Clyfford Still Museum
Home to one of the world’s most intact public collections of any major artist, the Clyfford Still Museum offers nine beautiful galleries of Still’s art, historic photos, objects, and letters from the Clyfford Still Archives, interactive features, a pair of tranquil outdoor terraces, views into storage and conservation areas, a hands-on art creation studio, shopping, exciting programs and events, and more.
The Clyfford Still Museum is located in Denver’s Golden Triangle Creative District. Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture designed the two-story, 28,500-square-foot building specifically to display Clyfford Still’s work.
Considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century, Clyfford Still (1904–1980) was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists. The Clyfford Still Museum collection represents 93 percent of the artist’s lifetime output, including approximately 3,125 works created between 1920 and 1980 and his complete archives.
Exhibitions:
Held Impermanence (Artists Select: Katherine Simóne Reynolds)
January 25–September 14, 2025
In this guest-curated exhibition, award-winning artist, filmmaker, and performer Katherine Simóne Reynolds will illuminate the competing desires held in constant tension at the Clyfford Still Museum by reflecting on Still’s ambitious attempt to keep his collection intact. Held Impermanence will ask visitors to consider healing and rest over time and how we respond to this collection with our bodies. Reynolds’ exhibition will challenge visitors to contend with Still’s mortality and their own while considering the shared desire to hold on to impermanence.
“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
September 19, 2025–May 10, 2026
The Clyfford Still Museum’s collaborative exhibition, “Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes, co-curated with youth from the Colville Confederated Tribes Reservation in Washington, is on view September 19, 2025, through May 10, 2026. Installed in all nine of the Museum’s galleries, the exhibition highlights the perspectives of Colville children on Still’s depictions of their home and ancestors, and the artist’s abstract works. Tell Clyfford also explores themes identified by the co-curators, including Family & Culture, Connection, Imagination, the Outside, Love, and Paint & Color.
Still in Sound
May 16, 2026–January 10, 2027
Still in Sound explores the diverse ways to understand abstract visual language through sound. Designed to facilitate visceral, whole-body experiences with Still’s work, this exhibition presents abstraction as an active, dynamic medium for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural creative communion. Co-curated by Bailey Placzek, the Clyfford Still Museum’s curator of collections, and Ben Coleman, a British multi-disciplinary artist, Still in Sound engages five contemporary artists working with sound in their practice. After brief residencies onsite at the Museum, each artist selects an abstract artwork by Clyfford Still and composes an original sound-based piece in response. Their selections and resulting compositions set the tone for each of CSM’s largest galleries. Placzek, in turn, responds by filling the rest of each room with other works by Still that resonate with the tone set by the artist’s contribution and artwork selection for that gallery. Finally, Coleman arranges the various sounds drifting across the Still’s gallery level to create a holistic, immersive environment through which visitors enjoy a multisensory, unexpected experience with Still’s work.
