Exhibitions
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Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books,
Through August 7, 2022Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books
Oliver Jeffers is an award-winning artist and author working in painting, bookmaking, illustration, collage, performance, and sculpture. This retrospective exhibition showcases nearly one hundred artworks, some never seen, including original line drawings, sketches, and finished illustrations, from sixteen of Jeffers’s picture books.
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Permanent Collection Installation
Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the Collection,
OngoingPermanent Collection Installation
Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the CollectionIn observance of the 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, this installation is drawn from the High Museum’s collection and features artworks made exclusively by women.
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Permanent Collection Installation
Shaheen Collection of French Works,
OngoingPermanent Collection Installation
Shaheen Collection of French WorksThe Doris and Shouky Shaheen Collection focuses on French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern,
October 21, 2022–January 15, 2023Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern
The more than 70 sculptures and drawings in the exhibition encompass many of Rodin’s best-known compositions, including The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, and The Kiss, as well as less-familiar subjects and an exceptional number of his expressive and probing drawings.
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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History,
February 6–May 9, 2021David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
David Driskell (1931-2020) was one of the most revered American artists of his generation. This is the first exhibition to bring together his paintings and works on paper and survey seven decades of the artist’s practice from the 1950s to the 2000s, featuring works from museums and private collections and the artist’s estate.
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Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands,
December 12, 2020–April 18, 2021Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands
Bringing together nearly one hundred works highlighting the rich and artistic cultural heritage of Iranian civilization from the sixth to the nineteenth century, Bestowing Beauty draws from one of the most significant collections of Persian art privately owned and rarely publicly displayed.
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Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books,
August 15–November 8, 2020Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books
This exhibition is the first of its kind to delve into the events, people, and themes of the civil rights movement, both celebrated and forgotten, through one of the most compelling forms of visual expression, the children’s picture book.
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The Plot Thickens: Storytelling in European Print Series,
February 22–July 19, 2020The Plot Thickens: Storytelling in European Print Series
Long before comics and graphic novels, artists used pictures to tell stories. This exhibition presents six series of etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts that do just that.
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Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris,
November 27, 2019–May 3, 2020Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris
This latest chapter in the High’s “Picturing the South” commission series features new work made by North Carolina-based photographer Alex Harris on independent film sets throughout the South to explore how the region is seen, imagined and created by contemporary visual storytellers.
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Fine Lines: American Works on Paper,
October 23, 2019–March 22, 2020Fine Lines: American Works on Paper
Fine Lines celebrates a recent gift to the High of 50 late nineteenth-century drawings from Atlanta collector Paul Stein that will be on view at the Museum for the first time. In addition, the exhibition features a suite of watercolors on loan from Stein.
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“Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series,
September 14, 2019–February 2, 2020“Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series
Organized by the High, this touring exhibition will be the first to bring dozens of works from Romare Bearden’s eminent “Profile” series together since its debut nearly 40 years ago.
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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History,
David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
David Driskell (1931-2020) was one of the most revered American artists of his generation. This is the first exhibition to bring together his paintings and works on paper and survey seven decades of the artist’s practice from the 1950s to the 2000s, featuring works from museums and private collections and the artist’s estate.
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Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books,
Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books
This exhibition is the first of its kind to delve into the events, people, and themes of the civil rights movement, both celebrated and forgotten, through one of the most compelling forms of visual expression, the children’s picture book.
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Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe,
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
Based on the High’s leading collection of Nellie Mae Rowe’s art, Really Free is the first major exhibition of her work in more than twenty years and the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South.
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Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America,
Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America
After World War I, artists without formal training began showing their work in major museums, “crashing the gates” of the elite art world. This exhibition will celebrate more than a dozen early twentieth-century painters who fundamentally reshaped who could be an artist in the United States and paved the way for later generations of self-taught artists.
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2018 Reinstallation | Permanent Collection,
2018 Reinstallation | Permanent Collection
Experience a new High—Refreshed. Reimagined. Revealed. With old favorites, new acquisitions, and previously stored artworks now on view, the redesigned collections embrace growth and diversity while creating dynamic experiences for our visitors.
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