ARTISTS
2025
The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) showcases the only American included among French Impressionists in “Mary Cassatt at Work,” on view June 21-Oct. 12.
Mary Cassatt at Work is the exhibition on view June 21 – October 12, 2025 at the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA).
For this year's edition of the Hawaii Triennial—“ALOHA NŌ," open across 13 sites on 3 islands through May 4—we spoke with with Halona Norton-Westbrook, Director & CEO of Honolulu Museum of Art, and Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Co-curator of the presentation.
Around the world, they are in unusual venues ranging from a Japanese museum in a mountain forest to a Warsaw church dome.
The Hawai‘i Triennial is the state’s largest thematic exhibition of contemporary art from Hawai‘i, the Pacific and beyond. The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) has been a participating venue since the Triennial debuted in 2017.
Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Sharjah Biennial 16 to Pap Souleye Fall in New York.
The next 12 months offers a wide range of challenging and unusual exhibitions from artists such as Ruth Asawa and Rashid Johnson.
2024
In 2019, the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) acquired the 1975 hand-drawn short story “Vagabond Plain” by acclaimed alternative manga artist Tadao Tsuge (b. 1941).
Tracing the transformation of art over eight decades, the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) presents “Past-Forward: Modern and Contemporary Art from HoMA’s Collection,”.
In 2022 the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) acquired 55 pieces from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection — all works on paper created by 26 African American artists.
The newly opened exhibition 'Forward Together' at the Honolulu Museum of Art features works that present visitors with a who’s who of African American creatives.
Rather than a sole focus on the bigger, established names, major exhibitions this year are expanding to include a range of diverse and innovative names.
2023
An exhibition at Honolulu Museum of Art is shaped around a recent major gift from one of the museum’s benefactors, allowing them to explore a fascinating period in Japanese art, comprising paintings, ceramics and lacquerware produced between the 1870s and 1950s.
The Honolulu Museum of Art has burst with color and transcultural symbolism this summer with “Lauren Hana Chai: The Five Senses,”. The exhibition presents deeply personal work by O‘ahu-based artist Lauren Hana Chai (b. 1991).
Celebrating a recent donation of 127 artworks by noted collector Terry Welch, the Honolulu Museum of Art presents Transformation: Modern Japanese Art.