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  • One Life: Maya Lin

    One Life: Maya Lin is the first biographical exhibition of the architect, sculptor, and environmentalist.

    September 30, 2022 – April 16, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Jeffrey Veregge: Of Gods and Heroes

    This site-specific work includes an epic battle between Marvel characters and aliens invading the streets of New York City.

    November 19, 2021 – April 9, 2023

    American Indian Museum New York

  • Sculpture Garden

    The Sculpture Garden offers visitors a contemplative haven in the heart of our nation’s capital.

    October 4, 1974 – April 7, 2023

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World

    This Present Moment highlights the role that artists play in our world to spark essential conversations, stories of resilience, and methods of activism.

    May 13, 2022 – April 2, 2023

    Renwick Gallery

  • Feathered Ink

    Across three galleries, Feathered Ink explores how Japanese artists have experimented over several centuries with different brush techniques in their depictions of avian subjects. 

    August 27, 2022 – April 2, 2023

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • Rinpa: Creativity Across Time and Space

    We invite you to explore a selection of paintings and ceramics by several generations of Rinpa artists from our collection.

    October 1, 2022 – April 2, 2023

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection

    We Are Made of Stories traces the rise of self-taught artists in the twentieth century and examines how, despite wide-ranging societal, racial, and gender-based obstacles, their creativity and bold self-definition became major forces in American art.

    July 1, 2022 – March 26, 2023

    American Art Museum

  • Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics

    This exhibition features the work of designers, artists, doctors, engineers, and neighbors who asked, “How can I help?”

    December 10, 2021 – March 19, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field

    Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field features photo essays by Native photojournalists Donovan Quintero, Tailyr Irvine, and Russel Albert Daniels

    November 3, 2022 – March 12, 2023

    American Indian Museum New York

  • Teen Portrait Competition, 2022

    The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is proud to present the winners and finalists of the 2022 Teen Portrait Competition!

    July 29, 2022 – February 26, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today

    Every three years, artists living and working in the United States are invited to submit one of their recent portraits to a panel of experts chosen by the museum.

    April 30, 2022 – February 26, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Face Values

    Face Values is an immersive installation that explores the pervasive but often hidden role of facial-detection technology in contemporary society.

    September 20, 2019 – February 13, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Well-Dressed Walls: Spanning Three Centuries of Wallpaper from the Cooper Hewitt Collection

    In this small display, reproductions of wallpaper dating from the 1770s to the 1950s from the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum are installed in pairs to reflect the practice of designing wallpapers to be used together.

    March 23, 2016 – January 31, 2023

    Smithsonian Castle

  • Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight

    Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight features works from internationally acclaimed artist Preston Singletary (Tlingit American, 1963), and tells the story of Raven, the creator of the world and giver of the stars, moon, and sun.

    January 28, 2022 – January 29, 2023

    American Indian Museum DC

  • I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women: Part I

    This exhibition features more than 25 photographs by Brian Lanker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer.

    July 8, 2022 – January 29, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Mr. Pergolesi's Curious Things: Ornament in 18th-Century Britain

    Brilliantly hued watercolors from Cooper Hewitt’s collection highlight Michel Angel Pergolesi’s skill in transforming ancient relics into lighthearted decorative motifs.

    October 1, 2022 – January 29, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Underdogs and Antiheroes: Japanese Prints from the Moskowitz Collection

    Expect the unexpected. The exhibition focuses on the captivating stories and urban legends of individuals living on the fringes of society in early modern Japan.

    March 19, 2022 – January 29, 2023

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Living in Two Times: Photography by Bahman Jalali and Rana Javadi

    Noted for their sharp documentary images and haunting photomontage works, the artists are among the most influential figures in the development of late twentieth-century photography in Iran.

    August 6, 2022 – January 8, 2023

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa

    Taking its name from a 1970’s feminist anthem, I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa draws upon a selection of artworks by women artists from the museum's permanent collection.

    June 20, 2019 – December 31, 2022

    African Art Museum

  • Building America's National Collection: 175 Years of Collecting

    See selected objects representing all of the museums that offer a tantalizing sample of the breadth and depth of the Smithsonian's vast collections. 

    May 8, 2005 – December 14, 2022

    Smithsonian Castle

  • Once Upon a Roof: Vanished Korean Architecture

    One special type of ornamented roof tile is the focus of this exhibition.Called chimi in Korea, these impressive features crowned both ends of the main roof ridge of prominent buildings.

    May 21, 2022 – October 30, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Recent Acquisitions: Gifts from the Corcoran Gallery of Art

    This exhibition presents more than 25 gifted works, including portraits of cultural figures Louis Armstrong, Katharine Graham, and Frida Kahlo; presidents James Madison and Zachary Taylor; and the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Henry.

    October 9, 2020 – October 23, 2022

    Portrait Gallery

  • Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum

    This exhibition—through archival photography and documents, personal drawings and correspondence, news clippings and ephemera—chronicles the colorful lives and contributions of the dynamic sisters.

    February 4, 2022 – October 23, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Nicolas Party: Draw the Curtain

    The exterior of the Hirshhorn’s iconic cylindrical building is the site of internationally renowned Swiss artist Nicolas Party’s newest artwork.

    September 18, 2021 – October 17, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Nature by Design: Botanical Expressions

    Botanical Expressions focuses on key figures—Christopher Dresser, Emile Gallé, William Morris, and Louis Comfort Tiffany—whose knowledge of the natural sciences and personal practices of gardening enriched their creative output as designers.

    December 7, 2019 – September 25, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum


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