Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums
March 15 – July 13, 2025
Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums explores the essential role art and objects played for mediums and magicians “communicating” with the dead during the 19th- and 20th-century Spiritualism movement in the U.S. and Europe—a time when people actively debated and wondered, “Can spirits return?”
Learn more
Robert Rauschenberg: A Centennial Celebration
March 1 – August 3, 2025
With support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Ringling joins an international roster of institutions honoring Rauschenberg’s Centennial for a year of global activities and exhibitions that examine the artist through a contemporary lens, highlighting his enduring influence on generations of artists and advocates for social progress.
Learn more
Catch of the Day: Flying Fish from Modern Japan
November 23, 2024 – April 6, 2025
This group of modernist lacquerware, glass, and metalwork objects, textiles, and works on paper and silk that feature this motif will enchant visitors to the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Asian Art.
Isozaki Yoshitsugu (Bia), Japanese, 1884–1949, Vase with Flying Fish Design, ca. 1930s, Silver with gilding, 12 × 8 2/5 in (30.5 × 21.4 cm, Private Collection.
Learn more
Radical Clay
Contemporary Women Artists from Japan
July 27, 2024 – May 11, 2025
Radical Clay is an exhibition of 41 ceramic sculptures by 36 contemporary Japanese artists, all of whom happen to be women.
Image: Tanaka Yu, b. 1989, Bag Work detail (Fukuromono), 2018. Glazed Shigaraki stoneware, 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. Carol & Jeffrey Horvitz Collection of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics.
Learn more
Embodied
Highlights from The Ringling Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art
March 9, 2024 – September 21, 2025
EMBODIED expands on the definition of the human figure by bringing together diverse representations in painting, sculpture, fiber, video, and mixed media by some of the most exciting artists working in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Learn more
The Greatest Show on Earth® Gallery
This latest addition to the museum celebrates the era of modern circus that began with Irvin Feld’s purchase of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® in 1967. The Greatest Show On Earth® Gallery modernizes the museum’s expansive history of the circus by exploring the first fifty years of the Feld family’s stewardship during which the spectacle of the show brought the circus experience to new heights.
Learn more
Community Gallery
The Ringling Community Gallery is a free public exhibition space dedicated to displaying works of art produced by community-based, non-profit, or student groups in the local Sarasota/Manatee area.
To visit, ask for a Community Gallery wristband at the Visitors Pavilion.
Learn moreUpcoming Exhibitions
Sandy Rodriguez: Currents of Resistance
April 5 – Aug 10, 2025
Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975) is a Los Angeles- based Chicana artist and researcher whose practice engages historic materials and techniques of the Americas to paint visual histories. Currents of Resistance is the culminating exhibition of her 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize commission.
Learn More
Ancient Art from Cyprus and the Mediterranean
Opening Summer 2025, this is the latest phase of The Ringling’s multi-year project to reinstall all 21 permanent collection galleries of the Museum of Art. This new installation in Gallery 12 highlights art from the island of Cyprus with a selection of 201 works from The Ringling’s permanent collection of ancient Mediterranean art—nearly all of which was purchased by John Ringling at auctions in 1928—including sculptures in limestone and terracotta as well as ceramic vessels, glass, and gold and silver jewelry.
Learn More
Past Exhibitions
Explore exhibitions displayed at The Ringling.
View Exhibitions from the earliest record in 1947
