Join ICP and Art21 in the ICP Library for special screenings of Art21 films featuring the work of Graciela Iturbide, currently on view in Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play.
Learn more about Iturbide’s practice through Art21's short form documentaries and take time before or after the screenings to stroll through Serious Play. The films will be screened at 6 PM and 7 PM. Tickets to attend in person are $5 and include access to ICP’s galleries.
Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. As a nonprofit, the organization’s mission is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films, resources, and public programs. For more information about Art21, visit art21.org.
Graciela Iturbide was featured in the Investigation episode of Art in the Twenty-First Century, which premiered in 2014. She was also the focus of a second short film Photographing Mexico released a year later.
About the Exhibition
The International Center of Photography presents Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, the first ever retrospective of Iturbide’s work in New York City. This landmark exhibition, organized in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Carlos Gollonet, Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE, features nearly 200 photographs spanning five decades of her groundbreaking career.
Iturbide learned photography under renowned Mexican modernist Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Throughout her career, Iturbide traveled extensively throughout Mexico–and beyond–turning her attention to communal life, indigenous communities, and the interactions between nature and culture.
About Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide is known for her black-and-white images of the local communities in her native Mexico. In 1979, she published Juchitán de las Mujeres, a book of photographs that inspired her lifelong support of feminist causes. Iturbide has photographed in the Sonoran Desert and Juchitán de Zaragoza (Mexico), as well as in Cuba, Panama, India, Argentina, and the United States. Born in 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico, she studied film at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1969, where she was influenced by the acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. She has received several awards, including the Hasselblad and the William Klein Award. This year, she received the Premio Princesa de Asturias 2025.
Graciela Iturbide, Mujer ángel, desierto de Sonora, México, 1979. Collection Fundación MAPFRE ©Graciela Iturbide
