The exhibition Oscar Hagerman: Sillas de México at The Chinati Foundation, are on view examples of four of Oscar Hagerman´s chair typologies. These include the Arrullo, Colibrí, Maya, and Ruiseñor, exhibited on a natural fiber petate hand-woven by master craftsman Nacho Morales, and displayed alongside five of Hagerman’s drawings for chairs.
In 1969, Hagerman designed his first chair, the Arullo, which he refined and produced with workers of the Cooperativa Don Emiliano, a carpenters’ cooperative in Nezahualcóyotl City, located in the eastern outskirts of Mexico City. Equipped with this design, Hagerman invited cooperative members to make and sell their own furniture using his designs as templates, a practice that continues with various communities today.
In 2018, kurimanzutto presented the exhibition Sillas de México. The show consisted of a selection of five chair designs with eight variations created throughout Hagerman's career.