The Museum of Modern Art presents Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, an in-depth exhibition that delves into the dynamic intersections between weaving and abstraction. On view April 20 through September 13, 2025, the exhibition includes approximately 150 works in a range of mediums—from textiles and basketry to painting, drawing, sculpture, and media works—exploring the overlap between abstract art, weaving, craft, and fashion. Woven Histories challenges long-held notions of the weave as a function of textile alone, exploring the many forms both warp and weft have taken when explored by abstract artists over the past 100 years. Previously on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the exhibition’s final presentation will be at MoMA, with numerous works not seen at earlier venues.
Sheila Hicks
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Only snow can save us, 2013-2023 Linen, cotton and silk 120 x 60 x 50 cm (47 1/4 x 23 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.) Image credit : Claire Dorn
Text from : MoMA
April 20–September 13, 2025
