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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A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
July 7, 2023 – February 4, 2024Cooper HewittThis exhibition explores the full scope of Dorothy Liebes' contributions as a designer, collaborator, mentor, public figure, and tireless promoter of American modernism.
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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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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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Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum
February 4, 2022 – October 23, 2022Cooper HewittThis exhibition—through archival photography and documents, personal drawings and correspondence, news clippings and ephemera—chronicles the colorful lives and contributions of the dynamic sisters.
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Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from Nature
February 4, 2022 – July 31, 2022Cooper HewittFrom the 1890s to the 1920s, Sophia Crownfield designed prints for some of the most prominent silk and wallpaper manufacturers in the United States.
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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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Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints that Made the Fashion Brand
June 10, 2021 – January 2, 2022Cooper HewittThe exhibition features more than 35 original watercolor and gouache design drawings by Zuzek to reveal Zuzek’s artistic contribution to the iconic Pulitzer style.
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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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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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Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist
November 7, 2015 – September 18, 2016American Indian MuseumThis major retrospective of the Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick, includes 75 of her most notable works, primarily paintings on board and canvas as well as a selection of works on paper and small sculpture.
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Hewitt Sisters Collect
December 12, 2014 – October 29, 2017Cooper HewittThe remarkable story of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, who in 1897 established a museum within Cooper Union.
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Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection
June 18, 2010 – October 17, 2010Smithsonian CastleSee pins from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's collection, highlighting her use of jewelry as a tool of diplomacy and capturing her wit.
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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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Louise BourgeoisFebruary 26, 2009 – May 17, 2009Hirshhorn
This is the first major survey since 1995 of works by the French-born artist Louise Bourgeois (born 1911).
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Directions: Amy Sillman: Third Person SingularMarch 13, 2008 – July 6, 2008Hirshhorn
As part of the Directions series, see works that are intimate, psychological, and full of humor and pathos by New York-based painter Amy Sillman.
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Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty
August 13, 2005 – September 17, 2006Freer Gallery of ArtSee the major works that Freer acquired during his first 12 years as a collector— images of beautiful women by James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and Abbott Handerson Thayer.
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2nd Annual Exhibition of Visual Arts and Crafts by Smithsonian WomenMarch 4, 1996 – March 29, 1996S. Dillon Ripley Center
Reflect on and celebrate the creative lives of women artists within the Smithsonian Institution community, in conjunction with Women's History Month. See 64 works including photography, painting, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and mixed media.
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