Special Exhibition

Robert Therrien: This is a Story

November 22, 2025 - April 5, 2026

"Tables you could walk under, stacks of dishes as tall as columns, chairs that, seen from below, resemble towers. . . the artist behind that wonderland is Robert Therrien."

— Giorgia Aprosio, Domus

Press Highlights

Los Angeles Times

The Broad to open the largest-ever Robert Therrien show

Jessica Gelt

Time Out

Even more oversized tables and chairs are coming to The Broad

Gillian Glover

Domus

Tables you could walk under, stacks of dishes as tall as columns, chairs that, seen from below, resemble towers. . .the artist behind that wonderland is Robert Therrien (1947–2019), the American sculptor who transformed the ordinary into the extraordinary, childhood into architecture, and the everyday into vertigo.

Giorgia Aprosio

Highlighted Artwork

No title (stacked plates, white)
1993
ceramic epoxy on fiberglass
94 x 60 x 60 in. (238.76 x 152.4 x 152.4 cm)
No title (bent cone relief)
1983
lacquer and wax on wood
90 x 36 x 4 in. (228.6 x 91.44 x 10.16 cm)
No title (plaster snowman)
1982-98
plaster
36 x 16 x 16 in. (91.44 x 40.64 x 40.64 cm)