Painted with Silk
Currently On View

Painted with Silk: The Art of Early American Embroidery

December 13, 2024 - June 15, 2025

Painted with Silk
Installation image of Celebrating el Día de Muertos 2024
Upcoming Exhibition

13th Annual Ofrendas: Celebrating el Día de Muertos

September 27 - November 2, 2025

13th Annual Ofrendas

Exhibitions

  • Current & Upcoming
  • Past
Exhibition
Currently On View 12/13/24 - 6/15/25
Currently On View

Painted with Silk: The Art of Early American Embroidery

December 13, 2024 - June 15, 2025

Jean de Croÿ,, 2nd Count of Solre and Baron of Molembaix
Currently On View 4/25/25 - 4/26/26
Currently On View

Guests of Honor: Armor as Fashion

April 25, 2025 - April 26, 2026

Robert S. Duncanson, Ellen's Isle, Loch Katrine, 1871, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Estate of Ralzemond D. Parker
Upcoming Exhibition 10/18/25
Upcoming Exhibition

Reimagining African American Art

Opens October 18, 2025

Basil's Dream by Jonathan Thunder
Upcoming Exhibition 9/28/25 - 4/5/26
Upcoming Exhibition

Anishinaabe Contemporary Art: A Continuation

September 28, 2025 - April 5, 2026

Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986). Stables, 1932. Oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 45.454.
Upcoming Exhibition 9/13/26 - 1/3/27
Upcoming Exhibition

Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture

September 13, 2026 - January 3, 2027

Whispers of the Crimson Rose

88th Annual Detroit Public Schools Community District Student Art Exhibition

April 18 - May 25, 2025
Past
Tiff Massey, (American, b. 1981). Baby Bling, 2023. Metal beads, woven rope, brass. Collection of the artist.

Tiff Massey

May 5, 2024 - May 11, 2025
Past
Hero

16th Annual Community Group Art Exhibition

December 6, 2024 - January 5, 2025
Past
The Art of Dining

The Art of Dining

September 22, 2024 - January 5, 2025
Past
Image of offrendas alters

12th Annual Ofrendas

September 28 - November 3, 2024
Past

3rd Annual Wayne County High School Art Exhibition

June 21 - July 21, 2024
Past
The Nicholas Brothers in a scene from Stormy Weather (1943), from left, Fayard Nicholas and Harold Nicholas. Photographic print, gelatin silver. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library, ©Twentieth Century

Regeneration

February 4 - June 23, 2024
Past
Miss Osaka, a Japanese Friendship doll

Japanese Friendship Dolls

December 2, 2023 - June 5, 2024
Past
Cinthya Campos, Untitled

87th Annual Detroit Public Schools Community District Student Art Exhibition

April 20 - May 26, 2024
Past
A sculpture featuring two men engaged in a vertical wrestling match by Antonio Del Pollaiolo.

Masterpieces of Early Italian Renaissance Bronze Statuettes

September 30, 2023 - March 24, 2024
Past
Ilse Bing (American, born Germany, 1899–1998). Self Portrait with Leica, 1931, printed 1992, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Estate of Ilse Bing Wolff, 2001.106. © Estate of Ilse Bing.

After Cubism

August 18, 2023 - February 18, 2024
Past
Masks made by community group members for the exhibition

15th Annual Community Group Art Exhibition

December 8, 2023 - January 14, 2024
Past
Strange Ladies, 2006, Pitaloosie Saila, Inuit; print, lithograph.

Off-Site | Vitality and Continuity

January 21, 2023 - January 6, 2024
Past
Ofrenda altars set up in the DIA galleries for the 2023 installation of Ofrendas: Celebrating el Dia de Muertos.

11th Annual Ofrendas

September 23 - November 5, 2023
Past
James Barnor (Ghana, b. 1929). Studio Ever Young, Accra, c. 1950s. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière.

James Barnor: Accra/London

May 28 - October 15, 2023
Past

2nd Annual Wayne County High School Art Exhibition

June 16 - July 16, 2023
Past
Khalia Savage, "Flower Study," painting, Grade 12, Teacher: Patrick Burton

86th Annual Detroit Public Schools Community District Student Art Exhibition

April 22 - May 28, 2023
Past
repeating image

Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century

October 21, 2022 - April 9, 2023
Past
Rosa Park Sign

Off-Site | Rethinking Monuments

May 22, 2022 - April 8, 2023
Past
People on a farm ranking

Van Gogh’s Artistic Roots

March 30, 2022 - February 27, 2023
Past

From the Community

The DIA is proud to feature art by local artists and makers 
in partnership with area schools and institutions.

Toni Hobdy, Floral Queen
Upcoming Exhibition 6/20 - 7/20/25
Upcoming Exhibition

4th Annual Wayne County High School Art Exhibition

June 20 - July 20, 2025

Installation image of Celebrating el Día de Muertos 2024
Upcoming Exhibition 9/27 - 11/2/25
Upcoming Exhibition

13th Annual Ofrendas: Celebrating el Día de Muertos

September 27 - November 2, 2025

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