31 shows tracked

Now Showing across the Twin Cities

A rolling list of what is on view at the museums, galleries, and project spaces across Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Refreshed monthly. If we missed an opening you care about, send us a tip.

Last updated July 26, 2026

Now on view

June 20, 2024 to March 12, 2028
Walker Art Center

This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection

Long-running collection rehang

Works from the Walker’s collection organized around the idea of home, spanning three galleries with sections on community, urban environments, and natural landscapes — Edward Hopper to Julie Mehretu and Mark Bradford.

July 18 to October 25, 2026
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Ziba Rajabi: Belly Laugh at a Funeral

Textile works in the U.S. Bank Gallery

Textile works by the Tehran-born artist drawing on ancient practices of the Iranian plateau and Mesopotamia, exploring the emotions that follow grief, with a soundtrack and cushions inviting collective reflection.

July 11, 2026 to January 31, 2027
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Back from the Underworld: Mia’s Dante Tapestry Restored

Renaissance tapestry back on view

Francesco Salviati’s monumental 1540s tapestry of Dante and Virgil at the start of the Inferno, in storage at Mia for nearly 70 years and newly conserved through a TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund grant.

June 20 to October 25, 2026
American Swedish Institute

Eyes as Big as Plates

Photography by Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth

More than thirty surreal portraits from the duo’s long-running series: everyday people — farmers, scientists, surfers, philosophers — camouflaged in organic materials sourced from each location, shot on analog cameras.

June 20 to October 25, 2026
American Swedish Institute

Presley Martin

Installation and drawings on the Mississippi

Hundreds of polystyrene foam pieces collected from the Mississippi River address plastic pollution, alongside drawings made with mushroom markers on beaver-chewed wood handles.

Long-term installation, opened October 17, 2024
Minnesota Museum of American Art

HERE, NOW

The permanent collection in the renovated galleries

The M’s long-term installation of its permanent collection, arranged around human connection, with George Morrison, Louise Nevelson, Jim Denomie, Jacob Lawrence, Cara Romero, and more.

May 22 to September 27, 2026
The Museum of Russian Art

Poster Art of the Soviet Era

Main Gallery exhibition

The paradox of the Soviet poster — breathtakingly artistic yet unapologetically ideological — traced from the experimental early years through Stalin-era formula to later modernist aesthetics.

July 5 to September 27, 2026
The Museum of Russian Art

Mark Mednikov: Artist and Architect

Solo show from the artist’s studio

About thirty works spanning early Soviet-era drawings to recent oil paintings and photos of buildings Mednikov designed, where architectural precision blends with the freedom of fine art.

June 18 to October 4, 2026
Mill City Museum

soulforce: the movements of memory

Free special exhibit

Explores collaboration and connection between Black, Indigenous, and Chicano communities and their movements for autonomy, self-determination, and liberation in the post-civil-rights era.

July 2 to September 30, 2026
Highpoint Center for Printmaking

Homeward: Relief Prints by Matt Otero

Matt Otero

Woodcut and linocut prints about returning home, which Otero frames as a return to one’s essence rather than a physical place; the crow recurs as a navigational and reflective motif. Threshold Gallery.

Every Saturday through November 21, 2026, 12 to 4 pm
Northrup King Building

Open Saturdays

Resident NKB artists

Many of the building’s studio artists open their doors every Saturday afternoon — stop by and stroll through. Fall brings Summer Sizzle (August 15), Northrup King Nights (September 26), and Art Attack (November 13 to 15).

Opening soon

August 6, 2026 to January 3, 2027
Walker Art Center

Olalekan Jeyifous: Hydricosmic Litanies

First solo museum exhibition

An installation of milled-wood reliefs and carved sculptures presented as an archive from a speculative river enclave, blending African diasporic cosmologies and Indigenous water knowledge across river systems from the Niger to the Mississippi.

October 17, 2026 to February 14, 2027
Walker Art Center

Walker Design Triennial: Beyond Materialism

The Walker’s first design triennial

Contemporary designers from around the world who engage societal challenges — technology, environment, community building, and social justice — through design innovation.

September 12, 2026 to January 10, 2027
Minneapolis Institute of Art

María Berrío: Songlines

Monumental layered-paper scenes

Close to 20 works from the past decade by the Colombian artist, who builds monumental scenes by layering hand-cut Japanese paper onto canvas. Organized by Mia and the San José Museum of Art.

September 12, 2026 to January 3, 2027
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Exhibiting Forgiveness

Paintings by Titus Kaphar

Paintings Kaphar made for his feature film Exhibiting Forgiveness, a deeply personal exploration of healing from generational trauma through art.

September 19 to November 29, 2026
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Cream of the Crop: The Second Harvest

State Fair crop art at the museum

Mia’s curators again select standouts from the Minnesota State Fair’s crop art showcase — more than 20 works, including the five Best in Show ribbon winners.

October 4, 2026 to January 17, 2027
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Paris Couture

The fall blockbuster, and Mia’s only ticketed show

More than 80 haute couture masterpieces from the Palais Galliera in Paris, spanning the late 19th century to today, with icons like Dior, Balenciaga, Schiaparelli, and Grès.

September 19 to December 6, 2026
Weisman Art Museum

Tiffany Chung: indelible traces

Survey of the research-driven cartographer of memory

A comprehensive survey of Chung’s embroidered and drawn maps plus sculptures, videos, and installations examining landscapes shaped by climate change, war, colonialism, and migration.

September 26, 2026 to May 23, 2027
Weisman Art Museum

‘Merciless’: Indigenous Lands Since 1776

Natchez Beaulieu, Marlena Myles, Missy Whiteman

Honors Indigenous resistance across indoor and outdoor installations, re-examining 250 years of Indigenous history and emphasizing community resilience and connection to Minneapolis (Bde Óta Othúŋwe).

October 22, 2026 to July 25, 2027
Minnesota Museum of American Art

The Smell of Earth: Seitu K. Jones Working in the Elements

Four-decade survey of the St. Paul artist

Drawings, paintings, sculpture, and design plus archival material on Jones’s life as a Black artist in Minnesota, centered on community and placemaking.

July 31 to September 12, 2026
Highpoint Center for Printmaking

2025–2026 Jerome Early Career Printmakers Residency Exhibition

Edson Rosas, Dalton Carlson, Gabi Estrada

The three Jerome residents present prints, objects, and assembled environments made during their year-long residency, spanning screenprint, litho, relief, intaglio, and installation. Opening reception Friday, July 31, 6:30 to 9 pm.

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