“Americas Society is pleased to announce the exhibition Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions, opening on May 13, 2026. Curated by Tobias Ostrander, this landmark show introduces the work of Lilia Carrillo (1930–1974) to a New York audience, positioning her as a central force of the postwar group of Mexican painters known as the Generación de la Ruptura or the Rupture Generation.

The show, which will be on view until August 1, 2026, features two dozen of her most accomplished paintings from 1961 until 1974, alongside a selection of archival photographs, letters, invitations, and publications which document her active role in the diverse and often-controversial cultural landscape of her time.” — Americas Society

“While Lilia Carrillo’s paintings dialogue with the gestural practices of her European informalist and North American Abstract Expressionist peers, they also allude these tendencies through the diversity of their mark-making and layered surfaces, maintaining an enigmatic uniqueness, one that additionally has no equivalent within the artist’s Generación de la Ruptura,” said Ostrander, who is the curator at large at Estrellita B. Brodsky and Latin American Art at Tate Modern.

“By focusing on ‘ruptures’ and ‘premonitions,’ the exhibition seeks to highlight the works’ mysterious and ritual character, while also addressing their references to the challenging environmental and political contexts in which they were made,” added the curator.

Title image: Premonición (Premonition), 1970. Acrylic on canvas. 31 1/2 x 39 2/5 x 4/5 in. (80 x 100 x 2 cm.). Courtesy of kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York. LC_024. Photo Credit: Gerardo Landa Rojano

Images courtesy Americas Society.