Past Exhibitions

2017

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

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

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

2014

The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art

Richard Estes’ Realism

Untitled: The Art of James Castle

Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget

Pop Art Prints

Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection

2013

Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art

Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby

A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets

Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes

A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (3.0)

Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color

Pictures in the Parlor

2012

Nam June Paik: Global Visionary

The Civil War and American Art

40 under 40: Craft Futures

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond

The Art of Video Games

Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (2.0)

Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage

2011

Inventing a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection

Multiplicity

Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House

Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection

The Great American Hall of Wonders