diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e9c5df01eb68..a876f6e35065 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ def make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files):
         "cycler>=0.10",
         "fonttools>=4.22.0",
         "kiwisolver>=1.0.1",
-        "numpy>=1.21",
+        "numpy>=1.21,<2",
         "packaging>=20.0",
         "pillow>=6.2.0",
         "pyparsing>=2.3.1",