Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim Show Will Fill Rotunda with Entirely New Body of Work for First Time in Museum’s History
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will open a solo exhibition by Taryn Simon on September 18, dedicating the entire Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda to a single artist’s entirely new body of work in photography and video for the first time in the museum’s history. Simon will debut Father Country I Do Love You (2026), a 42-chapter project combining photographs, texts, videos, and sculptures centered on the life of an unnamed federal agent and the ripple effects of his actions. The exhibition has been in development for nearly a decade and was initiated by former Guggenheim artistic director and chief curator Nancy Spector, with Nat Trotman serving as curator. An accompanying artist book will be published by the Guggenheim and Hatje Cantz, and Simon has said the project is dedicated to her father, whose U.S. government work and later Alzheimer’s diagnosis shaped the work’s themes of memory and democracy.
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