2025 exhibitions at the Getty: a look ahead
A look at some of the art exhibitions the Getty Museum will present in 2025.
Source: Getty Museum · Image: Gustave Caillebotte, “Les Raboteurs de parquet”, 1875. Musée d’Orsay, Paris
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold (February 11, 2025–May 4, 2024). Getty Center.
Cuban-born Campos-Pons makes vivid photographs, watercolors, installations, and performances that trace the cultural and personal impacts of migration and memory. Her works reflect global histories of labor as they affected her family through enslavement, indenture, and motherhood, emphasizing resilience and respect for her Nigerian and Chinese ancestors. This survey of 35 years of artmaking and activism highlights the interconnectedness between people and their environments, offering an expansive, incisive, and sensorial experience.
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men (February 25, 2025–May 25, 2025). Getty Center.
French painter Gustave Caillebotte’s interest in male subjects sharply distinguishes him from his Impressionist peers. Overwhelmingly, he observed and depicted the men in his life—including his brothers, bachelor friends, fellow sportsmen, and the workers and bourgeois of his neighborhood—and did so in bracingly original paintings that often subverted artistic and gender norms. His distinctive vision of modern masculinity is considered here for the first time in a major international loan exhibition. Co-organized with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Strong Women (June 10, 2025–September 14, 2025). Getty Center.
In 2020, a massive explosion in the port of Beirut devastated the city. Among the wreckage was a previously unknown painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, the most celebrated woman painter of 17th-century Italy. Depicting a scene from the Greek myth of Hercules, the severely damaged painting came to Getty for in-depth conservation treatment. In an installation focused on its repair, the restored painting is accompanied by three of Gentileschi’s other paintings, highlighting her special focus on donne forti (strong women) from the classical and biblical traditions.
Queer Lens: A History of Photography (June 17, 2025–September 28, 2025). Getty Center.
Since the mid-19th century, photography has served as a powerful tool for examining concepts of gender, sexuality, and self-expression. As a transformative force, its capacity to reproduce images has played a pivotal role in the gradual proliferation of homosocial, homoerotic, and homosexual imagery. Despite periods of severe homophobia, when many queer photographs were suppressed or destroyed, this exhibition brings together a variety of evidence to explore the medium’s profound role in shaping and affirming the vibrant tapestry of the LGBTQ+ community.
