Exhibitions
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Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939April 26, 2024 – February 23, 2025Portrait Gallery
Brilliant Exiles illuminates the accomplishments of sixty unconventional women who pursued their personal and professional aspirations in Paris.
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Commissioned Portrait of Oprah WinfreyDecember 13, 2023 – October 20, 2024Portrait Gallery
Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren painted Winfrey in a purple taffeta dress amidst a lush garden at her California home.
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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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Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of LifeJuly 14, 2023 – OngoingHirshhorn
Wheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks.
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Former First Lady, Michelle Obama by Artist Amy SheraldFebruary 13, 2018 – IndefinitelyPortrait Gallery
View the commissioned portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, now permanently installed in the museum.
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The Struggle for JusticeFebruary 12, 2010 – PermanentPortrait Gallery
This exhibition showcases major cultural and political figures who struggled to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups.