Current Exhibitions
Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait
Through
Free with Museum Admission
Contemporary Dutch Design: Selections from the Museum’s Collection
Through
Free with Museum Admission
Upcoming Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
For details on exhibitions older than one year, please refer to the exhibition database.
- Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age (June 24, 2018—September 16, 2018)
- Mike + Doug Starn: Big Bambú (June 10, 2018—September 3, 2018)
- Hidden Layers: Painting and Process in Europe, 1500–1800 (May 26, 2018—September 3, 2018)
- Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India (March 4, 2018—August 19, 2018)
- Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese Buddhist Gilt Bronzes from the Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection (November 30, 2017—August 5, 2018)
- Extravagant Objects: Jewelry and Objets d’Art from the Masterson Collection (November 18, 2017—July 26, 2018)
- Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography (January 24, 2018—June 24, 2018)
- Passion for Perfection: The Straus Collection of Renaissance Art (October 21, 2017—June 17, 2018)
- Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples (March 11, 2018—June 10, 2018)
- Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs (March 3, 2018—June 10, 2018)
- Off-site Exhibition: MFA Contemporary @ Heights Mercantile (March 30, 2018—June 3, 2018)
- Radicals and Revolutionaries: America’s Founding Fathers (March 10, 2018—May 28, 2018)
- The Design Reformation in Europe, 1845–1915: Selections from the Museum’s Collection (October 21, 2017—May 6, 2018)
- The Glamour and Romance of Oscar de la Renta (October 8, 2017—March 18, 2018)
- David Levinthal: Photographs 1972–2016 (October 14, 2017—February 19, 2018)
- Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands (November 19, 2017—February 11, 2018)
- On Common Ground: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art (October 21, 2017—February 4, 2018)
- Textures of Place: Selections from the Museum’s Collection (October 10, 2017—February 4, 2018)
- Monuments: 276 Views of the U.S.–Mexico Border by David Taylor (December 5, 2017—January 31, 2018)
- HOME—So Different, So Appealing (November 17, 2017—January 21, 2018)
- Christian Marclay: “Chewing Gum” (October 17, 2017—December 3, 2017)
- In the Studio: Craft in Postwar America, 1950–1970 (May 18, 2017—October 8, 2017)
- Homelands and Histories: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh (May 6, 2017—October 1, 2017)
- Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 (June 25, 2017—October 1, 2017)
- Houston Artists Select: Selections from the Museum’s Collection (June 13, 2017—October 1, 2017)
- Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection (July 1, 2017—September 24, 2017)