In spring and summer 2025, the Dallas Museum of Art is poised to present a captivating array of new special exhibitions and permanent collection installations. Upcoming exhibitions highlight pioneering modern and contemporary women artists, including favorites from the Museum’s contemporary holdings, such as a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room, returning to view for the first time since 2018. The Museum will also introduce a new face to its galleries with Marisol: A Retrospective, a widely celebrated exhibition dedicated to Pop artist Marisol. Described as a “must-see exhibition” by the New York Times and the Washington Post, the show will make its final stop on its North American tour at the DMA. Exhibitions this season offer visitors the opportunity to experience rarely or never-before-exhibited works, from early modern European works on paper to special painted textiles from the ancient Andes. Following the close of When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, the DMA will convert the Barrel Vault and Quadrant galleries into permanent collection space, showcasing exceptional works from the Museum’s contemporary and postwar holdings, including a number of never-before-seen recent acquisitions.
The full schedule follows below:
Nature & Artifice: Works on Paper from Dürer to Rembrandt
January 19–July 28, 2025
Showing rarely seen works from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection, Nature and Artifice: Works on Paper from Dürer to Rembrandt explores confrontations between humans and the natural world. The works in the exhibition chart the transformations in landscape images from the highly imaginative pictorial worlds of the 15th century to pastoral scenes of country life in the 17th century. Northern European artists in this period were renowned for their careful attention to nature, which they translated into intricate compositions that reveal shifting attitudes toward the natural world.
Marisol: A Retrospective
February 23–July 6, 2025
Shedding light on one of Pop art’s unsung pioneers, Marisol: A Retrospective is the most comprehensive survey of Marisol’s work ever assembled. Named a “must-see exhibition” by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, this internationally touring exhibition, organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, will make its final North American stop at the DMA this winter. By examining and contextualizing Marisol’s work over its long arc from the 1950s to the early 2000s, this retrospective demonstrates the extraordinary enduring relevance of the legendary artist’s unique vision of culture and society.
Return to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama
May 7, 2025–January 18, 2026
Yayoi Kusama’s iconic pumpkins will return on view at the DMA with the reinstallation of All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, from Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Rooms series. An exploration of several of Kusama’s seminal themes—including infinity, the sublime, and obsessive repetition—the popular piece was acquired by the Museum in 2017 and is the only room of its kind in a North American collection. On view for the first time since 2018, this boundary-pushing experiential work offers viewers the unique opportunity to become a part of the art.
Creatures and Captives: Painted Textiles of the Ancient Andes
September 21, 2025–February 22, 2026
For centuries, ancient Andean artists painted animals, humans, abstract motifs, and mythical beings on undyed cotton cloth. Showcasing a subtle color palette, these painted textiles have long been overshadowed by textiles woven from brightly dyed cotton and woolen yarns. Creatures and Captives: Painted Textiles of the Ancient Andes presents examples from the DMA’s collection highlighting this lesser-known Andean textile tradition, and features exciting new research carried out through institutional collaborations.
On view into 2025:
From Munch to Kirchner: The Heins Collection of Modern and Expressionist Art (through January 5, 2025), a celebration of the gift of Marie “Elinor” Heins, featuring 30 modern paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from her heirs
Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations (through February 9, 2025), the largest retrospective of the groundbreaking British artist to date, with nearly 30 works from across almost 30 years of Brown’s dynamic practice
Frida: Beyond the Myth (through February 23, 2025), which peels back the mystique around one of the most popular artists of the 20th century with approximately 60 works by and of Kahlo that offer a closer look at the woman behind her enigmatic works
When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History (through April 13, 2025), a large-scale, multi-vocal, and intergenerational exhibition of works from the DMA’s contemporary art collection that explores the nuances of visibility from four different curatorial perspectives
Backs in Fashion: Mangbetu Women’s Egbe (through August 3, 2025), an examination of the egbe, a back apron garment worn by upper-class Mangbetu women; and
Tiffany Chung: Rise Into the Atmosphere (through August 3, 2025), a multisensorial and immersive installation—part of the Museum’s Concourse mural series—that highlights narratives of immigration and human movement.