A modern-day Renaissance man, Gordon Parks was one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century, whose creative practice extended beyond photography to encompass writing, musical composition, filmmaking, and painting.

Parks’ work is in the permanent collections of major museums, among them The Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, International Center of Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Saint Louis Art Museum; Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

In recent years, Parks has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, all accompanied by illustrated publications, organized by The Gordon Parks Foundation with other institutions. These include: Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2022); Gordon Parks in Pittsburgh, 1944/46, Carnegie Museum of Art (2022); Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, Museum of Modern Art (2020); Gordon Parks X Muhammad Ali, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (2020); Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo (traveled; 2017–2019); Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (traveled; 2018–2019); I Am You: Selected Works 1942–1978, C/O Berlin (traveled; 2017–2018); Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem, The Art Institute of Chicago (2016); Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2015); Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2014–2015); Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument, New Orleans Museum of Art (2013–2014); and Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967, The Studio Museum in Harlem (2012–2013).