Doris Salcedo opens her first major exhibition in New York in more than a decade at White Cube on 13 November 2026, on view until 16 January 2027. The show follows her acclaimed US retrospective, which opened in 2015 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and travelled to the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Perez Art Museum Miami. Further information about the exhibition, including installation images and an exhibition text, will be available ahead of the opening.

At the centre of the exhibition stands House (2023-26), a monumental yet ethereal structure fabricated from human hair. Salcedo and her assistants spent three years knotting and weaving individual strands into the work, a meditation on what happens when homes are destroyed by political violence. The piece continues themes from her installation Uprooted (2020-22), shown at the 2023 Sharjah Biennial, which explored migration driven by the climate crisis.

On the gallery's other level, Salcedo presents Grains of Sorrow (2023-26), an installation of 47 small vessels made exclusively of rice and human hair. Exhibited on the gallery floor, the sculptures are carefully constructed as a counter to the dehumanisation of man-made starvation. Together, the two bodies of work address the devastation of displacement and the basic human need for home and sustenance.

Salcedo, born in 1958 in Bogota, received the Praemium Imperiale Award and the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Award in 2024. Her practice gives form to pain, trauma and loss, creating spaces for mourning and bearing witness to political violence, forced migration and grief that often remains unspoken.