Ron Mueck: Encounter Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Winter

By Alex Greenberger

“Ron Mueck: Encounter” at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

The award for the world’s biggest, creepiest baby goes to Ron Mueck’s 2006 sculpture A Girl, an astonishingly detailed, 16-foot-long rendering of an infant with a mottled face. This piece might stick out in any other artist’s body of work, but Mueck has continually produced pieces that question what really counts as human when people’s bodies are scaled up and presented back to us in gigantic form. These unsettling works have been seen across the globe and are now being given a fittingly grand survey in Australia, Mueck’s home nation.

December 6, 2025–April 12, 2026