Art spaces in Dallas and Fort Worth have announced exhibitions opening in February and March. Learn more about shows presented by the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Kimbell Art Museum, and other North Texas art venues.
Works by Haegue Yang
In February, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas will debut Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields, an exhibition featuring new installations by the artist alongside past sculptures. The presented works will be in conversation with the Nasher’s building, focusing on contrasts such as light and dark, aerial and grounded, buoyant and heavy, and sparse and dense.
In a press release, Jed Morse, the Nasher’s Interim Director and Chief Curator, said, “Haegue Yang’s work continually provides new insights into the multivalent world in which we live, reconciling past and present. Floating, jingling, dancing, Yang’s sculptures amaze and leap, as well as highlight the centrality of objects in making meaning from our diverse well of experiences.”
In early April, the Nasher will showcase works by Otobong Nkanga, the winner of the 2025 Nasher Prize. Nkanga is known for adapting her work to relate to the local ecosystem when it is presented in a new space. Her Dallas exhibition will showcase a newly conceived iteration of some of her recurring projects, including Carved to Flow, and will showcase new works that connect to the North Texas region.
Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields will be on view from February 1 through April 27 and Otobong Nkanga will be on view from April 5 through August 17.
Hurvin Anderson, “Barbershop Series: Short Back and Sides,” 2009, acrylic and pigment collage on paper laid on board, 69 x 57 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches. © Hurvin Anderson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London. Photo: Todora Photography. Collection of Michael Corman and Kevin Fink
In mid-February, the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas will open A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now. Curated by Tom Morton, a British curator and writer, the exhibition presents works by 40 artists across generations who have a strong connection to Britain. The title of the show is a reference to a quote by Sir Joshua Reynolds, an 18th-century British painter and theorist, who said, “a room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”
A Room Hung With Thoughts will be on view from February 15 through May 11.
Marisol, “The Generals,” 1961–62, wood, mixed media, and sound recording. Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1962 (K1962:7). © Estate of Marisol / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Also in February, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will host the final stop of Marisol: A Retrospective. The traveling exhibition was organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and has been on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Toledo Museum of Art. The show is a survey of the artist’s nearly six decade career and features more than 250 artworks and documents.
In a press release, Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, the DMA’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art who is curating the Dallas iteration of the show, remarked, “[Marisol] masterfully navigated through a wide range of media, techniques and sensitive subject matter throughout her years as an artist, and her work is prescient for a society still gripped by the fight for women’s self-determination, environmental preservation and freedom from geopolitical conflict. While her radical way of thinking and her refusal to be boxed into one category was not always embraced by critics of the time, audiences today are ready for the complex conversations that Marisol tackled throughout her career, and we’re excited to reintroduce them to this once-household name.”
Marisol: A Retrospective will be on view from February 23 through July 6.
Left: EJ Hill, “Brake Run Helix,” 2022. Courtesy of the artist and MASS MoCA. Photo by Kaelan Burkett. Right: Martin Gonzales, “In the Middle of Somewhere,” 2024. Photo: Seth Dalhseid
At the end of February, the Dallas Contemporary (DC) will debut an exhibition featuring site-specific installations created by artists EJ Hill and Martin Gonzales during a month-long residency at the museum. Velvet Faith will also include new and past sculptures and paintings by the artists. Emily Edwards, the Associate Curator at DC who organized this show, commented, “Dallas Contemporary is deeply honored to host this exciting collaboration between EJ Hill and Martin Gonzales, and we are eager to see what emerges from this unique residency. The work is a celebration of softness, of living one’s truth, and of creating a space where vulnerability is not seen as weakness, but as a powerful act of resistance and self-empowerment.”
Velvet Faith will be on view from February 28 through August 31.
Aubrey Williams, “Maya Dynasty,” 1980, oil on canvas, 91 x 182 centimeters. © Estate of Aubrey Williams. Courtesy the Estate of Aubrey Williams and October Gallery, London
In March, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will present two new exhibitions: Alex Da Corte: The Whale and Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling. Organized by Alison Hearst, a Curator at the Modern, The Whale is the first museum exhibition to focus on Mr. Da Corte’s paintings. The artist is known for his multidisciplinary approach, and this show will feature more than 40 paintings, several drawings, and a video that presents painting as a performance.
Feeling Color is organized by María Elena Ortiz, a Curator at the Modern, and showcases abstract paintings of Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling, both of whom migrated from British Guiana (now Guyana) to European and U.S. cities in the 1950s.
The Whale will be on view from March 2 through September 7 and Feeling Color will be on view from March 15 through July 27.
George Grosz, ”Pillars of Society,” 1926, oil on canvas. Neue Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. © 2024 Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
At the end of March, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth will present Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945. The show includes more than 70 paintings and sculptures from the collection of the Neue Nationalgalerie, a modern art museum that is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Berlin State Museums. The exhibition includes works of art created during and shaped by the last years of the German Empire, World War I and the revolution that followed, the liberal Weimar Republic, the rise of National Socialism and Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust, and World War II.
Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 will be on view from March 30 through June 22.
