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A painting hanging on the wall showing a group of friends siting around a dinner table. Flames glow through the window, while electronic components illuminate the scene, blending domestic intimacy with the accumulation of physical media.

The World Is On Fire

Dorner Prize

April 1 - June 1, 2025

A woodblock print showing a vast, narrow, snow-covered, gorge with a small person hiking a steep path on the right side. There is a flowing river below and a starry sky above.

The Road Less Traveled

Edo's Nakasendō

November 9, 2024 - May 4, 2025

A white clay object, curved and adorned with with Cambodian style ornamentation and a red streak running through it, is wrapped by red silk threads and suspended in the air on a white backdrop.

soft presence, hard absence

Dorner Prize

May 7 - September 15, 2024

Digital line drawing of a building exterior with double doors flanked by two windows on each side. The two innermost windows have colorful brick panel renderings superimposed onto the line drawing.

Bricked Over Windows

Dorner Prize

March 22 - June 2, 2024

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 - August 27, 2023

A photographic portrait of a dignified, dark-skinned figure staring out at the viewer, wearing a formal ensemble featuring a stiff collar, a fur-trimmed coat on one shoulder, two large, fabric bows, and a gold chain.

Past Made Present

Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic

September 3, 2022 - August 6, 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

Colorful portrait of a medium-dark-skinned Sikh man wearing a yellow and orange pagri, or turban. Standing at the counter of his deli, with food and convenience items behind him.

Perception and Presence in Contemporary Drawing

March 5 - September 11, 2022

Defying the Shadow

December 1, 2020 - December 18, 2021

Visions and Revisions

February 15 - August 4, 2019

Collective Recollection

July 27, 2018 - January 20, 2019

United Histories

March 23 - August 12, 2018

Drawing Conclusions

January 22 - September 25, 2016

Raqs Media Collective

A Myriad Marginalia

March 17 - May 31, 2015

Circus

August 1, 2014 - February 22, 2015

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

Re-Viewing the Twentieth Century

July 21, 2006 - April 22, 2007

Bodies of Evidence

Contemporary Perspectives

July 1 - September 25, 2005

An abstracted representation of an antelope, constructed of multiple expressive black and white brushstrokes. It rests upon a geometric surface of yellow, blue, and green.

Dreams and Nightmares

German Graphic Arts, 1900 - 1933

November 5, 2004 - January 23, 2005

Zig-Zag Chairs and Wobbly Mirrors

Twentieth-Century Furniture from the RISD Museum

February 7 - April 27, 2003

Drawing the Line

March 30 - June 10, 2001

One Voice, Many Visions

Work By African American Artists

February 20 - June 14, 1998

RISD Collects RISD

Prints by Alumni and Faculty

October 18 - December 1, 1996