Andy Warhol Family Album
Opens Apr 30
Andy Warhol Family Album
Andy Warhol, (Andy Warhol and Archie), 1973, from Family Album. Dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid): sheet, 4 1/4 × 3 3/8 in. (10.8 × 8.6 cm); image, 3 3/4 × 2 7/8 in. (9.5 × 7.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 2014.29.536. © 2026 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Apr 30–Oct 19, 2026
Andy Warhol Family Album presents 732 Polaroid photographs by Andy Warhol, with a focus on works from 1972 to 1973 that illuminate his fascination with image-making, celebrity, and the documentation of everyday life.
Photography was central to Warhol’s practice and his approach to self-representation. Carrying a camera wherever he went, he captured thousands of images over the course of his career. By the early 1970s, Polaroid cameras such as the Big Shot and SX-70 had become essential tools, allowing him to produce immediate photographs that often served as the starting point for his commissioned silkscreen portraits. Through this process, Warhol transformed daily life into artistic material.
Drawn from one of six Holson “family albums” that Warhol assembled as a personal archive, the exhibition features portraits, candid snapshots of collaborators and friends, scenes from his home in Montauk, and images from his travels in Europe. Together, these photographs offer an intimate view of Warhol’s social world and reveal his instinct for turning everyday moments into a continuous visual record.
Andy Warhol Family Album is part of an ongoing initiative to present rarely seen works from the Whitney’s collection, following exhibitions of Wanda Gág, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, and Claes Oldenburg.
Andy Warhol Family Album is organized by Roxanne Smith, the Jennifer Rubio Assistant Curator of the Collection and Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Curator of the Collection.