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

• Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection (July 1, 2017—September 24, 2017)
• 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)
• 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)
• Julian Onderdonk and the Texan Landscape (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)