List of Birmingham Museum of Art exhibitions

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

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

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 (Wood, curator)
  • April 26 - June 14: Otsu-e: Japanese Folk Paintings from the Harriet and Edson Spencer Collection (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

2000

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) (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 (O'Grody and David Moos, curators)
  • September: American Gallery Reinstallation (David Moos and 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 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 (O'Grody, curator)
  • February 10 - April 14; European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (O'Grody and David Moos, curators)
  • March 1 - March 30: Youth Art Month Exhibition 2002 (Harris, curator)
  • March - : Reinstallation of the Korean Collection (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 (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 (Forschler, curator)
  • September 22 - January 5: French Paintings from the Speed Museum (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 (O'Grody, curator)
  • February - April: American Visions: Selected Works of African American Art from 1960 to the present (David Moos and 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 (Wood, curator)
  • April: Birmingham International Festival - Salute to Canada (Harris, curator)
  • May: Dutch Gallery Reinstallation (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 (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 (Hanna, curator)

2004

  • February 1 - April 11: Old Masters and Impressionists: Two Exhibitions of Glorious French Painting (O'Grody and David Moos, curators)
  • February 8 - March 28: Mountain Dreams: Contemporary Ceramics by Yoon Kwang-cho (Wood, curator)
  • March 1 - March 30: Youth Art Month 2004 (Harris, curator)
  • May 9 - June 27: African Shields: Art, Power, and Identity (Hanna, curator)
  • May 23 - August 1: Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master - Pioneer of Modern Design (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 (Hanna, curator)
  • October 3 - February 6: Eighteenth-Century English Ceramics from the Catherine H. Collins Collection (Forschler, curator)
  • October 3 - December 12: Transformed by Fire: African Ceramics and Iron Art from the Mortimer B. and Sue Fuller Collection (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 (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 (Forschler, curator)
  • June 12 - September 11: An Exercise in Meditation: Two Bodhisattvas (Wood, curator)
  • June 19 - July 31: Highlights from the Bareiss Collection of African Art (Hanna, curator)
  • August 7 - November 6 : Keris Invincible: Sword Handles from Indonesia, from the Collection of Dr Mark Weisman (Wood, curator)
  • September 4 - December 31: Old Masters to Modern Methods: Prints from the Birmingham Museum of Art (O'Grody and Stephens, curators)
  • September 11 - December 18: Through the Looking Glass: Birmingham Celebrates Senegal (Hanna, curator)
  • September 25 - January 1: Stitching Beauty: Kuna Indian Textiles from Panama (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 (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 (Hanna, curator)
  • February 5 - April 23: Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw (Hanna, curator)
  • February 19 - May 14: The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas (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 (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 (Hanna, curator)
  • June 4 - August 27: Amongst the Clouds: Textiles of the Miao People from Southwest China: from the Collection of Susan Weitzman Conway (Wood, curator)
  • July 2 - December 30: Vietnamese Ceramics: Highlights from the Collection of Virginia and William M. Spencer III (Wood, curator)
  • July 9 - September 30: Mel Bochner: Drawing from Four Decades (Andrews, curator)
  • August 13 - November 19: Japanese Prints from the Birmingham Museum of Art (Wood, curator)
  • October 1 - January 7: Alabama Folk Pottery (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 (Forschler and O'Grody, curators)
  • December 3 - February 24: Weird World of Wonders: Baroque Prints from Northern Europe (O'Grody, curator)

2007