KAWS
Dialogue and Discourse: Trenton Doyle Hancock and KAWS (artist talk)
The Jewish Museum, New York
Thursday, 16 January 2025, 6.30 – 7.30pm EST
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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
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FAMILY (solo show)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas
15 March – 28 July 2025
With drawings, paintings, sculptures, advertising interventions and product collaborations, the exhibition KAWS: FAMILY at Crystal Bridges Museum takes its title and thematic jumping-off point from the sculpture titled FAMILY, 2021, which brings together four of KAWS’ characters posed in the style of a family portrait. As witnessed throughout the show, the relationships between the figures can be complex, familiar, and astonishingly heartfelt entryways into human emotions. Since the late 1990s, KAWS has created a cast of iconic characters steeped in the American zeitgeist. Each with their own distinct personality, these characters have been a constant throughline in the artist’s career.
Organised by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), KAWS: FAMILY at Crystal Bridges builds on the AGO’s 2023 exhibition of the same title to create an experience that is uniquely suited for the museum.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
KAWS et al.
Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & … (group show)
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
17 October 2024 – 24 February 2025
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
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KAWS + Warhol (duo show)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
18 May 2024 – 20 January 2025
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