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When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration

February 23, 2020 - May 24, 2020

“When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration” considers how contemporary artists are responding to the migration, immigration, and displacement of people today.

Now on View

Worlds in Miniature: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Minneapolis Institute of Art


Gallery 216

Rembrandt in Conversation


The Winton Jones Gallery for Prints and Drawings (Gallery 344)

Storytelling: Julie Buffalohead


Gallery 255
A ceramic vase with red circular designs overlain with a white dragon. The vase is wide at the top, and tapers down towards the bottom.

All Flowers in Bloom: Porcelains from China’s Last Dynasty


Gallery 210
Orange, pink, and purple paint overlaying the indistinct shapes of continents such as Africa, Australia, and North America.

Mapping Black Identities


Galleries 373 and 374

Turkish Rugs on Tudor Walls: 16th-Century Trade between England and the Islamic World


Gallery 325

Romance and Heroism: Theatrical Robes from Late Imperial China


Gallery 218

When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration


Target Gallery

The Sabbath Now


Gallery 362

Yoshitoshi: Master Draftsman Transformed


Cargill Gallery

Rachel Breen: The Labor We Wear


U.S. Bank Gallery

Color Woodcuts in the Arts and Crafts Era


Gallery 315 and 316

Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo


Gallery 226, 227, 237

Life at the Edge of Empire: North America, c. 1760–1812


Charleston Dining Room and Charleston Drawing Room, G336 and 337
A large, glazed stoneware sculpture that is a deep blue, and is inspired by branch-like form and slow, rhythmic movement of a type of slime mold.

Living Clay: Artists Respond to Nature


Mary Griggs Burke Gallery of Japanese Art (Galleries 251, 252, 253)

Recent Acquisitions: Fiber Art at Mia


Gallery 275

Just Kids


Harrison Photography Gallery

Vision 2020: Contemporary Photographic Portraits at Mia


Perlman Gallery (Gallery 368)
A mass of blue water takes up the lower half of the screen while text is set against a blue sky with wispy clouds passing by. The visible text reads, “aching and swelling, soothed by the salt from the ocean or sea. Whenever it was, this...”

Sky Hopinka: Disfluencies


Gallery 369, Gallery 370

The Enduring Soul


Gallery 375

Frosty Weather, Snowy Weather


Gallery 262
A gold bookcase next to an open book, on 1 page of the book there are 2 black ornaments.

Harriet Bart: Artist Books + Works on Paper


Gallery 353

Captive Beauties: Depictions of Women in Late Imperial China


Gallery 203

Cloth Paper Scissors: Helena Hernmarck Weaves the Everyday


Robert and Marlyss White Gallery (Gallery 281)
An antique gray and gold television with rounded corners and a red speaker.

Engineered for Domestic Bliss


Wells Fargo Center, Downtown Minneapolis

Just Imported: Global Trade in 1700s New England


Providence Parlor, G335
Installation view of the exhibition, "Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter." October 01, 2016 - January 22, 2017. Reena Saini Kallat. Woven Chronicle. (2011-2016). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photographer: Jonathan Muzikar. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY