Exhibitions
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Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish WomenMarch 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024American Art Museum
Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.
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Simone LeighNovember 3, 2023 – March 3, 2024Hirshhorn Museum
The first comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of Simone Leigh, among the most respected artists of her generation.
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Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking BackSeptember 22, 2023 – July 7, 2024American Art Museum
This focused exhibition pairs two projects by Carrie Mae Weems that explore the relationship of memory to history and of memory as it is mediated through performance, photography, or video.
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Composing Color: Paintings by Alma ThomasSeptember 15, 2023 – August 4, 2024American Art Museum
This exhibition provides an intimate view of Thomas’ evolving artistic practices during her most prolific period from 1959 to her death in 1978.
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A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy LiebesJuly 7, 2023 – February 4, 2024Cooper Hewitt
This 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 ItchMay 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024American Indian Museum New York
Shelley 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 CollectionAugust 2, 2022 – September 4, 2023Hirshhorn Museum
Put 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 MuseumFebruary 4, 2022 – October 23, 2022Cooper Hewitt
This 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 NatureFebruary 4, 2022 – July 31, 2022Cooper Hewitt
From 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 TheoryNovember 19, 2021 – April 3, 2022Hirshhorn Museum
The 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 WeatherSeptember 24, 2021 – August 7, 2022Hirshhorn Museum
Laurie Anderson: The Weather is the largest-ever U.S. exhibition of artwork by celebrated multimedia artist Laurie Anderson.
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Welcome Home: A Portrait of East Baltimore, 1975-1980July 16, 2021 – January 23, 2022American Art Museum
Of the more than seventy projects funded by the NEA, the East Baltimore Survey was unique for having been conceived, led, and carried out by women photographers.
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Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints that Made the Fashion BrandJune 10, 2021 – January 2, 2022Cooper Hewitt
The 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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Contemporary Muslim FashionsFebruary 28, 2020 – July 11, 2021Cooper Hewitt
Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this is the first major museum exhibition to explore the complex and diverse nature of Muslim dress codes worldwide.
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Hearts of Our People: Native Women ArtistsFebruary 21, 2020 – March 13, 2020Renwick Gallery
Hearts 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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What Is Feminist Art?November 26, 2019 – December 31, 2021Archives of American Art
On view are more than 75 vibrant and varied personal statements from artists from 1976 and now that elucidate the contours of feminist art.
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Challenging the Face of Science: The Bearded Lady ProjectNovember 14, 2019 – September 26, 2021Natural History Museum
This 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 WheelOctober 24, 2019 – March 13, 2020Hirshhorn Museum
The Hirshhorn hosts the largest site-specific exhibition to date by the acclaimed abstract painter Pat Steir.
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Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is PrologueMarch 15, 2019 – September 2, 2019American Art Museum
Internationally acclaimed artist Tiffany Chung is known for her multimedia work that explores migration, conflict, and shifting geographies in the wake of political and natural upheavals.
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Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographsApril 6, 2018 – January 27, 2019American Art Museum
This 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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