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Sam Gilliam (1933-2022)
September 16, 2022 - February 26, 2023
The installation, Sam Gilliam (1933-2022) is a celebration of his life and legacy as a Louisville-bred, world-renowned figure in modern and contemporary art.
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.
Kentucky Women: Helen LaFrance
August 26, 2022 – April 30, 2023
Gathering together works drawn from the Speed’s collection and private loans, this exhibition explores the art and life of Helen LaFrance, who documented her western Kentucky rural and small-town experiences with vibrancy and tireless care.
Community Connections: The Promise
August 19 – October 23, 2022
Showcases the results of a research and artmaking program which began in March 2022, facilitating collective healing, reflection, and creative expression for members of the Black community in Louisville who have been affected by gun violence.
The Speed Collects: Empires to Revolutions, 1700 – 1825
Opened August 19, 2022
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.
Claude Monet’s Nymphéas
Opened April 15, 2022
Join us in welcoming one of Claude Monet’s celebrated waterlily paintings, on temporary loan to the Speed Art Museum.
The Speed Collects: Art in Europe
Opened April 15, 2022
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.
What's New at the Speed?
Ongoing
This gallery presentation celebrates recent acquisitions, showcases new research, and features our latest conservation and restoration efforts completed through the Speed’s Adopt an Artwork program.
Wolfgang Buttress: Blossom
Ongoing
Artist Wolfgang Buttress, based in Nottingham, England, documents the fading life of a 200-year-old Bramley apple tree (the mother of all Bramley apple trees), and the flourishing life of this tree’s progeny using sculpture, light, and sound to poetically reveal the life and death cycle of trees.
Auguste Rodin's The Three Shades
Ongoing
This sculpture is an enlarged version of a figural group that stood atop The Gates of Hell, a project conceived by the artist as a commission for the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris, France.