Tampa Museum of Art to open major David Hockney survey after artist's death

The Tampa Museum of Art will open a six-decade David Hockney survey on Sept. 24, 2026, featuring more than 140 works from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation. The show arrives three months after Hockney’s death and gives Tampa Bay audiences a broad look at his experiments with printmaking, photography, video and digital media.

Why it matters: - The Tampa Museum of Art is using a major Hockney survey to mark the legacy of one of the most influential artists of the last century. - The exhibition gives Tampa Bay audiences access to more than 140 works drawn from a private collection. - The show highlights how Hockney helped expand what counted as fine art through new tools and formats.

What happened: - The Tampa Museum of Art will present “David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” from Sept. 24, 2026, through Feb. 28, 2027. - A public, ticketed opening celebration is set for Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. - The exhibition opens a little more than three months after Hockney died on June 11 at age 88. - The show includes more than 140 prints, collages, photographs and iPad drawings. - The exhibition is organized by the Honolulu Museum of Art in cooperation with the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. - Catherine Whitney and Katherine Love of the Honolulu Museum of Art curated the exhibition.

The details: - The works span six decades of Hockney’s career. - The exhibition includes intimate portraits, sunlit swimming pools, theatrical designs, expansive landscapes and interiors. - Hockney worked across etching, lithography, Polaroid collage, office copiers, photography, video, iPhones and iPads. - His images explored perspective, movement, memory and time. - The exhibition is organized in five sections: On Stage and Page; Interiors and Exteriors; Tradition and Innovation; Ordinary Objects and Extraordinary Renderings; and Portraits of Self and Others. - Tampa Museum of Art Interim Executive Director Tom Hochhausler said the exhibition gives the community “a significant opportunity to meet the ideas that made Hockney such a transformative artist.” - Jordan D. Schnitzer said Hockney used new technologies to create a body of work that “forever changed the way we see the world.”

Between the lines: - The timing turns the exhibition into both a museum event and a posthumous tribute. - The show also underscores the role of private collectors in broadening public access to major contemporary art. - Jordan D. Schnitzer founded the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation in 1997 to make works from his collection available to the public. - The foundation has organized more than 180 exhibitions with over 130 museums. - Hockney’s career matters not just for its scale, but for how it pushed museums and audiences to accept digital and hybrid media as serious art forms.

What's next: - Tampa Museum of Art visitors can see the exhibition beginning Sept. 24, 2026. - Ticket details are available at TampaMuseum.org. - The museum will continue year-round programming through the Vinik Family Education Center. - The exhibition may draw regional visitors looking for one of Tampa’s biggest fall art offerings.

The bottom line: - Tampa’s Hockney survey is both a major loan exhibition and a timely celebration of an artist whose experiments reshaped modern visual culture.