The Hirshhorn is a leading voice for contemporary art and culture and provides a national platform for the art and artists of our time - it is one of the most visited modern art museums in the US. The Hirshhorn’s holdings encompass one of the most important collections of postwar American and European art in the world. Gordon Bunshaft, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect designed the the new museum in 1966.
The largest US museum survey of this pioneering artist to date, Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes features more than thirty large-scale paintings that reveal the artist’s considerable influence in the field of contemporary art. One of the most inventive artists working today, von Heyl has earned international acclaim for continually rethinking the possibilities of contemporary painting.