Current Special Exhibitions
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Nayeli Perez, Watching Over, 2023, inkjet print, Eastwood Academy. © Nayeli Perez
Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography
Through Autumn 2024The annual Eye on Houston exhibition documents and celebrates Houston’s diverse neighborhoods through a collaboration between the MFAH and Houston Independent School District.
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Color, Scent, and Memory: Rienzi’s Gardens 1954–1999
Through July 31, 2024ON VIEW AT RIENZI | This exhibition celebrates the evolution of the gardens at Rienzi, incorporating horticultural and design styles of the times from 1954 to 1999.
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Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
Through May 27, 2024A creative partnership between Henri Matisse and André Derain in 1905 changed the course of French painting. This exhibition showcases the legacy of that collaboration through paintings, drawings, and watercolors.
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Tschabalala Self, Sprewell, 2020, fabric, thread, painted canvas, silk, jeans, painted newsprint, stamp, photographic transfer on paper, and acrylic on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, gift, image courtesy of the artist; Pilar Corrias, London; and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich. © Tschabalala Self
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage
Through May 12, 2024The first major museum exhibition on this subject, Multiplicity explores the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States through collage and collage-informed works.
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Kehinde Wiley, The Death of Hyacinth (Ndey Buri Mboup), 2022, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Templon. © 2022 Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence
Through May 27, 2024The MFAH is the first stop on the tour of the monumental exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence.
