Past Exhibitions

Explore exhibitions from the past year. To learn more about all of our past exhibitions, please search our online collection.

Past Exhibitions

Native Fashion

September 1, 2024–January 5, 2025
Sam & Connie Perkins Central Court, Dolph Simons Family Gallery, Estelle S. & Robert A. Long Ellis Foundation Gallery

High-heeled Converse sneakers covered in red beadwork with two butterflies and a pregnant Indigenous woman

Eternal Spring: Cranes

June 12, 2024–December 29, 2024
Kemper Family Foundations Balcony and Ingrid & J.K. Lee Study Center

Ink painting of two cranes standing on pine branches, Chinese characters line the left of the painting

Inked Bodies

July 12, 2024–December 15, 2024
Larry & Barbara Marshall Family Balcony

A black-and-white photo of a shirtless, balding white man with tattoos on his face and chest staring out toward the viewer

Remembrance

Reflections from the Día de Muertos

October 8, 2024–November 10, 2024
Jack & Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning

Images of Brown women and men holding candles and placing food at gravesites embroidered onto a bright red cloth

Jacob Lawrence and the Legend of John Brown

January 16, 2024–June 16, 2024
Larry and Barbara Marshall Family Balcony

Rear view of seven armed men, both Black and white, looking over a wall while holding pikes and wearing belts filled with ammunition

One History, Two Versions

February 9, 2024–June 16, 2024
Sam and Connie Perkins Central Court, Dolph Simons Family Gallery, Estelle S. and Robert A. Long Ellis Foundation Gallery

A huge arrangement of colorful flowers obstructs the face of a nude male torso leaning back in front of ornate black-and-white wallpaper

Mountains and Water

Landscape Paintings from the Kanō School

January 9, 2024–June 9, 2024
Kemper Family Foundations Balcony; Ingrid & J.K. Lee Study Center

Photograph of a large glass case displaying a Japanese screen artwork and a wooden box next to each other

Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See

February 9, 2024–May 19, 2024
Dolph Simons Family Gallery, Estelle S. and Robert A. Long Ellis Foundation Gallery

Purple sign with a white flower and the words "River Site" at top; it is riddled with several bullet holes