Past Exhibitions
Resurgence and Innovation: Artists’ Inspiration in Nineteenth-Century France
December 12, 2017 to March 18, 2018
Organized by several UChicago students, this exhibition explores the eclectic range of sources and precedents that served as inspiration for nineteenth-century artists in France.
Selections from a History of Modernism
December 12, 2017 to March 18, 2018
This exhibition of abstract paintings and works on paper from the 1940s and 1950s serves as a primary source for a University of Chicago Art History course.
Revolution Every Day
September 14, 2017–January 28, 2018
Presented on the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, this exhibition immerses visitors in the distinct textures and speeds of everyday life that arose—and have lingered stubbornly—in the wake of revolutionary upheaval.
The Hysterical Material
September 14, 2017–December 17, 2017
This exhibition investigates the emotional possibility of material in works by Auguste Rodin and Bruce Nauman.
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Emmanuel Pratt: Radical [Re]Constructions
September 12, 2017–December 30, 2018
Emmanuel Pratt blends art, architecture, and urban agriculture to transform the Smart Museum's threshold.
Conversation with the Collection: Building/Environments
August 29, 2017–March 11, 2018
This exhibition mixes works from across eras, cultures, and media to question the ways we occupy and perceive the built environment.
Jayna Zweiman: Welcome Blanket
July 18, 2017–December 17, 2017
A crowd-sourced activist installation and project by artist, designer, and Pussyhat Project co-founder Jayna Zweiman
Together We Can Dream
July 18–August 13, 2017
Organized by teens in our summer museums and public art program, this exhibition invites you into a dream, a stream of consciousness that encapsulates snippets of African American history and art.
Classicisms
February 16–June 11, 2017
This exhibition traces the shifting parameters of classicism from antiquity to the early 20th century
Vostell Concrete 1969–1973
January 17–June 11, 2017
Exhibition explores the ways in which leading Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell used concrete as an actual material and artistic motif in the late 1960s and early 1970s.