The Baker Museum and Hayes Hall Galleries
Current Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
Florida Contemporary
2025-26
This annual exhibition presents a select group of notable artists practicing in Florida. Highlighting the diversity of artistic approaches to personal, local and global themes, the 13th edition of this exhibition invites visitors to celebrate the state’s vibrant art scene.
October 18, 2025 – June 28, 2026
Located in the Hayes Hall galleries and Artis—Naples cultural campus
sonia louise davis
to reverberate tenderly
This multisensory exhibition and living environment for creative activity demonstrates artist sonia louise davis’ fascination with improvisation. Her inventive musical vocabulary of lines, curves, dots, rings and dashes is layered and repeated throughout the gallery, from textile-based soft paintings and a wall mural with neons to custom steel instruments—exploring the possibilities of a sonic space attuned to vulnerability and generosity.
Image: sonia louise davis (b. United States, 1988). emergence: natural affinities, 2023. Peruvian highland wool, merino, merino/nylon blend, acrylic/wool blend, acrylic, wool, and recycled wool yarns, 58 x 58 x 2 in. Courtesy the artist.
November 22, 2025 – May 24, 2026
Located on the first floor of The Baker Museum
There & Here
New Perspectives of the Permanent Collection
In celebration of The Baker Museum’s 25th anniversary, this exhibition, co-curated with a community advisory committee, features highlights and rarities from the permanent collection. Through artistic expression and community programs, we aim to illuminate how people preserve their identities and connections to their ancestry, despite geographical dislocation.
Image: Fernando Castillo (b. Mexico 1882-1940). El tunero (The Prickly Pear Picker), 1935. Oil on canvas, 31 x 25 1/2 in. Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum. Gift of Harry Pollak, 2002.2.010. © Fernando Castillo
January 10, 2026 – ongoing (multi-year exhibition)
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum
The Passion of Collecting
Stories in Glass and Ceramics from the Sibrack Collection
Showcasing 74 striking works by 60 artists, this exhibition reflects the discerning eye of Dr. Laurence and Rita Sibrack. From intricate vessels to contemporary sculptural forms, it celebrates the expressive potential of glass and ceramics while sharing the personal stories behind this extraordinary gift to The Baker Museum.
Image: Dan Dailey. Madeleine (The Individual series), 2010. Blown glass, acid etched. 21 1/2 x 13 x 14 in. Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum. Gift of Dr. Laurence and Rita Sibrack, 2025.2.67. Photo: Steven R. Coffin.
January 10 – November 1, 2026
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum
Discovering Ansel Adams
The exhibition features over 100 photographs that share Ansel Adams’ most celebrated works while revealing aspects of his development that are frequently overlooked. Together, with original archival materials from the CCP’s Ansel Adams Archive, the photographs demonstrate how Adams transformed from a 14-year-old tourist with a camera into a celebrated photographer.
Image: Ansel Adams (b. United States 1902–1984). The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942. Gelatin silver print, image: 39 15/16 x 51 1/4 in. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Ansel Adams Archive, 76.562.2. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
March 14 – August 2, 2026
Located on the third floor of The Baker Museum
Louise Nevelson
Dawn's Forest
The monumental sculpture Dawn’s Forest by preeminent American artist Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) is one of the most iconic works in The Baker Museum’s permanent collection. The work is made of various white-painted abstract wood elements, some as tall as 25 feet, created by Nevelson in her signature assemblage style over a period of more than a year.
Image: Louise Nevelson (American, 1899-1988), Dawn’s Forest (a column displayed in Artis—Naples, Hayes Hall, Drackett Gallery), 1986. Painted balsa-plywood. Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum. 2010.7. Gift of GA-Met, a joint venture of Georgia-Pacific, LLC. © 2020 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Ongoing Installation
Located in the Drackett Gallery and throughout Hayes Hall
Outdoor Sculpture
The Baker Museum Sculpture Trail offers a distinctive way to experience art in harmony with nature. This dynamic outdoor exhibition features sculptures from The Baker Museum’s collection and select loans, including works by George Rickey and Hanneke Beaumont. Visitors can enjoy self-guided tours anytime or join docent-led tours on Thursdays from November through May.
Image: Manolo Valdés (Spanish, b. 1942). Dama III, 2003. Bronze. 167 x 128 x 126 in. Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum. Gift of Patty and Jay Baker, Bob and Terry Edwards and Bruce and Cynthia Sherman, 2012.3. Photo: RoseBudz Productions.
Ongoing Installation
Located throughout the Kimberly K. Querrey and Louis A. Simpson Cultural Campus and Sculpture Trail at Pelican Bay
Magritte: Reflections of Another World
Paintings from the Van Parys Family
Magritte: Reflections of Another World comprises six paintings — five oils and one gouache — by Belgian artist René Magritte (1898-1967). Renowned for his witty Surrealist paintings of everyday objects in strange surroundings, Magritte preferred that his artworks remain mysterious and open to interpretation. These works are from the collection of Jean Van Parys, a collector of avant-garde art and a close friend of Magritte, and they are on a five-year loan to Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum from Van Parys’ daughter. The paintings have never previously been shown in North America, and none have exhibited publicly in over 48 years.
