Taryn Simon, A squad agent informed me I’d be babysitting, 2026 © Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon | Father Country I Do Love You is an epic story tracing one man’s real life and the global reverberations of his actions over the last four decades.

Taryn Simon | Father Country I Do Love You, a major exhibition premiering a new body of work by artist Taryn Simon (b. 1975, New York). On view during the 250th anniversary of the United States, this presentation will bring together never-before-seen photographs, texts, videos, and sculptures into a singular, interactive installation filling the entire rotunda. It will mark the first monographic exhibition by a photography-based artist in the iconic spiral rotunda and the largest debut of new work ever staged at the Guggenheim.

Nearly a decade in the making, Father Country I Do Love You (2026) traces the real life of one unnamed federal agent through 42 multipart artworks or “chapters.” The immense project is a labyrinth of stories in which Simon uncovers the ripple effects of her protagonist’s actions and inactions. Through duty, devotion, loss, and happenstance, the federal agent acted as a middleman, witnessing events great and small and collecting evidence for someone else to slot into the bigger picture. Stings and entrapments, traitors and child soldiers, impeachment and Hollywood, mass shootings and poison: everything he touched ricocheted to the outer boundaries of nations and lives he’d never know.

As the impacts of the agent’s stories reverberate throughout the Guggenheim rotunda, visitors step into the whirlwind Simon has assembled. From Quantico to Moscow, Beijing to Atlanta, the life of Simon’s central character unfolds in episodes.

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