Past Exhibitions

Gravity Mural ProjectYa La'ford

June 25 through August 25, 2024

Claudia Peña SalinasAhua Can

January 20 through June 30, 2024

Live ConservationRestoring a 17th Century Spanish Tabernacle

March 16 through June 23, 2024

The Nature of Art

October 28, 2023 through April 14, 2024

Explore the VaultsWater + Color

August 12, 2023 through February 5, 2024

Best in ShowDogs in Art at the MFA

April 1 through November 5, 2023

Tom JonesHere We Stand

May 13 through August 27, 2023

In DialogueUnexpected Visual Conversations

August 6, 2022 through August 20, 2023

Lasting ImpressionsJapanese Prints from the Read-Simms Collection

April 22 through August 13, 2023

ShashinJapanese Photographs from the Meiji era, 1870-1900

March 11 through July 23, 2023

Explore the VaultsImages Private and Public, c. 1500–1800

December 17, 2022 through July 2, 2023

Visual MetaphorHigh School Student Exhibition

April 7 through April 23, 2023

True NatureRodin and the Age of Impressionism

November 12, 2022 through March 26, 2023

Borrow and StealAppropriation from the Collection

September 24, 2022 through February 5, 2023

MultiplePrince Twins Seven-Seven

August 13, 2022 through January 15, 2023

Explore the VaultsCabinet Pictures and Works on Paper

March 12 through December 4, 2022

Gio SwabyFresh Up

May 28 through October 2, 2022

Women’s WorkA Survey of Female Photographers

April 16 through September 11, 2022

From Heath to HedgerowDoulton Lambeth Ware and the British Countryside

June 5, 2021 through July 31, 2022

Defining LinesThe Prints and Drawings of Maxime Lalanne

February 26 through July 17, 2022

Bernini and the Roman BaroqueMasterpieces from Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia

February 12 through May 8, 2022

Visual MetaphorHigh School Student Exhibition

April 5 through May 6, 2022

More Than RetroArt Photography of the 1970s

October 9, 2021 through April 3, 2022

Explore the VaultsBlack Portraits

July 31, 2021 through February 27, 2022

Pieced & PatternedAmerican Quilts, c. 1800–1930

September 18, 2021 through January 23, 2022

From Margins to MainstaysHighlights from the Photography Collection

April 24 through September 26, 2021

SKYWAY 20/21A Contemporary Collaboration

May 22 through August 22, 2021

Antioch ReclaimedAncient Mosaics at the MFA

April 10 through August 22, 2021

Explore the VaultsAbstraction and the American Scene

October 24, 2020 through July 18, 2021

Working PointContemporary Glass from the MFA Collection

October 24, 2020 through May 23, 2021

From Chaos to OrderGreek Geometric Art from the Sol Rabin Collection

November 7, 2020 through April 11, 2021

Color Riot!How Color Changed Navajo Textiles

December 19, 2020 through March 14, 2021

Derrick AdamsBuoyant

September 12 through November 29, 2020

Copper, Silver, Salt, InkThe Chemistry of Photography's Enduring Desires

September 12 through November 29, 2020

Art of the StagePicasso to Hockney

January 25 through May 10, 2020

Explore the VaultsVisions of France

August 24, 2019 through April 12, 2020

Ancient Theater and the Cinema

November 9, 2019 through April 6, 2020

Up Close and PersonalArt on an Intimate Scale

August 17, 2019 through March 29, 2020

Gallery TakeoverEuropean Masterpieces from the Mellon Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

March 9, 2018 through March 1, 2020

‘The Grasshopper and the Ant’ and Other Storiesas told by Jennifer Angus

October 12, 2019 through January 5, 2020

Straighten Up the WorldSelf-Taught Art from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts

May 18 through October 27, 2019

Above the FoldNew Expressions in Origami

June 22 through September 22, 2019

A Feast for the EyesEuropean Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection

