Touring Exhibitions
The Indianapolis Museum of Art is committed to presenting temporary exhibitions that either enhance or augment the museum’s permanent collection. The temporary exhibitions often result in bringing new scholarship to the field of art history. The IMA is proud to include such institutions as the High Museum of Art, the Van Gogh Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the New Orleans Museum of Art as venues and partners in this initiative. Please find the list of current and past touring exhibitions below. If you are interested in bringing an exhibition to your museum, prospectus details and checklists are available for current exhibitions and for those in development. Please contact us for additional information.
Exhibitions
Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial
Thornton Dial is a keen observer of the human spectacle and its narratives of corruption and moral strength, folly and triumph. As an artist, he has spent the last two decades exploring the truth of American history and culture in all its complexities and contradictions. This exhibition presents a survey of Dial’s work, an epic gathering of over fifty large-scale paintings, sculptures, and wall assemblages that address compelling issues of our time. Read More.
Thornton Dial is a keen observer of the human spectacle and its narratives of corruption and moral strength, folly and triumph. As an artist, he has spent the last two decades exploring the truth of American history and culture in all its complexities and contradictions. This exhibition presents a survey of Dial’s work, an epic gathering of over fifty large-scale paintings, sculptures, and wall assemblages that address compelling issues of our time. Read More.
Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yusaku
The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yusaku, the first major exhibition of the works of an outstanding contemporary Japanese artist. The exhibition will feature 77 works on paper, including framed works and those mounted as traditional hanging scrolls. View Prospectus | View Checklist | Read More
The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yusaku, the first major exhibition of the works of an outstanding contemporary Japanese artist. The exhibition will feature 77 works on paper, including framed works and those mounted as traditional hanging scrolls. View Prospectus | View Checklist | Read More
Aziz + Cucher: Some People
The exhibition Aziz + Cucher: Some People is comprised solely of new videos by the artistic team of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Developed by the artists following extensive research and travel to the region, the works in the exhibition explore the longstanding conflict between Arabs and Jews. View Prospectus | NY Times Art and Design | NY Times Art and Leisure | Read More
The exhibition Aziz + Cucher: Some People is comprised solely of new videos by the artistic team of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Developed by the artists following extensive research and travel to the region, the works in the exhibition explore the longstanding conflict between Arabs and Jews. View Prospectus | NY Times Art and Design | NY Times Art and Leisure | Read More
Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard
The invention of the handheld Kodak camera in 1888 expanded the practice of photography to the general public. Artists were not immune to its allure, and during the 1890s several Post-Impressionists made intriguing photographic experiments that recorded their daily lives and related directly to how they composed their oil paintings and works on paper. Read More.
The invention of the handheld Kodak camera in 1888 expanded the practice of photography to the general public. Artists were not immune to its allure, and during the 1890s several Post-Impressionists made intriguing photographic experiments that recorded their daily lives and related directly to how they composed their oil paintings and works on paper. Read More.
European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century
(No longer touring). Organized by the IMA in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum and Kingston University, London, this exhibition redefined two recent major movements—Modernism and Postmodernism—which have not only shaped design in Europe but have also had a profound impact worldwide. Read More.
(No longer touring). Organized by the IMA in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum and Kingston University, London, this exhibition redefined two recent major movements—Modernism and Postmodernism—which have not only shaped design in Europe but have also had a profound impact worldwide. Read More.
