February 5 - 26, 2023Celebrating 40 years at the KMA, 'Young Artists 2023' features the work of local high school artists who take part in all aspects of its curation, installation, and marketing efforts to produce this perennially favorite exhibition. The works range in scale, concept, media, and process, reflecting the diversity of expression in the region’s young artists.View Young Artists 2023
October 9, 2022 -January 22, 2023Honoring the work of Jerry Pinkney—master watercolorist, draftsman, and storyteller—Tenacity & Resilience: The Art of Jerry Pinkney features more than seventy illustrations, dummy books, and working drawings from nine children’s books from 1993 to 2020.Learn More
October 9, 2022 -January 22, 2023In the KMA’s Spot Gallery and Pollack Family Learning Center, A Sense of Community: Celebrating Jerry Pinkney’s Legacy explores Pinkney’s role as a mentor to, and model for, artists and illustrators of color.Learn More
July 10 -September 25, 2022Tradition Interrupted is an international group exhibition that explores the methods used by artists to conflate contemporary ideas with traditional arts and crafts in a range of media, from rugs and mosaics to metalwork and ceramics. The eleven artists in the exhibition hail from around the world.Learn More
July 10 -September 25, 2022Remy Jungerman: Higher Ground will focus on recent works by Suriname-born Dutch artist Remy Jungerman (b. 1959), who lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. The exhibition includes a selection from Jungerman’s three major bodies of work: wall-hung or free-standing three-dimensional assemblages (which the artist calls “horizontals” and “verticals”), stacked “cubes,” and fabric-covered “panels.” Through these self-imposed formal constraints, as well as a limited vocabulary of carefully-chosen materials, Jungerman explores connections between pattern and symbol in Surinamese Maroon culture and European “modernism.”Learn More
July 10 -September 25, 2022Experience a single masterpiece—the fourth in an ongoing series—by abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko in a space designed for individual reflection.Learn More
July 10 -September 25, 2022In the Learning Center you will experience a magical environment full of whimsical creatures and surprising elements hand-crafted from recycled textiles.Learn More
May 9 -June 26, 2022Natural Synergy brings together Carol Bouyoucos and Antoinette Wysocki, two artists whose layered imagery balances chance and control, representation and abstraction, all the while inviting a myriad of interpretations. Their collLearn More
March 13 -May 8, 2022Elena Grajek’s works play with pareidolia, the human tendency to see an object or meaning where there is none. While her depictions of people and animals are deceptively simple, her complex compositions suggest relationships and tensions among these characters.Learn More
February 6 - 27, 2022Using artworks from the ARRIVALS exhibition as inspiration, participants poems and collages are on view in the Learning Center.Learn More
October 3, 2021 -January 23, 2022Curated by Heather Ewing, ARRIVALS looks at how artists over time have explored some of the myths and narratives around what it means to be American and features more than 50 works spanning the 16th century to the present.Learn More
October 3, 2021 -January 23, 2022This Learning Center exhibition features artworks from eight poignant books that explore different topics related to immigration.Learn More
June 30 -September 22, 2019The Edge Effect describes an ecological phenomenon in the border area between disparate habitats, such as a meadow and a forest, which results in exponentially greater biodiversity. Learn More
March 17 -June 16, 2019The landscape has been an independent subject for painting since the Renaissance, yet it was not until the late 19th century that the genre was transformed, removing it from its low pedestal in the hierarchy of the academies and elevating it to a worthy theme in its own right. Learn More
August 11 -October 7, 2018The exhibition featured works that incorporate methods of layering and collaging to produce imagery with non-linear narratives that unfold quixotically like a palimpsest—images that build atop one another and leave faint traces of what came before. Learn More
July 1 - 29, 2018In the post-modern era, personal expression has been dismissed as an outmoded or trite directive for art-making; but within the current cultural moment, the capacity for personal expression feels both imperative and precarious.Learn More
February 25 -June 17, 2018Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition presented a focused look at a group of artists of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent whose work engages the diverse forms of Islamic visual tradition to explore religion, culture, and socio-political issues today.Learn More
October 15, 2017 -January 7, 2018Incorporating work that is fundamentally sculptural and often political, the exhibition asserted the power of artists to transform everyday materials into symbolic relics replete with information and symbolism.Learn More
