Cowboy

A color photograph of a man on a running horse in a dusty landscape and a sky full of white, fluffy clouds.
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Cowboy reexamines the popular mythologies surrounding the image and concept of the cowboy. Through the work of 28 artists, which includes Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and Latino perspectives, the exhibition explores a wide array of themes, including the cowboy’s role in shaping our perception of masculinity and gender as well as long-held assumptions about cowboys’ relationship to land and the way these assumptions come into conflict with the lived experiences of contemporary cowboys. Cowboy, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver, brings together more than 60 cutting-edge contemporary artworks including new commissions.

Header Image Credit

Image: Richard Prince (b. 1949), Untitled (cowboy), 1989, chromogenic print, Courtesy Richard Prince Studio

Cowboy is organized by Nora Abrams, Mark G. Falcone Director and Miranda Lash, Ellen Bruss Senior Curator, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.

Cowboy is presented at the Carter by Sundance Square.

With generous support from the Fort Worth Promotion and Development Fund, the Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the Alice L. Walton Foundation Temporary Exhibitions Endowment. Additional support comes from 95.9 The Ranch & 92.1 Hank FM.