Exhibitions
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Permanent Collection Installation
Shaheen Collection of French Works,
OngoingPermanent Collection Installation
Shaheen Collection of French WorksThe Doris and Shouky Shaheen Collection focuses on French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature,
February 24–May 21, 2023Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature
Co-organized by the High and the Brandywine River Museum of Art, this is the first major museum exhibition to exclusively examine the nature-based works of pioneering American modernist Joseph Stella (1877-1946).
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Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross,
April 7–July 30, 2023Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross
This is the first solo exhibition at an American museum for sculptor and printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya (born 1932), one of the fathers of Nigerian modernism and a founding member of the Zaria Art Society, an art collective that developed the “natural synthesis” aesthetic that came to define early postcolonial Nigerian art.
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Ancient Nubia: Art of the 25th Dynasty from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
June 2–September 3, 2023Ancient Nubia: Art of the 25th Dynasty from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Ancient Nubia: Art of the 25th Dynasty from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will feature more than two hundred masterworks drawn from MFA Boston’s vast holdings, now the largest and most comprehensive collection of ancient Nubian art and material culture outside of Africa.
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Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America,
August 20–December 12, 2021Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America
After World War I, artists without formal training began showing their work in major museums, “crashing the gates” of the elite art world. This exhibition will celebrate more than a dozen early twentieth-century painters who fundamentally reshaped who could be an artist in the United States and paved the way for later generations of self-taught artists.
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Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting,
July 2–September 26, 2021Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting
Electrifying Design features nearly eighty rare lighting examples from the past one hundred years, considering how electric lighting has served as a catalyst for technological and artistic innovation within major avant-garde design movements.
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Our Good Earth: Rural Life and American Art,
April 17–August 1, 2021Our Good Earth: Rural Life and American Art
Through a selection of prints, drawings, and photographs from the High’s collection, Our Good Earth will explore the many ways in which Americans imagined and engaged with life beyond the city limits over the course of a century.
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Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection,
April 17–August 1, 2021Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection
For nearly all of photography’s one hundred eighty-year history, women have shaped the development of the art form and experimented with every aspect of the medium. This exhibition showcases more than one hundred photographs from the High’s collection, many of them never before on view, and charts the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present through the work of women photographers.
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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History,
February 6–May 9, 2021David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
David Driskell (1931-2020) was one of the most revered American artists of his generation. This is the first exhibition to bring together his paintings and works on paper and survey seven decades of the artist’s practice from the 1950s to the 2000s, featuring works from museums and private collections and the artist’s estate.
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Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands,
December 12, 2020–April 18, 2021Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands
Bringing together nearly one hundred works highlighting the rich and artistic cultural heritage of Iranian civilization from the sixth to the nineteenth century, Bestowing Beauty draws from one of the most significant collections of Persian art privately owned and rarely publicly displayed.
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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History,
David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
David Driskell (1931-2020) was one of the most revered American artists of his generation. This is the first exhibition to bring together his paintings and works on paper and survey seven decades of the artist’s practice from the 1950s to the 2000s, featuring works from museums and private collections and the artist’s estate.
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Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books,
Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books
This exhibition is the first of its kind to delve into the events, people, and themes of the civil rights movement, both celebrated and forgotten, through one of the most compelling forms of visual expression, the children’s picture book.
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Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe,
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
Based on the High’s leading collection of Nellie Mae Rowe’s art, Really Free is the first major exhibition of her work in more than twenty years and the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South.
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Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America,
Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America
After World War I, artists without formal training began showing their work in major museums, “crashing the gates” of the elite art world. This exhibition will celebrate more than a dozen early twentieth-century painters who fundamentally reshaped who could be an artist in the United States and paved the way for later generations of self-taught artists.
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Methuselah,
Methuselah
Working with butterfly experts, taxidermists, animators, computer modelers, and software designers for over a year, artist Reynier Leyva Novo translated the methuselah monarch butterfly from an analog specimen into a digital animation. The virtual avatar can be observed 24 hours a day during a one-year cycle. Seen moving against a black backdrop, the butterfly flutters, flies, feeds, and rests with the ease and delicacy of a real insect. At any given time, the software program determines the butterfly’s movements in space, drawing upon numerous data points related to monarch migration patterns.
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