KAWS
KAWS: FAMILY (solo show)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
15 November 2025 – 3 May 2026
KAWS’ institutional solo show KAWS: FAMILY opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on 15 November 2025. Marking KAWS’ first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades. Bringing together drawing, painting, sculpture, advertising interventions and product collaborations, the exhibition takes its title and thematic jumping-off point from KAWS’ sculpture FAMILY, 2021, which unites the artist’s iconic characters, CHUM, COMPANION, and BFF, posed in the style of a family portrait. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’ characters recontextualise familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
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KAWS
THE MESSAGE (solo show)
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
29 October 2025 – 25 January 2026
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and Fondazione Hillary Merkus Recordati will present a new site-specific installation by KAWS for the Renaissance courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. Part of the Palazzo Strozzi Future Art programme, the project creates a compelling dialogue with the palace's Renaissance architecture and the concurrent exhibition dedicated to Fra Angelico, offering an original and surprising encounter between eras, forms, and artistic visions.
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