Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian Institution

Directions: Tony Oursler: Video Dolls with Tracy Leipold

This first solo exhibition features video-animated sculptures by this New York-based artist.

July 2, 1998 – September 7, 1998

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Kiki Smith: Night

See works in black glass, bronze, & other media by this American figurative artist.

March 19, 1998 – June 21, 1998

Hirshhorn Museum

George Segal, A Retrospective: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings

View 62 works, including plaster figurative tableaux, created by this American artist.

February 19, 1998 – May 17, 1998

Hirshhorn Museum

Stanley Spencer: An English Vision

Some 60 landscapes, nudes, genre prints, portraits, allegories, and social narratives by this British artist span his career from 1914 to the 1950s.

October 9, 1997 – January 11, 1998

Hirshhorn Museum

The Collection in Context: Raymond Duchamp-Villon's "The Horse"

This one-gallery presentation explores this French sculptor's (1876-1918) response to and belief in the machine.

May 23, 1997 – November 30, 1997

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Louise Lawler "Monochrome"

See 13 photos by this New York-based conceptual artist featuring images that are meditations on a single color.

July 17, 1997 – October 19, 1997

Hirshhorn Museum

The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions, 1992-1996

View some 100 modern and contemporary works by such artists as Dubuffet, Thiebaud, and Warhol that the museum has collected since 1992.

June 4, 1997 – September 7, 1997

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Juan Munoz

This exhibition features this Madrid-based sculptor's broadly psychological, narrative figure installations in bronze, resin, and other materials.

March 6, 1997 – June 15, 1997

Hirshhorn Museum

Jeff Wall

In his first American retrospective, some 30 luminous, pictorial photo narratives created by this Canadian artist since 1978 explore contemporary social issues.

February 20, 1997 – May 11, 1997

Hirshhorn Museum

The Collection in Context: Paul Gauguin's Hina and Two Attendants

This one-gallery exhibition explores the context and creation of the tamanu wood sculpture Hina and Two Attendants (1892), which was created by this French artist while in Tahiti.

November 20, 1996 – May 7, 1997

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Rudolf Schwartzkogler

This controversial exhibition features 37 photos of bandaged and masked figures from Actionism, Austria's performance-based movement of the 1960s.

November 7, 1996 – January 20, 1997

Hirshhorn Museum

Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors, 1948-1977

See 71 paintings and watercolors spanning three decades that illustrate the symbolic content of this German-born American artist.

October 17, 1996 – January 12, 1997

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Byron Kim: Grey-Green

Large-scale, monochromatic paintings by this artist address traditional Korean green-glaze pottery within the context of Western modern abstraction.

July 18, 1996 – October 20, 1996

Hirshhorn Museum

Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s

Works in diverse media trace an attitude of social and cultural dismay among 10 internationally based artists.

June 20, 1996 – September 15, 1996

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Beverly Semmes

This exhibition features Kimberley (1994)--a large-scale fabric sculpture resembling a monumental dress.

March 21, 1996 – June 23, 1996

Hirshhorn Museum

Georg Baselitz

This first American retrospective of this German artist includes three decades of his paintings.

February 15, 1996 – May 5, 1996

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Carmen Lomas Garza

Paintings and mixed-media works by this San Francisco-based, Texas-bred artist present a visual narrative of Chicano life.

November 18, 1995 – February 18, 1996

Hirshhorn Museum

The Collection in Context: Thomas Eakins's Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing

Sketches, photographs, correspondence, and documents explore the 1895 portrait of Smithsonian ethnologist Frank Cushing, who had lived with the Zuni Indians.

June 30, 1995 – January 15, 1996

Hirshhorn Museum

Stephen Balkenhol: Sculptures and Drawings

This first major exhibit in the Americas features 30 figurative wood sculptures and large-scale blackboard drawings by this German artist.

October 19, 1995 – January 15, 1996

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Martin Kippenberger

Satirical drawings and collages by this German artist lampoon Germany's politics, culture, and consumerism.

July 20, 1995 – October 22, 1995

Hirshhorn Museum

Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995

View 30 abstract paintings and 32 watercolors by this Irish-born American artist.

June 14, 1995 – September 10, 1995

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Cindy Sherman: Film Stills

View 69 black-and-white photographs made between 1977 and 1980 that suggest stills from Grade-B, Hitchcock-esque, noir films.

March 15, 1995 – June 25, 1995

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Gary Simmons

This African American artist's 1st solo exhibit features his 1993 series Erasures.

November 17, 1994 – February 12, 1995

Hirshhorn Museum

Bruce Nauman

This comprehensive overview features some 60 sculptural and mixed-media installations by this experimental American artist.

November 3, 1994 – January 29, 1995

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Jeanne Dunning

This first solo exhibition by this Chicago-based artist features some 25 color photos, mostly new work from the 1990s.

July 21, 1994 – November 2, 1994

Hirshhorn Museum