March 23 through September 2, 2019

Literary CarouselPart of the SunLit Festival

May 11 through August 11, 2019

Fairyland LustreThe Darkly Magical World of Daisy Makeig-Jones

November 17, 2018 through August 11, 2019

Theo WujcikCantos

April 13 through June 2, 2019

Views of AntiquityShaping the Classical Ideal

February 16 through May 5, 2019

GlowThe Hand-Painted Photographs of E. G. Barnhill

January 12 through April 7, 2019

Jewels of the ImaginationRadiant Masterworks by Jean Schlumberger from the Mellon Collection

December 15, 2018 through March 31, 2019

Drawn to BeautyThe Art and Atelier of Jean Schlumberger

December 15, 2018 through March 10, 2019

Syd SolomonViews from Above

September 29, 2018 through January 27, 2019

Recent AcquisitionsPaintings, Ceramics, and Works on Paper

September 8 through December 30, 2018

This Is Not a SelfiePhotographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection

August 25 through November 25, 2018

Keeping TimeThe Art of Clocks and Watches

July 21 through November 11, 2018

We Do Not Work AloneContemporary Japanese Ceramics

June 2 through September 23, 2018

Benny Andrews: Mix MasterCollage and Line Drawings from the Collection of Professor Edward J. Littlejohn

May 26 through August 26, 2018

Can I Get a WitnessPhotographs by Herb Snitzer

May 5 through August 5, 2018

Magnetic FieldsExpanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today

May 5 through August 5, 2018

Moon Museum: Art and Outer Space

February 3 through July 8, 2018

Gregg Perkins: Sunshine City

February 10 through May 27, 2018

Visual MetaphorHigh School Student Exhibition

April 21 through May 13, 2018

Bishop Mann Gallery Samurai Installation

January 31 through May 13, 2018

Star Wars and the Power of Costume

November 11, 2017 through April 1, 2018

Miriam F. Acheson Gallery

November 30, 2017 through February 25, 2018

Mickett-Stackhouse: Confluence

October 7, 2017 through February 4, 2018

Fonchen Lord

July 8 through October 1, 2017

Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration

June 24 through October 1, 2017

Dorothy Height’s Hats

April 29 through September 4, 2017

Dominique Labauvie: Dig

March 4 through July 2, 2017

The Open RoadPhotography and the American Road Trip

February 9 through June 4, 2017

Greg SmithBreakdown Lane

January 21 through May 7, 2017

Visual MetaphorHigh School Student Exhibition

March 25 through April 23, 2017

The Far NorthInuit Prints and Sculpture

November 19, 2016 through March 20, 2017

Jack BarrettPeople Watching

November 5, 2016 through February 26, 2017

Our AmericaThe Latino Presence in American Art

October 27, 2016 through January 22, 2017

From the HeartFolk Art on Paper

August 6 through November 13, 2016

Vantage PointsPaintings by Mernet Larsen

July 2 through October 30, 2016

Shana MoultonJourneys Out of the Body

June 16 through October 9, 2016

Harold EdgertonWhat the Eye Can’t See

May 7 through July 31, 2016

Vanessa DiazBeginning at the Cornice, Not the Foundation

April 20 through July 10, 2016

Measured LifeWorks by Vicky Colombet, Babs Reingold and Tip Toland

March 5 through June 26, 2016

Contemplating CharacterDrawings and Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud

February 13 through May 29, 2016

The Art of the Classical Guitar

February 13 through May 29, 2016

Christian MarclayTelephones and Sound Holes

February 3 through May 1, 2016

50 Artworks for 50 Years

September 19, 2015 through March 13, 2016

I Remember Birmingham

November 14, 2015 through February 28, 2016

Marks MadePrints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present

October 17, 2015 through January 24, 2016

Piotr JanowskiCuriosity

December 3, 2015 through January 19, 2016

Carrie SchneiderReading Women

November 7, 2015 through January 17, 2016

William PachnerCentenary

April 1 through November 10, 2015

Five Decades of Photography at the MFA, Featuring the Dandrew-Drapkin Collection

June 20 through October 4, 2015

Images of the Floating World and BeyondJapanese Woodblock Prints

May 9 through September 13, 2015

Monet to MatisseOn the French Coast

February 7 through May 31, 2015

African American Life and Family

January 17 through May 3, 2015

Life’s a BeachPhotographs by Martin Parr

February 7 through April 26, 2015

Jamie Wyeth’s Portraits of Rudolf NureyevImages of the Dancer from the Brandywine River Museum of Art

