Upcoming Exhibition

Opening May 24, 2025:
Pop! Goes the West
Anne & Charles Duncan Special Exhibition Gallery
Explore the compelling intersections between popular culture and the American West through the Whitney Western Art Museum’s newest exhibition, POP! Goes the West. Surround yourself with the iconic work of Andy Warhol and other artists who combine the styles and attitudes of the Pop Art movement with western subject matter. This exhibition runs May 24, 2025 – January 24, 2026.
Centered on selections from Warhol’s groundbreaking 1986 Cowboys and Indians portfolio, and drawing on the Center of the West’s renowned collections along with important loans, POP! features eye-catching artwork with bright colors and bold design. Subjects range from the familiar to cinematic, and often invoke history, mythology, humor, and social commentary. The exhibition promises fresh perspectives, offers a wide range of interpretations of the West in art, and celebrates western art as a vibrant genre.

Featuring art made over the past forty years, POP! highlights dynamic and diverse modern and contemporary styles while revealing the influences of historical art, popular culture, and media. A selection of mass-produced objects from the nineteenth century and beyond—such as pulp fiction, Wild West posters, comics, children’s toys, and western movies—underscore the lasting popularity of western imagery and tropes on American identity and culture, and in art.

Pop! Goes the West is supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, a program of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.

Now open:
Fire on the Mountain: Photographs of Wildland Firefighting by Kyle Miller
John Bunker Sands Photography Gallery
This exciting new special exhibition opened to the public October 26. The photographs of Wyoming Hotshot Firefighter Kyle Miller give viewers an intimate, inside look into the world of fighting forest fires in the West.
Fire on the Mountain: Photographs of Wildland Firefighting by Kyle Miller features 31 stunning images taken by Miller during the course of his work. Hotshots are specialized wildland firefighters who are frequently deployed on the frontlines to combat threatening blazes. The Wyoming Interagency Hotshots are hosted by the Bighorn National Forest, but are deployed to fires across the U.S. and abroad. In this exhibition, Miller’s vivid and compelling photos highlight the conditions, intensity, and tenacity of work in the hot zone.
Fire on the Mountain will run from October 26, 2024, through July 27, 2025. Click here to learn more.
