Issue 1 – November 2026
Print culture does not stay in one place.
Each issue, Fine Print Diaspora points to exhibitions and events beyond our member network that we think are worth the journey, with a line on why. Selection is editorial.
Closing soon
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA · through 16 November 2026
Ninety works from Brand X Editions, tracing experiment and technique in screenprinting. A good chance to see the process-led side of the medium in a major museum.
Museo do Mar, Vigo, Spain · until 15 November 2026
More than a hundred Dalí engravings made for an edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, organised with the Museo del Grabado a la Estampa Digital and the Società Dante Alighieri of Vigo.
808 Gallery, Boston, USA · 8 September – 21 November 2026
A juried, international survey of recent prints (2023–2026), selected by Esther Adler, curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at MoMA. Organised by Boston Printmakers, so a useful read on where contemporary practice is heading.
Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, USA · through November 2026
Audubon prints from the Michael and Elyn Stubblefield Collection paired with mechanical singing birds, in the Bickford Gallery.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands · until 29 November 2026
A rotating display drawn from one of the world’s largest print and drawing collections, running from 1442 to the present. Check the museum for the current theme before you go.
Print Center New York, September 17–December 19, 2026
Exploring the first decade of Parasol Press and how those years established it as one of the most influential print publishers of the twentieth century.
Opening this month
Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Australia · 6 November – 13 December 2026 (auction 12 December)
An international exhibition, auction and print exchange, bringing printmakers from around the world together in one gallery. Our pick for From the edges: small-format, participatory, and well outside the usual circuit.
Art Institute of Chicago, USA · 14 November 2026 – 1 March 2027
The first retrospective devoted to the drawings and prints of the Colombian artist (1932–2026). More than 80 works show how she turned newspaper crime pages, commercial prints and pop-culture figures into images of memory and political critique. Curated by the museum’s prints and drawings department.
3. Klaus Hack
Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin, Germany · opens 16 November 2026
Wood sculpture, reliefs, woodcuts and drawings by Klaus Hack, shown in a museum dedicated to one of printmaking’s great figures. Only part of the show is prints.
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida, USA · 21 November 2026 – 7 February 2027
A touring show from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with more than 100 works following Japanese landscape prints from the Edo period to the twentieth century.
On now, running into 2027
BnF Richelieu, Galerie Mansart, Paris, France · 20 October 2026 – 21 February 2027
Co-organised with the Centre Pompidou. The BnF contributes more than a hundred prints and eight artists’ books, the Pompidou 91 works, set against drawings and handwritten texts. The monumental Extrême tension (2007), which combines engraving, drawing and writing, is the centrepiece. It is the first show devoted to her in a Paris public institution since 2008.
British Museum, London, UK · until 21 March 2027 · free
Described as the first display devoted to Italian Renaissance woodcuts. It draws on the museum’s own collection, with many works shown for the first time, and stresses the collaboration between artists, block-cutters and publishers. Room 90.
Art Institute of Chicago, USA · 23 September – 20 December 2026
A collection rotation of prints by the ukiyo-e master.
Galleria Spada, Rome, Italy · 21 October 2026 – 18 January 2027
Etchings by Antonella Cappuccio that belonged to the art historian Federico Zeri, who commissioned them. They form the only complete series he ordered from the artist and are shown to the public for the first time, set among the Spada’s Baroque rooms.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain · until February 2027
Goya’s four great series, Desastres de la guerra, Tauromaquia, Disparates and Caprichos. Museo San Telmo in San Sebastián is showing a parallel Goya exhibition.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA · through 27 June 2027
A long-running look at popular devotional prints, a corner of print history that rarely gets gallery space.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, USA · 25 July 2026 – 23 May 2027
Looks past ukiyo-e to modern and contemporary printmaking in Japan.
