Current Exhibitions

  • Orange square with a white border and large numbers 50 with small letters neu overlapping the top of the 5 and the word Years beneath

    The Making of a Museum: 50 Years

    On View
         January 24 - December 22, 2024

    For fifty years, the Neuberger Museum of Art has fostered learning, sparked the creative process, and investigated understandings of the world in which we live through its collections, exhibitions, and education programs. 

  • Milton Avery (1885 –1965). Sunday Riders, 1929. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUN...

    The Promised Gift

    On View
    January 24, 2024
    West Gallery
    A project in The Making of a Museum: 50 Years exhibition

    The Promised Gift tells the story of Roy R. Neuberger’s 1969 grand and optimistic philanthropic contribution, a gift of 300 works of art to the State University of New York. 

  • black and white archival image of the construction of the Neuberger Museum

    1969—1974

    On View
    January 24, 2024
    Klein Gallery
    A project in The Making of a Museum: 50 Years exhibition

    1969—1974 explores the role of Roy R. Neuberger as one of the most important collectors of his day, the conceptualization, design, and construction of the Museum, and its use in the early 1970s by the students and faculty of Purchase College prior to the formal opening of the Neuberger Museum of Art in 1974.

  • Robert Indiana, ART, 1972, polychrome aluminum, 84 x 86 x 42 inches. Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY. Museum p...

    1974—2024

    On View
    April 13, 2024
    South Gallery
    A project in The Making of a Museum: 50 Years exhibition

    1974—2024 tells the story of the years from the time of the formal opening of the Museum to the present. 

  • A sea of glowing blue shapes with tentacles float within a dark background

    Rosalie D. Gagné: A Contemporary Alchemist

    On View
     September 18—December 22, 2024

    In Rosalie D. Gagné: A Contemporary Alchemist, the first retrospective exhibition of her work, the Neuberger Museum of Art explores the artist’s fascination with opposing worlds—organic and artificial, solid and ethereal, microcosm and macrocosm—and investigates the ensuing tensions. 

  • Helmet Mask (epa), from the Neuberger Museum's Permanent Collection, Yoruba peoples, Ekiti region, Northeastern Nigeria Carved by BámgbÃ...

    Then and Now: Selections from the Collection

    On View
     Ongoing

    Then and Now is an ongoing exhibition that includes a rotation of works from the museum’s collection of more than 6,000 objects.