Fundació Joan Miró Presents Miró and the United States

The Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona presents Miró and the United States, an exhibition on view until February 22, 2026. Featuring over 130 works from American and European collections, as well as from the Fundació Joan Miró, the exhibition explores the intergenerational dialogue between Joan Miró and key figures of twentieth-century art.

The exhibition examines Miró’s artistic exchanges with artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Alice Trumbull Mason, highlighting the mutual influences that shaped their practices.

At its core, the exhibition focuses on Miró’s major retrospectives in New York in 1941 and 1959, as well as on the seven visits he made to the United States between 1947 and 1968. These experiences significantly expanded his transatlantic connections and played a crucial role in the development of his work.

By foregrounding these creative exchanges, the exhibition repositions Miró within the history of twentieth-century art, shifting the narrative from France to the United States as a key influence on his artistic development. It also emphasizes the vital role of female artists in redefining contemporary art through abstraction, gestural painting, and action painting, whether as pioneers or as sources of inspiration.

The exhibition is curated by Marko Daniel, Matthew Gale, and Dolors Rodríguez Roig of the Fundació Joan Miró, in collaboration with Elsa Smithgall from The Phillips Collection.

On the cover: Rooms of the exhibition Miró and the United States. Curators Marko Daniel, Matthew Gale and Dolors Rodriguez Roig. © Fundació Joan Miró. Photos: Davide Camesasca.