Art

A single gallery featuring portraiture from the Museum’s permanent collection as well as key loans.  

A single gallery featuring still-life compositions from the Museum’s permanent collection.

A single-gallery installation from the Museum’s permanent collection with key loans that highlights humanity’s interaction with nature.

An installation from the Museum’s permanent collection focusing on the various ways that artists—especially those in the United States—approached abstraction during the postwar period, opening December 20, 2024.

An original exhibition that showcases some of the depth and strengths of the Museum’s permanent collection that visitors might not always get to see.

A groundbreaking exhibition that provides an unprecedented and eye-opening examination of the early career of one of America’s most renowned photographers. 

An exhibition of prints by Pablo Picasso, including seventeen progressive proofs and two published linocuts, which explores his artistic process and one of printmaking’s most fascinating and demanding mediums, the linoleum cut print. 

An exhibition of never-before-seen recent acquisitions and several key loans.

An exhibition of work by Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Imogen Cunningham, both of whom shared a fascination for flowers.

Tickets are available! Through dozens of glass sculptures, projections, and sound, this immersive exhibition presents a Tlingit origin story, passed down from generation to generation through storytelling traditions, of Raven and how he brought light to the world by releasing the stars, moon, and sun.

Abstract artist Paul Reed, one of the original six Washington Color Painters, earned national notoriety for his complex series of colorful stained and shaped-canvas paintings. OKCMOA was gifted 125 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by the Paul and Esther Reed Trust, establishing the Museum as the definitive home of Paul Reed's work.

This exhibition features one painting, "Oklahoma" by Cynthia Daignault, as a tribute to the painful history of the Oklahoma City bombing from 1995.    

This exhibition, open at OKCMOA, displays experimental artworks that yield illusionistic or even distorting effects that ultimately provide very different, at times almost hallucinogenic, experiences.

OKCMOA to host a major exhibition of 100 artworks including sculptures, paintings, prints, and photographs to celebrate artist Auguste Rodin.

Screening on Thursday evenings in conjunction with OKCMOA's multimedia exhibition Kiarostami: Beyond the Frame (October 15-April 9), this retrospective film series highlights the poetic beauty, resonant humanism and formal experimentation of Iranian artist Abbas Kiarostami's work in cinema. | This series is presented in memory of Jeanne Hoffman Smith and in partnership with Janus Films. 

A new, historic exhibition of French art will open on August 20, 2022 at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The period from 1850 to 1950 was one of immense change in France. Arranged chronologically, the works in this exhibition explore these radical changes in French art over a span of only 100 years. 

Co-organized by the American Federation of the Arts and Tougaloo College, Art and Activism at Tougaloo College examines the birth and development of this unique collection—the first in Mississippi dedicated to modern art.

William H. Johnson celebrated Black activists and their accomplishments even as he acknowledged the realities of racism, violence, and oppression they faced and overcame.

Organized by OKCMOA in partnership with the Kiarostami Foundation, Kiarostami: Beyond the Frame is a multimedia, retrospective survey of artworks by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist, Abbas Kiarostami.

Organized by OKCMOA, this exciting retrospective of award-winning costume designer Edith Head will feature costumes from the 1930s to the 1960s that were worn by some of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 20th century.