Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Announce 'Olga de Amaral: Weaving the Infinite'

17 April 2026

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, have announced the co-organization of a major retrospective devoted to the career of Olga de Amaral, a Colombian artist known internationally for her virtuosic textile works, which blur the boundaries between weaving, sculpture, and painting.

Opening at the Pulitzer on 10 September 2026 and at Cooper Hewitt in April 2027, 'Olga de Amaral: Weaving the Infinite' is co-curated by Stephanie Weissberg, Senior Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, and Christina L. De León, Associate Curator of Latino Design, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Featuring 130 textiles and works on paper created over the span of 65 years, 'Olga de Amaral: Weaving the Infinite' will be the most comprehensive examination to date of the artist’s foundational contributions to the fiber arts movement and design. The exhibition will underscore the ways in which Amaral’s experiments with dimensionality and scale in weaving reflected her background in architectural drafting. It will offer new insights into the relationship between her commercial and fine art practices through the first-ever presentations of materials from her Telas Amaral design studio.

Find out more via Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

Image: Olga de Amaral, Columna en Pasteles (Column in Pastels), 1972, Wool and horsehair, 118 1/8 × 78 3/4 inches (300 × 200 cm) © Olga de Amaral, Photograph © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Thomas R. DuBrock