Organized by the Carter, Drawn to Nature highlights depictions of nature from the Carter’s works on paper holdings from the 18th through the 21st centuries.

Organized by the Carter, Classically Trained: The Gentlings and Music explores Scott and Stuart Gentling’s artistic engagement with the Age of Enlightenment, and features over 20 artworks by the Gentlings, including paintings, drawings, and music inspired by the intellectual and cultural ideals of this era.

Celebrating 40 years of Richard Avedon’s In the American West, the Carter is presenting 40 works from the series accompanied by behind-the-scenes archival material of Avedon’s acclaimed portraits.

This exhibition examines the Fort Worth mid-century art scene through the presentation of more than 30 works by Fort Worth artist Charles Truett Williams and the artistic community drawn to his studio salon. Accompanying the works on paper and sculptures are ephemera from the recently acquired archives of Williams.

A multimedia examination of photographer and cinematographer Karl Struss, Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood celebrates his storied career and influence on American cinematography during Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Drawn primarily from the Carter’s collection, Arthur Dove: Miniature Laboratories examines a selection of small works created when Dove was confined in his home and the surrounding area in Long Island, NY, due to health issues.

The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury, a Carter-organized exhibition, illuminates Nevelson’s multidimensional mastery of form and dialogue with postwar American culture and features over 50 defining artworks by Nevelson on view together for the first time.

Re/Framed gives visitors to the Carter a new way to look at the Carter’s collection. Several times a year, artwork will be rotated allowing guests to see the works through a different lens.

Dario Robleto: The Signal highlights the artist’s multiyear exploration of the Golden Record, and features Robleto’s newly commissioned work Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, an immersive, 70-minute film based on a rare and forgotten document—the first audio recording of warfare—which was considered for inclusion on the Golden Record.

Art Making as Life Making offers a glimpse of life in a 1960s print workshop. While at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, Akagawa collaborated with many leading artists, printing their lithographs and creating his own. The exhibition features more than 40 works from the Carter’s collection of Tamarind Workshop prints.

2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Avedon, renowned fashion and portrait photographer. As part of a national celebration, the Carter is showcasing 13 works from the acclaimed series In the American West, which the Museum commissioned in 1979 and premiered in 1985.

Drawn from the Carter's collection, Richard Hunt: From Paper to Metal highlights the artist’s prints produced at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1965 and a newly-acquired sculpture, Natural Form, created in Hunt’s signature direct-welded metal technique. 

Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie features more than 20 new works, including a new large-scale silhouette painting; watercolor portraits of plants collected during his travels across the state of Texas; and trompe l’oeil clay and bronze sculptures of wildflowers.

Speaking with Light, organized by the Carter, is one of the first major museum surveys to explore how Indigenous artists have leveraged their lenses to reclaim representation and affirm their existence, perspectives, and trauma. The exhibition features more than 30 artists, 75 photographs, videos, three-dimensional works, and digital activations that forge an investigation into identity, resistance, and belonging.

Exploring more than 100 years of photographic representations of Black American experiences, Black Every Day: Photographs from the Carter Collection includes over 50 historical and contemporary art photographs and over 100 vernacular images. Works by both iconic artists and unidentified community members showcase the everyday moments of Black life.

On view for the first time since entering the Carter collection, Seven Days: The Still Lifes of Chuck Ramirez showcases Ramirez’s seven photographs depicting still-life scenes of food and leftovers after celebrations.

Organized by and drawn exclusively from the collection of the Joslyn Art Museum, Faces from the Interior features over 60 recently conserved 19th-century watercolors by Karl Bodmer including portraits of individuals from the Omaha, Ponca, Yankton, Lakota, Mandan, Hidatsa, Assiniboine, and Blackfoot nations. Contemporary Indigenous knowledge bearers, artists, and scholars contributed texts and four short films highlighting the diverse histories, beliefs, and practices embodied in Bodmer's portraits.