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KAWS + Warhol (duo show)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
18 May 2024 – 20 January 2025

Installation view: KAWS + Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2024–2025, photo: Jason Schmidt
Installation view: KAWS + Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2024–2025, photo: Jason Schmidt

The Andy Warhol Museum presents KAWS + Warhol, the first exhibition to examine the dark themes present in the work of both artists. From skulls to car crashes, both artists deploy their signature bright colours and pop culture references while also presenting the lurid spectacle of death. In response to Warhol, KAWS presents a series of paintings, sculptures and installations which feature the artist’s signature characters and imagery from America’s most loved cereal boxes. A monumental wooden sculpture is also on view in Pop Park, directly across from the museum.

The Andy Warhol Museum

Installation view: KAWS + Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2024–2025, photo: Jason Schmidt
Installation view: KAWS + Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2024–2025, photo: Jason Schmidt

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Dialogue and Discourse: Trenton Doyle Hancock and KAWS (artist talk)
The Jewish Museum, New York
Thursday, 16 January 2025, 6.30 – 7.30pm EST

Image: KAWS, photo: Jason Schmidt
Image: KAWS, photo: Jason Schmidt

KAWS will be in conversation with fellow artist Trenton Doyle Hancock about the wide-ranging graphic influences and world of characters each artist has built over their respective careers. The conversation, moderated by Dan Nadel, Curator-at-Large for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, is held in conjunction with the current exhibitions The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection at the Drawing Center, New York, on view until 19 January, and Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston, at the Jewish Museum, New York, on view until 30 March.

The Jewish Museum

Image: KAWS, photo: Jason Schmidt
Image: KAWS, photo: Jason Schmidt

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Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & … (group show)
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
17 October 2024 – 24 February 2025

Image courtesy of Fondation Louis Vuitton
Image courtesy of Fondation Louis Vuitton

KAWS will be featured in Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & …  at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Centred around Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004), the exhibition explores Pop Art’s influence on following generations. Alongside 150 paintings and works in other materials by Wesselmann, the exhibition presents 70 works by 35 artists of different generations and nationalities who share a common sensibility for ‘Pop’ – from its Dadaist roots to its contemporary manifestations, and from the 1920s to the present day.

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Image courtesy of Fondation Louis Vuitton
Image courtesy of Fondation Louis Vuitton