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Past Exhibitions

2020
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
2019
Chiura Obata: American Modern
Michael Sherrill Retrospective
Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs
Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975
Orchids: Amazing Adaptations
African American Art in the 20th Century
2018
Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018
Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen
Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man
David Best’s Temple
Do Ho Suh: Almost Home
2017
Tamayo: The New York Years
Rick Araluce: The Final Stop
Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light
Parallax Gap
Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings
Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography
American Visionary: John F. Kennedy’s Life and Times
Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation
2016
Gene Davis: Hot Beat
Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern
Watch This! New Directions on the Art of the Moving Image (5.0)
Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016
Artworks by African Americans from the Collection
Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
The Art of Romaine Brooks
Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions
No Mountains in the Way: Photographs from the Kansas Documentary Survey, 1974
2015
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (4.0)
WONDER
Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty
The Modern Pueblo Painting of Awa Tsireh
Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave
Watch This! Revelations in Media Art
Special Installation of Nineteen American Masterworks
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Mingering Mike’s Supersonic Greatest Hits
Direct Carving

See also: Past SAAM Exhibitions and Installations, 1958-2016 [PDF]