Henry Taylor — Musée national Picasso-Paris

Location: Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris

Date: 8 April – 6 September 2026

Project: Exhibition devoted to Henry Taylor

Why it Matters: The Musée national Picasso-Paris presents Henry Taylor’s first retrospective in France

We Were Framed, 2014. Coll. Part. Photo Brian Forrest © Henry Taylor Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

The Musée national Picasso-Paris will present an exhibition devoted to Henry Taylor, one of the major figures in contemporary American painting. Organized in collaboration with the artist, the exhibition follows his work across his full career and continues the museum’s recent focus on Picasso’s reception in the American context.

Haitian working (washing my window) not begging, 2015. Pinault Collection.  Photo Sam Kahn © Henry Taylor Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth 

Split, 2013. Coll. Part. Photo Sam Kahn © Henry Taylor Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth 

Installed across two floors and thirteen rooms, the exhibition will include around one hundred works, including paintings, sculptures, installations, and painted objects. Taylor’s portraits and compositions move between friends, family members, unnamed passersby, and public figures, giving a broad view of contemporary life in America.

Queen & King, 2013. Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles.  Photo Sam Kahn © Henry Taylor Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

The exhibition also places Taylor in relation to figures such as David Hammons, Philip Guston, and Pablo Picasso. In recent years, the artist has been the subject of major exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2024. His work is also held in collections including the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

At the Musée national Picasso-Paris, this will be Henry Taylor’s first retrospective in France.

More info: www.museepicassoparis.fr