Past Exhibitions –– Minneapolis Institute of Art

Past Exhibitions

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City Views

December 14, 2024 - June 8, 2025

A Generous Outlook: Gifts from Fay Gallus and Richard Sweet

November 23, 2024 - April 13, 2025

Roshan Ganu: रातराणी: The Night Blooming Jasmine

November 23, 2024 - February 23, 2025

Otto Dix: The War Portfolio

November 16, 2024 - August 31, 2025

Cassatt on Paper

October 19, 2024 - April 8, 2025

Catch of the Day: Humans and Marine Animals in Japan

October 12, 2024 - July 27, 2025

At the Moulin Rouge

October 12, 2024 - March 30, 2025

O’ Powa O’ Meng: The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell

September 14, 2024 - January 26, 2025

JoAnn Verburg: Aftershocks

August 24, 2024 - January 12, 2025

Taking It to the Streets: Vitality Arts at Mia

August 23, 2024 - December 8, 2024

Latin American Art at Mia II

July 27, 2024 - March 2, 2025

Thomas Putzier: Grief & Bureaucracy

July 20, 2024 - October 27, 2024

Counter/Culture

June 22, 2024 - November 17, 2024

Dark Visions

June 15, 2024 - December 8, 2024

Destined for Mia: A Collection of Dutch Paintings

June 8, 2024 - August 25, 2024

Bizen: Contemporary Expressions of an Ancient Japanese Pottery

June 1, 2024 - February 16, 2025

Racism as a Public Health Crisis: Teens Reimagine the Collection

May 11, 2024 - August 4, 2024

Splendid Patchwork: Buddhist Monastic Robes

May 4, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Domestic Idols

April 25, 2024 - September 22, 2024

New at Mia: Contemporary Works on Paper by Women Artists

April 6, 2024 - October 13, 2024

Goltzius & Co.

April 6, 2024 - November 3, 2024

The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989

March 23, 2024 - June 23, 2024

Collage/Assemblage Part II: 1990-Now

February 24, 2024 - August 25, 2024

Tanaka Ryōhei: Portrait of a Home

February 10, 2024 - November 10, 2024

Year of the Dragon: Mystical Creatures of the Sky

February 10, 2024 - May 5, 2024

Our Parks, Our Stories

February 3, 2024 - February 25, 2024

Networks of Care

January 13, 2024 - June 16, 2024

American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson

January 6, 2024 - June 23, 2024

Wandering With Dutch Artists

December 16, 2023 - June 2, 2024

Lisa Bergh: Topography

November 18, 2023 - February 25, 2024

Reimagining Native/American Art

November 11, 2023 - May 27, 2024

In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now

October 22, 2023 - January 14, 2024

Dwelling in Mountains: Reclusion in Chinese Landscape Painting

October 1, 2023 - October 20, 2024

Latin American Art at Mia

September 16, 2023 - May 15, 2024

55 and Better: Vitality Arts at Mia

September 9, 2023 - November 12, 2023

Collage/Assemblage Part I: 1940-1989

September 2, 2023 - February 11, 2024

Chaos: Ken Matsubara’s Buddhist Masterwork

September 2, 2023 - April 14, 2024

The Root Collection: Living with Japanese Ceramics

August 19, 2023 - May 12, 2024

The Root Collection: Celebrating Studio Ceramics

August 19, 2023 - January 28, 2024

The last safe abortion

August 5, 2023 - December 31, 2023

A Perennial Pleasure Garden: Botanical Textiles from Mia’s Permanent Collection

July 29, 2023 - April 28, 2024

Another Look

July 29, 2023 - December 17, 2023

Tia Keobounpheng: Revealing Threads

July 22, 2023 - October 29, 2023

Call and Response: American Watercolors in Conversation

July 8, 2023 - March 3, 2024

The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie

July 8, 2023 - March 24, 2024

ReVisión: Art in the Americas

July 1, 2023 - September 17, 2023

Marcantonio Raimondi: Thief · Collaborator · Communicator

May 20, 2023 - November 26, 2023

Teen Perspectives on Racism and Health Equity

May 2, 2023 - August 30, 2023

Azechi Umetarō: Call of the Mountains

April 22, 2023 - January 21, 2024

Fukuda Kodōjin: Japan’s Great Poet and Landscape Artist

April 22, 2023 - July 23, 2023

Caravaggio′s Judith and Holofernes

April 20, 2023 - August 20, 2023

Gifts Beyond Measure from Harriet and Walter Pratt

April 8, 2023 - November 26, 2023

The Art of Literacy in Early Modern Japan

March 25, 2023 - August 6, 2023

Christopher Selleck: Body//Weight

March 18, 2023 - June 25, 2023

Creativity Academy

March 13, 2023 - April 23, 2023

Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes
A Special Exhibition Designed by Oscar-Winning Artistic Director Tim Yip

