Our Collection: Women Artists, A Force in American Art JUNE 6, 2025 - JANUARY 18, 2026This exhibition presents over 100 years of painting in the United States by a broad range of professional women artists, highlighting innovative artists who defied traditional social and artistic expectations to succeed in making their lives as artists and supporters of the arts through diverse and evolving careers.
Luca Molnar: Worker Bees OCTOBER 10, 2025 - ON GOING A new mural will also be debuted by Art Pollination 2025 Bloomberg Philanthropies Artist Luca Molnar. Molnar creates compositions that layer historical photographs with decorative patterns – scrapbooking the past, research, and her identity.
Juan William Chavez: Art Pollination OCTOBER 10, 2025 - JANUARY 25, 2026The social practice of artist Juan William Chávez is rooted in his holistic view of aesthetics, ecology, ritual, craft, labor, activism, and his Peruvian heritage.
Spirituality in Self-Taught Art from the Mennello Museum Collection February 6 – May 3, 2026Explore themes of spirituality from the Mennello Museum of American Art's collection of Self-Taught artists. From visionary gifts to peaceable kingdoms, these artists painted and sculpted otherworldly messages and impressions for all to witness.
Our Collection: Spirit of the Landscape February 6 – May 3, 2026Our Collection: Spirit of the Landscape presents paintings from the Mennello Museum of American Art's permanent collection, which depict the wondrous beauty and human connection to the natural world.
Jesse Aaron: Spirit in the Wood February 6 – May 3, 2026Jesse Aaron: Spirit from the Wood is an exhibition that explores the artist’s intention to release, through carving, the familiar faces of spirit, animal, and human form from within the essential and life-giving material of wood.
Our Orlando: Tasanee Durrett & Martha Jo Mahoney May 15 - August 16, 2026The third iteration of Our Orlando features local artists Tasanee Durrett and Martha Jo Mahoney.
American Youth: Amplify May 15 - August 16, 2026American Youth: Amplify, invites Orange County teens to submit two and three-dimensional work for an exhibition that fosters the next generation of artists. In previous years, teens have explored themes and topics important to them including identity, society, and the creative process.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror (August 28, 2026 - February 28, 2027)On loan from the Art Bridges Foundation, Metal the Mirror is a captivating traveling exhibition showcasing nine of Isamu Noguchi's galvanized steel sculptures from 1982-1983. With their reflective surfaces and evolving patinas, these works delve into themes of duality inspired by Noguchi's personal experience navigating his life as a Japanese American.
Pool Party: The Pool in American Art JUNE 6 - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025The pool symbolizes luxury and leisure in America, and it has been captivating artists since the 1950s with bright sunlight, vibrant colors, and modernist architecture.
The Original Influencers: Mernet Larsen, Steve Lotz, and Bruce Marsh JANUARY 31 - MAY 25, 2025 The exhibition examines the rich and vibrant legacy of Central Florida’s arts and higher education through contemplating the work of these three foundational figures – artists who have had a profound impact on the Central Florida art scene and have inspired generations of students.
Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism September 20, 2024 - January 12, 2025Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism is the first museum retrospective in over 20 years of Sally Michel's Modernist landscapes and figurations from the 1930s - 1990s, long overlooked in traditional Art Historical discourse.
Mark Messersmith: Long Summer May 31, 2024 – September 8, 2024Over the past four decades, Mark Messersmith has created densely packed, large-scale paintings of Florida’s untamed landscapes where black bears wade among lotuses, discarded bottles hang in trees, and herons devour their dinners under high the high contrast light of the sun and moon.
Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America May 31, 2024 – September 8, 2024In the early 1840’s after publishing the wildly successful Birds of America portfolio, John James Audubon set out on his second grand expedition, this time to record and draw the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Audubon along with his son, John Woodhouse Audubon, produced 150 folio drawings hand-printed and hand colored by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia.
Self-Taught Black Artists in the American South January 26, 2024 – May 19, 2024This exhibition presents the work of 13 Black self-taught artists from the American South. It highlights excellent examples from the Mennello Museum’s permanent collection alongside the 2023 acquisition of works from the Polk Museum of Art.
In Nature's Studio October 6, 2023 – January 15, 2024This rich exhibition features the bounty and beauty of the American landscape from the early nineteenth century through the twentieth century.
Anila Quayyum Agha: Flourishing Patterns June 23 - September 24, 2023Anila Quayyum Agha: Flourishing Patterns presents light installation, sculpture, and works on paper by Anila Quayyum Agha, a Pakistani-American multimedia artist whose work employs renewed interpretations of blossoming Islamic arabesque and geometric design to project flourishing forms in light and shadow into the viewer's space.
Impression and Reality February 25, 2023 – June 11, 2023From the late 1800s through the 1920s, two important stylistic movements of early 20th century Art History coexisted – American Impressionism and Realism. These artists’ styles overlapped in time and a loose, impressionistic brushstroke, but transected in their subject matter.
In Conversation: Will Wilson & Edward S. Curtis October 28, 2022 - February 12, 2023From the Art Bridgeʼs Foundation, In Conversation presents the works of Diné (Navajo) photographer Will Wilson (b. 1969) and Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952). Wilson explores the relationship of science, identity, agency, and representation in photography.
