Exhibitions

Bean Finneran: Curves, Cones, and Rings

This exhibition presents site-specific sculptures, each constructed with the artist’s established technique of easing and entwining together thousands of thin, ceramic forms she calls curves. In her California studio, Finneran handmakes hundreds-of-thousands of curves by rolling clay coils, then shaping, smoothing, firing, glazing, and firing them again. When gently positioned and layered directly on the floor, they create large, nest-like structures the artist terms floor cones and floral rings.

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Here We Have Idaho: Material Matters | S. A. Jones and Astri Snodgrass

Here We Have Idaho: Material Matters is the first exhibition within a new Boise Art Museum program that showcases Idaho-based artists whose artworks broaden the boundaries of contemporary art. This program reimagines how the Boise Art Museum engages with artists and artists engage with our community, while highlighting the role of art and artists in reflecting important ideas of our times.

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Four Masterworks from the National Gallery of Art

Boise Art Museum is thrilled to announce that we have been invited, among only ten art museums nationwide, to participate in the National Gallery of Art’s “Across the Nation” program, to share the nation’s collection with museums across the country. We welcome you to take advantage of this rare opportunity to experience four noteworthy and beloved artworks presented at the Boise Art Museum.

Thomas Eakins | Berthe Morisot | Mark Rothko

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Julie Green: The Last Supper

The Last Supper features nearly 1,000 hand-painted ceramic plates, illustrating the final-meal choices of people on death row in the U.S.  Artist Julie Green (1961-2021) spent twenty-two years creating this large-scale art installation by painting images of the final meals on found ceramic plates with cobalt blue mineral paint and then re-firing them in a kiln.  Boise Art Museum is the first to showcase all available plates created by the artist.

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Spectrum: Color in Pigment and Light

For thousands of years, the rainbow has been a cross-cultural symbol of hope, positivity, and a bit of magic. Dedicated to the celebration of rainbows, Spectrum showcases interactives inspired by the rich and numerous colors of our world. Participatory stations throughout the ARTexperience Gallery encourage visitors of all ages to create a rainbow block print, match colored fiber to emotions, build a colorful town, and more.

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Visual Language: The Art of Abstraction

Visual Language: The Art of Abstraction presents a selection of abstract, non-representational artworks from Boise Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. A cross-section of abstract artwork, created by the most significant American abstract artists working from the 1980s through the early 2000s, features Color Field paintings, lyrical abstraction, and minimalism.

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Myths, Fables, and Fortunes: Our Place within the Landscape

Myths, Fables, and Fortunes is a journey of discovery focused on the natural environment of the Northwest. Drawn from the Museum’s Permanent Collection and spanning over six decades, the exhibition highlights our shifting perspectives and connection with the land during a period of dramatic change and development.

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Exhibition Partnership

Now on Display at The Sparrow Hotel

Where are you really from?: Artwork by Miguel Angel Almeida

On display at The Sparrow beginning June 21, 2025

Miguel Angel Almeida is a visual artist and muralist based in Boise, Idaho. You can find his artwork on large-scale murals, coffee cups, and skateboard decks all around town. He grew up in Marsing and Caldwell, Idaho, to parents who immigrated from a small pueblo Ex Hacienda La Encarnación, in Zacatecas, Mexico. Almeida’s artwork is largely inspired by his Mexican roots. Celebrating his heritage and using his visual art to represent his community, he uses bright colors inspired by clothing, buildings, and even pastries from Mexico. In this exhibition entitled, Where are you really from?, Almeida reflects on the idyllic memories of visiting his maternal grandparents in rural Zacatecas, Mexico, and the complexities of the town’s colonial history. More»

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