Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
From The Menil Drawing Institute: "New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981) has been commissioned to create the sixth installment of the ephemeral Wall Drawing…
September 13 through August 30, 2025
Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms
From the Menil Drawing Institute: "Nine works dating from the late 1930s to the present are united by a visual language: emerging forms. Not fully…
September 20 through January 26, 2025
From the Menil Drawing Institute: "The Menil Collection open s Fragments of Memory at the Menil Drawing Institute on September 20, 2024 . On view…
September 20 through January 26, 2025
Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. Widely recognized as a sculptor, Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) drew daily,…
March 22 through July 21, 2024
From the Menil Drawing Institute: "Between the 1940s and 1970s, American artist Gray Foy (1922–2012) created a body of extraordinarily meticulous drawings, most often rendered…
April 21 through September 03, 2023
Wall Drawing Series: Mel Bochner
From the Menil Drawing Institute: "The Menil Drawing Institute’s Wall Drawing Series presents Smudge, 1968/2022, a new blue powder pigment drawing by Conceptual American artist Mel Bochner…
October 20 through August 27, 2023
Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself
From the Menil Drawing Institute: "The youngest and most erudite of the Abstract Expressionists, Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) created a remarkable body of drawings in a…
November 18 through March 12, 2023
From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to present Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw at the Menil Drawing Institute, the first major museum…
April 22 through August 07, 2022
Spatial Awareness: Drawings from the Permanent Collection
From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to present Spatial Awareness: Drawings from the Permanent Collection, a thematic exhibition which will bring together…
October 29 through March 13, 2022
Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show and The Menil Drawing Institute: "Free Admission In conjunction with the exhibition Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s, Aurora Picture…
August 27 through August 27, 2021
Think of Them as Spaces: Brice Marden's Drawings
Think of Them as Spaces: Brice Marden’s Drawings is an exploration of the artist’s draftsmanship and the catalytic role the medium plays within his practice. In…
February 21 through June 14, 2020
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect, Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
A solo exhibition featuring historic drawings by Jean-Jacques Lequeu. "Co-organized by the Petit Palais, Paris, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the exhibition in Houston…
October 04 through January 05, 2020
Book Launch: Drawing Is Everything
"The public is invited to a book launch celebrating the Menil’s new publication, "Drawing Is Everything: Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute." There will…
December 11 through December 11, 2019
Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw
"For over thirty years drawing has been fundamental to the practice of contemporary American artist Roni Horn (b. 1955), whose work revolves around the mutability…
February 05 through May 05, 2019
The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns
"Spanning 50 years of Jasper Johns’s career with works from 1954 to 2016, this exhibition maps introductions, continuities, and breaks among motifs, rather like the…
November 03 through January 27, 2019
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