Tina Girouard: Sign-In

“Sign-In” is the first major retrospective of artist Tina Girouard, an experimental practitioner whose work spans craft, performance, video, and feminist collaboration. In 1983, she became the first woman to stage a solo show at Museo Tamayo, “Vámonos a México”. Over four decades later, “Sign-In” traces the arc of her practice, centring her lifelong engagement with material experimentation and collective making.

At the heart of Girouard’s work is the idea of “maintenance”—a daily, ritual practice that affirms the spiritual value of ordinary objects and gestures. Her domestic and artistic spaces become sites for rethinking care, labour, and community, especially through acts traditionally coded as “women’s work”.

Following its premiere at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, “Sign-In” travelled to CARA (New York) and now opens at Museo Tamayo, co-organised by CARA and the Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought. Curated by Manuela Moscoso, Andrea Andersson, and Jordan Amirkhani.