Speed Art Museum Announces 2025 Exhibitions

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Oct. 29, 2024 - PRLog -- The Speed Art Museum (https://www.speedmuseum.org/)'s 2025 exhibitions feature a dynamic lineup of shows that celebrate innovation, exploration, and the defiance of convention. A groundbreaking exhibition that spotlights daring American women artists who redefined their lives and set a new standard for artistic expression, and a showcase of the imaginative worlds inspired by Bosch and Bruegel anchor a series of engaging exhibitions that will supplement the Speed's diverse permanent collections and ongoing community programming and events. Alongside the Speed's permanent collection, the 2025 special exhibitions promise a vibrant and thought-provoking array of cultural experiences for all audiences.

2025 EXHIBITIONS

Kathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires

October 25, 2024 – February 9, 2025

Winslow Homer: American Storyteller, Part 2

December 6, 2024 – April 20, 2025

Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900 – 1939

March 29 – June 22, 2025

This major exhibition features more than 65 artworks to tell the extraordinary stories of American women who left the constraints of early 20^th-century America to pursue artistic and professional ambitions in Paris. Portraiture provides a revealing lens through which to view the cultural shifts these trailblazing women instigated across a variety of fields, including art, literature, design, publishing, music, fashion, journalism, theater, and dance. The exhibition is organized by the National Portrait Gallery and received federal support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum. Brilliant Exiles is locally curated by Chief Curator Erika Holmquist-Wall.

Childe Hassam: Impressions in Black and White

May 1 – August 17, 2025

Louisville's Black Avant-Garde: Gloucester Caliman (G.C.) Coxe

June 19 – September 1, 2025

Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez

August 7 – October 19, 2025

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photographs from the Collection of the Speed Art Museum

August 28, 2025 – January 4, 2026

Otherworldly Journeys: The Fantastical Worlds of Bosch and Bruegel

October 17, 2025 – February 1, 2026

Full of imagination, this exhibition explores the intricate worlds inspired by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel. At a time when other artists adhered to tradition, Bosch and Bruegel were constantly developing novel subject matter and inventing new imagery. Their work, and that of their followers, features satire and mockery alternated with extraordinary visions of heaven and hell – whether portraying boisterous peasants or saints tormented by malevolent beasts. The exhibition, which features nearly 90 original engravings and etchings, is organized and generously loaned by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and locally curated by Kim Spence, curator of works on paper.

LaVon Van Williams Jr.: Everything Must Change

November 6, 2025 – March 8, 2026