Past Exhibitions
Results
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Dario Robleto: The Signal
May 12–October 27, 2024Dario 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.
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Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood
May 12–August 25, 2024A 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.
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Drawn to Nature
May 25–September 29, 2024Organized 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.
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Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie
September 16, 2023–May 12, 2024Trespassers: 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.
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Come to Colorado
August 27, 2023–January 7, 2024Drawn exclusively from the Carter’s Fred and Jo Mazzulla Collection, this exhibition showcases 19th-century photographs about the history of Colorado that document settlement and the promotion of the area as an outdoor playground, and the growth of the mining industry.
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The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury
August 27, 2023–January 7, 2024The 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.
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Leonardo Drew: Number 235T
June 17, 2023–June 9, 2024This site-specific commission from sculptor Leonardo Drew will explore the interconnectedness of sculptural pieces that Drew calls “planets” with hundreds of smaller objects in the gallery.
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Elizabeth Turk's The Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction
On view through August 2024As part of the Carter's outdoor sculpture program, Elizabeth Turk’s The Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction comprises vertical sound sculptures of bird species that are endangered or extinct. Each work is a sculptural visualization of the call of a bird that has reached, or surpassed, a tipping point.
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Arthur Dove: Miniature Laboratories
May 13–August 27, 2023Drawn 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.
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Avedon's West
On view through October 1, 20232023 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.
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Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures
March 12–July 9, 2023This exhibition surveys the work of Los Angeles-based artist Christina Fernandez, whose rich practice explores migration, labor, gender, Mexican American identity, and the unique capacities of the photographic medium.
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Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation
March 12–July 9, 2023Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond from the perspectives of contemporary Black artists.
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Morning Light: Photographs of David H. Gibson
January 14–June 4, 2023Dallas photographer David H. Gibson has been capturing the beauty of the Southwestern landscape for more than 50 years. Morning Light: The Photographs of David H. Gibson takes us to two of his favorite sites, Cypress Creek in Wimberley, Texas, and Eagle Nest Lake nestled in the mountains east of Taos, New Mexico.
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Charles Truett Williams: The Art of the Scene
November 5, 2022–May 7, 2023This 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.
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Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
October 30, 2022–January 22, 2023Speaking 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.