Current Exhibitions

A showcase featuring visual art, as inspired by the United States 250th birthday.

A themed exhibit featuring visual art, as inspired by literary art.

Artworks from Jacob Cooley & Kiki Slaughter.

Exploring the quiet and continual process of change—through light, growth, perspective, and renewal.

Charlotte-based artist Kirk Fanelly offers 21st century surrealism: recognizable settings where something is awry.

Spanning three decades, David McGee: The Griot and the Nightingale brings together over 100 paintings and drawings that trace the artist’s career from the 1990s to the present.

Beyond Boundaries foregrounds the centrality of Black abstraction within the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Art Collection.

Piece by Piece explores the art of building. Every mark, layer, and element plays a role in the final composition.

A group exhibition featuring eight contemporary artists.

Artworks from Barbara Schreiber and Jiha Moon.

A diverse exhibition of artists exploring the psychological effects of miniature and monumental artworks on participants.

Investigating the complex relationships between the body and technology, questioning what it is that makes a body obscene.

Donald Medley explores the ways that a space can inform and simultaneously hide how someone is seen.

A selection of sculptural textile works from Johnson's ongoing thesis project exploring mending, health, and consumption through Handarbeit (handwork).

A group exhibition featuring 8 talented artists, their connections and contrasts.

Brick Masters Studio features over 100 sculptures built with over 2 million LEGO® pieces.

Artworks from Liz Nielson existing between states: abstract and representational, cosmic and earthly, intimate and monumental.

This exhibition invites viewers to consider how individuality is constructed and communicated.

This exhibition celebrates where healing emerges in our lives, community and the world around us.

A juried quilt exhibition featuring quilts and fiber art that depict the soul-stirring stories of African American women.

Interventions places contemporary works amongst permanent collection installations at the Mint to spark dialogue between past and present.

The first exhibition in North Carolina in a century to shine a light on how Caravaggio's radical realism transformed not only painting, but the very language of modern film, photography, and popular culture.

An annual summer exhibition series that invites contemporary artists to engage with the Museum’s permanent collection, creating new dialogues between past and present.