Sep. 2, 2025 TO
Jan. 25, 2026
This exhibition presents work by Tommy Kha, the second recipient of the Addison’s Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. Prize. Kha examines how we construct belonging and otherness through photography, inventing new models for self-portraiture with a critical eye toward the medium’s long history of absences and erasure.
Sep. 9, 2025 TO
Jan. 4, 2026
This exhibition presents the work of the Florida Highwaymen, a loosely affiliated group of 26 African American landscape painters who sold their vivid and expressive tropical scenes door-to-door and out of the trunks of their cars along the coastal roads of Eastern Florida from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Sep. 2, 2025 TO
Jan. 4, 2026
Bringing together photographs from the Addison’s collection, this exhibition reveals how artists have engaged the theme of family over a span of nearly two centuries. Depicting grief and joy, solemnity and humor, intimate tenderness and boisterous energy, these works demonstrate photography’s capacity to capture both the particular and the universal aspects of family experience.
Sep. 9, 2025 TO
Jan. 18, 2026
Organized in dialogue with Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters and consisting of works drawn from the Addison’s permanent collection, this exhibition unfolds over five distinct sections, exploring the myriad ways in which the American landscape has been romanticized, exploited, celebrated, commercialized, and conquered.
Sep. 2, 2025 TO
Jul. 31, 2026
This presentation explores American art in two sections: the “ideal,” bringing together American Impressionist paintings with Pictorialist photography, and the “real,” featuring works by the Ashcan School and social realist photographs. Together, these works reveal how American artists of the era grappled with questions of beauty, truth, and the rapidly transforming character of modern life.
Sep. 2, 2025 TO
Dec. 31, 2025
This focused installation presents nine works from the Addison’s collection by the famed American expatriate painter John Singer Sargent on the occasion of the centennial of his death. Lacking the decorousness found in many of his formal portraits, these lush, freely executed, intimate scenes convey the spontaneity, technical virtuosity, and formal daring of an artist at the height of his powers, unburdened by the constraints of commissions.
A collection of 25 models of American sailing ships, permanently on display in the museum’s lower level
