Collections consist of more than 15,000 pieces and include 19th and 20th century American and decorative art, significant European pieces, modern and contemporary art, photography, African art and folk art. The High also collects works by Southern artists.
Award-winning architecture by Richard Meier (1983) and Renzo Piano (2005).
In collaboration with artists and designers, the High Museum has developed interactive and immersive installations for the campus’s central Sifly Piazza each summer since 2014. These installations, which are freely accessible to the public, aim to make the campus more open and welcoming to the community.
Read our Art Things Considered blog article about the High Museum of Art here.
Exhibitions & Dates
Shaheen Collection of French Works
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French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Monir Farmanfarmaian: A Mirror Garden
- Apr 9 2023
Posthumous exhibition for one of Iran’s most celebrated visual artists
Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature
Feb 24 2023 - May 21 2023
100+ paintings and works on paper focus on his nature subjects
George Voronovsky: Memoryscapes
Mar 24 2023 - Aug 13 2023
40 paintings as well as sculptures created from materials discarded along the local beaches
Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross
Apr 7 2023 - Jul 30 2023
A father of Nigerian modernism marries Nigerian tradition, folklore, and cosmology with Christian motifs
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
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50 ceramic objects from the decades before the Civil War
Ancient Nubia: Art of the 25th Dynasty - from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jun 2 2023 - Sep 3 2023
200+ masterworks of ancient Nubian art and material culture
Samurai: Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection
Jun 23 2023 - Sep 17 2023
150+ helmets, swords, complete sets of armor and other objects spanning almost nine centuries
Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City
Mar 24 2023 - Aug 13 2023
100+ prints by woman once known as "the most famous unknown photographer in America"