Upcoming

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.

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From the Speed Collection: 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.

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Capturing the West: Timothy O'Sullivan, Pioneer Photographer

May 3, 2024 – August 25, 2024

This exhibition highlights photographs from Timothy O’Sullivan’s landmark series, U.S. Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian. Hailed by Ansel Adams as one of the most important photographers of the nineteenth century and touted as a precursor to Modernist photographers, O’Sullivan was one of the first to document the western landscape.

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From the Speed Collection: Into a Modern World

Spring 2024 – ongoing

This new installation showcases the Museum’s celebrated 19th and 20th century collections, installed in new arrangements, with updated scholarship, freshly-conserved artworks, and exciting new acquisitions.

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The Kentucky Gallery Reimagined

Spring 2024 – ongoing

When the Speed’s 5,600-square-foot Kentucky Gallery first opened in 2016, it became Kentucky’s only art museum space dedicated to presenting and interpreting the state’s many artistic traditions. In the years since, the gallery has welcomed thousands of visitors, including many students, teachers, visiting scholars, and groups from other museums across the United States.

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Louisville's Black Avant-Garde: William M. Duffy

Opening June 28, 2024

William M. Duffy’s upcoming solo exhibition is the second installment of the Louisville Black Avant-Garde series, highlighting local, historically significant Black visual artists active from 1950–1980. This retrospective exhibition spans over 4 decades of creativity and presents not only the sculpture that Duffy is known for, but also his drawings, paintings, and digital art.

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Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room– LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER

Opening July, 2024

The Speed Art Museum is honored to present Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room– LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, one of the artist’s seminal immersive artworks that explores ideas of “self-obliteration” through repetition and play with space, light, color, and time.

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Winslow Homer: American Storyteller

August 2024 – February 2025

Widely regarded as one of the foremost and influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Winslow Homer began his career as a free-lance commercial illustrator designing wood engravings for popular illustrated weekly publications such as Harper’s Weekly, Appleton’s Journal of Literature, Science, and Art, and Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Thanks to advancements in printing technology, these journals—which emphasized black-and-white illustrations over text—could be published quickly and inexpensively for wide-spread distribution to the masses.

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Current Speed: Kathia St. Hilaire

Opening October 25, 2024

The Speed Art Museum is proud to present the first major museum exhibition of artist Kathia St. Hilaire. Informed by her experience growing up in Caribbean and African American neighborhoods in South Florida, St. Hilaire seeks to memorialize the communities that she has been a part of through innovative studio techniques.

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