Image: René Magritte. Shéhérazade, 1947. Gouache on paper. 7 x 5 1/2 inches. On loan from the Van Parys family. © 2022 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Ongoing Exhibition
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum
Chihuly Collection
Dale Chihuly is a multimedia artist known for pushing the boundaries of glass and revolutionizing the American studio glass movement. The Baker Museum is the permanent home to four of his dynamic large-scale installations, which are on view to museum visitors during all normal operating hours: Blue Icicle Chandelier, Red Chandelier, Red Reeds and Persian Seaform Ceiling.
Image: Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941). Blue Icicle Chandelier, 2000. Blown glass, 39 x 6 x 6 feet. Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum. Gift of Charles and Jane Berger, 2000.12. © Chihuly Studio
Ongoing Installation
Located throughout the Kimberly K. Querrey and Louis A. Simpson Cultural Campus
Upcoming Exhibitions
Linling Lu
Fugue in 3 Voices
Baltimore-based artist Linling Lu is best known for her sonically inspired circular paintings exhibited in museums and public collections around the world. This installation features new work inspired by composers who have been featured in the Naples Philharmonic’s Masterworks series.
Image: Linling Lu (b. China 1983). One Hundred Melodies of Solitude, No.264, 2025. Acrylic on shaped canvas, 67 x 67 x 1 3/4 in. Courtesy of Arting Gallery.
July 11, 2026 – January 3, 2027
Located in The Baker Museum, Springborn Gallery
The Surrealist International
Fifty Years of Dreams
The Surrealist International: Fifty Years of Dreams explores the long trajectory and the broad reach of surrealism as a state of mind, through a rich texture of paintings, photographs, sculptures and objects drawn from the remarkable collection of Tate, United Kingdom. The exhibition includes works by the most familiar artists associated with Surrealism, such as Eileen Agar, Jean Arp, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Man Ray and Dorothea Tanning, as well as some whose work deserves to be better known, such as Kati Horna, Malangatana Ngwenya, Osamu Shiihara and Lionel Wendt.
Image: René Magritte (Belgium, 1898-1967). The Future of Statues, 1937. Oil paint on plaster, 13 x 6 1/2 x 8 in. Tate Modern. Purchased 1981, T03258
October 17, 2026 – February 14, 2027
Located on the third floor of The Baker Museum
Baron Wolman
Capturing the Sound of an Era
This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Baron Wolman (United States, 1937-2020), the trailblazing first chief photographer of Rolling Stone magazine. At the dawn of a cultural revolution, Wolman stood at the epicenter with a camera in hand, capturing the raw electricity of the late 1960s music scene. His lens immortalized the era’s most influential blues, jazz and rock legends: Miles Davis, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, alongside the unsung innovators whose artistry shaped a generation.
Image: Baron Wolman (United States, 1937-2020). Jimi Hendrix, 1968. Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in. Rock and & Roll Hall of Fame, 68033-4a © Baron Alan Wolman Collection, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.
December 5, 2026 – June 13, 2027
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum
Louise Nevelson
Dawn to Dusk
Louise Nevelson: Dawn to Dusk traces the artist’s formative years to her emergence as a sculptor of international renown. The survey begins with her early studies at the Art Students League in New York and with Hans Hofmann in Munich, Germany, in 1931. It continues with her mature works in found and assembled wood, which established her as the “grande dame of contemporary sculpture.”
Image: Louise Nevelson (Ukraine, 1893-1983). The Endless Column, 1969, 1985. Wood and found wooden objects, black paint, 128 1/8 x 59 x 11 1/8 (center), 110 x 22 x 9 1/8 (left), 115 x 21 1/2 x 5 1/4 (right) inches. The Farnsworth Museum, bequest of Nathan Berliawsky, 1980.35.30
February 13 – July 11, 2027
Located on the first floor of The Baker Museum
The Long View
From Conservation to Sustainability | Works from the Bank of America Collection
The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability | Works from the Bank of America Collection traces the history and impact of the environmental movement through art. Beginning in the mid-19th century and continuing to the present, the exhibition examines the evolution of our relationship with—and need to protect—the Earth and the artists who have played a role in shaping the environmental conversation.
Image: John Sabraw (United Kingdom, b, 1968). Chroma S5 Hudson River, 2019. Hudson Valley brick dst, 24-karat gold leaf, acrylic resin and acrylic paint with acid mine drainage iron oxides on aluminum composite material, 36 x 26 in. Bank of America Collection, 208072
March 20 – August 15, 2027
Located on the third floor of The Baker Museum
Past Exhibitions
2025-26 Season
Tamara de Lempicka October 25, 2025 – February 8, 2026 
Entangled in the Mangroves: Florida Everglades Through Installation March 8 – November 30, 2025 
In the Making: Sketches, Studies and Maquettes from the Permanent Collection May 5 – October 26, 2025 
Student Photography Institute Exhibition August 5 – October 26, 2025