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 black and white line drawing of a one-story building with large windows and columns. The front door is flanked by two large collections of bright and colorful wildflowers growing in the ground.

Passive Pollination

Dorner Prize 2023

March 25 - October 22, 2023

A dark abstract photograph of blue and black tones with light blue and translucent squares run through the center. The squares appear to be stitched to the background through holes in their centers.

Sensing Fashion

February 11 - July 30, 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

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

Past Made Present

Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic

September 3, 2022 - August 6, 2023

Helina Metaferia

We've Been Here Before

July 2, 2022 - June 25, 2023

Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce

April 9, 2022 - January 12, 2025

On the Surface

Contemporary Ceramics

April 9, 2021 - June 9, 2024

A Changing Reflection

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

April 21, 2017 - December 30, 2025

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 color print with a large, orange lobster in the center with its tail open holding many small items and Japanese writing above it. Next to the lobster there is a dish, green leaves and twigs.

Eating in Edo

April 1 - October 1, 2023

Open, digitally rendered envelope with a letter coming out. The envelope and letter are patterned with light dashed lines, and are a pink-orange-yellow gradient. Text on the letter reads "(un) heard voices.

(un)heard voices

Dorner Prize 2023

April 11 - June 4

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

Take Care

August 20, 2022 - March 12, 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

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

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