Past Exhibitions
Looking back
Main Galleries
All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840 - 1955
Nov 3, 2024 - Jan 26, 2025
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Scott A. Carter: Energy States
Nov 3, 2024 - Jan 19, 2025
Interactive Gallery
Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration
Nov 3, 2024 - Jan 26, 2025
Main Galleries
Pissarro to Picasso: Masterworks from the Kirkland Family Collection
Oct 6, 2024 - Jan 26, 2025
Main Galleries
Southern/Modern: 1913 - 1955
Jul 14, 2024 - Sep 29, 2024
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
2023 Wilson Fellowship: Danny Broadway, Claire Hardy, Thad Lee, and John Ruskey
Jul 14, 2024 - Sep 29, 2024
Interactive Gallery
On Paper!
Jul 14, 2024 - Sep 29, 2024
Main Galleries
Memphis 2024
Apr 21, 2024 - Jun 30, 2024
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Sowgand Sheikholeslami: Progression
Apr 21, 2024 - Jul 7, 2024
Main Galleries
Memphis Flower Show: Rhythm & Hues
April 13 and 14, 2024
Interactive Gallery
Made in Dixon | Hecho en Dixon
Apr 13, 2024 - Jun 2, 2024
Main Galleries
Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown
Jan 28, 2024 - Mar 31, 2024
Interactive Gallery
Who Is That Teen Artist? How Does Art Make You Feel?
Jan 28, 2024 - Mar 31, 2024
Main Galleries
To Have and To Hold: Valentines from the Victorian Era
Jan 28, 2024 - Mar 31, 2024
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Remy Miller and Joe Morzuch: Marking Time
Jan 14, 2024 - Apr 14, 2024
Main Galleries
Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial
Oct 22, 2023 - Jan 14, 2024
Interactive Gallery
Painting with Parkinson’s Disease
Oct 22, 2023 - Jan 14, 2024
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Kaylyn Webster: Commune (verb)
Oct 8, 2023 - Jan 7, 2024
Interactive Gallery
Las Catrinas: Tradición, Humor y Cultura by Rafael Figueroa
Sep 12, 2023 - Jan 14, 2024
Main Galleries
American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection
Jul 30, 2023 - Oct 8, 2023
Interactive Gallery
Meet the Dixons 2023
Jul 30, 2023 - Oct 1, 2023
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Sally Hughes Smith: Adrenaline Rush
Jul 16, 2023 - Oct 1, 2023
Interactive Gallery
Dixon Art Camp Presents
Jun 30, 2023 - Jul 16, 2023
Main Galleries
Zao Wou-Ki: Watercolors and Ceramics
Apr 30, 2023 - Jul 16, 2023
Interactive Gallery
Made in Dixon / Make at Dixon
Apr 30, 2023 - Jun 11, 2023
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Susan Maakestad: The Expansive Moment
Apr 16, 2023 - Jul 9, 2023
Main Galleries
American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection
Jan 29, 2023 - Apr 16, 2023
Interactive Gallery
Who is that Artist?
Jan 29, 2023 - Apr 16, 2023
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Jeanne Seagle: Of This Place
Jan 15, 2023 - Apr 9, 2023
Main Galleries
Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee
Oct 30, 2022 - Jan 15, 2023
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Emily Ozier: Marisol’s Dress
Oct 30, 2022 - Jan 8, 2023
Interactive Gallery
Interactive Gallery: Like Family
Oct 30, 2022 - Jan 15, 2023
Interactive Gallery
Rooted: An Expression of Women and Girls Refining Cultural Harmony
Oct 30, 2022 - Jan 15, 2023
Main Galleries
Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960
Jul 24, 2022 - Oct 16, 2022
Interactive Gallery
Meet the Dixons
Jul 24, 2022 - Oct 9, 2022
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Ramona Sonin, Flowerful: Fashioning the Armored Feminine
Jul 17, 2022 - Oct 23, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | James Little: Homecoming
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | Artful Presence: Portraits from the Hattiloo Theatre Collection
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | Curator’s Circle: Creating a Culture of Collecting at the Dixon
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Sweet 16 | Chuck Johnson: Living Off the Grid
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Interactive Gallery
Sweet 16 | Quinceañera
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | Carefully Composed: Still Life in the Dixon Collection
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | Orchestrating Fun: Meissen’s Monkey Musicians
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | Drawing from Life: Sketches by Margaret Oates Dixon
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | A Little Venice in Us: Images of the Floating City
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Sweet 16 | Kate Roberts: Echoes
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | Calvin Washington Cherry (1821-1861) and Sarah Blount Williamson (1831-1912)
