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The Speed Collects: Native American Art
April 4, 2024 – Ongoing
The updated galleries of Native American art will feature not only a reinterpreted view of the museum's existing collection, but also new acquisitions and loans, curated with input from Native artists, curators, and culture-bearers. The reinstallation will catalyze expanded programming designed to bring more Native voices into the everyday life of the Speed Art Museum.
What's New at the Speed?
March 2024 – Ongoing
With displays that rotate twice a year, What’s New at The Speed? celebrates recent acquisitions, showcases new research, and features conservation and restoration efforts completed through the Speed’s Adopt-an-Artwork program. The Museum’s permanent collection of art is cared for by Speed Art Museum curators, registrars, and preparators, alongside outside conservators, scholars, framers, scientists, artists, and historians to ensure that the Speed’s collection is preserved for future generations of visitors.
Contemporary Art from the South Asian Diaspora
February 28, 2024 - Ongoing
Presented in tandem with the major historical exhibitions The Throne, The Chase, and The Heart and Elephant in the Room, the Speed Art Museum is proud to mount a special installation of contemporary artworks that explore the vital, wide-ranging, and dynamic perspectives of the South Asian diaspora.
India: South Asian Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art
February 16 – May 12, 2024
India: South Asian Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art is the first exhibition of South Asian art to be hosted by the Speed in its nearly 100-year institutional history. Replete with colorful and exquisitely painted portraits and manuscript illuminations reflecting the rich and diverse artistic traditions of South Asia over four centuries, the two exhibitions promise to dazzle visitors of all ages and backgrounds.
Current Speed: Angel Otero/Leslie Martinez
November 17, 2023 – April 14, 2024
The Speed Art Museum is pleased to present a new installation of two recent monumental works by leading contemporary artists Angel Otero (b. 1981, Santurce, Puerto Rico) and Leslie Martinez (b. 1985, McAllen, Texas). Through combinatory practices of material exploration, painterly gesture, and technicolor mark-making, Otero and Martinez both depict broad ideas of our shared humanity, memory, and personal identity. For these artists, abstraction is the kaleidoscopic means of communicating complex, deeply personal narratives and concepts informed by their own lives and familial histories.
Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Speed Art Museum Collection and Beyond
September 16, 2022 — Ongoing
This intergenerational presentation features artworks from the museum’s growing contemporary art collection and a selection of key private loans from the region, with highlights including major works recently acquired by Speed Contemporary and important objects from the 21c Museum Hotels Collection.
The Speed Collects: Empires to Revolutions, 1700 – 1825
August 19, 2022 — Ongoing
Art history reminds us that we have experienced deep, necessary shifts in national and global consciousness before, often resulting in new ways of thinking and living. This installation reframes the collection of 18th and early 19th century European and American artwork in the Speed’s permanent collection through the lens of social, cultural, economic, and political upheaval and change.
The Speed Collects: Art in Europe
April 15, 2022 — Ongoing
Part of a larger effort to reinstall and re-contextualize our historical collection, this new installation showcases the art of Europe from the 14th through 17th centuries.