Exhibitions
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Simone Leigh
November 3, 2023 – March 3, 2024HirshhornThe first comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of Simone Leigh, among the most respected artists of her generation.
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Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch
May 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024American Indian Museum New YorkShelley Niro: 500 Year Itch celebrates more than a half century of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films.
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I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker's Portraits of Remarkable Black Women: Part II
February 10, 2023 – September 10, 2023Portrait GalleryThe Portrait Gallery recently acquired all 75 portraits from the Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer’s series and is celebrating the acquisition with a two-part exhibition.
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One Life: Maya Lin
September 30, 2022 – April 16, 2023Portrait GalleryOne Life: Maya Lin is the first biographical exhibition of the architect, sculptor, and environmentalist.
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Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection
August 2, 2022 – September 4, 2023HirshhornPut It This Way is devoted to the work of nearly 50 women and nonbinary artists in the Hirshhorn’s collection.
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Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory
November 19, 2021 – April 3, 2022HirshhornThe exhibition features a recent body of work in the form of a monumental cycle of 40 large-scale, monochromatic drawings that chronicle a myth conceived by the artist.
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Laurie Anderson: The Weather
September 24, 2021 – August 7, 2022HirshhornLaurie Anderson: The Weather is the largest-ever U.S. exhibition of artwork by celebrated multimedia artist Laurie Anderson.
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Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, 1968-2020
August 27, 2021 – May 30, 2022Portrait GalleryThe National Portrait Gallery presents the first major large-scale retrospective of work by Hung Liu, the internationally acclaimed Chinese-born American artist.
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Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
February 21, 2020 – March 13, 2020Renwick GalleryHearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, is the first major thematic exhibition to explore the artistic achievements of Native women.
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Challenging the Face of Science: The Bearded Lady Project
November 14, 2019 – September 26, 2021Natural History MuseumThis project brings into being the missing legacy of female paleontologists to overcome societal stereotypes concerning gender and professional roles.
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Pat Steir: Color Wheel
October 24, 2019 – March 13, 2020HirshhornThe Hirshhorn hosts the largest site-specific exhibition to date by the acclaimed abstract painter Pat Steir.
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Portraits of the World: Korea
December 14, 2018 – November 17, 2019Portrait GalleryPioneering feminist artist Yun Suk Nam (born 1939) uses portraiture to gain insights into the lives of women, past and present.
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Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs
April 6, 2018 – January 27, 2019American Art MuseumThis exhibition traces the history of A box of ten photographs between 1969 and 1973, telling the crucial story of the portfolio that established the foundation for Arbus’s posthumous career.
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Summer of Yoko Ono
June 17, 2017 – September 17, 2017HirshhornIn celebration of the tenth anniversary of Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree for Washington, DC, the Hirshhorn presents a selection of the artist’s most iconic and emotionally charged installations and performances.
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Romaine Brooks
June 17, 2016 – October 2, 2016American Art MuseumThis exhibition brings together 50 paintings and drawings from the museum’s permanent collection.
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Elaine de Kooning: Portraits
March 13, 2015 – January 10, 2016Portrait GalleryElaine de Kooning’s gestural portraits of friends and family were much admired during her lifetime, and included many well-known Americans.
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Portrait of Alice Waters
January 21, 2012 – November 30, 2012Portrait GallerySee Dave Woody's portrait of chef Alice Waters, founder of the restaurant Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard and champion of the Slow Food Movement.
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Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage
January 20, 2012 – May 20, 2012American Art MuseumThe images in this collection chart a new direction for Annie Leibovitz, one of America's best known living photographers, whose career now spans more than 40 years.
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Anne Truitt: Perception and ReflectionOctober 8, 2009 – January 3, 2010Hirshhorn
This is the first major survey spanning Anne Truitt's 40-year career since her death in 2004.
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Annie Pootoogook
June 13, 2009 – October 10, 2010American Indian Museum New YorkVisit 39 works that chronicle the social, economic, and cultural realities of Inuit life in the Canadian North by Annie Pootoogook (Inuit, b. 1969).
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