The Museum's permanent collections center on Art of the American West, Art of Latin America, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Latin America collection includes pre-Columbian art produced prior to the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, spanning approximately 2,000 years, from 500 B.C. to 1500 A.D. The Contemporary collection represents European and American modernists.
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Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling may have been modified as a result of the temporary museum closure.
Exhibitions & Dates
Still Here: Still Life Imagery in the Permanent Collection
Aug 19 2021 - Jan 15 2023
Still life works created over the past 200 years
The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez
Jul 7 2022 - Jul 23 2023
Explores the layered meanings in a single work of portraiture
Frances Murray and Harold Jones: Simpatico
Aug 11 2022 - Aug 6 2023
Photographs by two among the new wave of photographers active in Tucson in the 1970s.
More Than: Expanding Identities of Artists from the American West
Oct 15 2022 - Mar 19 2023
Explores how artists incorporate personal identity into their work
New Mexico Moderns: - Selections from the Donald L. and Julia B. Graf Collection
Oct 15 2022 - Mar 19 2023
Modernism in Taos, Santa Fe, & Albuquerque, from the beginning of the 20th century through the 1970s.
Enduring Legacies: The James T. Bialac Indigenous Art Collection
Feb 2 2023 - Feb 25 2024
Contemporary Indigenous Art featuring paintings and works on paper
Arizona Biennial 2023
Apr 1 2023 - Sep 17 2023
Showcases the most innovative and diverse work being created in AZ
Popol Vuh and the Maya Art of Storytelling
May 4 2023 - Oct 22 2023
Traditions of Maya storytelling and image-making from antiquity to today
The Sacred and the Profane
Aug 11 2022 - Jun 2 2025
European art from pre-1920 reveals blurred boundaries between sacredness and the commonplace
José Luis Cuevas: Unpardonable Sin
May 4 2023 - Oct 22 2023
Examines the range of ideas and stories from beyond the Mexican tradition
Monica Aissa Martinez: Nothing in Stasis
Sep 1 2022 - Apr 23 2023
Representations of the complex connections between body, mind, and spirit.