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Smart Museum of Art announces teamLab solo exhibition
teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity
September 22, 2026-February 21, 2027
Smart Museum of Art announces contemporary Chinese art retrospective
March 29-July 5, 2026
Smart Museum of Art announces Alma Thomas exhibition from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
March 24-July 5, 2026
Grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support provenance research and major symposium at the Smart Museum of Art
June 13, 2025
Smart Museum of Art announces solo Theaster Gates exhibition
September 23, 2025-February 22, 2026
Smart Museum of Art announces “Smart to the Core” exhibition, Wise to Power
September 23, 2025-February 22, 2026
Marcus E. Margerum appointed as Deputy Director and Galina Mardilovich appointed as Curator
May 20, 2024
Calling on the Past: Selections from the Collection
March 21, 2023–February 4, 2024
Meg Jackson Fox appointed Director of the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry and Head of Education
September 21, 2023
not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s
February 23–June 4, 2023
Vanja V. Malloy appointed the Dana Feitler Director of Smart Museum of Art
September 2, 2022
Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Audio Art & Strange Poetry from the US/Mexico Border
Toward Common Cause initiative presented in partnership with Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and Public Media Institute
January 11, 2021
Twenty-eight MacArthur Fellows selected for Toward Common Cause
November 10, 2020