Exhibitions

Upcoming Exhibitions

Pool Party: The Pool in American Art

JUNE 6 - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025

The pool symbolizes luxury and leisure in America, and it has been captivating artists since the 1950s with bright sunlight, vibrant colors, and modernist architecture.

Juan William Chavez: Art Pollination

OCTOBER 10, 2025 - JANUARY 25, 2026

In concurrence with the City of Orlando’s $1m 2023 Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge project Art Pollination: Building Food Justice through Creativity, the bilingual (English & Spanish) exhibition highlights the social practice of artist Juan William Chávez.

Past Exhibitions

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, 2025

Sally 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, 2024

Over 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, 2024

In 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, 2024

This 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, 2024

This 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, 2023

Anila 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, 2023

From 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, 2023

From 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.

An Irresistible Urge to Create: The Monroe Family Collection

June 10 - October 16, 2022

A travelling exhibition of painting and sculpture from 45 self-taught artists from the collection of South Florida–based photographer Gary Monroe. Monroe collected these surprising, gripping, and fantastical works by self-taught artist s to spur discussions on redefining whoʼs work is or is not included in Art History.

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Adults	$8
Seniors (60+)	$5
Educators and students with valid ID	$3
Children ages 6-17	$3
Children under age 6	FREE
Active, retired military, veterans and their families with valid ID	FREE