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TARYN SIMON
FATHER COUNTRY
I DO LOVE YOU
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Opens September 18
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Taryn Simon, One little room on fire, 2026 (detail). Archival inkjet print and two text panels in acrylic frames, overall dimensions variable. © 2026 Taryn Simon
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Taryn Simon | Father Country I Do Love You premieres a new body of work by Simon, the largest debut of new work ever staged at the museum. Book advance tickets today to experience never-before-seen photographs, text, videos, and sculptures in an interactive installation filling the entire rotunda.
Nearly a decade in the making, Father Country I Do Love You (2026) traces the real life of one unnamed federal agent through 42 individual artworks. The immense project is a labyrinth of stories in which Simon uncovers the ripple effects of her protagonist’s actions and inactions. Everything he touched ricocheted to the outer boundaries of nations and lives he’d never know.
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“Taryn Simon takes a similarly conceptual approach to complex subjects. This fall, she’s filling the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda with Father Country I Do Love You (Sept. 18), a project that’s been in the works for nearly a decade. It tracks the life and times of a bureaucratic federal agent, but obliquely, in Simon’s typical style, using photographs, text, and other works to reveal a refracted narrative.” —The New Yorker Fall Preview
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Member Monday
Monday, September 28, 6–8 pm
Celebrate the opening of Taryn Simon’s exhibition at Member Monday on September 28 with a lively dance party after hours. Toast the evening with your complimentary glass of wine as you explore this groundbreaking exhibition.
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The Guggenheim exhibition of Taryn Simon | Father Country I Do Love You is sponsored by
Major support is provided by Arison Arts Foundation, The Hearthland Foundation, Almine Rech, and Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. Generous support is provided by The George Economou Collection, Gagosian, Jamie and Robert Soros, Fondazione ARTEMISA, John and Amy Griffin Foundation, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Alessandra and Alan Mnuchin, Cristina von Bargen, Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson, Dillon Cohen and Ed Cohen, and Elizabeth Dee and Simon Frantz, with additional funding from Dana Wallach Jones and Michael T. M. Jones, Judelson Family Foundation, Rasika and Girish Reddy, Ann and Mel Schaffer, Erik Bruce, Susan L. Jacobson, and the Guggenheim’s Photography Council. Special thanks to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Additional funding for the exhibition
publication is provided by The Kate Cassidy Foundation.
Exhibition display technology is generously provided by
Photo: Ben Hider
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