From The Menil Drawing Institute: "New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981) has been commissioned to create the sixth installment of the ephemeral Wall Drawing…

09.13.24 | 08.30.25

From the Menil Drawing Institute: "Nine works dating from the late 1930s to the present are united by a visual language: emerging forms. Not fully…

09.20.24 | 01.26.25

From the Menil Drawing Institute: "The Menil Collection open s Fragments of Memory at the Menil Drawing Institute on September 20, 2024 . On view…

09.20.24 | 01.26.25

Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. Widely recognized as a sculptor, Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) drew daily,…

03.22.24 | 07.21.24

From the Menil Drawing Institute: "Between the 1940s and 1970s, American artist Gray Foy (1922–2012) created a body of extraordinarily meticulous drawings, most often rendered…

04.21.23 | 09.03.23

From the Menil Drawing Institute: "The Menil Drawing Institute’s Wall Drawing Series presents Smudge, 1968/2022, a new blue powder pigment drawing by Conceptual American artist Mel Bochner…

10.20.22 | 08.27.23

From the Menil Drawing Institute: "The youngest and most erudite of the Abstract Expressionists, Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) created a remarkable body of drawings in a…

11.18.22 | 03.12.23

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to present Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw at the Menil Drawing Institute, the first major museum…

04.22.22 | 08.07.22

From the Menil Collection: "The Menil Collection is pleased to present Spatial Awareness: Drawings from the Permanent Collection, a thematic exhibition which will bring together…

10.29.21 | 03.13.22

Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show and The Menil Drawing Institute: "Free Admission In conjunction with the exhibition Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s, Aurora Picture…

08.27.21 | 08.27.21

Think of Them as Spaces: Brice Marden’s Drawings is an exploration of the artist’s draftsmanship and the catalytic role the medium plays within his practice. In…

02.21.20 | 06.14.20

A solo exhibition featuring historic drawings by Jean-Jacques Lequeu. "Co-organized by the Petit Palais, Paris, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the exhibition in Houston…

10.04.19 | 01.05.20

"The public is invited to a book launch celebrating the Menil’s new publication, "Drawing Is Everything: Founding Gifts of the Menil Drawing Institute." There will…

12.11.19 | 12.11.19

"For over thirty years drawing has been fundamental to the practice of contemporary American artist Roni Horn (b. 1955), whose work revolves around the mutability…

02.05.19 | 05.05.19

"Spanning 50 years of Jasper Johns’s career with works from 1954 to 2016, this exhibition maps introductions, continuities, and breaks among motifs, rather like the…

11.03.18 | 01.27.19