March 4, 2023 - May 21, 2023

Fragments of Epic Memory

January 24, 2023 - July 9, 2023

Night Life: Nocturnal Worlds in African Art

December 10, 2022 - September 3, 2023

Monica Sheets: Das Fundbuero—Civics Lessons

November 19, 2022 - February 26, 2023

Vision for the Future: Embracing the Past and Present

November 11, 2022 - February 17, 2023

In the Making: Modern and Contemporary Fiber Art New Acquisitions

October 29, 2022 - July 16, 2023

German Prints in the Later 1400s

October 22, 2022 - May 14, 2023

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi

October 16, 2022 - January 8, 2023

Paintings from South America: The Thoma Collection (1600–1800)

October 1, 2022 - April 2, 2023

Revolution à la Mode: Fashion and Music in Revolutionary France

September 10, 2022 - March 12, 2023

Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be

August 13, 2022 - December 11, 2022

Teo Nguyen: Việt Nam Peace Project
Teo Nguyễn: Giấc Mơ Hòa Bình

July 30, 2022 - June 18, 2023

Joshua McGarvey: POSTURING

July 23, 2022 - October 30, 2022

Recent Acquisitions: Postwar + Contemporary Works on Paper

July 2, 2022 - January 29, 2023

Van Gogh and the Olive Groves

June 25, 2022 - September 18, 2022

Dressed by Nature: Textiles of Japan

June 25, 2022 - September 11, 2022

The Poetic Abstractions of Maki Haku: Prints from the Kimm-Grufferman Collection

June 4, 2022 - April 9, 2023

Mia Staff Art Show

May 18, 2022 - October 30, 2022

Reflections on Reality: Drawings and Paintings from the Weisberg Collection

May 14, 2022 - December 10, 2023

Yee I-Lann: Picturing Power

April 23, 2022 - December 11, 2022

Jovan C. Speller: Nurturing, and Other Rituals of Protection

March 19, 2022 - June 26, 2022

Objectivity: Metaphorical and Material Lives of Photographs

March 12, 2022 - July 31, 2022

Creativity Academy

March 7, 2022 - April 24, 2022

Venice in the 1700s

January 22, 2022 - October 16, 2022

Parallel Lines: New Textile Masterworks Inspired by Geometry

December 26, 2021 - October 23, 2022

Kamoda Shōji: The Art of Change

December 11, 2021 - April 17, 2022

Dayanita Singh: Pothi Khana

November 12, 2021 - April 10, 2022

The Contemporary Print: 20 Years at Highpoint Editions

October 9, 2021 - January 9, 2022

Virgil Ortiz: Convergence

August 21, 2021 - August 21, 2022

Parska/Shada

August 21, 2021 - August 21, 2022

Sixties Psychedelia: San Francisco Rock Posters from the Paul Maurer Collection

July 17, 2021 - April 24, 2022

Shimmering Surfaces: Chinese Lacquer Motifs and Techniques

March 31, 2021 - April 10, 2022

Rituals of Resilience

March 18, 2021 - July 31, 2022

Unexpected Turns: Women Artists and the Making of American Basket-Weaving Traditions

March 11, 2021 - December 12, 2021

Nicole Havekost: Chthonic

January 30, 2021 - June 27, 2021

Freedom Rising: I Am the Story / L’Merchie Frazier

January 3, 2021 - September 19, 2021

Intimate Space: A Noblewoman’s Bedroom in Late Imperial China

November 14, 2020 - November 7, 2021

20 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy Then and Now

August 1, 2020 - April 9, 2023

Joe Horton: Vessel

September 12, 2019 - September 22, 2019

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists

June 4, 2019 - August 20, 2019

Mapping Black Identities: 3 Films

May 4, 2019 - September 8, 2019

Sara Cwynar: Image Model Muse

September 14, 2018 - January 20, 2019

Engineered for Domestic Bliss

July 14, 2018 - July 28, 2024

Your Story, Our Story: Student Immigration Experiences

June 23, 2018 - September 28, 2018

Excavating the Future City: Photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama

March 4, 2018 - July 22, 2018

Día de los Muertos

October 26, 2017 - November 5, 2017

George Morrison in Focus

October 21, 2017 - July 1, 2018

Matrimonial Bliss: Chagall's Double Portrait with Wine Glass

May 21, 2017 - July 30, 2017

Winterlights at the Purcell-Cutts House

November 26, 2016 - January 8, 2017

The Beginnings of Modernism: British Design, 1870-1910

July 30, 2016 - July 8, 2018

The Fierce and the Fancy: Urban Masks from Sierra Leone

March 29, 2016 - November 20, 2016

Oshki-baawajigewin / Wóihaŋbde Théča / A New Vision

July 3, 2015 - October 25, 2015

Gown of Cloud & Rainbow: Miao Costumes & Jewelry from China

June 1, 2013 - February 22, 2015

The Progressive Pencil: George Elmslie’s Prairie School Designs

May 26, 2013 - October 20, 2013

China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy

October 28, 2012 - January 27, 2013

Highpoint Editions—Decade One

September 24, 2011 - June 10, 2012

A Connoisseur's Cabinet: Drawings from the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

June 25, 2011 - January 15, 2012

Mayumi Amada and Eun-Kyung Suh

July 16, 2010 - September 26, 2010

Roxanne Jackson

August 28, 2009 - November 1, 2009