Pacita Abadis the first major US retrospective highlighting the incredible work and practice of the Philippine-born visual artist. The exhibition opens in Minneapolis before heading on a national tour with 80 of Abad’s major works—many never before on view in a US museum.
The Walker is enormously grateful to two long-standing foundation partners, the Henry Luce Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, for their significant support in realizing this ambitious project. Leaders in art funding since 1982 and 1987 respectively, the foundations are committed to advancing equity within the visual arts to better highlight artists and communities that are underrepresented in the cultural sector and beyond.
As artist Faith Ringgold wrote about Abad, “Creative women of color are working all over the world and are not merely ‘minority’ figures within the narrow confines of the Western art world.” Ringgold sensed that the tide was turning: “That day, thank heavens, is definitely coming, so let’s all of us get ready.” Through their generous contributions to this exhibition, the Luce and Warhol Foundations have affirmed the importance of Abad’s work to the field and recognized the incredibly timely themes of her work, which speaks powerfully and with nuance to the diversity and complexity of the American experience. The Walker is grateful to the Henry Luce Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for helping to shed light on the impressive and important work of Pacita Abad.
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