List of Birmingham Museum of Art exhibitions

This is a List of Birmingham Museum of Art exhibitions hosted by the Birmingham Museum of Art since 1990:

1990

• May 19 - August 12: Impressions: Prints by McNeill Whistler
• June 30 - September 2: Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan
• July 29 - September 2: The AmSouth Bank Collection of Naval Paintings and the Battle of Moblie Bay by Xanthus Smith
• August 17 - November 11: Splendors of the American West: Thomas Moran's art of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone
• August 18 - November 11: Social Reform: Women and Pottery in the Arts and Crafts Movement
• August 31 - October 28: Re:memory: Picturing the Private Past
• September 18 - February 2: Intuitive Reality: The Lithographs of George Biddle
• October 21 - January 2: Gold of Africa: Jewelry and Ornaments from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal
• November 2 - April 14: Tradition and Transition: Chinese Paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Specer III
• November 8 - January 13: A Decade Offscreen: Sid Avery's Hollywood, 1951-1961
• November 17 - February 10: Alabama Decorative Arts from the BMA Collection

1991

• January 13 - February 24: "That's All Folks!": Bugs Bunny and Friends of Warner bros. Cartoons
• January 22 - March 3: Camera Aesthetis: Recent Acquisitions from the Photography Collection
• February 2 - March 31: Reinstallation of 19th Century Galleries
• February 16 - May 12: Images of Meiji Periods Japan (1868-1912)
• March 1 - May 7: The Stuart Legacy: English Art 1603-1714
• April 14 - June 9: Camera Portraits, 1839-1989: Photographs from the National Gallery, London
• May 19 - July 7: In Our Time: The World As Seem by Magnum Photographers
• May 25 - August 18: "Well May They Be Made": Navajo Textiles from the BMA Collection
• July 7 - October 6: Boxed Assortment: 1970's Print and Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection
• August 10 - October 20: Frank Lloyd Wright; Facets of Design, Selections from the Domino's Pizza Collection
• October 20 - December 8: Model Fiction: The Work of James Casebere
• November 24 - December 31: Images of America: The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
• December 12 - February 29: Pictures of the Cosmos: Tibetan Buddist Tankas

1992

• April 1 - August 1: Art of the Americas: Painting and Objects from the Museum's Permanent Collections
• September 27 - November 5: Views and Visions: Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection
• November 20 - November 22: Dress: Costumes from the Collection of the BMA

1993

• January 24 - February 25: Picture Relations: Photo Essays from the South by Debbie Fleming and Birney Imes
• February 1 - March 1: Jazz Age Costumes
• March 3 - June 3: Image and Text: Art, Medicine, and Learning in the Eighteeth Century
• October 1 - March 1: First East Thomas Project: Rainbows, Fences and Targets
• October 2 - October 17: Fumio Kitaoka: Woodblock Prints
• November 6 - January 2: Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection
• November 13 - January 22: Gertrude Kasebier Photographer
• November 25 - December 1: Prayer Gate

1994

• February 6 - March 20: Objects of Desire
• April 8 - May 1: Costumes from the Metropolitan Opera
• April 15 - May 29: Tiepolo and Canaletto: Prints from the Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection
• April 17 - June 26: Beyond the Tanabata Bridge: A textile Journey in Japan
• May 14 - : Second East thomas Project: New Industrial Sculpture from Germany
• July 10 - September 4: Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
• July 10 - September 4: Lewis W. Hine: Early Work
• - September 11: A Box of Visions
• September 18 - December 31: Van Gogh's Japanese Prints
• September 20 - May 7: Honor Thy Father and Mother: A Multi-Media Installation by Lorenzo Pace
• October 14 - January 8: Made in Alabama: A State Legacy
• October 14 - December 2: John Bohorfoush Collection
• October 14 - February 12: African textiles from the Permanent Collection
• December 14 - March 12: In the Open Art

1995

• February 2 - April 16: Alfred L. Scheinberg Collection of African Ceramics
• March 4 - April 30: Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy
• March 4 - April 30: Dale Chihuly Vitreographs: Prints from Glass Plates
• April 22 - June 18: The Golden Age of Dutch Painting
• April 22 - : The Third Thomas Project: The Elegant Forms of Peer Veneman
• May 7 - : Staffs of Life: Rods, Staffs, Scepters, and Wands from the Coudron Collection of African Art
• July 2 - October 25: Robert Doisneau and Elliot Erwitt: On Modern Life
• July 22 - September 3: Botticelli to Tiepolo: Three centuries of Italian Painting from Bob Jones University
• September 17 - November 26: Under a Spell: Sequin Voodoo Flag Art from Antoine Oleyant/Haiti and Tina Girouard/Louisiana
• October 6 - December 31: Echizen: Eight Hundred years of Japanese Stoneware
• October 29 - January 7: Art of the American West
• December 6 - December 8: In the Company of Animals
• December 10 - March 3; Speaking in Forms: African and American Art from the Permanent Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art

1996

• January 21 - March 3: Photographs from the Collection of Rena Hill Selfe
• February 4 - April 7: Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen
• April 1 - May 26: The Elegant Brush: Korean Paintings from the collections on Dr Won-Kyung Cho
• May 18 - August 31: The Precolumbian Ballgame: 3000 Years of Sport and Sacrifice
• July 1 - September 1: Qin/The First Emperor: Treasurers from Ancient China
• October 20 - September 1: The South by Its Photographers
• November 12 - March 2: Birmingham Views: The Birmingham News Centennial Photographic Collection

1997

• January 19 - March 29: Southern Arts and Crafts: 1890-1949
• February 1 - May 31: African Visions: Sacred Art and Ceremony of the Basotho
• March 23 - August 3: Cast in Splendor: German Cast Iron Decorative Arts at the Birmingham Museum of Art
• April 11 - July 6: Looking Down Yosemite Valley: Paintings by Albert Bierstadt
• May 18 - August 31: Crosscurrents of Culture: Arts of Africa and the Americas in Alabama Collections
• June 8 - August 10: Audubon’s America: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection
• August 31 - February 1: An American Inpressionist: Henry Potthast
• September 28 - October 14: Lasting Impressions: Twentieth-century Prints from the Permanent Collection (Elliot, curator)
• November 15 - April 5: Finder's Keepers: Illuminations by Harry Anderson

1998

• January 25 - April 5: Ancient Gold Jewelry from the Dallas Museum of Art
• The Artist in the Studio: Interactive Art Space For Children and Their Families (Fowler, curator)
• March 15 - May 3: Low Virtues: The Value of Human-Scale Architecture to Birmingham Urbanism
• April 26 - June 14: Images of the Floating World: Japanese Prints From the Birmingham Museum of Art (Donald Wood, curator)
• April 26 - June 14: Otsu-e: Japanese Folk Paintings from the Harriet and Edson Spencer Collection (Donald Wood, curator)
• May 17 - August 23: Shades of the South: Photography from the Permanent Collection
• June 18 - September 6: Art on Wheels: Selections from the Baber Vintage Motorsports Museum
• July 9 - September 6: William Christenberry: The Early Years, 1954-1968
• November 1 - November 29: Síndrome de Angloa
• November 1 - January 3: Chokwe!: Art and initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples (Gordon, curator)
• November 14 - January 31: Constructing Structure: Ilya Bolotowski, Al Head, Leon Polk Smith, and George Rickey
• December 5 - June 6: Perspectives 2: Saint Clair Cemin (David Moos, curator)

1999

• January 31 - April 4: Art at the End of the Century: Contemporary Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum (David Moos, curator)
• February 12 - April 4: Infra-Slim Spaces:The Pysical and Spiritual in the Art of Today (David Moos, curator)
• May 2 - July 4: Roads Less Traveled: American Paintings 1833-1935
• October 3 - January 16: Near East, Far Dreams: Egypt in the Nineteenth Century Imagination
• October 3 - January 16: Searching for Ancient Egypt
• April 25 - July 4: Remembered Past, Discovered Future - The Alabama Architecture of Warren, Knight, and Davis, 1906-1961, 1999
• October 18 - January 8: William Wegman: Fashion Photographs (David Moos, curator)
• November 14 - June 30: Perspectives 3: Luis Jimenez (David Moos, curator)

