Past Exhibitions

2020
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists

2020

Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists

2019
Chiura Obata: American Modern
Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
Michael Sherrill Retrospective
American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975
Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue
Orchids: Amazing Adaptations
African American Art in the 20th Century

2019

Chiura Obata: American Modern

Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination

Michael Sherrill Retrospective

American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs

Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975

Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue

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

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

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
Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016
Watch This! New Directions on the Art of the Moving Image (5.0)
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

2016

Gene Davis: Hot Beat

Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern

Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016

Watch This! New Directions on the Art of the Moving Image (5.0)

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

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