Exhibitions

Now on View

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum

March 12 - September 4, 2022

Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce

April 9, 2022 - January 28, 2024

Striking Chords

Music in *Ukiyo-E* Prints

February 5 - July 31, 2022

Variance

Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability

February 1 - October 9, 2022

A tangled, very sheer, cream-colored long gown with short sleeves and a shiny bodice, shown from above. There are embellishments at the bustline and four dark pink bands on the skirt.

Inherent Vice

January 29 - July 10, 2022

Digital images and animations made in Mathematica

Complete Definitions

Dorner Prize 2021

July 4, 2021 - June 30, 2022

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

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

Upcoming Exhibitions

A collage of a Black woman in a headdress composed of cutouts of Black activists and protestors, overlaid by lines of orange, yellow, blue, and white dots and squares.

Helina Metaferia: We've Been Here Before

July 2, 2022 - June 25, 2023

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 Stories

July 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023

Take Care

August 20, 2022 - March 12, 2023

Past Made Present

Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic

September 3, 2022 - August 6, 2023

Being and Believing in Nature

Perspectives from Ancient Mediterranean, Asian, and Native American Art

October 8, 2022 - May 7, 2023

Past Exhibitions

Any distance between us

July 17, 2021 - March 13, 2022

Shahzia Sikander

Extraordinary Realities

November 12, 2021 - January 30, 2022

Works in Process

July 31, 2021 - January 23, 2022

Raid the Icebox Now with Paul Scott

New American Scenery

September 13, 2019 - December 30, 2021

More Past Exhibitions