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Ceramic disk with a cracked colorful surface showing a fragmentary frowning face with features made up of disjointed shapes and various symbols such as a blue baby and a red hand.

A Shared Journey

The Barkan Contemporary Ceramic Collection at the RISD Museum
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2028
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

June 4, 2022 - September 1, 2026
A leaf shaped ornament made of silver with two spiraling stems emerging from the top. On the right edge is a polished section which reflects the gray backdrop.

A Changing Reflection Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th-21st Centuries

April 21, 2017 - December 30, 2025
A cream colored sculptural figure holding a tray, dressed in historical clothing with tightly curled hair.

Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce
April 9, 2022 - July 20, 2025
A single tone print of a newspaper page featuring a person in a strapless, long-sleeve, bridal gown and veil holding flowers in their left hand and staring out of the frame. The top of the page reads “The New York Times International Sunday, July 19, 1992" with the following headlines: “Vatican Condones Discrimination Against Homosexuals" and "Youth Works Held in Death of Son, 9”. The bottom of the pages reads “Saks Fifth Avenue bridal wear.”

Process Work

Intersections of Photography and Print ca. 1825 to Today
February 1 - July 20, 2025
Textile with a dense geometric pattern in dark reds and blues accented by small white squares besides a full-length draped garment made of the same fabric on a black background.

Sensory Silhouettes

Experiencing South Asian Garments
June 1 - December 8, 2024
White circular plate with silver rim. Two figures at the lower center of the plate, one dressed in a blue outfit, the other in a pink dress, both with black, rectangular bars covering their eyes.

On the Surface

Contemporary Ceramics
April 9, 2021 - May 5, 2024
A black and white photograph of a relaxed, naked woman reclined with her hands behind her head and two snakes on her abdomen. The photograph is scratched and colored with yellow, green, and pink marker.

The Performative Self-Portrait

May 13 - November 12, 2023

Being and Believing in the Natural World

Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America
October 22, 2022 - June 4, 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
A charcoal drawing of a sculptural, nude male torso seen from behind. The figure is heavily shaded and detailed, and fine lines express detailed contours of the body.

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
March 12 - September 4, 2022
Painting of two nude young men--one dark-skinned, the other light-skinned. They relax on a bed and affectionately cuddle with a small white dog. Brushwork is loose and palette is muted.

Any distance between us

July 17, 2021 - March 13, 2022

Defying the Shadow

December 1, 2020 - December 18, 2021
In a case in a gallery’s center is a sleek black vessel shaped like a stylized head with an elongated neck. Cases along the perimeter contain other objects.

Raid the Icebox Now with Simone Leigh

The Chorus
October 18, 2019 - December 12, 2020

Samurai At Leisure

November 26, 2019 - May 24, 2020

Gorham Silver

Designing Brilliance 1850-1970
May 3 - December 1, 2019

David Hartt

Stray Light
July 19 - November 3, 2019

The Phantom of Liberty

Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 4 - December 30, 2018

Early Exposures

19th-Century Photography from the Collection
March 13 - July 19, 2015

Projections, Film & Video

Fall, 2014
November 13 - December 11, 2014

Making It In America

October 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014

Locally Made

July 12 - November 15, 2013

America in View

Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

Made in the UK

Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection
September 23, 2011 - January 8, 2012

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