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The Drawing Center
About
Founded in 1977 by the curator Martha Beck, The Drawing Center is a museum and non-profit exhibition space in SoHo, Manhattan, devoted to drawing, both historical and contemporary. It is the only institution in the United States dedicated solely to the medium, and through exhibitions, publications and public programmes it explores the role of drawing in art and culture.
Exhibitions
Current and upcoming shows at The Drawing Center.
Visit
Hours, tickets, and directions for The Drawing Center.
Address
35 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013, USA
People
Artists
Artists associated with the museum's collection and programme.
Simone Fattal
Simone Fattal (b. 1942, Damascus) is a Syrian-born Lebanese artist based in Paris whose ceramic and bronze sculptures, paintings and collages draw on archaeology, myth and the memory of war. Their work is presented in Unruly Waters, the flagship exhibition of Rubaiya Qatar 2026 in Doha.
Fiona Banner
Fiona Banner (born 1966 in Merseyside, England), also known as The Vanity Press, is a British artist whose work spans sculpture, drawing, installation, film and text. Her practice demonstrates a long-standing fascination with fighter aircraft and their place in culture, particularly as presented on film. She first became known for her 'wordscapes' – written, frame-by-frame transcriptions of Hollywood war films such as Top Gun and Apocalypse Now. In 2009 she issued herself an ISBN and registered herself as a publication, The Vanity Press. Banner was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2002, and in 2010 installed two decommissioned fighter jets, Harrier and Jaguar, in the Duveen Galleries of Tate Britain. Her work has been shown at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Hayward Gallery, London. In 2020 she was appointed Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Shirin Neshat
Zarina
Zarina (Zarina Hashmi, 1937–2020) was an Indian-born American artist renowned for minimalist woodcuts, intaglio prints and cast-paper works that evoke home, displacement, borders and memory through maps and architectural plans. Their work is included in Global Positioning System at Hayy Arts, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah (2026).
Robert Gober
Robert Gober (born 1954) is an American sculptor whose work often draws on domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors and legs.
Meret Oppenheim
Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer.
Blinky Palermo
Blinky Palermo – the artistic name of Peter Schwarze (1943–1977) – was a German abstract painter inspired by artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly.
Anne Truitt
Anne Truitt (1921–2004) was an American sculptor who became known in the late 1960s for large-scale minimalist sculptures, particularly after her solo show at André Emmerich Gallery in 1963 and a group show at the Jewish Museum in 1966. Unlike her contemporaries, she made her sculptures by hand rather than by industrial means, and her work, drawing on imagery from her past, deals with memory and nostalgia – as in early pieces resembling monumental segments of white picket fence.
Jack Whitten
Jack Whitten (1939–2018) was an American abstract painter and sculptor who, according to the Museum of Modern Art, “invented art-making techniques that were the first of their kind.” He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2016.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips (born 1985) is a German-American contemporary artist known for sculptures, drawings, prints, videos and performances. Her multidisciplinary practice explores the body, power dynamics, psychological experience, motherhood, race and social relations through hybrid objects resembling tools, prosthetics and functional devices. Represented by Matthew Marks Gallery, she is an associate professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago and has exhibited at the 59th Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, the Berlin Biennale and the New Museum Triennial.