You are invited to help sponsor our upcoming exhibitions for the Winter/Spring 2026 season opening on February 7, 2026.

Recent Acquisitions: 2018-2025

Lobby and Concourse Galleries
February 7 - June 28, 2026

The Fresno Art Museum has dedicated itself to building a Permanent Collection of art rooted in Modern and Contemporary painting, works on paper, and sculpture. Since the first works were acquired in 1960, this Permanent Collection has been cultivated with the intent to preserve artwork for future generations and for use in exhibitions, research, and teaching.

In any given year, hundreds of works of art are offered to the Museum through donation or bequest. This exhibition highlights recently acquired artwork that encompasses a wide range of practices and mediums which expand the breadth of the Permanent Collection but reflect the collection priorities of the Museum.

Curated by Sarah Vargas, FAM Curator

The Graphic Art of Roi Partridge from the Collection of Forrest L. Merrill

Moradian Gallery
February 7 - June 28, 2026

This exhibition of etchings by Roi Partridge is loaned from the Collection of Forrest L. Merrill of Berkeley, California. A master printmaker, George Roy Partridge (1888 - 1984), known professionally as Roi Partridge, was an American artist and teacher. He was born in Centralia, Washington. In 1909, the budding artist traveled to New York City for one year of art study. When 44 of his etchings were shown at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, he decided to make California his home. After moving to San Francisco in 1917, he began teaching at Mills College in Oakland, California in 1920 and became the first director of the school's art gallery. His marriage to photographer Imogen Cunningham in 1915 ended in divorce in 1934. They had three sons, including photographer Rondal Partridge. Partridge took a leave of absence from Mills College in 1946, continued etching until 1952, and retired in 1954. His last years were spent in Rossmoor in Walnut Creek, California, where he died in 1984. His work is held in the collections of the British Museum, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Grinnell College Museum of Art in Iowa, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Seattle’s Frye Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, the Oakland Museum of California, the Mills College Art Museum, the Monterey Museum of Art, and the San Diego Museum of Art, among others.

Curated by Michele Ellis Pracy, FAM Executive Director and Chief Curator

Jeffrey Long: American Landscapes

Hallowell Gallery
February 7 - June 28, 2026

The Bay Area painter Jeffrey Long is known for his diverse body of work, encompassing various styles such as Modernist design, tribal, and Asian art. The five oversized paintings on exhibition represent his interpretation of the American landscape and have recently been accepted into FAM's Permanent Collection. Long was born in 1948 and has been painting for over five decades. He holds an MFA from the California College of Arts & Crafts and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work often features a balance between modernist design principles and influences from tribal and Asian art. He explores themes of human presence in nature through various styles like abstract, representational, figurative, and metaphorical. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including shows at Desta Gallery, the de Young Museum, and JayJay Gallery. He has received awards including the Gold Award from the Art Stars of California and grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. His work is in collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Oakland Museum of California.

Curated by Michele Ellis Pracy, FAM Executive Director and Chief Curator

Requiem: The Remains of the Day – Photographs by Ruth Morgan

Fig Garden Gallery
February 7 - June 28, 2026

On August 4, 2021 at approximately 7:30 p.m., the Dixie Fire had already ravaged the ancient Lassen National Forest landscape and would soon crest the Sierra Nevada mountain range and roar through the small town of Greenville, California. In less than 45 minutes, the Dixie Fire destroyed wooden buildings that had stood for over a century. A gas station, a church, a hotel, a museum, and a bar were among the structures gutted, along with nearly 100 family homes, schools, and commercial businesses. Although the homes and property of approximately 1,000 residents were quickly reduced to smoking rubble, all of the residents were able to evacuate. The Dixie Fire began on July 13, 2021 and burned nearly one million acres before being contained on October 25, 2021, making it the single largest wildfire in recorded California history.

The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. Global warming will increase the chance of catastrophic wildfires and heat waves. Since 2006, there has been a 27-fold increase in the number of Americans exposed to an extreme smoke day, principally in the western United States where hot, dry conditions, supercharged by climate change, have fueled these extreme wildfires. The driver is the fossil fuel emissions that have heated up Earth’s atmosphere raising the risk of extreme weather events.

This exhibition is comprised of 12 photographs taken in the aftermath of the fire by photographer Ruth Morgan when she traveled to Greenville in November of 2021. Requiem: The Remains of the Day documents the magnitude of the impact of one of these extreme weather events on this once-pristine Sierra town. It is a warning and a challenge foreshadowing the devastating impact of climate change left unheeded.
 

Curated by Sarah Vargas, FAM Curator

At Work: Staff Art Exhibition

Duncan Gallery
February 7 - June 28, 2026

The Fresno Art Museum is fortunate that many of its staff members are also practicing visual artists in their own right. This exhibition serves to celebrate the recent work of museum employees working in a variety of different mediums. The Fresno Art Museum was founded in 1948 by a group of industrious local artists.

We look to continue this legacy by highlighting the creativity of those who help make the exhibitions, programs, and everyday activities possible at the Fresno Art Museum while showcasing local talent.

Curated by Michele Ellis Pracy, FAM Executive Director and Chief Curator and  Sarah Vargas, FAM Curator