Past Exhibitions
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Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes
A Special Exhibition Designed by Oscar-Winning Artistic Director Tim Yip
March 4, 2023 - May 21, 2023
The Poetic Abstractions of Maki Haku: Prints from the Kimm-Grufferman Collection
June 4, 2022 - April 9, 2023
Reflections on Reality: Drawings and Paintings from the Weisberg Collection
May 14, 2022 - December 10, 2023
The Three Perfections: Image, Poem, and Calligraphy in Chinese Painting
December 18, 2021 - December 4, 2022
Racism as a Public Health Crisis: Youth and Professional Artists Respond
November 5, 2021 - February 6, 2022
Sixties Psychedelia: San Francisco Rock Posters from the Paul Maurer Collection
July 17, 2021 - April 24, 2022
Fly Zine Archive: A Chronicle of Punk, Queer, and Anarchist Counterculture
July 16, 2021 - April 24, 2022
Unexpected Turns: Women Artists and the Making of American Basket-Weaving Traditions
March 11, 2021 - December 12, 2021
In the Presence of Our Ancestors: Southern Perspectives in African American Art
December 12, 2020 - November 28, 2021
With New Light: Mia’s Reinstalled Himalayan, South, and Southeast Asian Art Galleries
October 15, 2020 - October 17, 2021
A Collector’s Odyssey: Books and Prints from the William P. Kosmas Collection
July 25, 2020 - June 27, 2021
Worlds in Miniature: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Minneapolis Institute of Art
September 14, 2019 - June 7, 2020
Jonathan Herrera Soto: In Between / Underneath (Entremedio / Por Debajo)
July 19, 2019 - November 3, 2019
Turkish Rugs on Tudor Walls: 16th-Century Trade between England and the Islamic World
June 8, 2019 - February 21, 2021
Hózhǫ́, Manifesting Beauty: Navajo Textiles from the Cahn Collection
June 1, 2019 - November 24, 2019
Beyond the Fragrance: Beauty & Symbolism in Chinese Flower & Bird Painting
December 1, 2018 - June 2, 2019
A History of Photography Remix: Selections from the Mia Collection
August 11, 2018 - February 17, 2019
Emblems of a Prosperous Life: Women’s Robes of Late Imperial China (1700s – 1800s)
July 14, 2018 - April 21, 2019
Enchanted Mountains: Chinese Landscape Painting from Mia’s Collection
March 31, 2018 - November 18, 2018
The Rabblerouser and the Homebody: Minnesota’s Elizabeth Olds and Wanda Gág
March 24, 2018 - December 9, 2018
Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty: Concept and Design by Robert Wilson
February 3, 2018 - June 10, 2018
Mizusashi: Japanese Water Jars from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection
December 23, 2017 - May 13, 2018
Embroidering an Ordered Cosmos: Chinese Daoist Priest Garments of the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911)
December 12, 2016 - September 3, 2017
Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection
July 10, 2016 - September 18, 2016
The Chronicles of Native Life: The MacMillan Gift of Seth Eastman Watercolors
April 9, 2016 - January 8, 2017
The Archangels Saint Michael and Saint Raphael: A Pair of 18th-Century Silver Sculptures
November 14, 2015 - January 3, 2016
Delacroix's Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne to van Gogh
October 18, 2015 - January 10, 2016
Delacroix’s Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne to van Gogh
October 18, 2015 - January 10, 2016
Gifts of Japanese and Korean Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection
September 26, 2015 - May 8, 2016
Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection
September 26, 2015 - March 13, 2016
Minneapolis Satellite Reef Part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef Project created by the Institute For Figuring
August 23, 2015 - November 21, 2015
Arriving at Fresh Water: Contemporary Native Artists from Our Great Lakes
May 9, 2015 - February 28, 2016
The Habsburgs: Rarely Seen Masterpieces from Europe's Greatest Dynasty
February 15, 2015 - May 10, 2015
The Habsburgs: Rarely Seen Masterpieces from Europe’s Greatest Dynasty
February 15, 2015 - May 10, 2015
The Hours of Night and Day: A Rediscovered Cycle of Bronze Reliefs by Giovanni Casini and Pietro Cipriani
September 13, 2014 - January 4, 2015
Scents for the Soul: A Newly Acquired Havdalah Spice Box by Pope Pius VII’s Silversmith
September 12, 2014 - May 15, 2016
New Pictures 10, David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion and Democracy in South Africa
August 21, 2014 - March 8, 2015
Eric William Carroll "G.U.T. Feeling, Vol. 2" and James Holmberg "Forever"
July 18, 2014 - September 28, 2014
Eric William Carroll “G.U.T. Feeling, Vol. 2” and James Holmberg “Forever”
July 18, 2014 - September 28, 2014
Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art
July 13, 2014 - September 21, 2014
The Infinite World: Chinese Figure Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (14th-19th centuries)
March 1, 2014 - March 22, 2015
The Infinite World: Chinese Figure Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (14th-19th centuries)
March 1, 2014 - November 2, 2014
Gifts of Modern and Contemporary Glass from Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
November 20, 2013 - June 29, 2014
It's New / It's Now: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Prints and Drawings
July 14, 2013 - September 1, 2013
It’s New / It’s Now: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Prints and Drawings
July 14, 2013 - September 1, 2013
A Handsome Cupboard of Plate: Early American Silver in the Cahn Collection
December 1, 2012 - March 24, 2013
Tools of the Trade: The William Howard Writing Desk from Kirkwood Plantation
May 19, 2012 - July 29, 2012
L'Estampe originale: A Celebrated Album of Original Printmaking, 1893-95
March 24, 2012 - December 9, 2012
L’Estampe originale: A Celebrated Album of Original Printmaking, 1893-95
March 24, 2012 - December 9, 2012
Finally, We Are All Young Again: Adam Caillier and Michael Mott and Movie: Scott Nedrelow
July 22, 2011 - October 2, 2011
A Connoisseur's Cabinet: Drawings from the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
June 25, 2011 - January 15, 2012
A Connoisseur’s Cabinet: Drawings from the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
June 25, 2011 - January 15, 2012
A Field Guide to Snow and Ice: Paula McCartney and Ornamental Invasion: Liz Miller
April 22, 2011 - July 3, 2011
Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection
February 6, 2011 - May 15, 2011
Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland
February 6, 2011 - May 1, 2011
"Ground Truth: Peter Happel Christian" and "Painting Before and After Words: Margaret Wall-Romana"
January 21, 2011 - April 3, 2011
“Ground Truth: Peter Happel Christian” and “Painting Before and After Words: Margaret Wall-Romana”
January 21, 2011 - April 3, 2011