Immerse yourself in a colorful botanical world full of giant insects, flowers, and plants created by Houston–based artist and Rice University professor Natasha Bowdoin. Inspired by the Carter’s collection and the artist’s abounding interest in literature, In the Night Garden asks us to pause and reimagine our relationship with the natural world.

Commissioned for the reopening of the Carter, Puente Nuevo is an immersive experience of large-scale artwork made from the materials used to construct piñatas.

Eleanore Mikus translated her signature style of painting into the medium of printmaking. Meditations draws from the Carter’s deep collection of works on paper, which includes more than 2,500 Tamarind prints from the 1960s, including these rarely seen works Mikus created in 1968.

See American art through international eyes. From experimental abstractions to politically charged themes, this exhibition brings together nearly forty prints and drawings created by artists who immigrated to America from Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.

Fort Worth artists Scott and Stuart Gentling had artistic interests that spanned centuries and continents. In the first-ever comprehensive retrospective of the brothers’ work, Imagined Realism features more than 150 works and archival objects that showcase their visionary artistic careers.

This exhibition offers the first-ever in-depth examination of the 19th-century photographic phenomenon of cabinet cards, examining how this trend in photographic portraiture set the foundation for the snapshot and today’s digital photosharing.

While he is internationally celebrated for his colorful renderings of the natural world, Eliot Porter’s Birds highlights Porter's equal, career-long focus on photographing birds through more than thirty photographs and archival objects with the artist’s extensive writings. 

From luscious leafy tendrils to stark horizon lines, this exhibition of prints by Hedda Sterne drawn from the Carter’s collection celebrates the artist’s exquisite variety of formal interests.

This intimate survey exhibition, drawn from the Museum’s extensive collection, showcases photographers’ acknowledgment of work in many forms, their recognition of how people are often defined by their jobs, and their documentation of labor’s troubles and successes.

Nature/Culture explores different facets of the dichotomy between nature and culture through photographs, reflecting on how nature counterpoints and enlivens our built environment and on what qualifies as “natural.”

In Her Image traces the development of female identity through portraiture, from young girlhood to middle age. Matar uses her photographs to show how the forces that shape female identity transcend cultural and geographic boundaries.