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.
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.
Juan William Chavez: Art Pollination OCTOBER 10, 2025 - JANUARY 18, 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.
Self-Taught: Self-Portraits, Memories, and a Peaceable Kingdom January 30 – May 3, 2026Self-Taught paintings from the Mennello Museum Collection that tell a diversity of stories in American History and Art.
Wood, Stone, & Bronze: Figurative Sculpture from the Mennello January 30 – May 3, 2026Marking the Semiquincentennial of the United States, Mennello Museum of American Art will present three concurrent exhibitions highlighting rarely seen artworks from the collection including traditional and modern sculpture and self-taught painting.
Martha Jo Mahoney: Focus January 30 – May 3, 2026Presenting recent paintings by Orlando based artist Martha Jo Mahoney. Inspired by Abstract Expressionists like Joan Mitchell and Cy Twombly, Mahoney’s paintings suggest poetic arrangements and metaphors for the landscape and natural world found in Florida and abroad.
Our Collection: Through Time January 30 – May 3, 2026From Modernists in search of new expression to migrants transplanted in blossoming cities, Our Collection highlights some of the most recognized painters in US Art History.
Our Orlando: Tasanee Durrett & Andrew M. Grant May 15 - August 16, 2026Our Orlando features local artists Tasanne Durrett and Andrew M. Grant. Durrett analyzes the intersection of ethnobotany, identity and psychology within the Black Diaspora through continuous line portraiture. Grant depicts the Black body through the classical nude with a surrealist perception of the subconscious yielding symbolic references to Art History.
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.
An Irresistible Urge to Create: The Monroe Family Collection June 10 - October 16, 2022A 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.
