Robert Indiana
Fri, May 30
|Pace Gallery
LOVE. EAT. DIE. Explore Robert Indiana’s raw take on America’s most enduring myth in this bold Pace Gallery exhibition.
Time & Location
May 30, 2025, 7:00 AM – Aug 15, 2025, 10:50 PM
Pace Gallery, 540 W 25th St, New York, NY 10001, USA
About the event
May 9 – August 15, 2025Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Pace presents Robert Indiana: The American Dream, a major retrospective that confronts the duality of America’s greatest cultural myth—its radiant promises and shadowed truths. This immersive exhibition traces Indiana’s iconic work from the early 1960s through his later decades, examining his radical use of language, abstraction, and personal symbology to expose the underlying contradictions of postwar American identity.
Curated by Oliver Shultz, the show features cornerstone works such as:
The Calumet (1961): Honoring Indigenous cultures and revealing suppressed narratives.
The Black Marilyn (1967/1998): Addressing celebrity commodification and racialized desire.
The American Dream (1992/2015): A bronze sculpture marked by verbs of human experience—HUG, ERR, EAT, DIE.