Enduring Light
Photographs by Roy DeCarava and Danny Lyon from the Sandor Collection
September 21, 2024 – February 9, 2025
These bodies of work by two of America’s most consequential photographers offer distinct but complementary expressions of Black life and the struggle for civil rights in the U.S.
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Jess T. Dugan: I want you to know my story
Aug 17, 2024 – Feb 25, 2025
St. Louis-based contemporary artist Jess T. Dugan explores facets of identity through their photography, video, and writing.
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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.
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Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration
May 25, 2024 – January 26, 2025
This exhibition is partnership between five arts institutions in the Tampa Bay area, is a celebration of the region’s artistic practices.
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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.
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Shinique Smith: Parade
December 16, 2023 – January 5, 2025
Parade speaks to the European artistic tradition revealing the universality of human experience explored by artists throughout time while also foregrounding notions of Black femininity and the history of the circus.
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The Greatest Show on Earth® Gallery
New Gallery Now Open!
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?”
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Past Exhibitions
Explore exhibitions displayed at The Ringling dating from the earliest record in 1947 to the present.
Please note: This project is a work in progress. More images and information will be added over time. Please visit often.
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