Current Exhibitions
Re-arming Language: Post-Graffiti Artists
March 5 – May 10, 2026 The exhibition Re-arming Language: Post-graffiti Artists features screen prints and mixed-media constructions that share a kinship with graffiti culture and its intersections with Hip Hop and Punk Rock music as well as the subcultures associated...
Fables, Myths, and the Stories We Share
March 5 – May 10, 2026 This exhibition celebrates storytelling, an art universally shared between cultures across time and geography. Stories in the form of fables, myths, legends, epics and the like have served as symbolic vehicles to explain essential truths and...
Meadowlark Buried Her Father
March 5 – May 10, 2026 As a natural storyteller, the exquisite batik works of Vernal Bogren Swift will be displayed on the east side of mezzanine gallery as a complement to the Fables, Myths, and The Stories We Share exhibition on the main floor gallery. The thirteen...
Recent Acquisition Highlights: Spring Summer 2026
Exhibition Changes Quarterly Recent Acquisition Highlights features new acquisitions to provide visitors with a glimpse into the breadth and depth of the Museum’s collection. Exhibitions rotate quarterly. About the Permanent Collection: The North Dakota Museum of...
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
Recent Acquisition Highlights: Winter 2025–26
Exhibition Changes Quarterly Recent Acquisition Highlights features new acquisitions to provide visitors with a glimpse into the breadth and depth of the Museum’s collection. Exhibitions rotate quarterly. About the Permanent Collection: The North Dakota Museum of...
Limited Time Only | 2026
February 5 – 22, 2026 This annual, non-juried exhibition, on display February 5 – 22, celebrates the artists from our region. Each year the exhibition features dozens of paintings, sculptures, photographs, crafts, works on paper, and textiles from local artists and...
Rimer Cardillo. Deep Ecology: Layered Vestiges
November 6, 2025 – February 28, 2026 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 4:30 – 6 pm Few artists today embody the urgent call of environmentalism as powerfully as Rimer Cardillo. The Uruguayan-American artist has spent over fifty years building a body...
Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits
November 6, 2025 – February 1, 2026 From the Mythic to the Everyday. Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits: From the Mythic to the Everyday features artwork by artists from around the globe utilizing a wide array of media from painting, photography, sculpture,...
Recent Acquisition Highlights: Summer 2025
Exhibition Changes Quarterly Recent Acquisition Highlights features new acquisitions to provide visitors with a glimpse into the breadth and depth of the Museum’s collection. Exhibitions rotate quarterly. About the Permanent Collection: The North Dakota Museum of...
Return. Roberta Paul
July 31 – October 26, 2025 Roberta Paul received her MFA in 1981 from UND and spent her formative years in Grand Forks. The artist currently resides in the Boston area and the NDMOA exhibition represents a “return” of the artist to celebrate her long career. Paul...