March 2025 - October 2025. This installation celebrates some of the many artworks that have entered the collection within the last decade. Select African art acquisitions are joined by highlights from the museum’s growing photography holdings.

February 13, 2025 - July 20, 2025. Drawing from the museum's collection and significant loans, "it's a fine thing" explores themes of erasure, community, and the complex relationship between Black Midwesterners and the land through a range of works, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance.

August 2022 - July 2025. The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art’s inaugural exhibition that reintroduces the public to the extraordinary permanent collection that encompasses over sixteen thousand artworks.

May 4, 2024 - March 9, 2025. This exhibition celebrates the Keith Haring's legacy and honors the many individuals who shaped his visits to Iowa City during the 1980s. The 1989 mural Haring painted for Ernest Horn Elementary School anchors the exhibition and is accompanied by other works of art, photographs, and archival ephemera.

August 2, 2024 - February 23, 2025. Organized into three zones, this exhibition explores artistic agency as well as ethical and material dimensions of African art collections from the University of Iowa and Indiana University, where innovative and collaborative research on African art remains a strong legacy.

March 1 - December, 2024. This exhibition features "Twelve Prints by Contemporary American Artists," a portfolio gifted to the Stanley by collectors Alan and Ann January.

Summer 2022 - 2024. Commissioned by the Stanley Museum of Art, "Surrounding" by artist Odili Donald Odita is the first installment in the museum’s "Thresholds" series, which highlights the work of Iowa-affiliated artists.

2023 - 2024. Commissioned by the Stanley Museum of Art, "Spirit Dance" by artist Nnenna Okore is the second installment in the museum’s "Thresholds" series, which highlights the work of Iowa-affiliated artists.

August 23, 2023 - January 2024. This exhibition highlights the museum's collection of Native American ledger drawings, exploring how 19th-century Plains Indian artists adapted their storytelling traditions to new materials to document their lives and culture.