On View
![Installation view of "Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present" in a gallery at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/2024sp_irving_install_015.tif.jpg)
Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present
February 23–July 29, 2024
![Four square, gray canvases on a wall, getting progressively darker from left to right](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/sierra-0z2a6745bn-2000x.jpg)
Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air
February 23–July 29, 2024
![Tony Cokes, still from The Book of Love, 1992. Color video with sound, 59:37 min. Courtesy of the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles; Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna; and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/tco.011_5.png)
Space Mapping: Video Art Series
February 23–July 29, 2024
!["Slingshot" written in white, dotted text on a blue sky](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/slingshot-mfa24-title.jpg)
Slingshot: 2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition
May 3–July 29, 2024
![Edward Mitchell Bannister (American, 1828–1901), Harvest, 1884. Oil on canvas, 30 x 22 in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Gift of halley k harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, 2014.43.](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/51_2024_cbmaa_3_3_bannister.jpg)
Reframing the 19th Century
June 20, 2024–ongoing
![2015_0002a-ppp.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_2010_2019/2015_0002a-ppp.jpg)
Artists in Exile: European Surrealists in the US during and after World War II
September 1, 2023–ongoing
![2022_0004a-d.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_2020_2029/2022_0004a-d.tif.jpg)
New Acquisitions in Contemporary Art
July 19, 2023–ongoing
![431_2015.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/unaccessioned/431_2015.jpg)
Martín Chambi and Edward Sheriff Curtis
November 11, 2022–ongoing
![Attributed to Sebah & Joaillier (Ottoman studio, active 1888–1908), Untitled (Interior of Hagia Sophia), c. 1880s–c. 1890s. Albumen silver print. Gift of Laurie Wilson, Robert Frerck, and family, 2015.](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/unaccessioned/525_2015.jpg)
19th- and 20th-Century Travel Photography
November 11, 2022–ongoing
Upcoming Exhibitions
![St. Louis riverfront after demolition of warehouses, c. 1942. Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Archives, V106-4838. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic license.](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w500/st._louis_riverfront_after_demolition_for_gateway_arch_(1942).jpg)
Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s
September 13, 2024–January 6, 2025
![Kapwani Kiwanga, Vivarium: Apomixis, 2020. PVC, steel, color, and MDF. Installation view, Remediation, at MOCA Toronto. Courtesy the artist; Galerie Poggi, Paris; Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin; and Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, Johannesburg, and London. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Laura Findlay.](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w500/2020_kk_vivarium_apomixis_(moca_toronto)_02.jpg)
Seeds: Containers of a World to Come
February 21–July 28, 2025