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.
Our main exhibition hall is finally opening on Friday, April 10 featuring Florida art!
"Florida in the Frame: A Century of Artists’ Reflections on the Sunshine State"
April 10-July 26, 2026 | Rubin Gallery
The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida is presenting an original exhibition Florida in the Frame: A Century of Artists’ Reflections on the Sunshine State drawing from The Florida Art Collection, a gift from Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers. The exhibition investigates how these diverse images evoke and respond to the state’s natural resources, its history and the popular culture of its recent past.
Japanese Abstraction | Highlights from the Jerry and Anne Godsey Collection
September 27, 2025 – September 26, 2027 | David A. Cofrin Asian Wing
In the 20th century, Japanese printmakers moved away from the collaborative tradition of woodblock printmaking to embrace sōsaku hanga 創作版画, or “creative prints,” in which artists became the sole creators of their works. The popular subjects of ukiyo-e 浮世絵 prints, such as beauties, actors, seasonal landscapes and scenes of bustling urban life, were gradually replaced by works highlighting personal expression, aesthetic experimentation and technical innovation. Abstraction emerged as one of the dominant visual languages of this new movement.
Metamorphosis: Reshaping Contemporary Art
October 31, 2023 – March 14, 2027 | Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion
Metamorphosis explores the artist’s role as an agent of transformation. Anchored in the metaphor of the artist as alchemist, this exhibition considers how contemporary makers rework the physical and symbolic properties of their materials, engaging deeply with the histories, identities and ideologies embedded within them. Just as alchemists sought to transmute base elements via the combination of magic and science, the artists here reshape clay, metal, fabric, painting and even cultural norms to reflect and remake the world around them.
Everyday to the Extraordinary: Highlights from the Korean Collection
August 27, 2020 – May 31, 2026 | David A. Cofrin Asian Wing
The exhibition Everyday to the Extraordinary: Highlights from the Korean Collection includes objects from everyday life alongside exemplars of artistic production. Ceramics in the exhibition span nearly 2,500 years of history, from the Three Kingdoms Period (57 BCE–668 CE) to the present, while paintings date from the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910) and into the 20th century.