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | Gheorghe Ionescu and Romanian Art in Memphis
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
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Sweet 16 | The Impressionist Landscape and Beyond
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | Sketching in Color: Pastels in the Dixon Collection
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | Performing Art: Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations in the Dixon Collection
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
Main Galleries
Sweet 16 | John Koch
Apr 17, 2022 - Jul 10, 2022
2022 Memphis Flower Show: Perspectives
Apr 9, 2022 - Apr 10, 2022
Main Galleries
John Leslie Breck: American Impressionist
Jan 23, 2022 - Mar 27, 2022
Interactive Gallery
Who Is that Artist? Art Educators
Jan 23, 2022 - Mar 27, 2022
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Connecting with Nature: Plein-air Paintings by Matthew Lee
Jan 9, 2022 - Mar 27, 2022
Interactive Gallery
Movers and Shakers
Oct 17, 2021 - Jan 2, 2022
Main Galleries
Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights
Oct 17, 2021 - Jan 2, 2022
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Phillip R. Dotson
Oct 3, 2021 - Jan 2, 2022
Gardens Exhibition
Borders: Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir
Aug 29, 2021 - Mar 3, 2024
Main Galleries
Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings
Jul 25, 2021 - Oct 3, 2021
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Piece of Cake: Confectious Sculptures by Greely Myatt
Jun 27, 2021 - Sep 26, 2021
Liz and Tommy Farnsworth Education Building
Meet the Dixons
Jun 6, 2021 - Sep 26, 2021
Main Galleries
Memphis 2021
May 23, 2021 - Jul 11, 2021
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Brittney Boyd Bullock: Signs & Wonders
Apr 11, 2021 - Jun 20, 2021
Interactive Gallery
Charging Station
Jan 24, 2021 - May 9, 2021
America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution
Jan 23, 2021 - May 9, 2021
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Jimpsie Ayres: Learning to be Astonished
Jan 10, 2021 - Apr 4, 2021
Main Galleries
Illuminating the Word: The St. John’s Bible
Oct 11, 2020 - Jan 10, 2021
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Memphis Calligraphy Guild: The Beauty of Calligraphy
Oct 4, 2020 - Jan 3, 2021
For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design
Jul 19, 2020 - Jul 27, 2020
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Maritza Dávila: Journey
Jul 19, 2020 - Sep 27, 2020
Main Galleries
William Eggleston and Jennifer Steinkamp: At Home at the Dixon
Jan 26, 2020 - Mar 22, 2020
Main Galleries
Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman
Jan 19, 2020 - Mar 22, 2020
Main Galleries
Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum
Jan 19, 2020 - Mar 22, 2020
Liz and Tommy Farnsworth Education Building
I Could Make That!
Oct 27, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Main Galleries
Abstract Expressionism: A Social Revolution, Selections from the Haskell Collection
Oct 27, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Main Galleries
Friedel Dzubas: The Ira A. Lipman Family Collection
Oct 27, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Laurel Sucsy: Finding the Edge
Oct 13, 2019 - Jan 5, 2019
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Elizabeth Alley: Place Shapes
Sep 23, 2019 - Oct 6, 2019
Main Galleries
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
Sep 22, 2019 - Oct 13, 2019
Main Galleries
Kate Freeman Clark
Sep 22, 2019 - Oct 13, 2019
Main Galleries
Countess de Castiglione: The Allure of Creative Self-Absorption
Apr 28, 2019 - Jul 14, 2019
Main Galleries
William McGregor Paxton and Elizabeth Okie Paxton: An Artistic Partnership
Apr 28, 2019 - Jul 14, 2019
Liz and Tommy Farnsworth Education Building
Education Exhibition: Made in Dixon
Apr 27, 2019 - Jun 23, 2019
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
First Saturdays: Memphis Urban Sketchers
Apr 14, 2019 - Jul 7, 2019
Main Galleries
Eye to Eye: A New Look at the Dixon Collection
Jan 20, 2019 - Apr 14, 2019
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Annabelle Meacham: The Stories We Could Tell
Jan 20, 2019 - Apr 7, 2019
Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries
Extension: Artists’ Books, Prints, and Zines
Oct 14, 2018 - Jan 13, 2019
Main Galleries
From Marne to the Rhine: Forain and World War I
Oct 13, 2018 - Jan 6, 2019
Main Galleries
El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte
Oct 13, 2018 - Jan 6, 2019