Exhibitions at a Glance
Exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art range from realism to abstraction, from ancient artifacts to cutting edge contemporary, from traditional painting to recycled plastics. Every few months the Museum is transformed. During the school year, this diverse schedule offers educators and students multiple opportunities to explore visual history and connect their Museum experience to classroom learning. In addition, every year an exhibition of student artwork is displayed throughout the Museum.
On view through January 26, 2025
Jonathan Becker: Lost Time
Curated by renowned editor Mark Holborn, the exhibition commemorates fifty years of Jonathan Becker's photographic works. Spanning Becker’s formative period in Paris as a protégé of Brassaï through his illustrious career working with Vanity Fair, Vogue and the most iconic figures across contemporary culture, this exhibition provides intimate access to one of the leading figures in contemporary photography. School tours will focus on elements of portraiture including gesture, expression, scale, perspective, setting, and narrative. Students will also investigate photographic concepts of perspective, lighting, composition, and scale. All tours include a photography-related art making experience in The Pollack Family Learning Center.
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Educators’ Open House
Tuesday, September 24, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
February 9 – March 2, 2025
Young Artists 2025
This annual exhibition of high school seniors’ artwork gives aspiring artists an opportunity to work behind-the-scenes to produce a KMA exhibition. Students take on the roles of graphic designer, curator, exhibition designer, art installer, and artist as they collaborate with Museum professionals to mount the exhibition showcases over 350 artworks from nearly 40 high schools throughout Fairfield, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester counties.
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March 16 - June 29, 2025
Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist
Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist is the first major U.S. museum survey of the Brooklyn-based, Iranian-born artist Ali Banisadr. Organized by the Katonah Museum of Art, this exhibition encompasses nearly twenty years of the artist’s singular practice, across the mediums of painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Drawing on childhood experiences of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) in his native Tehran, Banisadr's expansive, multi-layered paintings explore themes of autobiographical narrative, invented stories, world history, collective memory, and mythology. Tours of this exhibition will investigate the artist’s practice from inspiration and influences to materials and techniques. We will consider concepts of color, composition, emotion, rhythm, and narrative. Student tours will include a hands-on art makingcomponent that connects to the ideas and materials explored in the exhibition.
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Image Credits :
Ali Banisadr, These fragments I have shored against my ruins, 2023. Oil on linen. 86 x 180 in.(218.4 x 457.2 cm). Mohammed Afkhami Foundation. Photography by Genevieve Hanson.