Discover the life and work of Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern.
Flowers, dresses and unibrows: it’s time to celebrate the life and legacy of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern. The artist will be celebrated in Frida: The Making of an Icon. Running from 25 June 2026 to 3 January 2027, the exhibition explores how she became one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
Frida: The Making of an Icon is organised by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in collaboration with Tate Modern. Frida was born in Mexico City. She is famous for her self-portraits and works inspired by Mexico. Her work explores ideas of identity across gender, race and class in Mexico, as well as post-colonialism in the country.
The exhibition presents Frida through her different identities: wife, intellectual, artist and political activist. Through these overlapping identities, visitors are invited to understand the complexity of a woman who transformed personal experience into radical artistic expression.
Featuring more than 130 works, the exhibition brings together her paintings alongside those of her contemporaries. Some of her most celebrated works are shown alongside rarely seen material, including photographs, documents and personal memorabilia drawn from her own archives.
This exhibition provides fresh insight into the evolving role of women artists in the twentieth century, as well as the emergence of artistic fandom and the communities around the world who continue to claim her as their own.
Tickets to Frida: The Making of an Icon at Tate Modern go on sale in late January.
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