Exhibitions
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Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women
March 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024American Art MuseumExplore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.
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In Memoriam: Rosalynn Carter, 1927–2023
November 21, 2023 – January 3, 2024Portrait GalleryRosalynn Carter was the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
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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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Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back
September 22, 2023 – July 7, 2024American Art MuseumThis 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 Thomas
September 15, 2023 – August 4, 2024American Art MuseumThis 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 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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To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.
May 19, 2023 – January 7, 2024Anacostia Community MuseumExplore how women of color draw on a long history of activism and advance environmental justice efforts.
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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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I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women: Part I
July 8, 2022 – January 29, 2023Portrait GalleryThis exhibition features more than 25 photographs by Brian Lanker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer.
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#IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit
March 5, 2022 – March 27, 2022Smithsonian Gardens#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit is he largest collection of statues of women ever assembled together, to be installed on and around the National Mall.
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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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Orchids: Hidden Stories of Groundbreaking Women
January 29, 2022 – April 24, 2022Smithsonian GardensOrchids: Hidden Stories of Groundbreaking Women unearths stories of women who have enriched our understanding and appreciation of orchids.
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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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Escaramuza Dress
September 17, 2021 – January 4, 2022American History MuseumAn escaramuza charra dress worn by Veronica Davila is on view, representing the only female event in the Mexican charrería.
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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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