2025
Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History
September 28, 2025 - March 15, 2026
2025
All of Me with All of You: LGBTQ+ Art Out of the Collection
June 7, 2025 - September 14, 2025
2025
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2025
April 6, 2025 - May 25, 2025
2025
Robert Graham Carter: The Art of Reflection
February 2, 2025 - May 25, 2025
2025
Embracing the Parallax: Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland
February 2, 2025 - March 30, 2025
2024
The Body Politic: Long Island Biennial 2024
September 14, 2024 - January 19, 2025
2024
George Grosz: The Stick Men
May 11, 2024 - September 1, 2024
2024
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2024
March 23, 2024 - May 5, 2024
2024
The Rains Are Changing Fast: New Acquisitions in Context
March 23, 2024 - September 1, 2024
The Heckscher Museum Celebrates 100 Helen-Torr-Oyster-Stakes
2023
Salt Life: Arthur Dove and Helen Torr
November 18, 2023 - March 10, 2024
2023
COURTNEY M. LEONARD: LOGBOOK 2004–2023
June 10, 2023 - November 12, 2023
2023
Raise the Roof: The Home in Art

January 28, 2023 – March 10, 2024

2023
Viewfinders: Photographers Frame Nature

January 28, 2023 – April 16, 2023

2023
Three Paintings by Richard Mayhew, Betty Parsons, and Jane Wilson

January 28, 2023 – June 4, 2023

2022
Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

June 4, 2022 – September 18, 2022

Picture Perfect: Selections from the Permanent Collection Ralph Albert Blakelock The Poetry of Moonlight . c. 1880 - 90
2022
Moonstruck: Lunar Art from the Collection

January 20, 2022 – September 18, 2022
*Temporarily closed April 18-29, May 23-June 3

2022
Richard Mayhew: Reinventing Landscape

January 20, 2022 – April 24, 2022

George Grosz's "Eclipse of the Sun" (1926)
2022
George Grosz’s “Eclipse of the Sun” (1926)

January 20, 2022 – May 29, 2022

2021
The Heckscher Museum Celebrates 100 (Part II): Tracing History, Inspiring the Future
September 23, 2021 - January 9, 2022
The Heckscher Museum Celebrates 100 Thomas-Moran-Grand-Canyon-of-the-Colorado-River
2021
The Heckscher Museum Celebrates 100 (Part I): Tracing History, Inspiring the Future
June 5, 2021 - September 19, 2021
2021
Stan Brodsky: Low Tide #1 and Paumanok Places #8
April 17, 2021 - May 23, 2021
2021
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2021
April 17, 2021 - May 23, 2021
2021
Wood Gaylor and American Modernism

January 23–May 23, 2021    *Temporarily closed April 5-16

2021
Connie Fox: The Sammy’s Beach Series
January 16, 2021 - April 11, 2021
2020
Long Island Biennial 2020
October 15, 2020 - January 10, 2021
Amanda Valdez AV_backside bind_2018
2020
Amanda Valdez: Piecework
August 1, 2020 - October 4, 2020
Locally Sourced Wilson-Jane-Midsummer-Midnight
2019
Locally Sourced: Collecting Long Island Artists
November 23, 2019 - March 15, 2020
A Brush with HerStory Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso
2019
A Brush with HerStory: Paintings by Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso
August 31, 2019 - November 10, 2019
A Fine Line Helen Torr
2019
A Fine Line: Sketches, Drawings, and Illustrations from the Collection
August 31, 2019 - November 10, 2019
Mort Kunstler Pulp Fiction - Buried-Alive
2019
Mort Künstler: “The Godfather” of Pulp Fiction Illustrators
August 24, 2019 - November 17, 2019
In a New Light Louis Hovey Sharp, Pasadena Light,
2019
In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870 – 1940
May 25, 2019 - August 18, 2019
Long Island's Best 2019 Grace Connors Grace and Sammy. Mixed Media, Acrylic Paint, oil pastel, & fabric on masonite
2019
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2019
April 6, 2019 - May 19, 2019
Rivera and Beyond: Latin American Art from the Joan and Milton Bagley Collection Roberto Matta
2018
Rivera and Beyond: Latin American Art from the Joan and Milton Bagley Collection
November 17, 2018 - March 31, 2019
2018
The Heckscher Collects: Recent Acquisitions
November 17, 2018 - May 12, 2019
Long Island Biennial 2018 Alexander Adell
2018
Long Island Biennial 2018
August 4, 2018 - November 11, 2018
The Tile Club Francis Hopkinson Smith The House of the Reckless Landlord . 1881
2018
The Tile Club: Camaraderie and American Plein-Air Painting
August 4, 2018 - November 4, 2018
Heavy Metal: Photographs by Jan Staller
2018
Heavy Metal: Photographs by Jan Staller
April 21, 2018 - July 29, 2018
Surface Tension Esteban Vicente Interior Landscape . 1987
2018
Surface Tension: Pictorial Space in 20th-Century Art
April 21, 2018 - May 12, 2019
The Age of Tiffany Tiffany Studios, New York Daffodil Table Lamp
2018
The Age of Tiffany: Between Nouveau and Deco
April 21, 2018 - July 22, 2018
Long Island's Best 2018 Emily Fuchs Beneath the Ice. Oil on canvas.
2018
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2018
March 17, 2018 - April 15, 2018
From Frankenthaler to Warhol: Art of the '60s and '70s Andy Warhol
2017
From Frankenthaler to Warhol: Art of the ’60s and ’70s
November 18, 2017 - March 11, 2018
Howard Huge and the Lockhorns
2017
The Lockhorns meet Howard Huge: Comic Cartoons by Bill & Bunny Hoest
October 6, 2017 - November 5, 2017
Ebb & Flow Edward Moran
2017
Ebb & Flow: Seascape and Shoreline Views
August 5, 2017 - November 12, 2017
Earth Muse Alex Ferrone Palette II from Aerial Observations . 2013
2017
Earth Muse: Art and the Environment
April 15, 2017 - July 30, 2017
The Art of Narrative William Holbrook
2017
The Art of Narrative: Timeless Tales and Visual Vignettes
April 15, 2017 - April 8, 2018
Thaddeus Holownia, Author’s Ridge, Sleepy Hollow Cemeter
2017
Thaddeus Holownia: Walden Revisited
April 15, 2017 - July 30, 2017
Long Island's Best 2017 Kamila Tlemissova
2017
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2017
March 11, 2017 - April 9, 2017
Mort Künstler: The New Nation "Move the Guns Up!" . 2013.
2016
Mort Künstler: The New Nation
December 10, 2016 - April 2, 2017
Norman Rockwell and Friends: American Illustrations from the Mort Künstler Collection
2016
Norman Rockwell and Friends: American Illustrations from the Mort Künstler Collection
December 10, 2016 - March 5, 2017
2016
Men at Work
December 5, 2016 - March 27, 2017
2016
You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists
December 5, 2016 - April 3, 2017
Looking Out, Looking In: Windows in Art George Nick Holbrook, Mass . n.d
2016
Looking Out, Looking In: Windows in Art
September 3, 2016 - November 27, 2016
2016
Long Island Biennial 2016
September 3, 2016 - December 4, 2016
Street Life: Private Moments/Public Record Don Perlis Leaper . 1987
2016
Street Life: Private Moments/Public Record
August 15, 2016 - March 27, 2017
2016
Master of Illusion: The Magical Art of Gary Erbe
May 21, 2016 - August 28, 2016
Cornucopia: Still Lifes from the Collection David Burliuk Fall Flowers in a Watering Can . 1949.
2016
Cornucopia: Still Lifes from the Collection
May 21, 2016 - August 21, 2016
Synapses: Threads for Thought Robert Chapman
2016
Synapses: Threads for Thought
May 21, 2016 - April 9, 2017
Long Island's Best 2016 Nicole Noel
2016
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2016
April 9, 2016 - May 15, 2016
2016
Celebrating 20 Years: Long Island’s Best Alumni Exhibition
April 9, 2016 - May 8, 2016
Modern Alchemy Maggie Taylor
2015
Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography
December 6, 2015 - March 15, 2016
Ferdinand Richardt’s Niagara: A Study in Landscape Painting Ferdinand Richardt Niagara . c. 1855.
2015
Ferdinand Richardt’s Niagara: A Study in Landscape Painting
December 6, 2015 - April 12, 2016
Power, Politics & War: Selections from the Permanent Collection George Grosz Eclipse of the Sun . 1926
2015
Power, Politics & War: Selections from the Permanent Collection
August 16, 2015 - August 2, 2016
2015
Graphic Appeal: Modern Prints from the Collection
August 15, 2015 - November 29, 2015
James Rosenquist: Tripartite Prints Derriere L'Etoile . 1977
2015
James Rosenquist: Tripartite Prints
August 15, 2015 - November 22, 2015
Before Selfies: Portraiture through the Ages Julian Alden Weir The Miniature . 1888
2015
Before Selfies: Portraiture through the Ages
April 25, 2015 - August 9, 2015
Poised Poses: Portraits from the August Heckscher Collection Penrhyn Stanlaws August Heckscher . 1925.
2015
Poised Poses: Portraits from the August Heckscher Collection
April 25, 2015 - August 2, 2015
2015
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2015
March 21, 2015 - April 19, 2015
2014
Rabble-Rousers: Art, Dissent, and Social Commentary
December 7, 2014 - April 20, 2015
Off the Wall Red Grooms Picasso. 1997
2014
Off the Wall: Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
December 7, 2014 - March 16, 2015
Picture Perfect: Selections from the Permanent Collection Wayne Gonzales Untitled (Pool Table Abstraction) . 1998
2014
Picture Perfect: Selections from the Permanent Collection
August 17, 2014 - August 10, 2015
Long Island Biennial 2014 Adell, Alexander
2014
Long Island Biennial 2014
August 16, 2014 - November 30, 2014
Exposed: Eadweard Muybridge and the Study of Motion
2014
Exposed: Eadweard Muybridge and the Study of Motion
May 3, 2014 - August 3, 2014
Long Island's Best 2014 Paola Parola
2014
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2014
March 29, 2014 - April 27, 2014
Stan Brodsky: Retrospective Santa Barbara #5 2002
2013
Stan Brodsky: Retrospective
August 17, 2013 - December 1, 2013
Recent Acquisitions Emilio Sanchez En el Souk . 1973/1974/1975
2013
Recent Acquisitions
August 17, 2013 - November 24, 2013
Car Culture Andrew Bush Woman waiting to proceed south at Sunset and Highland boulevards, Los Angeles, at approximately 11:59 a.m. one day in February 1997 . Undated
2013
Car Culture: Art and the Automobile
April 27, 2013 - August 1, 2013
Scooters, Cranberry Pickers, and “Whirling Dervishes”: Hal B. Fullerton’s Long Island Hal B. Fullerton Scooter, Bellport . 1903
2013
Scooters, Cranberry Pickers, and “Whirling Dervishes”: Hal B. Fullerton’s Long Island
April 27, 2013 - August 4, 2013
Across Time & Place Jean Leon Gerome La Chanteuse . c. 1880.
2013
Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent Collection
April 27, 2013 - August 11, 2013
Long Island's Best 2013 Christopher Castrillon
2013
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2013
March 31, 2013 - April 21, 2013
Mirrored Images Rubens Santoro Grand Canal, Venice. n.d.
2012
Mirrored Images: Realism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
December 8, 2012 - March 24, 2013
2012
Modernizing America: Artists of the Armory Show
December 8, 2012 - April 14, 2013
Absorbed by Color James Henry Daugherty Untitled . n.d
2012
Absorbed by Color: Art in the 20th Century
August 18, 2012 - December 2, 2012
Robert S. Neuman, Ship to Paradise (The Wreck) . 1987
2012
Robert S. Neuman’s Ship to Paradise
August 18, 2012 - November 25, 2012
Long Island Biennial 2012 Abramson, Emily
2012
Long Island Biennial 2012
April 28, 2012 - August 12, 2012
Max Weber Sea Cliff,
2012
Max Weber on Long Island
April 28, 2012 - August 6, 2012
Long Island's Best 2012 Olivia Deschler
2012
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2012
March 31, 2012 - April 22, 2012
Coming of Age in America - Joe Szabo - Jones Beach Two Girls
2012
Coming of Age in America: The Photography of Joseph Szabo
January 14, 2012 - March 25, 2012
Ripped The Allure of Collage Miriam Schapiro
2011
Ripped: The Allure of Collage
October 29, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Rock On! Gered Mankowitz Keith Richards . 1965.
2011
Rock On! Masterworks of Rock Photography
October 2, 2011 - January 9, 2012
Earth Matters Thea Lanzisero Tend . 2011 [Outdoor detail]
2011
Earth Matters
July 30, 2011 - October 23, 2011
New York New York N. Jay Jaffee Bryant Park . 1950; printed 1981
2011
New York, New York
July 30, 2011 - October 16, 2011
Artists of the Stieglitz Circle Arthur G. Dove
2011
Artists of the Stieglitz Circle: Dove, Marin, O’Keeffe, and Others
May 7, 2011 - July 17, 2011
Edward Weston, Big Sur
2011
Edward Weston: Life Work
May 7, 2011 - July 24, 2011
2011
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2011
April 9, 2011 - May 1, 2011
A Timeless Legacy George Nick
2011
A Timeless Legacy
March 7, 2011 - July 24, 2011
Identity Crisis Deborah Kass Silver Deb . 2000.
2011
Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation
January 15, 2011 - March 27, 2011
Night on the Town Walt Kuhn
2010
Night on the Town
October 2, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Metropolis Traveling the World Risaburo Kimura
2010
Metropolis: Traveling the World
July 31, 2010 - September 19, 2010
Long Island Biennial 2010 Adamczyk Alvarez, Ewa
2010
Long Island Biennial 2010
July 31, 2010 - September 26, 2010
Heckscher at 90 Franz Wolfgang Rohrich Charles V of Holland, and Jeanne La Folle, His Mother . n.d
2010
The Heckscher at 90: Then and Now
May 8, 2010 - July 25, 2010
Long Island's Best Wendy Ginsberg Stuck On You: The Art of Adhesion . 2010
2010
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2010
April 17, 2010 - May 2, 2010
Couples The Art of Attraction Red Grooms
2010
Couples: The Art of Attraction
January 16, 2010 - April 15, 2010
Arcadia Suburbia Herbert Beckhard Beckhard House, Glen Cove . 1964
2010
Arcadia/Suburbia: Architecture on Long Island, 1930 – 2010
January 16, 2010 - April 11, 2010
2009
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2009
April 11, 2009 - April 26, 2009
2008
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2008
March 29, 2008 - April 13, 2008
2007
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2007
April 23, 2007 - May 6, 2007
2006
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2006
April 1, 2006 - April 23, 2006
2005
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2005
May 7, 2005 - May 22, 2005
2004
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2004
April 24, 2004 - May 9, 2004
2003
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2003
April 19, 2003 - May 11, 2003
2002
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2002
April 27, 2002 - May 12, 2002
2001
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2001
April 24, 2001 - May 6, 2001
2000
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2000
April 15, 2000 - April 30, 2000
1999
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 1999
April 24, 1999 - May 9, 1999
1998
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 1998
April 25, 1998 - May 10, 1998
1997
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 1997
February 8, 1997 - February 23, 1997
1996
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 1996
May 24, 1996 - June 2, 1996
1972
Helen Torr: 1886-1967
June 3, 1972 - July 9, 1972
1959
George Grosz on Long Island
November 7, 1959 - December 6, 1959