During the renovation, this exhibition features highlights from the permanent collection, including paintings, photographs, and sculptures, by some of America’s most renowned artists.

Texas Folk Art features the spirited work of some of Texas’ most original painters who use a lack of convention and lively storytelling in order to create animated narratives about working, playing, and worshipping in Texas.

Focal Points highlights new holdings of the Carter’s photography collection, displaying works from contemporary artists and classical artists alike. All of these exciting acquisitions explore the way that artists have embraced and questioned the concept of America as a land of opportunity.

This exhibition features works created during Wayne’s oversight of the influential Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Her commitment to reviving fine art lithography led to her creation of fascinating, multilayered prints that show the many possibilities the medium holds for engaging audiences.

This exhibition features more than a dozen prints by Sam Francis, who combines loose strokes and splatters in order to create vibrant lithographs evocative of traditional symbols and biological specimens that pop with color and pulse with energy.

Archiving Eden displays photographs inspired by the work of international seed banks and ecologists to construct a visual meditation on botanical diversity and showcases the pure aesthetic pleasure of seeds and their transformations into plants.

In this exhibition, Staller reflects on consumerism and waste in contemporary society through works that trace the life of everyday objects, meditating on what we choose to keep, what we throw away, and what happens to the objects we consume.

Looking In: Photography from the Outside examines the way artists have photographed groups they are not part of through an in-depth look at series by six important 20th-century artists who navigated their role as “outsider” differently.

This exhibition features Bearden’s landmark series of collages and watercolors based on Homer’s classic work of Western literature, The Odyssey, recasting the heroes and villains as Black people and transforming the poem into a poignantly universal story through picture.

Abstract Texas presents the work of a few of Texas’ trailblazing artists of the mid-20th century who drew inspiration from their surroundings and used abstract styles to portray characteristics of expressive truth—regardless of the conservative tastes of the time.

This exhibition highlights the overlooked works on paper that helped catapult two great American artists to household names. Their ability to distill the essence of a scene using only black and white was fundamental to their success.

Ruth Asawa: Organic Meditations features an elegant series of lithographs created during the artist’s fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in the mid-1960s that invite viewers to contemplate her unique vision of the natural world’s beauty and wonders.

This exhibition provides a poignant glimpse into the life and art of Texas during the Great Depression, showcasing local artists who use their own unique styles to interpret the state’s people and landscapes during this pivotal moment in history.

This exhibition features the lithographs of Ed Ruscha, who, adding his own Pop Art flair to words suspended in space, created works reflective of his own experiences and the recurring themes from his paintings and screenprints.

In this exhibition, specially made for the Carter’s Atrium, Esther Pearl Watson explores her own personal identity through motifs and narratives that incorporate her childhood memories and Texas folklore into a deeply expressive canvas.

In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. ¡Printing the Revolution!, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists have since advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.

Trace features 10 fragmented marble tablets carved with phrases from a variety of founding documents and manifestos, uniting mottos intended for entirely different purposes to obscure their original meaning and call into question the objectivity of history.