October 11, 2014 through January 18, 2015

Robert Rauschenberg and James RosenquistImages from Everywhere, Prints and Photographs

November 15, 2014 through January 11, 2015

Building the Panama Canal—Photographs by Ernest Hallen

July 26 through November 9, 2014

My GenerationYoung Chinese Artists

June 7 through September 28, 2014

Aaron Siskind’s Harlem Document

March 8 through July 20, 2014

New Mexico and the Arts of Enchantment Featuring the Raymond James Financial Collection

January 18 through May 11, 2014

Mixing MetaphorsThe Aesthetic, the Social and the Political in African American Art, Works from the Bank of America Collection

October 5, 2013 through January 5, 2014

Pleasure Grounds and Restoring SpacesPhotographs of our National Parks

June 1 through October 6, 2013

Color ActingAbstraction Since 1950

July 6 through September 22, 2013

Philip Pearlstein’s People, Places, Things

March 2 through June 16, 2013

Photographing the City

February 6 through May 26, 2013

The Art of Golf

November 3, 2012 through February 17, 2013

Contemporary Prints by American WomenA Selection from the Gift of Martha and Jim Sweeny

September 8, 2012 through February 2, 2013

Global + LocalStudio and Contemporary Glass on Florida's West Coast

May 19 through October 14, 2012

Picturing a New SocietyPhotographs from the Soviet Union 1920s–1980s

April 14 through September 4, 2012

Ancient Egypt–Art and MagicTreasures from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art

December 19, 2011 through April 29, 2012

Forever in a MomentNineteenth Century Photographs of Egypt

November 19, 2011 through April 10, 2012

Story and SymbolDutch and Flemish Paintings from the Collection of Dr. Gordon and Adele Gilbert

September 17 through December 4, 2011

The New York SchoolSelections from the Gollay Collection

September 17 through November 27, 2011

Four Portfolios of the Twentieth CenturyArchipenko, Gropper, Evans, and Doisneau

July 16 through November 13, 2011

The Human TouchContemporary Art from the RBC Wealth Management Collection

May 14 through September 4, 2011

The Baroque World of Fernando Botero

January 9 through April 4, 2010

I Heard a VoiceThe Art of Lesley Dill

October 10 through December 27, 2009

Andy Warhol PortfoliosLife and Legends

May 16 through August 16, 2009

Albrecht DürerArt in Transition

January 17 through April 12, 2009

Beauty in Common ThingsAmerican Arts & Crafts Pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation

October 4, 2008 through February 15, 2009

The History of Photography is the History of Everything100 Highlights from The Drapkin Collection

October 18, 2008 through January 4, 2009

When Gold BlossomsIndian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection

September 13 through December 28, 2008

Poetry of the CommonplaceA Selection of Latin American Photographs

October 16, 2007 through January 6, 2008

Herb SnitzerCelebrating Fifty Years in Photography

July 20 through September 11, 2007

Compelling VisionsFlorida Collects Folk Art

March 31 through July 8, 2007

Untamed BeautyPrints by Jean Dubuffet

January 13 through April 22, 2007

Natura MortaStill Life Painting and the Medici Collections

January 19 through March 18, 2007

From the FireContemporary Korean Ceramics

October 7 through December 31, 2006

Rembrandt and His Time

June 24 through November 12, 2006

1950 to NowWorks from the Collection

May 13 through September 24, 2006

Photographic Expressions from LondonThe Z15 (30 x 30) Portfolio, 2003

July 29 through September 24, 2006

Art, Love and Life in the VillageWeegee's Wild New York

November 5, 2005 through January 22, 2006