Exhibitions
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné OkuboNovember 15, 2024 – August 17, 2025American Art Museum
An in-depth look at three trailblazing American artists of Japanese descent in the story of modernism.
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Forces for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women’s ActivismJuly 19, 2024 – OngoingAfrican American History and Culture Museum
Learn about renowned educator and reformer Mary McLeod Bethune and other Black women social change agents, past and present.
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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 – December 15, 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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Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of LifeJuly 14, 2023 – January 5, 2025Hirshhorn Museum
Wheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks.
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From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. JacksonApril 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025African Art Museum
In this exhibition, Jackson creates a series of haunting, yet profoundly beautiful and empowering encounters that draw upon African water spirits from Senegal to South Africa.
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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 Four JusticesOctober 28, 2013 – IndefinitelyPortrait Gallery
See Supreme Court justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan in this life-size portrait.
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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.
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