Current Exhibitions

Fawzia Khan: Ubuntu

Fawzia Khan: Ubuntu

May 21 – July 5, 2026 Events Opening Reception: Thursday, May 21, 4:30 – 6 pm, Informal talk with Fawzia Khan. Reception, Talk, and Discussion: June 16, 4:30 – 6 pm, With Fawzia Khan and Dalton Erickson of the North Dakota Human Rights Coalition. For more information...

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Art Makers: 10 Years

Art Makers: 10 Years

May 21 – July 5, 2026Events Opening Reception: May 21, 4:30 – 6 pm: Brief remarks by the artists present: Heidi Allen, Micah Bloom, James Culleton, Guy Nelson, Chris Pancoe, Armando Ramos, Justin Sorensen, and Donovan Widmer. Curator Tour: June 23, 4 – 5 pm: Tour of...

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Meadowlark Buried Her Father

Meadowlark Buried Her Father

March 5 – May 31, 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...

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Recent Acquisition Highlights: Spring Summer 2026

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...

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Material Abstractions

July 16 – October 4, 2026 If an artwork is seemingly devoid of recognizable subjects—a human figure or a landscape for example—what kind of language or tools enables an artist to communicate with viewers? Within the Western art historical tradition, many artists...

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

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...

Past Exhibitions

Re-arming Language: Post-Graffiti Artists

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...

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Fables, Myths, and the Stories We Share

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...

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Limited Time Only | 2026

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...

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Recent Acquisition Highlights: Winter 2025–26

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...

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Rimer Cardillo. Deep Ecology: Layered Vestiges

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...

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Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits

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,...

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