For details on exhibitions older than one year, please refer to the exhibition database.

• Miguel Ángel Ríos: On the Edge (January 18, 2019—February 24, 2019)
• Garden Paradise: The Magnificent Safavid Carpet from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow (November 2, 2018—February 10, 2019)
• Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson & Dorothy Hood (November 3, 2018—February 3, 2019)
• Always Greener: Seeing and Seeking Suburbia—Selections from the Museum’s Collection (August 21, 2018—February 3, 2019)
• Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol (October 7, 2018—January 27, 2019)
• Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955–1975 (October 28, 2018—January 21, 2019)
• Jennifer Steinkamp: The Seasons (December 18, 2018—January 17, 2019)
• The Connoisseur’s Eye: New Perspectives on Ceramics in the Rienzi Collection (September 1, 2018—January 13, 2019)
• Kevin O. Mooney: 366247•2012 (October 20, 2018—December 9, 2018)
• Contemporary Dutch Design: Selections from the Museum’s Collection (May 19, 2018—November 25, 2018)
• 40 Years of Discovery: Gifts of Clint Willour (June 9, 2018—October 14, 2018)
• Digital Worlds: New Media from the Museum’s Collection (June 23, 2018—October 8, 2018)
• 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)