Jess T. Dugan: I want you to know my story

Aug 17, 2024 – Feb 25, 2025

St. Louis-based contemporary artist Jess T. Dugan explores facets of identity through their photography, video, and writing.

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Radical Clay

Contemporary Women Artists from Japan

July 27, 2024 – May 11, 2025

Radical Clay is an exhibition of 41 ceramic sculptures by 36 contemporary Japanese artists, all of whom happen to be women.

Image: Tanaka Yu, b. 1989, Bag Work detail (Fukuromono), 2018. Glazed Shigaraki stoneware, 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. Carol & Jeffrey Horvitz Collection of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics.

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Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration

May 25, 2024 – January 26, 2025

This exhibition is partnership between five arts institutions in the Tampa Bay area, is a celebration of the region’s artistic practices.

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Embodied

Highlights from The Ringling Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art

March 9, 2024 – September 21, 2025

EMBODIED expands on the definition of the human figure by bringing together diverse representations in painting, sculpture, fiber, video, and mixed media by some of the most exciting artists working in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Shinique Smith: Parade

December 16, 2023 – January 5, 2025

Parade speaks to the European artistic tradition revealing the universality of human experience explored by artists throughout time while also foregrounding notions of Black femininity and the history of the circus.

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The Greatest Show on Earth® Gallery

New Gallery Now Open!

This latest addition to the museum celebrates the era of modern circus that began with Irvin Feld’s purchase of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® in 1967. The Greatest Show On Earth® Gallery modernizes the museum’s expansive history of the circus by exploring the first fifty years of the Feld family’s stewardship during which the spectacle of the show brought the circus experience to new heights.

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Community Gallery

The Ringling Community Gallery is a free public exhibition space dedicated to displaying works of art produced by community-based, non-profit, or student groups in the local Sarasota/Manatee area.

To visit, ask for a Community Gallery wristband at the Visitors Pavilion.

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Upcoming Exhibitions


Enduring Light

Photographs by Roy DeCarava and Danny Lyon from the Sandor Collection

September 21, 2024 – February 9, 2025

These bodies of work by two of America’s most consequential photographers offer distinct but complementary expressions of Black life and the struggle for civil rights in the U.S.

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Past Exhibitions

Explore exhibitions displayed at The Ringling dating from the earliest record in 1947 to the present.

Please note: This project is a work in progress. More images and information will be added over time. Please visit often.

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