Installation view of Viola Frey: Observed and Gathered at The Pit, Palm Springs, CA, 2025. Photo by Chris Hanke, courtesy of The Pit.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS & PROGRAMS
July 24, 2025 at 6pmA Questioning Woman: The Legacy of Viola Frey
Join Museum on Art and Design and Artists’ Legacy Foundation for an evening conversation in celebration of the publication of Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World, the first monograph published about the legendary California artist.
Through September 28, 2025
Making Her Mark, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
RECENT EXHIBITIONS | 2024 – 2025
California Clay, Hastings College Jackson Dinsdale Art Center, Hastings, NE
Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Speed Art Museum Collection and Beyond, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Exposure Therapy, KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Going Our Way, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Halfway to Sanity, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
Infinite Horizons, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
Jay DeFeo, Martha Shaw, Mildred Howard, Robert Therrien, Squeak Carnwath, Viola Frey, pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
RBG at 50: Focus on Ceramics, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
She Laughs Back: Feminist Wit in 1970s Bay Area Art, University Art Gallery, CSU Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
Studio Time + Studio Practice, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR
The Figure-The Face: Pastels from the Butler’s Collection, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (catalogue)
Viola Frey: Transitory Fragments, pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Whispers and Screams: Voices from the Belger Collection, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO