Asheville Art Museum - North Carolina museum exhibiting 20th century American art

Native America: In Translation
Presenting powerful photography by Indigenous artists redefining identity, culture, and storytelling through a contemporary lens.
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Flora Symbolica: The Art of Flowers
On view through July 28, 2025—this exhibition explores the meanings and messages of flowers in American art of the 20th and 21st centuries, highlighting the timeless connections among art, nature, and human experience.
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Pay-What-You-Wish Admission for Helene-Affected Regions in Appalachia
Residents from designated counties are invited to experience the Museum’s exhibitions while contributing any amount they choose. Temporary hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11am to 6pm, with closures on Monday and Tuesday.
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Coatlicue & Las Meninas: The Stanford Edition
On view through July 13, 2025—this exhibition creates a dialogue among works of art from early modern Europe and pre-Columbian sculptural figures, employing the mirror as an emblem that interrogates the tension between presence and absence, colonial histories, and the politics of visibility.
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Iron and Ink: Prints from America's Machine Age
On view through September, 2025—this exhibition explores connections between industrial labor, urbanization, and the growing middle class.
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Unboxing Contexts: The Unrealized Projects of Douglas D. Ellington
Digital Exhibition—Unboxing Contexts: The Unrealized Projects of Douglas D. Ellington examines unbuilt architectural projects that were designed by noted 20th century architect Douglas D. Ellington. Ellington is well known for designing several significant Art Deco structures in western North Carolina, such as the Asheville City Building and the S&W Cafeteria.  
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Forces of Nature: Ceramics from the Hayes Collection
On view through May, 2025—this exhibition traces the historical, stylistic, and conceptual origins of work that either embraces or refuses the element of chance in ceramics, looking at modern and contemporary work made in Western North Carolina.
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WPA Prints, “New Masses” Magazine, and the Radical Spirit of the 1930s
May 15, 2025

Currently on view in the Van Winkle Law Firm Gallery, Iron & Ink: Prints from America’s Machine Age features work created under one of the most ambitious

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The Museum Store, Perspective Café, and Wells Fargo Art PLAYce, our intergenerational makerspace, are open during Museum hours.

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Current Exhibitions

Coatlicue & Las Meninas

April 16–August 17, 2025
"Coatlicue & Las Meninas" is the newest addition to Pedro Lasch’s ongoing series "Black Mirror/Espejo Negro." Throughout the series, Lasch creates a dialogue among works of art from early modern Europe and pre-Columbian sculptural figures, employing the mirror as an emblem that interrogates the tension between presence and absence, colonial histories, and the politics of visibility. "Coatlicue & Las Meninas: The Stanford Edition" (2007/2025) is the first artwork commissioned for “What Can Become of Us?,” a collaboration between the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies (IAJS) and Zócalo Public Square, envisioning new perspectives on migration, America’s diverse communities, and how people come together across differences.