2000

• February 13 - April 30: Perspectives 4: Dori and Joseph DeCamillis (David Moos, curator)
• March 5 - May 21: Sign and Gesture: Contemporary Abstract Art from the Haskell Collection (David Moos, curator)
• Baskets of Splendor: Japanese Ikabena Baskets (Donald Wood, curator)
• March 26 - June 11: A Mark in Time: Masterworks of Contemporary Alabama Crafts (Anne Forschler, curator)
• May 6 - June 4: Having a Ball: Fifty Years of Evening Couture (Anne Forschler, curator)
• May 15 - November 15: GALORE: The Continuous Painting Wall (David Moos, curator)
• June 25 - September 3: Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity: Paintings from the 1990s (David Moos, curator)
• July 16 - September 10: Matisse from the Baltimore Museum of Art (David Moos, curator)
• August 1 - October 29: Dream Worlds: German Porcelain Figures from Jugenstil to Art Deco (Anne Forschler, curator)
• October 8 - December 31: Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City (David Moos, curator)
• October 8 - December 31: Girlfriend! The Barbie Sessions by David Levinthal (David Moos, curator)
• October 8 - December 31: Soiree in Bamako: Studio Photography in Mali (Jordan, curator)
• November - : Native American Gallery Reinstallation
• December 3 - April 29: Perspectives 5: Jessica Diamond Painting (David Moos, curator)
• December 3 - January 28: Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings from the collection of Richard Castellane (David Moos, curator)

2001

• January 21 - April 1: Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millenium (David Moos, curator)
• March 1 - March 30: Youth Art Month Exhibition 2001 (Marchicelli, curator)
• March 5 - May 27: The Noblemen of Stone:Fifty Years of Collecting Jade in Birmingham (Huang, curator)
• April: Birmingham International Festival 2002 - Salute to Hungary (Marchicelli, curator)
• April 6 - : Reinstallation of 14th to 18th Century Italian Art (and other nationalities) (Jeannine O'Grody, curator)
• June 10 - September 2: Crazy!: Crazy Quilts From the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art (Gail Trechsel, curator)
• July 1 - September 1: Beatriz Milhazes (David Moos, curator)
• September 14 - January 6: Gracious Splender: The William Hansell and Susan Mabry Hulsey Collection (Jeannine O'Grody and David Moos, curators)
• September: American Gallery Reinstallation (David Moos and Anne Forschler, curators)
• October 6 - January 6: Perspectives 6: Lawrence Weiner (David Moos, curator)
• October 14 - January 6: In the Presence of Spirits: Selections from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon (Jordan and Donald Wood, curators)
• December 15 - April 15: Chinese New Year Prints: Celebrating Wealth and Prosperity (Huang, curator)

2002

• January 20 - April 7: Methods and Media: Drawings from the Birmingham Museum of Art (Jeannine O'Grody, curator)
• February 10 - April 14; European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (Jeannine O'Grody and David Moos, curators)
• March 1 - March 30: Youth Art Month Exhibition 2002 (Harris, curator)
• March - : Reinstallation of the Korean Collection (Donald Wood, curator)
• April: Birmingham International Festival 2002 - Salute to South Africa (Harris, curator)
• April 7 - June 16: Ndebele Beadwork from South Africa (Harris, curator)
• May 5 - July 14: Glass of the Avant Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus (Anne Forschler, curator)
• May 26 - September 11: Julie Moos: Hat Ladies (Stephens, curator)
• September 5 - July 6: Stephen Hendee: Perspectives 7 ([David Moos]], curator)
• September 22 - January 5: Matières de Rêves: Stuff of Dreams, From Paris Musée des Art Décoratifs (Anne Forschler, curator)
• September 22 - January 5: French Paintings from the Speed Museum (Jeannine O'Grody, curator)
• October 6 - December 29: Guiseppe Moretti: Master Sculptor and Father of Vulcan (Fowler, curator)

2003

• January 26 - April 13: Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections (Jeannine O'Grody, curator)
• February - April: American Visions: Selected Works of African American Art from 1960 to the present (David Moos and Emily Hanna, curators)
• February: CreativeFest (Harris, curator)
• March 1 - March 30: Youth Art Month 2003 (Harris, curator)
• March 9 - May 25: Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection (Donald Wood, curator)
• April: Birmingham International Festival - Salute to Canada (Harris, curator)
• May: Dutch Gallery Reinstallation (Jeannine O'Grody, curator)
• May 1 - October 5: Recycled/Remade.: Contemporary Folk Art from the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art (Gail Trechsel, curator)
• May - May: Lonnie Holley Part I: Perspectives 8 (David Moos, curator)
• May 18 - August 31: Chinese Blue and White Porcelain: The Thaddeus Crenshaw Collection (Donald Wood, curator)
• June 27 - August 31: The Paintings of Joan Mitchell (David Moos, curator)
• September 6 - : A Town of the Creek Nation, 1790 (Fowler, curator)
• October 2 - January 4: Eye to I: Snapshots from Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1960 (David Moos, curator)
• October 5 - January 4: Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture (David Moos, curator)
• October 5 - January 30: MetLife Photo Outreach Project; Living in the Present: Our Birmingham in Words and Photographs (Harris, curator)
• October 12 - January 4: David Levinthal - Collector's Circle Acquisitions (David Moos, curator)
• December 23 - April 4: Figuring the Feminine: Selected works by African American Women Artists (Emily Hanna, curator)

