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exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
2020
2020
Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design
Michelangelo: Mind of the Master
Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance
Liu Wei: Invisible Cities
Tiffany in Bloom: Stained Glass Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Pioneers: Part Two
Conversation about Diversity in Korean Embroidery Arts
Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists
PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet
Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica
Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea
A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America
Ana Mendieta: Ochún
Signal Noise: Aaron Rothman
2019
2019
William Morris:
Designing an Earthly Paradise
Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation
Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925
In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar
Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print
Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915–1920
Renée Green: Partially Buried
Raúl de Nieves: Fina
Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art
A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland
Allora & Calzadilla: Ecosystems
Cai Guo-Qiang: Cuyahoga River Lightning
The Cleveland Museum of Art Staff Art Show
Water: Edward Burtynsky
Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders
Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossom
Ámà: The Gathering Place
Emeka Ogboh: Akwétè
2018
2018
Fischli & Weiss:
Büsi
(Kitty) &
Hunde
(Dogs)
Rodin—100 Years
Fashionable Mourners: Bronze Statuettes from the Rijksmuseum
The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s
Beyond Angkor: Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar
Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell
Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper
Dana Schutz: Eating Atom Bombs
Brett Weston: Photographs
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Displacements
Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Recent Acquisitions 2014–2017
Danny Lyon: The Destruction of Lower Manhattan
Marlon de Azambuja and Luisa Lambri
Kerry James Marshall: Works on Paper
Allen Ruppersberg: Then and Now
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
2017
2017
Opulent Fashion in the Church
Myth and Mystique: Cleveland’s Gothic Table Fountain
Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century
Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Albert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle
The Cleveland Museum of Art Staff Art Show
Downtown 81
Outtakes
Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed
African Master Carvers: Known and Famous
Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17
Alfredo Jaar
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s
Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III
Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens
From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression
Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art
Jerry Birchfield:
Stagger When Seeing Visions
Scott Olson
Liz Roberts and Henry Ross:
Death Knell
2016
2016
Chinese Landscape Duets of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney
Muhammad Shah's Royal Persian Tent
Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Imagining the Garden
Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting
Jordan Wolfson: Two Early Videos
Pyramids & Sphinxes
Ji Yun-Fei: Last Days of Village Wen
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Cyborgs and Self-Promotion
Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt
The Flowering of the Botanical Print
Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
Jon Pestoni: Some Years
Stag at Sharkey’s
: George Bellows and the Art of Sports
BIG: Photographs from the Collection
Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-Century Prints and Drawings
Art and Stories from Mughal India
Dan Graham/Rocks
Dan Graham: Pavilion Compilation
The Ecstasy of St. Kara
2015
2015
Floral Delight: Textiles from Islamic Lands
Epic Systems: Three Monumental Paintings by Jennifer Bartlett
Maine Sublime: Frederic Church’s "Twilight in the Wilderness"
Julia Wachtel
Anicka Yi: Death
Jacob Lawrence: The Toussaint L’Ouverture Series
Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
Constructed Identities
Five Pioneers
Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints
The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft
Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa
Music Video
Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now
Gold of the Ancient Americas
My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb
TR Ericsson: Crackle & Drag
Monotypes: Painterly Prints
Hostage: The Bachar Tapes
Ragnar Kjartansson: Song
Gloria: Robert Rauschenberg & Rachel Harrison
Music Videos II
2014
2014
Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250–1900
Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome
Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo
Hank Willis Thomas
Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture
Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives
The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260–1550
Our Stories: African American Prints and Drawings
Remaking Tradition: Modern Art of Japan from the Tokyo National Museum
Van Gogh Repetitions
Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Beijing: Contemporary and Imperial: Photographs by Lois Conner
Alex Bag: Untitled Fall '95
Conservation in Focus: Caravaggio’s
Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
Yoga: The Art of Transformation
Dürer's Women: Images of Devotion & Desire
The Believable Lie: Heinecken, Polke, and Feldmann
Roman Signer
Aleksandra Domanović
2013
2013
Studio Glass in Focus: Dialogue and Innovation
Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris
Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes
William H. Johnson: An American Modern
Picasso and the Mysteries of Life: La Vie
Fred Wilson: Works 2004–2011
American Vesuvius: The Aftermath of Mount St. Helens by Frank Gohlke and Emmet Gowin
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination
The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection
Renaissance Textiles
Forty-Part Motet
Tantra in Buddhist Art
Damián Ortega: The Blast and Other Embers
Less Is More: Minimal Prints
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
The Unicorn
2012
2012
CLE OP: Cleveland Op Art Pioneers
The Art of Daily Life: Portable Objects from Southeast Africa
Brian Ulrich: Copia—Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001–11
A Passion for Prints: The John Bonebrake Donation
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904–1965)
Rembrandt in America
Rembrandt Prints from The Morgan Library & Museum
Modern Gothic: The Etchings of John Taylor Arms
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
DIY: Photographers & Books
Work No. 965: Half the air in a given space
2011
2011
In Honor of the Cleveland Arts Prize
The Jewelry of John Paul Miller
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe
The Glory of the Painted Page
Kim Beom: Objects Being Taught They Are Nothing But Tools
Contemporary Landscape Photography
The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art
Indian Kalighat Paintings
2010
2010
France at the Dawn of Photography
CIA Students: Cleveland, 2009
Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889
The American Indian Image
Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
Andrew Borowiec: Cleveland Photographs
Omer Fast: The Casting
Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit
2009
2009
Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique
Art and Power in the Central African Savanna
Friedlander
Streams and Mountains Without End
2008
2008
Shiva: A Recent Acquisition
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Medieval Treasures from the CMA at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria
2007
2007
Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí
Van Gogh to Picasso
Monet in Normandy
Masterpieces of European Painting
Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures
Ansel Adams: A Legacy
Icons of American Photography
2006
2006
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World
Drawn, Exposed and Impressed
Cupid and Psyche by Jacques Louis-David
From Real to Surreal
Animals in Art: Clay Creatures by Viktor Schreckengost
The Persistence of Geometry
William Morris and the Kelmscott Press
2005
2005
From Leipzig: Works from the Ovitz Family Collection
Masterworks from The Phillips Collection
Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography
Michael Borremans Hallucination and Reality
Highlights from the Permanent Collection
The NEO Show
Exhibition History Database