Skip to main content Skip to main navigation
heart-solid My Visit Donate
Home
Press Enter to activate a submenu, down arrow to access the items and Escape to close the submenu.
    • Overview
    • Museums and Zoo
    • Entry and Guidelines
    • Museum Maps
    • Dine and Shop
    • Accessibility
    • Visiting with Kids
    • Group Visits
    • Overview
    • Exhibitions
    • Online Events
    • All Events
    • IMAX & Planetarium
    • Overview
    • Topics
    • Collections
    • Research Resources
    • Podcasts
    • Stories
    • Overview
    • For Caregivers
    • For Educators
    • For Students
    • For Academics
    • For Lifelong Learners
    • Overview
    • Become a Member
    • Renew Membership
    • Make a Gift
    • Volunteer
    • Overview
    • Our Organization
    • Our Leadership
    • Reports and Plans
    • Newsdesk
heart-solid My Visit Donate
  1. Home
  2. forward-slash
  3. What's On
  4. forward-slash
  5. Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

  • Current Exhibitions
  • Upcoming Exhibitions
  • Past Exhibitions
  • Art and Design (239) Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • History and Culture (27) Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Science and Nature (4) Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Kids' Favorites (2) Filter by term plus Exclude term minus
  • Opening Date
  • Closing Date
  • Title (A-Z)
  • Title (Z-A)

Displaying 25 of 243 exhibitions.


Filter Settings

Included:

  • Remove Museum: Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery close
  • Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God

    Delighting Krishna delves into the emotions and philosophy of the Pushtimarg tradition and the ingenuity of its artists.

    March 15, 2025 – August 24, 2025

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints

    The human form and the expressive power of photography and print media offer ways to examine the place of the individual in contemporary society.

    February 15, 2025 – August 17, 2025

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • The Print Generation

    The Print Generation presents a selection of creative prints that challenged the dominant narrative of what it meant to be an artist in twentieth-century Japan.

    November 16, 2024 – April 27, 2025

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama

    An Epic of Kings offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see twenty-five folios from the now dismantled manuscript—the Great Mongol Shahnama.

    September 21, 2024 – January 12, 2025

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Park Chan-kyong: Gathering

    The exhibition features a range of works that highlight Park’s masterful use of the photographic medium to explore the enduring traces of tradition, history, and disaster in contemporary society. 

    October 7, 2023 – October 14, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints

    Staging the Supernatural brings together a collection of vibrant, colorful woodblock prints and illustrated books depicting the porous boundary between the real world and the world of supernatural beings in Japanese cultural history.

    March 23, 2024 – October 6, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings

    Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings features over two hundred remarkable artifacts from the museum’s permanent collection. 

    February 25, 2023 – April 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen

    On display for the first time since 1976 after a major conservation project, this Chinese lacquer screen dated to 1672 is a delight, featuring newly revealed intricate details that had been obscured by centuries of wear and use. 

    July 15, 2023 – January 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Ay-Ō's Happy Rainbow Hell

    Immerse yourself in Ay-Ō’s world of sensory experience, exploration, and fun. This exhibition contains material not appropriate for all audiences. Parental discretion is advised.

    March 25, 2023 – September 10, 2023

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India

    Through still and moving image, seriality, and portraiture, five leading contemporary artists explore rapidly changing natural and built environments in India, from riverbanks, ancient forests, and city streets to surreal symbolic settings.

    December 10, 2022 – June 11, 2023

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur

    With dazzling paintings on paper and cloth A Splendid Land reveals how artists conveyed emotions, depicted places, celebrated water resources, and fostered personal bonds over some two hundred years in the rapidly changing political and cultural landscapes of early modern South Asia.

    November 19, 2022 – May 14, 2023

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • 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

  • 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

  • Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia's Sacred Mountain

    Revealing Krishna transports visitors to a sacred mountain in the floodplains of southern Cambodia.

    April 30, 2022 – September 18, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

    This exhibition focuses on a selection of extraordinary seventeenth-century textiles and full-length portraits from Safavid Iran. Fine illustrated manuscript folios from our collections are also included in the exhibition.

    December 18, 2021 – May 15, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia

    Visitors can step into a Tibetan Buddhist shrine, linger at a Sri Lankan stupa, travel with an eighth-century Korean monk and discover remarkable objects in Encountering the Buddha.

    October 14, 2017 – February 6, 2022

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Power in Southeast Asia

    Through a range of local styles, techniques, and materials, the artworks in this exhibition reveal understandings of power in Southeast Asia.

    October 21, 2017 – June 1, 2021

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Resound: Bells of Ancient China

    Re-sound investigates oval-shaped bells with displays of early instruments including a graduated set of matched bells discovered together in a Chinese tomb, videos of ancient bells being played, and chances for visitors to compose their own music on virtual bronze bells.

    October 14, 2017 – March 13, 2020

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Sacred Dedication: A Korean Buddhist Masterpiece

    This small focus exhibition features a 13th-century Goryeo-dynasty Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara and the dedication materials found within it. On loan from the National Museum of Korea.

    September 21, 2019 – March 13, 2020

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Gods, Companions, and Devotees

    Hinduism is a living religion with complex roots reaching back more than four thousand years. Its three major deities—the gods Shiva and Vishnu and the goddess with multiple names—each take on many forms.

    May 23, 2017 – March 13, 2020

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Age Old Cities: A Virtual Journey from Palmyra to Mosul

    This exhibition immerses visitors in the history and splendor of three Arab World cities which are major centers of world heritage—Mosul, Aleppo, and Palmyra.

    January 25, 2020 – March 13, 2020

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • A Glimpse of Ancient Yemen

    A Glimpse of Ancient Yemen highlights a small selection of objects that were excavated from the region by the pioneer archaeologist Wendell Phillips and his team in 1950 and 1951.

    August 18, 2018 – March 13, 2020

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Shaping Clay in Ancient Iran

    This exhibition of ceramics produced in northwestern Iran highlights animal-shaped vessels as well as jars and bowls decorated with animal figures.

    September 8, 2018 – March 13, 2020

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Xu Bing: Monkeys Grasp for the Moon

    This whimsical sculpture, hanging from the atrium to the refllecting pool, is composed of 21 laminated wood pieces, with each forming the word "monkey" in a dozen different languages.

    October 14, 2017 – March 13, 2020

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery


  1. Current page 1
  2. Page 2
  3. Page 3
  4. Page 4
  5. Page 5
  6. Page 6
  7. Page 7
  8. Page 8
  9. Page 9
  10. Next page Next
  11. Last page Last
arrow-up Back to top
Home
  • Facebook facebook
  • Instagram instagram
  • LinkedIn linkedin
  • YouTube youtube

  • Contact Us
  • Job Opportunities
  • Get Involved
  • Inspector General
  • Records Requests
  • Accessibility
  • Equal Opportunity
  • Shop Online
  • Host Your Event
  • Press Room
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use