Francisco Moreno: Historia Sintética
Curated by Thomas Feulmer | 17 April – 11 October 2026
Francisco Moreno (b. 1986, Mexico City) is a Mexican-American artist whose work reimagines history, myth, and identity through a bold visual language that merges Old Master painting traditions with contemporary and fantastical influences. Raised between Mexico and the United States, Moreno explores the complexities of cultural hybridity and belonging. His practice often incorporates references to art history, religious iconography, and Mexican symbolism, which he collides with science fiction, surreal imagery, and invented narratives. The result is a layered body of work that questions power, heritage, and the ways in which stories are told.
For Dallas Contemporary, Moreno will present several major bodies of work, including The Chapel, an immersive painted work inspired by a Spanish Byzantine chapel, from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection and a recent series of mural-scaled paintings that have never been shown. This will be Moreno’s first solo museum presentation and will be curated by guest curator Thomas Feulmer.
Moreno earned his BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at Arlington and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo presentations at institutions and galleries across the U.S. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including support from the Nasher Sculpture Center. Moreno lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
Ike E. Morgan: Sometimes People Need Moonlight
Curated by Bradley Petty | 17 April – 23 August 2026
Ike E. Morgan (b. 1958, Rockdale, Texas) is a self-taught artist who has gained a cult following for his prolific practice of portrait painting, especially his portraits of President George Washington, which he copied from the dollar bill when he was in the Austin State Hospital, where he resided from age 17 through age 41 for treatment of schizophrenia. Morgan’s thousands of paintings and drawings of presidents, pop culture figures, birds and animals, and religious figures create a broad but incisive portrait of America itself, as seen through his many variations of its cultural and political icons.
Using whatever materials he has to hand, and on whatever surface, Morgan’s work is an important example of an artist with disabilities working outside of the prescribed art market structures and paradigms, recentering art as an essential and vital human good.
This will be Ike Morgan’s first museum exhibition and will be curated by Bradley Petty.
