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Installation of different colored basketballs with two prints on a blue wall in the background
David Huffman (American, born 1963). Installation view of Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press

May 4–August 10, 2025

Featuring works by 17 artists, this nationally traveling exhibition celebrates African American artists who are reshaping the contemporary art world, including Martin Puryear, Kerry James Marshall, and the Gee’s Bend Quilters.

Black and white drawing of youth lying on their side with the words "Some Glad morning" written in cursive beneath. Gold ceramic flowers surround the head of the figure.
Chris Friday. Future Venus II of Future Venus in Two Parts, 2025. Chalk on black archival paper, approx. 48 x 166 in.; and Age of Innocence, 2025. Hand-built, kiln-fired ceramic, glaze, solid gold luster. Installation view of Chris Friday: Where We Never Grow Old at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

Chris Friday: Where We Never Grow Old 

May 4–August 10, 2025

Multidisciplinary artist Chris Friday invites visitors into imagined sanctuaries in her first solo museum exhibition. Best known for her large-scale, yet intimate, figurative chalk drawings, Friday explores the literal and metaphorical safe havens we create for self-preservation in her new site-specific installation.

Two women sitting on a sculpture outside taking a selfie.
Jillian Mayer. Slumpie 75-Work Desk 4 Lefties, 2025. Fiberglass, epoxy, found foam, hardware, polyurethane elastomer, 87 x 85 x 43 in. Installation view of Slumpies at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

Jillian Mayer
Slumpies

May 4, 2025–August 19, 2026

Mayer explores the impact of technology on the human body through this interactive sculpture series. Slumpies invites viewers to sit and slump on these sculptures, much like furniture, and find a place of comfort while using their technological devices.
Molly Hatch (American, born 1978). Amalgam (detail), 2023. Ceramic, 220 in. x 324 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: John Polak.
Molly Hatch (American, born 1978). Amalgam (detail), 2023-24.
Ceramic, 220 in. x 324 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: John Polak.

Molly Hatch: Amalgam

April 25, 2024–April 26, 2026
Hatch’s newly commissioned “plate painting,” Amalgam (2023), was created specifically for Sarasota Art Museum. Consisting of more than 450 earthenware plates hand-painted in white, blue, and gold luster, the abstract lines and shapes in Amalgam are drawn from a variety of historical ceramics from around the globe.

Inside Out

Inside Out invites you to discover works of art throughout our Museum Campus, in addition to those showcased through rotating exhibitions in our galleries.

Inside Out Artists

Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A), Coming Together

Chakaia Booker, Square Peg

Samo Davis, Happiness in ROYGBIV

Molly Hatch, Staccato

John Henry, Complexus

Jillian Mayer, Slumpies

Olivier Mosset, Untitled

Leah Rosenberg, 28 Colors

Christian Sampson, Vita in Motu