Huntopia: Bunnies, Birds, and Butterflies launched at the San Antonio Botanical Garden in May 2024 and continued on to the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden in April of 2026.  

This highly anticipated premiere featured the work of renowned artist, Hunt Slonem, showcased as an outdoor exhibition, featuring multiple large-scale sculptural installations arranged in beautiful garden settings. Years in the making, the exhibition’s debut celebrated Slonem’s lifelong dream to create an immersive and grand outdoor art experience celebrating his love of nature, color, and signature whimsical animals. Its mission is to continue to celebrate nature and art at beautiful outdoor venues and gardens across the world.

The Artist
Ever-inspired by nature, and his beloved animal and spiritual muses, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. A fixture in the influential 1970s NYC art scene and a contemporary of Andy Warhol’s, Slonem is best known for his modern depictions of bunnies, butterflies, and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of historic southern homes. After 50+ years of success, the famed artist’s impressive career enters yet another phase in 2024 with the world-premiere of Huntopia: Bunnies, Birds, and Butterflies, an exuberant synthesis of the artist’s vivid, playful sculptures and the natural realm.
*For more information about the artist, visit huntslonem.com

The Exhibition
Huntopia: Bunnies, Birds, and Butterflies presents Slonem's famous muses across the grounds of botanical gardens, with as many as 37 sculptural works featured in a single presentation to date. Rendered in mosaic glass, steel, acrylic lightboxes, and other unexpected media, each piece is thoughtfully composed to respond to the flora and fauna surrounding it.

The Creation Process
The genesis for Huntopia began with the artist’s exploration of blown glass sculpture at his Seattle studio in 2020. Inspired by the sculptural glass manifestations of his beloved bunny muses, Slonem’s vision for an entirely new body of work grew into a four-year journey of rigorous creation, requiring studio teams working together in New York and Seattle, and an international collaboration of artisans and craftspeople.