Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian Institution

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

This exhibit includes mixed-media installations by the Cuban-born, New York based artist.

June 16, 1994 – September 11, 1994

The Collection Reviewed: Thomas Eakins

Commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of artist Thomas Eakins with 15 paintings and photos created between 1871 and 1904.

May 28, 1994 – September 11, 1994

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Sue Coe

View a selection of large-scale narrative drawings that explore such issues as violence against women, racism, capitalism, and war.

March 17, 1994 – June 19, 1994

Hirshhorn Museum

Gary Hill

Watch 8 video installations--created from 1983 to 1993--that integrate form, movement, and language through a sculptural medium.

February 17, 1994 – May 8, 1994

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Glenn Ligon: To Disembark

See 2 suites of prints, 9 audio sculptures, and 3 related wall drawings that focus on the life and slavery of Henry "Box" Brown.

November 11, 1993 – February 21, 1994

Hirshhorn Museum

Willem de Kooning: From the Hirshhorn Museum Collection

View 50 works by de Kooning who pioneered the "gestural" strain of Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s.

October 21, 1993 – January 9, 1994

Hirshhorn Museum

Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: Paintings, Sculptures, Assemblages

Nearly 100 works from the first two decades of this French artist's career show the power, invention, and originality of his work, which ranks him alongside his European contemporaries Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon.

June 17, 1993 – September 12, 1993

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Alison Saar

Expressive figurative sculptures and wall pieces reflect African American lore.

April 1, 1993 – July 25, 1993

Hirshhorn Museum

Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings

Visit a retrospective honoring this American (b. 1945) noted for her painterly fusion of recognizable and abstract forms--horses, figures and heads, for instance.

February 11, 1993 – May 9, 1993

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Jac Leirner

Accumulations of once-valued, now useless, objects characterize the work of Leirner.

December 17, 1992 – March 14, 1993

Hirshhorn Museum

Joseph Kosuth Works

This American artist (b. 1945), noted for his fusion of text and environment, incorporates "found" texts from Kafka's Parables, the International Herald Tribune, and other sources in his site-specific installation.

October 1, 1992 – January 25, 1993

Hirshhorn Museum

Eva Hesse: A Retrospective

Approximately 40 sculptures and wall reliefs and 60 drawings and paintings by Hesse reveal the process of their creation and suggest dream-like allusions to organisms or body parts.

October 15, 1992 – January 10, 1993

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Animal Farm

See a 9 x 40-foot mural with animated caricatures of world leaders in a barnyard created by artist-teacher Tim Rollins.

September 17, 1992 – December 6, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Frank Stella: Prints from the Collection

Some 20 abstract prints created by American artist Frank Stella between 1967 and 1970 incorporate striped, shaped, or geometric motifs are on view.

April 17, 1992 – September 20, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers

See 90 paintings, dating from 1910-1950, focusing on the innovative works of Diego Rivera, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Wifredo Lam, and Matta.

June 11, 1992 – September 7, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs

Recent large-scale color photographs by this German artist document visitors gazing at masterpieces in European art museums.

May 21, 1992 – August 16, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Martin Puryear

Trace Washington-born Martin Puryear's evolution as a sculptor from the early 1970s to the present through about 35 works in wood, rawhide, and other materials.

February 5, 1992 – June 21, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Francesc Torres: Memorial

A dramatic sculptural environment by this Spanish-born, New York-based artist offers reflections on the Persian Gulf War.

February 13, 1992 – May 3, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Robert Motherwell: Prints and Collages from the Collection

This homage includes 16 works, created between 1968 and 1974, by the celebrated founder of Abstract Expressionism (1915-1991).

November 14, 1991 – April 12, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Alfredo Jaar Works

A serene museum ambience is juxtaposed with disturbing images of victims from the Persian Gulf War in this site-specific project by this Chilean-born artist.

November 7, 1991 – March 29, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Directions: Saint Clair Cemin

Recent sculptures by this Brazilian-born artist evoke several associations at once--applied art and furniture, past sculptural traditions, and expressions of popular culture such as toys and Victorian bric-a-brac.

October 17, 1991 – January 19, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum

Recent Acquisitions: 1989-1991

View 78 works by 71 artists acquired since the last acquisitions exhibition, including paintings by Alfred Jensen, Robert Colescott, and others. Also see sculpture by such artists as Richard Artschwager and Erik Levine, and works on paper by Lucian Freud, Robert Moskowitz, and others.

October 8, 1991 – January 5, 1992

Hirshhorn Museum