The Chrysler Museum of Art has announced its 2025 fall lineup, which will extend into 2026, inviting visitors to consider the ways art reflects and defines the world. The shows include revolutionary photography in Mexico and Haiti, pioneering women artists and mid-century modern design.
Each exhibition will have additional programming, which will be added to the events calendar at chrysler.org. Chrysler admission is free.
Constructing Mexico: Photography and National Identity
Through Nov. 30: "Constructing Mexico: Photography and National Identity" examines the evolution of photography in Mexico through works from the Chrysler's permanent collection and local collectors. Featuring more than 55 works, the exhibition highlights how photography shaped and reflected the country's national identity, from 19th-century commercial images to 20th-century revolutionary depictions.
Tapio Wirkkala: Still
Through March 15, 2026. Wirkkala became an important figure of mid-century modern design, which is distinguished by its clean lines, simplicity, functionality and appreciation for materials. "Still" highlights Wirkkala’s craftsmanship in glass, ceramic, wood and silver.
Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era
Friday, Oct. 17 to Jan. 11, 2026. "Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era" examines how women at the turn of the 20th century overcame barriers and achieved success within the professional art world. Centered on Susan Watkins (1875–1913), the exhibition offers a look into the environment in which Watkins and other female artists cemented their identities. (Next week, whro.org will have more on Watkins and her work.)
Nam June Paik: Electronic Television.
Nov. 7 to April 26, 2026. In 1963, Nam June Paik (American, born in Korea, 1932-2006) debuted a series of installations of modified TV sets in an exhibition, “Exposition of Music – Electronic Television.” The television screen would soon become an iconic element in Paik’s work, seen in the Chrysler's "Hamlet Robot" (1996) and "Dogmatic" (1996) and displayed alongside the screening of "Global Groove" (1973).
Beyond the Mountains: Danny Lyon's Photography in Haiti
Dec. 19 to May 17, 2026. Between 1983 and 1986, American photographer Danny Lyon made a series of trips to Haiti with the goal of photographing Port-au-Prince’s club scene. What he ended up capturing was a country in the midst of revolution against the dictatorship of the Duvalier family.
Architects of Being: Louise Nevelson and Esphyr Slobodkina.
Feb. 20 to May 31, 2026. The exhibition expands on the idea of artistic character and the ways artists construct their personas, their practices and their legacies through the work of Louise Nevelson and Esphyr Slobodkina. Nevelson and Slobodkina were women artists who worked in a male-dominated, mid-century art world, and their creativity is shown through overlapping themes of abstraction, installation, assemblage, fashion, migration and identity-building.