State of the Art 2027

Brilliant artists are working in communities large and small across the country, challenging our ideas about what art can do. Art is more than decoration: it can serve as an archive, a vessel for memory, a timekeeper, a battle cry, and much more.

Since its debut in 2014, State of the Art has showcased contemporary artists whose work reflects the people, places and ideas shaping life across the United States. State of the Art 2027 brings together the artists of now from five regional partnership museums: Seattle Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and The High Museum of Art.

Developed in partnership with Art Bridges Foundation, the exhibition features 70 living artists from across the country, highlighting how contemporary American art is not concentrated to a single place or idea but is shaped by artists working across a wide range of communities and contexts. 

State of the Art 2027 is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The exhibition is sponsored by Good Chaos, Deborah Wright, Mary Beth and Mickey Mayfield, Stephen and Barbara Heyman, Stout Executive Search, Shari and Lamar Steiger Family, Christie’s, Harrison and Rhonda French Family and Frederick and Shelby Gans.