Free and open to the public
Projects from Mark Dion (born 1961), Peter Fend (born 1950), and Dan Peterman (born 1960)
This groundbreaking exhibition of Native American art featured ledger book drawings, an illustrated diary and calendar, and hide and muslin paintings made by Kiowa artist Silver Horn (1860–1940).
This exploration of medieval and Renaissance devotional practices featured a wide range of objects, including painted altarpieces, portable shrines, reliquaries, liturgical furnishings, and illuminated manuscripts.
This exhibition inaugurated the Smart Museum's new Richard and Mary L. Gray Gallery. Featuring artists such as Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Man Ray Kay Sage, and Dorothea Tanning, Surrealism in America showed the pervasive influence of European surrealism in America while demonstrating artists' diverse responses to it.
This intimate exhibition presented paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, works on paper and books from fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Europe, drawn from the museum's collection and supplemented by loans from important public and private collections.
This groundbreaking exhibition documented major trends in current Chinese experimental art (shiyan meishu), which is characterized by a strong desire to explore new territories in artistic expression
This exhibition addressed contemporary portraiture as the nexus of three issues: visuality, location, and identity.
Weimar Bodies brought together art works and other kinds of images to explore the range of popular ideas about the human body in Weimar Germany
Blunt Object offered a humorous and fresh look at contemporary sculpture.
This intimate exhibition showcased twentieth-century works acquired by the Smart Museum since 1996