2004

• February 1 - April 11: Old Masters and Impressionists: Two Exhibitions of Glorious French Painting (Jeannine O'Grody and David Moos, curators)
• February 8 - March 28: Mountain Dreams: Contemporary Ceramics by Yoon Kwang-cho (Donald Wood, curator)
• March 1 - March 30: Youth Art Month 2004 (Harris, curator)
• May 9 - June 27: African Shields: Art, Power, and Identity (Emily Hanna, curator)
• May 23 - August 1: Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master - Pioneer of Modern Design (Donald Wood, curator)
• October 3 - December 12: Ottoman Treasures: Rugs and Ceramics from the Collection of Dr and Mrs William T. Price
• October 3 - December 12: "Do We Think Too Much? I Don't Think We Can Every Stop". Lonnie Holley: A 25-Year Survey (Emily Hanna, curator)
• October 3 - February 6: Eighteenth-Century English Ceramics from the Catherine H. Collins Collection (Anne Forschler, curator)
• October 3 - December 12: Transformed by Fire: African Ceramics and Iron Art from the Mortimer B. and Sue Fuller Collection (Emily Hanna, curator)
• October 10 - January 2: Baseball: Recent Photographs by David Levinthal (Gail Trechsel, curator)

2005

• February 6 - April 24: Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing: Meditations on Black Aesthetics (Emily Hanna, curator)
• February 6 - April 24: Kerry James Marshall-inspired storyboards by Carver High School Students (Harris, curator)
• February 6 - April 24: Bill Traylor, William Edmonson: African-American Art and the Modernist Impulse (Gail Trechsel, curator)
• March 1 - March 30: Youth Art Month 2005 (Harris, curator)
• April - : Terra Donovan Installation (Jackson, curator)
• May 15 - July 10: Of One Spirit: Keehn Berry as Photographer and Patron (Stephens, curator)
• May 22 - : A Century of Elegance and Refinement: New Installation of Eighteenth-Century English Art Collection (Anne Forschler, curator)
• June 12 - September 11: An Exercise in Meditation: Two Bodhisattvas (Donald Wood, curator)
• June 19 - July 31: Highlights from the Bareiss Collection of African Art (Emily Hanna, curator)
• August 7 - November 6 : Keris Invincible: Sword Handles from Indonesia, from the Collection of Dr Mark Weisman (Donald Wood, curator)
• September 4 - December 31: Old Masters to Modern Methods: Prints from the Birmingham Museum of Art (Jeannine O'Grody and Stephens, curators)
• September 11 - December 18: Through the Looking Glass: Birmingham Celebrates Senegal (Emily Hanna, curator)
• September 25 - January 1: Stitching Beauty: Kuna Indian Textiles from Panama (Emily Hanna, curator)
• September 25 - November 3: Day of the Dead Exhibition (Harris, curator)
• November 13 - January 15; Heart Gallery (Harris, curator)
• December 4 - February 26: a la Derniere Mode: Eighteenth-Century French Ceramics from the Permanent Collection (Anne Forschler, curator)

2006

• February 5 - March 5: Alabama Power 100th Anniversary Exhibition (Beckham, curator)
• February 5 - April 23: Ethiopian Art from the Walters Art Museum (Emily Hanna, curator)
• February 5 - April 23: Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw (Emily Hanna, curator)
• February 19 - May 14: The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas (Jeannine O'Grody, curator)
• February 26 - April 30: Through the Eye of the Needle: The Fabric Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz (Fowler, curator)
• March 12 - April 12: Youth Art Month 2006 (Harris, curator)
• March 19 - June 18: Out of the Hat Box: Hats from the Permanent Collection (Anne Forschler, curator)
• March 27 - May 5: Haute Japanese: Contemporary Fashions from the Collection of Carolyn Wade
• March 31 - April 2: Art in Bloom
• June 4 - August 27: Power and Purpose: African Art from the Congo (Emily Hanna, curator)
• June 4 - August 27: Amongst the Clouds: Textiles of the Miao People from Southwest China: from the Collection of Susan Weitzman Conway (Donald Wood, curator)
• July 2 - December 30: Vietnamese Ceramics: Highlights from the Collection of Virginia and William M. Spencer III (Donald Wood, curator)
• July 9 - September 30: Mel Bochner: Drawing from Four Decades (Gail Andrews, curator)
• August 13 - November 19: Japanese Prints from the Birmingham Museum of Art (Donald Wood, curator)
• October 1 - January 7: Alabama Folk Pottery (Anne Forschler, curator)
• October 1 - December 24: William Christenberry Photographs: 1961-2005 (Stephens, curator)
• October 22 - December 30: Framing a Nation: Portraits of the Founding Fathers from the Westervelt Warner Museum (Graham Boettcher, curator)
• October 29 - December 1: Vestavia School System Art Show (Harris, curator)
• December - : Re-installation of 19th Century European Collection (Anne Forschler and Jeannine O'Grody, curators)
• December 3 - February 24: Weird World of Wonders: Baroque Prints from Northern Europe (Jeannine O'Grody, curator)

