Exhibition Archive

Myrlande Constant. Sosyete Radha, 2024. Beads, sequins, and tassels on fabric. Courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort Gallery, New York

Myrlande Constant: DRAPO

August 9, 2025 – January 4, 2026 | The Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Myrlande Constant: DRAPO brings ten large flags together in a single space, providing a stunning abundance of intricate craft, as well as a broader sense of Vodou and its dense mixture of West African, Central African, and Catholic religions. Through these sources and their understanding of many spirits, Vodou practitioners bring together love, inspiration, nature, and Haitian history and pride. Constant skillfully and impressively weaves all of this into her art.

Cameron Welch. Fugue State, 2022. Marble, glass, ceramic, stone, spray enamel, oil, and acrylic on three panels. On loan from Avi Gitler

A Growing Conversation: Artworks From Our Collection

Ongoing | The Haslinger Family Foundation Galleries

The Haslinger Family Foundation Galleries feature artworks selected from the Museum’s collection of over 7000 objects. The works are arranged by theme, rather than by historical period, resulting in new, unexpected, and exciting connections. Recently, these galleries have been reinstalled under the title A Growing Conversation: Artworks from Our Collection— a truly fitting description. Contemporary art is always expanding, and the Museum’s collection is always growing with it. This new presentation draws inspiration from a variety of recent acquisitions, and a small number of loans from outside the collection are also on view, helping to enrich the groupings.

Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still (#21), 1978. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Rubell Museum

She Said, She Said: Contemporary Women Artists

March 22 - August 17, 2025 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Beginning with its title, She Said, She Said: Contemporary Women Artists presents a positive and energetic opportunity to assess the many valuable contributions that women have made to contemporary art. The exhibition’s name is a play on the conventional expression “he said, she said,” which suggests that when a man and a woman disagree, one can only give up on coming to a settled conclusion. The familiar phrase suggests stasis—an inability to move forward on matters ranging from sexual violence to equal pay and political representation, despite the forceful accounts and opinions that women put forward.

Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books

January 11 – July 27, 2025 | The Corbin Foundation Gallery

What if crayons refused to color? Can you know everything about the Earth? What’s the best way to get a kite out of a tree? All these questions can be answered through the pictures and books of artist, author, and illustrator Oliver Jeffers. In Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, visitors will encounter original artworks from Jeffers’s beloved titles: The Day the Crayons Quit, Stuck, Here We Are, and more.

William Richards. Untitled, 1980s. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of MUUS Collection

William Richards: The Vastness Beyond Vision

January 11 – July 27, 2025 | Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

William Richards (1917–2004) created dazzling arrays of abstract photographs, though his highly successful career was predominantly commercial rather than artistic. Richards learned photography and industrial design as a young student in New York City. After serving in World War II and moving to Cleveland, Ohio in the late 1940s, he founded Richards Studios as a firm specializing in advertising and visual communications. Through his work, he became one of the first adopters of color photography, which he used to create imagery that introduced consumers to other new technologies in manufacturing, transportation, electronics, and more.

GLOW: Neon and Light

September 21, 2024 - February 9, 2025 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

GLOW: Neon & Light opens in the Akron Art Museum’s Arnstein Galleries on September 21. Showcasing artists who use analog materials like glass, mirrors, light bulbs, and neon tubes, the galleries will be filled with spectacular and immersive works. Rather than the text-based artworks typically associated with neon, this exhibition will instead feature sculptural installations, brightening the walls, floor, and ceiling with three dimensional explorations of light.

Birdsong

September 5, 2024 - January 6, 2025 | Beatrice Knapp McDowell Grand Lobby

A flock of bird sculptures has migrated to the Museum’s lobby! Join us in celebrating Birdsong, a unique multi-faceted art installation presented by Door2 Art Studio that features over 150 bird sculptures hand painted by local artists. This installation will be on view until the end of 2024.

Christian Patterson. The Wishing Well, 2013. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell

Where We Live: Photographs of Human Spaces

July 26 - December 29, 2024 | Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

What meaning can be found in a house, a skyscraper, or a storefront? What do we feel when we look into a room, out a window, or down a street? Are the spaces we construct ever just brick, wood, and metal, or do we necessarily make them something more?

Zeerak Ahmed: Mother, I Am Compelled To Leave / اماّں میں تو پاہونی

August 10 - December 29, 2024 | The Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

In creating her sound and video installation titled Amma Mein Tou Paahonee / Mother, I Am Compelled To Leave, Zeerak Ahmed (born 1990, Lahore, Pakistan; lives New York, New York) drew from the folk music traditions of her family’s native region of Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. The songs included in the installation are fleeting for many reasons. They come from a culture that was severely disrupted by the partitioning of the Indian subcontinent in 1947—a time of bloodshed and migration, during which Ahmed’s Muslim family relocated to the newly formed nation of Pakistan. They are in the dialect of Purbi, which is no longer spoken by the migrants who settled in Pakistan. They are part of an oral tradition and were never written down.

Michelangelo Lovelace. At The Intersection of St. Clair-N-Eddy Road, 1997. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the estate and Fort Gansevoort. © Michelangelo Lovelace Estate

Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life

May 4 - August 18, 2024 | Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life will provide a comprehensive survey of the artist’s career, with works spanning from 1992 to 2020, showing how the artist indeed painted all the way through.

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