Frida Kahlo’s first United States solo exhibition was titled Frida Kahlo and opened at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1938.
The exhibition was arranged with support from the French-American artist Marcel Duchamp, who helped Kahlo prepare the show. It presented a relatively small group of paintings and introduced her work to an important American art audience. The response was favorable, and several works were sold.
This exhibition followed Kahlo’s growing recognition through contacts with artists and collectors in the United States. It also preceded her first solo exhibition in Paris, which took place in 1939.
The question can be confused with the exhibition’s location or year. The gallery was Julien Levy Gallery, the city was New York, and the exhibition title was simply Frida Kahlo rather than a broad survey title.