Art Exhibitions | Des Moines Art Center

The Des Moines Art Center museum galleries will be closing at 4 pm, and the Art Center Café will close at 2:30 pm, on Saturday, August 30, for a private event.

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Current Exhibitions

Light Within Ourselves

Haitian Art in Iowa

April 18 - September 7, 2025 A. H. Blank Gallery

Myrlande Constant (Haitian, born 1968), “Dambalah Wedo Et Ayda Voir Preeace” (detail), 2000-2010

Life Mask

A Celebration of Gifts from the Dale Jansen Estate

April 25 - August 31, 2025 John Brady Print Gallery

Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941), “Life Mask” (detail), 1981

Firelei Báez

June 13 - September 21, 2025 Anna K. Meredith Gallery

Firelei Báez (Dominican, born 1981), “A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways),” 2019

Iowa Artists 2025

Ben Millett

July 26 - November 2, 2025 Lower galleries of the Richard Meier building

Ben Millett (American, born 1979), “Progress Pride Stars,” 2023

Upcoming Exhibitions

Robert Rauschenberg

Currents, 1970

September 6 - December 14, 2025 John Brady Print Gallery

Aliza Nisenbaum

Día de los Muertos

September 12, 2025 - January 11, 2026 Kyle and Sharon Krause Gallery

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Collaborations

October 25, 2025 - January 18, 2026 Anna K. Meredith Gallery

Past Exhibitions

More Past Exhibitions

Time Travelers

February 18 - May 11, 2025

Figments & Phantoms

January 10 - April 20, 2025

Op Art

Abstract Illusion

December 20, 2024 - April 13, 2025

Samantha Box

Caribbean Dreams

October 11, 2024 - January 19, 2025

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