Harn Museum of Art Temporary Exhibits
Exhibitions are drawn from Harn collections as well as loans from both private lenders, artists, and other art museums.
The Harn at 35
June 17, 2025 – February 1, 2026 | Rubin Gallery
This exhibition celebrates 35 years of the Harn Museum of Art with photographs new to the collection. The museum’s hundreds of exhibitions and educational programs have fed hearts and minds for over three decades of immense change.
In the last two years, more than 150 photographs have entered the Harn’s permanent photography collection as museum purchases or as gifts from local and national collectors and artists. The Harn at 35 celebrates this new abundance with approximately 70 images exhibited for the first time at the Harn by noted photographers such as Arnold Newman, Aaron Siskind, Jamel Shabazz, James Nachtwey and Sarah Sense. The artists’ subject matter addresses history, memory, identity, innovation, dreaming, war, the environment, family and joy.
Two themes define The Harn at 35: an appreciation of supporters who have kept the museum vital, and a celebration of the many ideas photography serves in the hands of artists. And, along with the curator’s texts, there are eight insightful UF-Gainesville photography enthusiasts who chose an inspiring photographer from this exhibition and wrote about them.
Ghanaian Fashion An Exhibition in Three Chapters
October 15, 2024-October 4, 2026 | James G. and Caroline Julier Richardson Gallery
In 2015, the Harn Museum of Art organized Kabas and Couture: Contemporary Ghanaian Fashion, one of the first American exhibitions to focus exclusively on the fashion culture of Ghana, a country in West Africa. At the time, very few fashion exhibitions included designers from the African continent, much less providing a comprehensive exploration of an African nation’s complex fashion culture.
Kaleidoscope of Colors in Asian Art
April 30, 2024-April 26, 2026 | David A. Cofrin Asian Wing
Color is one of the timeless and foundational elements of art, transcending boundaries of time, place and culture. The diverse collection of Asian art at the Harn Museum of Art boasts an extensive range of colors, each carrying rich cultural, religious, social and political significance.
Metamorphosis: Reshaping Contemporary Art
October 31, 2023-May 24, 2026 | Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion
Metamorphosis: Reshaping Contemporary Art features artists who are rethinking traditional materials and techniques to create innovative works of art. This exhibition spotlights history, location and interpretation and their impact on the artists’ practices, materials and outcomes.
