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Current Exhibitions

From Paint to Print: Helen Frankenthaler and the Art of Collaboration

April 10 – July 20, 2025 The exhibition features artwork bequeathed to the Museum by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; it also includes limited edition prints by artists from the Museum’s collection who worked with ULAE, a celebrated fine art print publisher that...

Guy Nelson: Tales from the Understory

April 10 – July 20, 2025 Gallery Talk and Discussion with the artist: Saturday, May 17, 2 pmGuy Nelson will lead an informal Gallery Talk on his current exhibition and provide a glimpse into his enchanted world. A reception with the artist will follow. Guy Nelson’s...

Bookings

March 13 – June 29, 2025 This exhibition, whose title embraces the verb “to book,” reflects on the rich and multi-layered ways that books have been harnessed as art. The permanent collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art includes many artists’ books, from...

Moving Tradition into the Future

July 10 – October 5, 2025 The exhibition came into being through a grant from the Windrose Fund of Common Counsel Foundation. It allowed the Museum to commission Native American artists from, or connected to, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota,...

Return. Roberta Paul

July 31 – October 26, 2025 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 31, 5:30 – 7 pmThe artist will be present to speak about the exhibition. Roberta Paul received her MFA in 1981 from UND and spent her formative years in Grand Forks. The artist currently...

Barton’s Place

The North Dakota Museum of Art and the late Barton Lidice Benes have been friends since 1988 when Barton designed the Museum's Donor Wall and Gift Shop. In September 1989, his work filled the Mezzanine gallery for the Museum's grand opening. Other exhibitions followed...

Women at War

January 16 – March 30, 2025 Women at War is a critically acclaimed exhibition that introduces works by contemporary women artists from Ukraine. Featuring an array of media from painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation and video, the exhibition has been...

Limited Time Only

December 12 – December 29, 2024 Limited Time Only builds on one of the Museum’s most popular exhibitions titled This Week Only, last held in 2019. This year, we are expanding the duration of this non-juried exhibition from one week to two and a half weeks and it will...

Anne Kingsbury “Slow Improvisation; a Frame of Mind”

November 14, 2024 – March 9, 2025 For over fifty years I have been a working artist using my hands as my primary tools. You might call the work a kind of slow improvisation. Rather than seeing a totally finished piece in my mind, it unfolds under my hands during...

Stories of Place: Select Recent Acquisitions

September 5 – December 1, 2024 OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 5, 2024 from 5-7 pm PUBLIC LECTURE: Tuesday, Oct 8: Reception at 6:30 pm, Lecture by Curator, Anna Sigrídur Arnar, at 7 pm “Stories of Place” draws on the rich range of artwork recently acquired by...

Crossroads

June 1 – September 3, 2024 Crossroads brings together the work of diverse artists who each stand at the intersection of place, identity, and narrative. These artists—Stuart Klipper, Rena Effendi, Claire Van Vliet, Christopher W. Benson, David Opdyke, Barton Lidice...

Josh Johnson: Double Goer

May 23 – August 25, 2024 Josh Johnson: Double Goer is the ninth exhibition in the “Art Makers Series” underwritten by Dr. William F. Wosick of Fargo, ND. Because few professional opportunities are available for artists from the region, the Art Makers Series was...

Kellyann Burns: Combing Conversations

May 23 – August 25, 2024 Kellyann Burns is an American abstract artist who focuses on process and color. Her hard-edged, geometric abstract paintings are created by stacking flat layers of color, one on top of the other. Pigment is pulled or scraped across the...

Maurice Sendak: 50 Years

March 14 - May 12, 2024 Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, is a retrospective of original paintings and illustrations by Maurice Sendak, honoring the 50th anniversary of when “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally published. Join us on a journey through the...

Heidi Goldberg: Over and Under; Here and Now

March 14 – May 12, 2024 The North Dakota Museum of Art proudly unveils "Heidi Goldberg: Over and Under, Here and Now," a captivating exhibition showcasing the visionary work of artist Heidi Goldberg. Through a fusion of printmaking, weaving and a deep reverence...

New Acquisitions

December 18, 2023 - March 3, 2024 Over the last year and a half, the North Dakota Museum of Art has acquired a significant body of new work from artists across the globe. Much of the work was purchased by an anonymous donor, and others were donated by the...

A Beautiful Mess: Weavers & Knotters of the Vanguard

August 15 - December 10, 2023 Opening Reception is Thursday, August 17, at 5:30 pm. "From micro artworks the size of your hand to mammoth, room-sized installations, the diverse roster of women artists in A Beautiful Mess: Weavers & Knotters of the Vanguard...

Frank Sampson: Land of Hearts Desire

August 15 – November 13, 2023 An exhibition in honor of Frank Sampson's forthcoming catalog. Inspired by a love of story-telling and a fascination with animals and art history, Frank Sampson has built a career that has reached a pinnacle in the art community....

Chris Pancoe: Blue Ice

April 6 - August 1, 2023 Opening Reception is Thursday, April 6, at 6 pm. Chris Pancoe will lead an informal gallery talk. "Blue ice equals strong and safe ice and the green light for mini temporary villages to form on our frozen rivers and lakes. In this mixed...

Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: The Great Open, Photographs from North Dakota

April 6 - July 17, 2023 Opening Reception is Thursday, April 6, at 6 pm. The artists will lead an informal gallery talk. And what is empty turns its face to us/ and whispers:“I am not empty, I am open”—Tomas Tranströmer This exhibition by creative partners Alex...

Dyan Rey: My Artistic Journey with the History of Women Artists

April 27 - May 28, 2023 Opening Reception Thursday, April 27th, 6 pm. Dyan Rey Lecture: May 16th, 6 pm Artist Statement: Over the last number of years, I have produced a series of paintings depicting some of the women artists who were important...

Tim Schouten: The Treaty 5 Suite (Lost in Translation)

December 8 - March 26, 2023 Opening Reception is Thursday, December 8, at 5:30pm.Tim Schouten will lead an informal gallery talk. Schouten is a Canadian artist of settler ancestry, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Although he has exhibited in numerous group...

Xu Bing: Works from the Collection

January 19 - March 26, 2023 Dragonfly Eyes directed by Xu Bing Screening Tuesday, January 25th, at 6 pm. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow with the artist. Work from the Museum's permanent collection will be on display, January 19th. Xu...

Freeman Vines: Hanging Tree Guitars

September 1 - November 27, 2022 Opening Reception is Thursday, September 1, from 5:00 - 7:00 pmHors d'oeuvres will be served. Tim Duffy lecture October 20, 6:00 pm Tim Duffy is the founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a nonprofit organization that...

Richard Tsong-Taatarii. Covid-19: Standing Rock Fights Back

September 1 - November 27, 2022 Opening Reception is Thursday, September 1, from 5:00 - 7:00 pmDrinks and hors d'oeuvres served. Richard Tsong-Taatarii is a Staff Photographer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and and a documentary photographer of his own...

Either Side of the Divide: New Paintings by Christopher W. Benson and Sue McNally

June 2 - August 20, 2022 Opening Reception is Thursday, June 2, from 5 – 7 pm.Christopher and Sue will be speaking.Drinks and hors d'oeuvres served. Christopher Benson and Sue McNally both hail originally from Rhode Island but have also spent long periods living,...

Jim Dow: Twenty Years in North Dakota

April 7 - May 22, 2022 Lecture Thursday, April 21, 6 pm, followed by a reception with the artist.This event is free and open to the public. Join us on a twenty-year travel across North Dakota with Boston-based photographer Jim Dow. In 1981, the Museum...

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