The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

American Prospects and Landscape Photography, 1839 to Today

3 Oct 2026 – 11 Apr 2027

Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Barbara Bosworth, William Eggleston …

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

More is More: Reinventing Photography Beyond the Frame

2 Aug 2025 – 18 Jan 2026

Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Jared Bark …

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Strange and Familiar Places

1 Feb 2025 – 20 Jul 2025

Antone Dolezal, Terry Evans, Rahim Fortune, Elise Kirk …

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Still Performing

Costume, Gesture, and Expression in 19th Century European Photography

24 Aug 2024 – 12 Jan 2025

Julia Margaret Cameron, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Roger Fenton …

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

To Prove that I Exist

Melissa Shook’s Daily Self-Portraits, 1972–1973

9 Mar 2024 – 4 Aug 2024

Melissa Shook

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Cities Are for People: Street Photography, 1945-1970

30 Sep 2023 – 25 Feb 2024

Diane Arbus, Ilse Bing, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson …

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Eyes on the City 

16 Sep 2023 – 11 Feb 2024

Evelyn Hofer

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Highlights from the Photography Collection

22 Oct 2022 – 17 Sep 2023

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Alice Austen, Richard Avedon, Ilse Bing …

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Signs

Photographs by Jim Dow

7 May 2022 – 9 Oct 2022

Jim Dow

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play

22 Oct 2021 – 25 Apr 2022

Thomas Barrow, Zeke Berman, Michael Bishop, Cortis & Sonderegger …

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Highlights from the Photography Collection

16 Apr 2021 – 5 Oct 2021

Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Julie Blackmon, Margaret Bourke-White …

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Muhammad Ali

14 Feb 2020 – 4 Apr 2021

Gordon Parks

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art · Kansas City (US)

Golden Prospects

California Gold Rush Daguerreotypes

6 Sep 2019 – 26 Jan 2020