Exhibitions

2011 - 2012

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1948

Painting in Mexico that included the words "God does not exist" was covered and held from public view for nine years.

1947

Together with Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, forms the National Institute of Fine Arts' (INBA) Commission for Mural-Painting.

1933

Diego started work on a mural, Man at the Crossroads, in Radio City in the Rockefeller Center in New York. However, a conflict arose over a portrait of Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, and the mural was chipped off the wall and destroyed February 9, 1934.

1931

Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This was the Museum's fourteenth exhibition and only its second one man show.

1930

Arrives in San Francisco to paint a mural for the Stock Exchange.

1916

Exhibition in New York City

1913

Paints his first Cubist works and exhibits at the Autumn Salon.

1910

Exhibition in Mexico. The wife of the powerful president Porifirio Diaz buys six of the forty paintings shown.