8 October 2025–8 March 2026
Tacita Dean: Blind Folly is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by Tacita Dean.
The exhibition, organised in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking. Blind Folly, the show’s title, reflects Dean’s desire to let the behaviour of her mediums dictate the results of her work. For the artist, the playful and old-fashioned phrase connoting foolishness, “blind folly,” represents the role chance and fate play in the creative act.
Image: Tacita Dean, Beauty, 2006. Gouache on black and white fibre-based photograph mounted on paper, 141 x 147 in. (358.1 x 373.4 cm). San Francisco Musum of Modern Art; Purchase through a gift of Raoul Kennedy in memory of Patricia A. Kennedy. © Tacita Dean. Photo: Tenari Tuatagaloa.
8 Oct 2025