2007

• January 6 - : Rising Art of the Rising Stars (GreenDonald Wood, curator)
• January 28 - March 4: WallCeilingFloor: Works by William Anastasi, Donald Judd, and Fred Sandback (Gail Trechsel, curator)
• February 4 - May 20: Benny Gail Andrews: Works from the Miles College Collection (Emily Hanna, curator)
• February 10 - December 31: Alabama Folk Art Gallery at the Young and Vann Building (Emily Hanna and Gail Andrews, curators)
• March 1 - April 1: Youth Art Month 2007 (Harris, curator)
• March 4 - : Prague Nights (Graham Boettcher, curator)
• March 11 - June 17: Of the Moment: Photography from the BMA (Suzanne Voce Stephens, curator)
• April - May: Czech Contemporary Sculpture (Gail Andrews, curator)
• April 1 - May 27: Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands (Emily Hanna, curator)
• June 10 - August 12: 77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks, and Scholars, 1568-1868 (Donald Wood, curator)
• Sea Fever (Graham Boettcher, curator)
• August 1 - January 6: Arts of Etruria are Reborn/ARTES ETRVRIAE RENASCVNTVR (Anne Forschler, curator)
• October 12 - January 27: Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption (Meador-Woodruff, curator)
• October 28 - January 7: Promise and Peril: Images of Westward Expansion (Graham Boettcher, curator)

2008

• February 17 - May 4: Into the Woods: American Art and the Natural Sublime (Graham Boettcher, curator)
• February 24 - May 25: Kathryn Tucker Windham: My Land, My People (Ron Platt, curator)
• February 24: The Writing on the Wall: Images from to Kill A Mockingbird (Suzy Harris, curator)
• March 2 - March 31: Youth Art Month (Harris, curator)
• March 2 - May 18: Jade: Crystalized Moonlight, Jades from the Collection of Maude Monell Vetlesen (Donald Wood, curator)
• March 30 - July 27: Vanishing Worlds: Art and Ritual in Amazonia (Emily Hanna, curator)
• March 30 - July 27: Children, Let's Protect our Forests! Paintings by Peruvian children of the Amazon basin (Emily Hanna, curator)
• April 4 - May 18: Concrete Jungle: Blossoming Artists in an Urban World (Kristen Pilato Greenwood, curator)
• May 18 - July 30: Ecology through Art (Harris, curator)
• Spring: Charlie Lucas: Through My Eyes (Ron Platt, curator)
• June 8 - September 7: A New Twist: German Ceramics from the 1950s (Anne Forschler, curator)
• June 8 - September 7: Contemporary Korean Prints: Sangku Kim (Donald Wood, curator)
• September 21 - December 31: Marion Post Wolcott: Photographing the South (Suzanne Voce Stephens, curator)
• September 28 - November 9: Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin (Jeannine O'Grody, curator)
• September 28 - January 4: Sharon Louden: Taking Turns (Ron Platt, curator)
• October 5 - February 2: New Hands, Native Lands: Contemporary American Indian Ceramics and Textiles (Emily Hanna, curator)
• December 14 - March 1: Fabric of Life: African Textiles and Quilts from the American South and Kente in the Community (Emily Hanna and Gail Andrews, curators)

2009

• January 13 - May 10: Body Image: American Art and the Human Form (Graham Boettcher, curator)
• October 4 - January 10: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (Graham Boettcher, curator)

References

• Past Exhibitions.xls spreadsheet provided by the Birmingham Museum of Art