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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Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books,
August 15–November 8, 2020Picture 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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The Plot Thickens: Storytelling in European Print Series,
February 22–July 19, 2020The Plot Thickens: Storytelling in European Print Series
Long before comics and graphic novels, artists used pictures to tell stories. This exhibition presents six series of etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts that do just that.
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Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris,
November 27, 2019–May 3, 2020Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris
This latest chapter in the High’s “Picturing the South” commission series features new work made by North Carolina-based photographer Alex Harris on independent film sets throughout the South to explore how the region is seen, imagined and created by contemporary visual storytellers.
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Fine Lines: American Works on Paper,
October 23, 2019–March 22, 2020Fine Lines: American Works on Paper
Fine Lines celebrates a recent gift to the High of 50 late nineteenth-century drawings from Atlanta collector Paul Stein that will be on view at the Museum for the first time. In addition, the exhibition features a suite of watercolors on loan from Stein.
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“Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series,
September 14, 2019–February 2, 2020“Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series
Organized by the High, this touring exhibition will be the first to bring dozens of works from Romare Bearden’s eminent “Profile” series together since its debut nearly 40 years ago.
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Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings,
October 19–December 16, 2019Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
This major exhibition of the celebrated photographer’s work investigates how her relationship with the South—as place and source of identity, with a rich literary and artistic tradition and a troubled history—has shaped her art.
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Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin,
May 11–November 10, 2019Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin
Dubbed the “Father of American Surrealism,” Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985) was the most important Southern photographer of his time and a singular figure in the development of the American school of photography.
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2018 Reinstallation | Permanent Collection,
October 12, 2018–October 12, 20192018 Reinstallation | Permanent Collection
Experience a new High—Refreshed. Reimagined. Revealed. With old favorites, new acquisitions, and previously stored artworks now on view, the redesigned collections embrace growth and diversity while creating dynamic experiences for our visitors.
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Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta,
June 1–September 29, 2019Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta
Of Origins and Belonging is the third in a series of exhibitions at the High focused on work by Atlanta-based artists. The exhibition features six artists who address issues related to place, belonging and heritage in their work
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The Pursuit of Everything:
Maira Kalman’s Books for Children,
June 22–September 15, 2019The Pursuit of Everything:
Maira Kalman’s Books for ChildrenExplore the exhibition's immersive panorama of Maira Kalman’s picture book career spanning three decades. The more than 100 works on view will include original drawings and paintings from her award-winning books, along with manuscripts, dummy books, and other ephemera.
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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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