Black-and-white photograph by Graciela Iturbide

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)SoMa

Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds

Now showing11 July 2026 – 29 November 2026$30

A sweeping survey of the Mexico City photographer's black-and-white images of uncanny scenes, ritual and dreamlike traditions.

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A Seri woman in a long skirt stands on the rocks of the Sonoran Desert with a boom box in her hand. Iturbide took Mujer ángel in 1979, while living with the Seri, and it is one of more than 150 black-and-white photographs in this five-decade retrospective on Floor 3.

The rooms go by theme rather than date: Mexico City markets and festivals, the Zapotec women and muxes of Juchitán, birds and gardens from India to Highway 61. Then you reach Frida Kahlo's bathroom at the Casa Azul, sealed for 50 years after her death, with her buckled medical brace on a wooden shelf. Curator Delphine Sims says slowing down was central to how she planned the show. One picture, a Juchitán woman wearing a crown of iguanas, still has the best hat in SoMa.

Entry is included with general admission ($30, free for 18 and under), with no separate ticket. It closes 29 November. SFMOMA is closed Wednesdays and open until 20:00 on Thursdays.

Look for

Our Lady of the Iguanas (1979)
Look for the Juchitán woman in a floral dress gazing upward, with several iguanas sitting on her head like a headdress.
Mujer ángel (1979)
A woman in a long traditional skirt stands on desert rocks holding a boom box, looking out across the Sonoran Desert.
El baño de Frida (2006)
Kahlo's buckled medical torso brace on a wooden shelf, photographed in the Casa Azul bathroom that stayed sealed for 50 years.
Self-Portrait with the Seris (1979)
Iturbide's own face, painted by Seri women who asked to ornament it while she lived in their community.
México (1969)
A wax figure sits in front of a mural of illness and death, a picture Iturbide calls symbolic of her country.