Current Exhibitions
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection
Through
Free with Museum Admission
Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait
Through
Free with Museum Admission
Upcoming Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
For details on exhibitions older than one year, please refer to the exhibition database.
- Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish (June 11, 2017—September 17, 2017)
- Ron Mueck (February 26, 2017—August 13, 2017)
- Decorative Arts in the Age of Victoria (March 11, 2017—June 25, 2017)
- Off-site Exhibition “Rain: Magdalena Fernández at the Houston Cistern” (December 10, 2016—June 25, 2017)
- Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats (March 12, 2017—June 4, 2017)
- Cuban Photography after 1980: Selections from the Museum’s Collection (February 7, 2017—June 4, 2017)
- Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 (March 5, 2017—May 21, 2017)
- Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography (January 13, 2017—May 7, 2017)
- Prototype/Production (November 12, 2016—April 30, 2017)
- Vignettes: Masterworks on Paper 1520 to 1870 (January 14, 2017—April 16, 2017)
- Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection (January 14, 2017—April 9, 2017)
- Ádám Magyar “Stainless” (February 8, 2017—April 9, 2017)
- Grand Designs: Neoclassical Taste in the 18th Century (September 17, 2016—February 20, 2017)
- Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from Berthouville (November 6, 2016—February 5, 2017)
- Securing the Glow: Photographs of Clouds (October 11, 2016—January 29, 2017)
- Overhead and Under Foot: Contemporary Topographies on Paper (October 11, 2016—January 29, 2017)
- Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei (October 23, 2016—January 29, 2017)
- Wangechi Mutu “The End of carrying All” (November 8, 2016—January 26, 2017)
- Degas: A New Vision (October 16, 2016—January 16, 2017)
- Julian Onderdonk and the Texan Landscape (October 2, 2016—January 1, 2017)
- Helen Levitt: In the Street (September 13, 2016—January 1, 2017)
- A Texas Legacy: Selections from the William J. Hill Collection (October 2, 2016—January 1, 2017)
- Christian Marclay “Telephones” (October 11, 2016—November 8, 2016)
- Look to the East: Decorative Arts and Orientalism, 1870–1920 (June 24, 2016—October 23, 2016)
- The Age of Kusama: Pop Art and Minimalism (June 28, 2016—October 2, 2016)
- Statements: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection (January 23, 2016—September 25, 2016)