Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris are pleased to announce Leonora Carrington & Cecilia Vicuña, an exhibition placing the work of these two pioneering artists into dialogue for the first time. This two-part exhibition will open at Lehmann Maupin in New York on November 19, before traveling to Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco in January 2027. Featuring new works by Vicuña alongside historical works by Carrington, the exhibition traces a profound affinity between two artists who turn to myth, transformation, and the imagination as means of challenging fixed notions of the world and envisioning other ways of being. Their connection is also personal: Vicuña first met Carrington in 1969, an encounter that had a lasting impact on her practice and introduced her to a new method of painting. More than five decades later, this exhibition brings their practices into renewed conversation.

The exhibition coincides with Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads at Whitechapel Gallery in London, the first major UK exhibition dedicated to Vicuña’s work. Though separated by geography and generation, Carrington and Vicuña share a deeply intuitive approach to the world, one that dissolves the boundaries between the human, the natural, and the imagined. Both artists draw on myth, ritual, and poetry in their work. Carrington’s mythic visions and hybrid creatures inhabit a realm where the ordinary gives way to the mysterious, while Vicuña’s poetic practice similarly activates overlooked materials, ancestral knowledge, and ecological consciousness to reveal unseen connections between all forms of life.