Zimmerli Art Museum To Present Andy Warhol Exhibition Featuring Nearly 70 Photographs and Films

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers will show Andy Warhol: On Repeat from Feb.11 to July 31, 2026. Nearly 70 photographs from the museum's collection will hang alongside films borrowed from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Many photographs haven't been seen before. This show examines repetition and duration as central themes throughout Warhol's creative output.

Films starring Edie Sedgwick appear, plus other Screen Tests subjects. The Screen Tests comprise close to 500 durational film portraits made during the mid-1960s. Warhol filmed avant-garde actors Rufus Collins and Kyoko Kishida, performer Mario Montez, and Donyale Luna.

Donyale Luna broke barriers. She became the first Black model to grace the covers of both Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, and HBO made a documentary about her life.

"We're thrilled to present this fresh perspective on one of the most influential artists of the 20th century," said Maura Reilly, director of the Zimmerli Art Museum, according to New Jersey Stage. "The exhibition reflects our museum's commitment to original scholarship, and it underscores our role as a place where familiar histories are reconsidered and reimagined for new generations."

Films such as Outer and Inner Space (1966) will be projected as wide as sixteen feet. These large-scale projections create spaces visitors can step into and experience. Polaroids stack in vertical towers that mimic photobooth strips.

"Warhol understood that cameras don't just record people, they transform them," said Jeremiah William McCarthy, the museum's chief curator and curator of the exhibition. "By filming a static sitter for three minutes or photographing someone repeatedly, Warhol preserved individuals either blooming or disappearing under the pressure of being seen. It remains a very relevant insight for our image-obsessed culture."

Visitors can capture their own screen tests through an in-gallery interactive setup. Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator and Curator of American Art, organized this show.

Free public programs will run alongside the show. An opening reception kicks things off on Feb. 12. Spring brings Polaroid workshops on March 11 and April 16, plus the Art Together family workshop on April 12.

Admission costs nothing at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. You'll find it at 71 Hamilton St. in New Brunswick.