Past Exhibitions
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.
![Installation view of Radical [Re]Constructions](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/smartmuseum/i/artwork/RadicalReconstructions-house.jpg?mtime=1506976445)
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.
There was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman
September 22–December 30, 2016
Drawing on a recent bequest to the Museum, this exhibition presents several hundred photographic works that span the very earliest days of the medium to the near-present day.
Conversations with the Collection: Belonging
August 16, 2016–July 9, 2017
Collection-based project on the theme of belonging mixes works from across cultures and eras.
In Anticipation of Belonging
July 5–August 18, 2016
The Smart joins together with cultural and community partners to think critically and creatively about what it means to belong.