The 2021 Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Exhibition features photographic masterworks from the esteemed photographers comprising the 2021 class of Hall of Fame Inductees and Awardees, including Dawoud Bey, Larry Burrows, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, David Douglas Duncan, Sally Mann, Pete Souza, Joyce Tenneson, Joel Sartore, and Professional Photographers of America.

Normally there are intrinsic difficulties associated with borrowing sculpture. The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts’ construction of the new Windgate Center made borrowing its world class collection of sculpture for the BAM. The exhibition’s title, Height x Width x Depth, refers to the physical objects included in the exhibition but also the delightfully “deep” AMFA collection.

Woodlands: Native American Art from St. Louis Collections presents art from the Woodlands, a vast region that encompasses the Great Lakes, the Atlantic coast, and the southeastern United States. The exhibition assembles rarely seen works from local private collections, neighboring institutions, and the Museum’s own holdings.

Louise Marler's art has been largely influenced by her father who collected and repaired old typewriters. Her artistic style integrates modern digital photography with her passion for vintage items. The result is a composite of thought and form. She seeks to create art collections and events which integrate history, education, and entertainment.

Andrea Fraser is a performance and video artist who is regarded as a pioneer of the conceptually driven artistic practice known as institutional critique. This exhibition presents two of the artist’s single-channel video works, May I Help You? (1991) and Little Frank and His Carp (2001), both in the collection of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Greek vases, marble sculptures, and other ancient works hint at how artists in antiquity visualized racial identity, often in ways quite different from our own. This Teaching Gallery exhibition presents a selection of ancient objects from the Museum's collection that examines the emergence of an interpretation in which the image of Classical Antiquity is inextricably tied to Whiteness.

The Outwin: American Portraiture Today is a major exhibition organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and features the finalists of the Portrait Gallery’s fifth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. In 2019, forty-six works were selected from over 2,600 entries in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography.

Footprint is a multi-media juried visual art exhibition featuring artworks that address the marks and impressions that we leave on this planet physically, emotionally, in society, as well as our footprint as we walk through our lives. This concept also applies to the marks left on the surface of an artwork.

The St. Louis Artists’ Guild is proud to present Visions of the American Landscape showcasing artists residing in Missouri and Illinois working in a variety of mediums whose work engages with landscape, broadly defined, exploring how the natural environment around us influences our representations of ourselves and communities.

The focus of Row’s sculpture has been investigating how our psyche and even our physical body is shaped by experiences, thoughts, beliefs, memories and myths we have about ourselves. Row represents those influences by building up written words and images, via papier mache, and then digging back into it to reveal the persona she is creating.

Mandy Pedigo’s current body of work is a meditation on landscape, nature, and an unconscious quest to better understand one’s heritage. In her exhibition Inheritance: The Endurance of Land, the St. Louis-based artist utilizes hand stitching, weaving, quilting, and embroidery to create abstracted aerial maps and miniature landscapes.

In conjunction with the 200th anniversary of Missouri’s statehood, Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration explores the remarkable artwork produced and collected over 1,000 years in the region surrounding St. Louis. The exhibition presents more than 150 objects from Missouri from all parts of the state.

Jean Rissover began painting in 2011 following her retirement at age 70...her first real opportunity to study or create art since her senior year in high school, more than five decades earlier. Virtually all Rissover’s work is imaginative, what she refers to as depicting the lives "of the people who live in stories inside my head.”

The St. Peters Cultural Arts Centre provides a home base for several local arts organizations, gallery space for area artists. Stop by the Cultural Arts Centre to view the galleries filled with the original artwork. The End of the Road Art Show is an exhibit of pieces that depict something found at the end of a road or something that has been accomplished.

Farah Al Qasimi creates a newly commissioned, photo-based installation across the Contemporary Art Museum’s Project Wall, her largest site-specific museum work to date. Al Qasimi has long documented and created alternative narratives of Arab culture, style, taste, and interior spaces. For her CAM exhibition she focuses on her personal family history through a lens of intimacy and interiority

Kathy Butterly finds virtuosity and rigor in the small. She pushes each of her ceramic sculptures to the limits of its material possibilities. Hers is a painstaking process of firing porcelain, a medium that can be both luscious and unforgiving. Butterly presents two major bodies of work at the Contemporary Art Museum: Out of one, many and Headscapes.

Shara Hughes is often referred to as a landscape painter, but from the artist’s point of view, her paintings “are not really about landscapes” at all. Working intuitively, her colorful paintings do not depict places either real or imagined. The artist loosely gives form to floating moons, gnarled trees, and blazing sunlight, bridging the abstract and representational.

St. Louis-based artist Jess T. Dugan is known for their color photographs that explore the power of identity, desire, and connection. In Currents 120: Jess T. Dugan, the museum presents a selection of 20 recent works - portraits, self-portraits, and still lifes - many of which were created specifically for this exhibition.

Alicia Piller investigates place. She believes a city, a country, or a specific location can be seen as an object that can be held, explored, dissected and mended back together. Piller’s studio practice focuses on one place and dives deep into how the earth connects with humanity and how humans connect with the earth.

Sandra Gottlieb exhibit, October Waves, has created a striking series of photographs of the skies and waters of the Atlantic Ocean. With a keen eye for the fleeting phenomena of clouds and light, she has created beautiful large-scale images that range from the abstract, to the painterly, to the dramatic. Her poetic work conveys the sense of impermanence in both nature and in human existence.