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Current Exhibitions
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- A More Perfect Union: American Artists and the Currents of Our Time September 19, 2023 – October 1, 2023 American History Museum
- A Perfect Harmony: American Art November 27, 2019 – October 8, 2023 Freer Gallery of Art
- Portrait of a Nation: 2022 Honorees November 10, 2022 – October 22, 2023 Portrait Gallery
- Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces November 10, 2021 – November 30, 2023 American Indian Museum
- Highlights of the NMAAHC Library Collection September 12, 2022 – December 31, 2023 African American History and Culture Museum
- Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch May 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024 American Indian Museum New York
- A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China November 4, 2022 – January 7, 2024 Hirshhorn
- Kinship October 28, 2022 – January 7, 2024 Portrait Gallery
- John Akomfrah: Purple November 23, 2022 – January 7, 2024 Hirshhorn
- To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C. May 19, 2023 – January 7, 2024 Anacostia Community Museum
- Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea July 28, 2023 – January 14, 2024 American Art Museum
- Block by Block: Naming Washington July 30, 2021 – January 15, 2024 Portrait Gallery
- Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection August 13, 2022 – January 18, 2024 Freer Gallery of Art
- Rinpa Screens February 25, 2023 – January 28, 2024 Freer Gallery of Art
- Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen July 15, 2023 – January 28, 2024 Sackler Gallery
- Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies June 23, 2023 – January 29, 2024 American Art Museum
- A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes July 7, 2023 – February 4, 2024 Cooper Hewitt
- Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social Change June 22, 2022 – February 20, 2024 American History Museum
- Words of Wisdom: Buddhist Calligraphy from Japan April 1, 2023 – February 25, 2024 Freer Gallery of Art
- 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions April 28, 2023 – February 25, 2024 Portrait Gallery
- A Journey of Taste: Freer and Japanese Scroll Mounting April 15, 2023 – March 3, 2024 Freer Gallery of Art
- Nature of the Book November 11, 2022 – March 17, 2024 Natural History Museum
- Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023 May 26, 2023 – March 31, 2024 Renwick Gallery
- One Life: Frederick Douglass June 16, 2023 – April 21, 2024 Portrait Gallery
- Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture November 18, 2022 – April 21, 2024 African American History and Culture Museum
- Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings February 25, 2023 – April 28, 2024 Sackler Gallery
- Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life July 14, 2023 – June 2, 2024 Hirshhorn
- Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful May 25, 2023 – June 2, 2024 American Indian Museum
