the 20th century’s most well-documented artists, who continues to elude our understanding of her as an individual.
Taking a chronological approach, this exhibition will lift the veil of myth surrounding Kahlo by delving deeper into the defining moments of her life and how she embedded symbolic motifs in her self-portraits and still lifes to cryptically express her emotive reactions to major events. These works will be supplemented with photographs of Kahlo by the friends and fellow artists who knew her best, capturing the vulnerability and sensuality that still compel us today.
Frida: Beyond the Myth is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. This exhibition is presented by Texas Instruments. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by generous DMA Members and donors, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.
Images: Self-Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947. Frida Kahlo. Oil on Masonite. Private collection. © 2024 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Frida on White Bench, New York, 1939. Nickolas Muray. Carbon pigment print. Private collection. © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives.