Hunt Slonem: Family Portraits | March 13–April 10, 2026
Opening celebration: Friday March 13, 4-6 pm at Turner Carroll Gallery
As a young child and the son of a naval officer, Slonem’s family frequently leapt from military station to station, but it was his time in the Hawaiian islands and Central America that left the most indelible impressions on Slonem. Surrounded by the tropical lushness, these exotic settings were the cornerstone for his artistic practice and forever instilled a lifelong obsession with what he refers to as “exotica”. In those pivotal years Slonem developed a deep affinity for exotic birds, orchids, and the sentient beings of the natural world. His devoted connection to flora and fauna grew so deeply rooted they became his precious adopted family, and despite the cautions of his family to stray from artistic ambitions due to the inherent challenges, he embarked upon his early painting practice at the ripe age of six years old – a dedicated practice that continues to the present day.
Dallas Art Fair | April 16 – 19, 2026
View our selection of work at the Dallas Art Fair
Turner Carroll is proud to participate in the 2026 Dallas Art Fair—the top boutique art fair in the U.S., located in the heart of Dallas’s arts district. We are thrilled to exhibit works from the Christo and Jeanne-Claude family collection, and works by Clarence Heyward, Sharon Brush, Marietta Patricia Leis, Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Raphaelle Goethals, Mokha Laget, Hunt Slonem, Hung Liu, Robert Rauschenburg, Claes Oldenburg, Jeffrey Gibson, Cara Romero, Rex Ray, Aleya Hoerlein, and Vernon Fisher. We look forward to meeting you there from April 16 to April 19, 2026!
July 5 – August 4, 2024 | Hunt Slonem: Il Giardino Zoologico
Opening Reception Friday, July 5, 5 – 7 pm
Hunt Slonem is an American powerhouse artist whose work has been exhibited globally. Known for his prolific paintings of rabbits, birds, and butterflies, Slonem enjoys prominence in private and public collections worldwide. He has long housed a proliferation of birds in his mammoth New York studio, often rescuing those wounded from the brutal world outside. Slonem finds beauty in the old, weathered, and wounded, often framing his luscious paintings in antique frames, their chips and mars adding a sense of history, memory, and need for preservation.
September 30 – October 30, 2022 | Hunt Slonem: Lepus Cuniculus
Even though Hunt was born in the Chinese year of the rabbit, his work had a slow introduction to these animals. In the 1970s, rabbits began appearing at the feet of saints in devotional paintings. Over the decades, they, as rabbits do, multiplied to cover entire walls and eventually came to make up much of this distinguished painter’s life. These lagomorphs quickly grew to transcendent heights within Slonem’s world, with mystics and psychics telling him that these rabbits would take him places his other work never could.
Lepus Cuniculus is a manifestation of these predictions, and features entirely new media for Slonem. World-renowned for his oil paintings which are in the permanent collections of The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Academy of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, this exhibition highlights bold new forays into glass, neon, large-scale sculpture, and back-lit glowboxes, along with his beloved works in oil.
Opening reception Friday, September 30, from 5-7 pm. View the work in the exhibition here!
September 24 – October 10, 2021 | Hunt Slonem: Totem Tondo
Hunt Slonem – Untitled
Work in the exhibition may be seen here.
Reiteration runs like a mantra through Hunt’s work. As in a prayer, the same words are uttered, but every time they are said the intention and meter are slightly different. As images, rabbits seem obvious as subject matter as we know them to multiply. A group of bunnies, known as a “fluffle,” find their way on to canvas. Quick and gestural, his rabbits are a sly nod to nature’s own direction to reproduce. Hunt’s birds are a more personal match for the act of repetition. He says they are obsessive like he is, and are celestial messengers in almost every faith. Birds chatter away, half-hidden but everywhere. Their obsession implying intention, just as the painter makes them real with color, and oil, and incised lines.
Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionistic style, and his desire is that people have their own experiences with his work. The mechanism of painting, and the item that is a painting, is the magic to Hunt.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Fundació Joan Miró, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Istanbul Museum of Modern Art are among the prestigious museums worldwide that have shown Hunt Slonem’s work. Whether you choose one unique piece, a grouping, or a “fluffle” of works to hang salon-style, we are honored to present this curated selection of works for you to add to your collection!
Opening reception Friday, September 24, from 5-7 pm.
May 15 – June 14, 2020 | Hunt Slonem: Fluffle
To refer to Hunt Slonem as a “rara avis” is just about perfect. He is a rare chap with a collection of historic buildings, and a studio occupied by himself and 60 birds. Grids and lines and squares fill Hunt’s world, surrounded as he is by cages and walls and windows. His work is not unlike an interior Agnes Martin inside a building; no unambiguous or stark outside desert, but wet paint on wet paint inspired by being private and inside one’s own home.
Reiteration runs like a mantra through Hunt’s work. As in a prayer, the same words are uttered, but every time they are said the intention and meter are slightly different. As images, rabbits seem obvious as subject matter as we know them to multiply. A group of bunnies, known as a “fluffle,” find their way on to canvas. Quick and gestural, his rabbits are a sly nod to nature’s own direction to reproduce. Hunt’s birds are a more personal match for the act of repetition. He says they are obsessive like he is, and are celestial messengers in almost every faith. Birds chatter away, half-hidden but everywhere. Their obsession implying intention, just as the painter makes them real with color, and oil, and incised lines.
Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionistic style, and his desire is that people have their own experiences with his work. The mechanism of painting, and the item that is a painting, is the magic to Hunt.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Fundació Joan Miró, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Istanbul Museum of Modern Art are among the prestigious museums worldwide that have shown Hunt Slonem’s work. Whether you choose one unique piece, a grouping, or a “fluffle” of works to hang salon-style, we are honored to present this curated selection of works for you to add to your collection!
View the works in the exhibition here.