Exhibitions

Now on View

Being and Believing in the Natural World

Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America

October 22, 2022 - May 7, 2023

A woman lying on her back with only head and shoulders visible, her arms wrapped tight against her chest. She is in black and blue watercolor. Text at top reads: “Things one say to make them stay, come back, or find you somewhere accidentally (discover you) I had a bad dream. Only you can make me do it. I dunno what to say.” Under that, text reads: “White Lies.”

On Paper: Gifts from Paula and Leonard Granoff

October 29, 2022 - April 16, 2023

A vertical photograph of a sculpture of a naked, dark-skinned, child with a distended belly, swollen arms, and a bald head on a white, square platform in a museum gallery. There is the blurred person in motion walking on the left side of the platform.

2022 Dorner Prize

October 24, 2022 - February 5, 2023

Past Made Present

Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic

September 3, 2022 - August 6, 2023

Multi-patterned, brightly colored, and tasseled shirt hanging on a wooden stick against a white background with machinery attached to its bottom. The floor is also shown.

Art and Design from 1900 to Now

September 3, 2022 - June 9, 2024

Take Care

August 20, 2022 - March 12, 2023

Helina Metaferia

We've Been Here Before

July 2, 2022 - June 25, 2023

Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce

April 9, 2022 - January 28, 2024

On the Surface

Contemporary Ceramics

April 9, 2021 - June 30, 2023

A Changing Reflection

Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th–21st Centuries

April 21, 2017 - September 30, 2023

Always on View

18th and 19th-Century American Galleries

Ancient Egyptian Galleries

Ancient Greek and Roman Galleries

Asian Art Galleries

Decorative Arts and Design Galleries

European Galleries

Upcoming Exhibitions

A photomontage featuring quadrupled, merged, and mirrored bust-length surreal portraits of the artist with a bald head surrounded by collaged images, including statues of Hermaphroditus and Aphrodite.

The Performative Self-Portrait

May 13 - November 12, 2023

This dark brown wood sculpture presents the head of an individual of undetermined gender wearing a simple head covering that wraps around the figure’s neck.

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I will not bend an inch

February 17 - August 4, 2024

Past Exhibitions

A young woman in a tattered, pink Victorian dress reclines in a green, grass field, surrounded by scraps of white and pink fabric.

Inherent Vice

Hidden Narratives

July 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023

A grayscale photograph of a figure standing against a wall with the word “Gallery” above her head. Facing the camera, she holds a cardboard sign that reads “Artist will work for axcess,” spelled A-X-C-E-S-S.

Variance

Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability

February 1 - October 9, 2022

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum

March 12 - September 4, 2022

Striking Chords

Music in *Ukiyo-E* Prints

February 5 - July 31, 2022

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