Juana Romani: Forgotten No More
May 10, 2025 – May 31, 2026
This small exhibition, drawn entirely from The Ringling’s permanent collections, highlights the newly acquired painting by Juana Romani, Woman on a Red Background, and situates it within a group of closely related works from the museum’s collection of late-nineteenth-century French art.
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Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
April 24, 2025 – November 1, 2026
This long-term installation in Gallery 10 of the Museum of Art showcases five outstanding examples of 17th-century Dutch painting on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Featuring a dramatic seascape, an expansive landscape, and captivating portraits set in detailed interiors, this exhibition offers a window into the vibrant artistic production of the Netherlands as the small nation rose to global prominence in the 17th century.
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Sandy Rodriguez: Currents of Resistance
April 5 – Aug 10, 2025
Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975) is a Los Angeles- based Chicana artist and researcher whose practice engages historic materials and techniques of the Americas to paint visual histories. Currents of Resistance is the culminating exhibition of her 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize commission.
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Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums
March 15 – July 13, 2025
Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums explores the essential role art and objects played for mediums and magicians “communicating” with the dead during the 19th- and 20th-century Spiritualism movement in the U.S. and Europe—a time when people actively debated and wondered, “Can spirits return?”
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Robert Rauschenberg: A Centennial Celebration
March 1 – August 3, 2025
With support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Ringling joins an international roster of institutions honoring Rauschenberg’s Centennial for a year of global activities and exhibitions that examine the artist through a contemporary lens, highlighting his enduring influence on generations of artists and advocates for social progress.
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Embodied
Highlights from The Ringling Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art
March 9, 2024 – September 21, 2025
EMBODIED expands on the definition of the human figure by bringing together diverse representations in painting, sculpture, fiber, video, and mixed media by some of the most exciting artists working in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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The Greatest Show on Earth® Gallery
This latest addition to the museum celebrates the era of modern circus that began with Irvin Feld’s purchase of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® in 1967. The Greatest Show On Earth® Gallery modernizes the museum’s expansive history of the circus by exploring the first fifty years of the Feld family’s stewardship during which the spectacle of the show brought the circus experience to new heights.
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Community Gallery
The Ringling Community Gallery is a free public exhibition space dedicated to displaying works of art produced by community-based, non-profit, or student groups in the local Sarasota/Manatee area.
To visit, ask for a Community Gallery wristband at the Visitors Pavilion.
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Yoshida Hiroshi: Journeys through Light
June 21, 2025 – January 11, 2026
Renowned for his evocative renderings of light, mist, and glowing colour, visionary artist Yoshida Hiroshi (Japanese, 1876–1950) gathered his subject matter from his travels across the Americas, Europe, north Africa, and Asia.
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Ancient Art from Cyprus and the Mediterranean
Opening Summer 2025, this is the latest phase of The Ringling’s multi-year project to reinstall all 21 permanent collection galleries of the Museum of Art. This new installation in Gallery 12 highlights art from the island of Cyprus with a selection of 201 works from The Ringling’s permanent collection of ancient Mediterranean art—nearly all of which was purchased by John Ringling at auctions in 1928—including sculptures in limestone and terracotta as well as ceramic vessels, glass, and gold and silver jewelry.
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Ancestral Edge: Abstraction and Symbolism in the Works of Nine Native American Women Artists
September 13, 2025 – April 12, 2026
This exhibition highlights contemporary Native design, craftwork, and art that employ the formal and aesthetic elements of abstraction as meaningful motifs and coded tools of Indigenous expression to communicate tribal cultures and histories, ancestral knowledge, and the lived experiences of the artists and their communities.
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Past Exhibitions
Explore exhibitions displayed at The Ringling.
View Exhibitions from the earliest record in 1947
