Museum Exhibition

Isamu Noguchi at the Peabody Essex Museum

Posted: 14 July 2026

Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Portrait of Isamu Noguchi, 1955. © Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation / The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum Archives, New York / ARS-ADAGP, Paris, 2023

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19 September 2026 – 3 January 2027

Salem, Massachusetts

The Peabody Essex Museum presents ‘Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”’, a major retrospective offering a new perspective on the artist’s engagement with design.

Taking its title from a declaration made by Noguchi in 1949, the exhibition brings together nearly 200 objects spanning sculpture, furniture, lighting, ceramics, architecture and designs for public space, many of which have rarely or never been exhibited. Organised by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the exhibition debuted there earlier this year.