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.
The Museum Guide: High Museum of Art: Selected Works from the Collection
Exhibitions & Dates
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Oct 19 2019 - Feb 2 2020
125 photographs explore the influence of the South in the artist's work
Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech"
Nov 12 2019 - Mar 8 2020
In-depth look at the artist's ever-expanding disciplines including fashion, architecture, music, and design
Speechless: Different by Design
Apr 25 2020 - Sep 6 2020
Site-specific installations create participatory environments by six international designers and design teams
Julie Mehretu
Oct 24 2020 - Jan 31 2021
Some 30 paintings and 32 works on paper, from 1996 to today
“Something Over Something Else” - Romare Bearden’s Profile Series
Sep 14 2019 - Feb 2 2020
Some 30 collages re-create the original presentations in 1978 and 1981
Fine Lines: American Works on Paper
Oct 26 2019 - Mar 22 2020
Reveals the diversity of makers (women and men, famous and obscure) and uses of works on paper in 19th-century America
Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris
Nov 29 2019 - May 3 2020
North Carolina-based photographer on how the region is seen and imagined by contemporary visual storytellers
Paa Joe: Gates of No Return
Feb 29 2020 - May 31 2020
Sculptures of Gold Coast castles and forts that were holding pens for Africans sold into slavery