Anna Maria Maiolino's ANNA—And the Infinite Line at Hauser & Wirth New York

Key facts

• ANNA—And the Infinite Line runs September 10 through October 31, 2026 at Hauser & Wirth's New York gallery on West 18th Street
• The exhibition covers approximately six decades of Anna Maria Maiolino's practice across prints, drawings, photography, and sculpture
• A documentary of the same title from The Forgotten Her Story is released alongside the show
• Maiolino was born in Scalea, Italy, in 1942 and migrated through Venezuela before establishing herself in Brazil
• She participated in the 1967 exhibition New Brazilian Objectivity with Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, and Hélio Oiticica
• The woodcut Anna (1967) uses the letters of her name instead of her face to address language and identity
• Maiolino left Rio de Janeiro in 1968 and made the Entre Pausas (Between Pauses) drawings in New York, which she called "records of existence"
• She returned to Brazil in 1971 and lived under military dictatorship, shaping the Fotopoemação (Photo-poem-action) series
• Maiolino began working with clay in 1989; works include São 8 (There Are 8, 1993) and Cobrinhas (Little Snakes, 2018)
• The Na Noite – No Escuro (At Night – In the Dark) series uses white permanent marker on black paper, with examples dated 2026