Past Exhibitions

2019
2019
William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise
Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation
In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar
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
Banteay Chhmar
Beyond Angkor: Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar
Heritage. Wadsworth Jarrell
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
Scott Olson
Jerry Birchfield: Stagger When Seeing Visions
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
Water Lilies (Agapanthus) (detail), c.1915-1926. Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Oil on canvas; 201.3 x 425.8 cm. John L. Severance Fund and an anonymous gift 1960.81
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Imagining the Garden
Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting
Wolfson, The Crisis
Jordan Wolfson: Two Early Videos
Pyramids & Sphinxes
Ji Yun-fei: Last Days of Village Wen
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
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
Long Shawl with Woven Figures and Animals (detail), c. 1885. India, Kashmir. Goat-hair wool; 354.3 x 141.6 cm. Gift of Arlene C. Cooper 2006.200
Floral Delight: Textiles from Islamic Lands
Rhapsody (detail, installation view), 1975–76. Jennifer Bartlett (American, b. 1941). Enamel on steel plates; 228.6 x 4,663.4 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Edward R. Broida, 2005. © 2014 Jennifer Bartlett. Photo: The Cleveland Museum of
Epic Systems: Three Monumental Paintings by Jennifer Bartlett
Twilight in the Wilderness (detail), 1860. Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900). Oil on canvas; 101.6 x 162.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1965.233.
Maine Sublime: Frederic Church’s "Twilight in the Wilderness"
Landscape No. 15 (Mutant Ninja Chernobyl), 1991. Julia Wachtel (American, born 1956). Oil, flashe and screen ink on canvas; 152 x 335 cm. ©Julia Wachtel. Photo: Alan Wiener. Private collection.
Julia Wachtel
Sister, 2011. Anicka Yi (Korean, b. 1971). Tempura-fried flowers, cotton turtleneck; dimensions variable. Collection Jay Gorney and Tom Heman, New York.
Anicka Yi: Death
The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, No. 20: General Toussaint L’Ouverture, Statesman and military genius, esteemed by the Spaniards, feared by the English, dreaded by the French, hated by the planters, and reverenced by the Blacks, 1938. Jacob Lawrence (Am
Jacob Lawrence: The Toussaint L’Ouverture Series
New York Montage (detail), 1928. Thurman Rotan (American, 1903–1991). Gelatin silver print, montage; 11.5 x 8.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.117
Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
Little Red Book #237, 1975. Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987). Book containing 15 continuous-tone instant photographic prints (Polacolor Type 108); 14 x 8.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © 20
Constructed Identities
Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry (detail, still), 1979. Dara Birnbaum (American, born 1946). Color video, sound; 6:50 min. Courtesy of the artist and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Five Pioneers
Portrait of Violinist Jean Vidal (1789–1867), 1808. Adrien Victor Auger (French, 1787–1854). Black and gray chalk, with touches of white chalk; 75.4 x 54.1 cm (36 x 25 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2013.47.
Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints
Scene with Witches: Day (detail), 1645–1649. Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673). Oil on canvas; w: 54.5 cm. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1977.37.2
The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft
Mother-and-Child Figure, 1800s-1900s. Africa, Guinea Coast, Ivory Coast, Senufo people. Wood; h: 63.6 cm. James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund 1961.198
Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa
Tunic (Song for Karen) (detail), 1990. Tony Oursler (American, born 1957). In collaboration with Sonic Youth. Color, sound; 6:17 min. Courtesy of the artist and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Music Video
Born (detail), 2002. Kiki Smith (American, b. 1954). Color lithograph; 172.9 x 142.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro 2004.34.
Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now
Figural Pendant, AD 1–800. Isthmian Region (Colombia), Tolima region. Gold, cast and hammered; 29.4 x 16.2 x 1 cm. Severance and Greta Millikin Fund 2015.1.
Gold of the Ancient Americas
Blackbirds (detail), from My Dakota, 2005–11. Rebecca Norris Webb (American, born 1956). Type-C photographic print; 26 x 35 ½ in. Courtesy of the artist and Rapid City Arts Council / Dahl Arts Center.
My Dakota: Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb
Pink & Yellow (detail), c. 1980, Greenville, Tennessee (from the series Crackle & Drag), 2014. TR Ericsson (American, b. 1972). Archival pigment print; 48 x 60 in. Courtesy of the artist. © TR Ericsson.
TR Ericsson: Crackle & Drag
Bastille Day (detail), 1892. Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858–1924). Monotype; 30.5 x 24.8 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland 1954.337.
Monotypes: Painterly Prints
Hostage: The Bachar Tapes
Song (detail), 2011. Ragnar Kjartansson (Icelandic, born 1976). HD video; 6 hours. © Ragnar Kjartansson; Courtesy of the artist, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik.
Ragnar Kjartansson: Song
Untitled (detail), 2011. Rachel Harrison (American, b. 1966). Colored pencil on paper; 56.8 x 70.8 cm. Private collection, New York. Courtesy Greene Naftali, New York. Photo: John Berens.
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
We Have Been Believers, 1949. Charles White (American, 1918–1979). Lithograph; 40.5 x 30.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2001.50. © Charles White.
Our Stories: African American Prints and Drawings
Chinese Poet Tao Yuanming (detail), 1912 (Meiji 45). Yokoyama Taikan (1868–1958). Pair of six-fold screens, color on gold-leafed paper; 171.2 x 309 cm (each screen). Tokyo National Museum, A-10531
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
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew (detail), 1606–7. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian, 1573–1610). Oil on canvas; 202.5 x 152.7 cm. Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1976.2
Conservation in Focus: Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
Dürer's Women: Images of Devotion & Desire
Yoga: The Art of Transformation
Sunset (detail), mid-1970s. Hans-Peter Feldmann (German, b. 1941). Color Xeroxes; 105.4 x 121.9 cm (overall). © Hans-Peter Feldmann, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York. HPF 131.
The Believable Lie: Heinecken, Polke, and Feldmann
Bürostuhl (office chair) (detail), 2006. Roman Signer (Swiss, b. 1938). Series of 4 color photographs; 45 x 60 cm (each). Photo: Tomasz Rogowiec. © Roman Signer
Roman Signer
19:30 (still), 2010/11. Aleksandra Domanović (Serbian, born 1981). HD video, color, sound; 11 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin.
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