Fashioning Christina Ramberg’s Paintings

The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is pleased to announce Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective, the largest survey of Christina Ramberg (1946–1995) to date. On view from February 8 through June 1, 2025, this comprehensive retrospective brings together nearly 100 works, including paintings, quilts, sketchbooks, and archival ephemera, to illuminate Ramberg’s remarkable career and distinctive visual vocabulary. Ramberg metabolized an encyclopedia of imagery to interrogate embodied experiences of gender and normative ideals of female beauty, enacted through restrictions and rituals she presents as at once ridiculous, sinister, and sexy.