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Past Exhibitions

2020
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
2019
Chiura Obata: American Modern
Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists
Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
Michael Sherrill Retrospective
American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs
Sculpture Down to Scale: Models for Public Art at Federal Buildings, 1974–1985
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
David Best’s Temple
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man
Do Ho Suh: Almost Home
2017
Tamayo: The New York Years
Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Rick Araluce: The Final Stop
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
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

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