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

• Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography (January 16, 2019—August 11, 2019)
• Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on Paper—Selections from the Museum’s Collection (February 12, 2019—August 4, 2019)
• Broadway’s Amazing Mastersons (March 2, 2019—July 31, 2019)
• Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art (March 10, 2019—June 27, 2019)
• Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017 (March 3, 2019—May 27, 2019)
• Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings (March 3, 2019—May 27, 2019)
• Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Büsi (Kitty) (February 26, 2019—April 28, 2019)
• 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)