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  • Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island

    Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen's video work The Island (2017) is shown for the first time with Bidong Spirit I, a sculpted headdress Nguyen created for the film.

    August 16, 2024 – June 8, 2025

    American Art Museum

  • Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery

    View more than 100 works in a range of mediums from fiber and ceramics to glass, metal, wood, and mixed media.

    April 19, 2023 – June 8, 2025

    Renwick Gallery

  • Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples

    This exhibition sheds light on the stories and faces of five couples whose work and lives shaped the nation around them during tumultuous times.

    July 1, 2022 – May 18, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Janet Echelman's 1.8 Renwick

    Echelman’s colorful fiber and lighting installation examines the complex interconnections between human beings and our physical world.

    September 18, 2020 – May 13, 2025

    Renwick Gallery

  • Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

    This poignant exhibition tells personal stories of Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Native veterans who have served in the armed forces of the United States.

    June 17, 2024 – April 29, 2025

    American Indian Museum DC

  • The Print Generation

    The Print Generation presents a selection of creative prints that challenged the dominant narrative of what it meant to be an artist in twentieth-century Japan.

    November 16, 2024 – April 27, 2025

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance

    Viewing Baldwin in the context of his community reveals how his sexuality, faith, artistic curiosities, and notions of masculinity helped define his writing and long-lasting legacy.

    July 12, 2024 – April 20, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Our Places: Connecting People and Nature

    Our Places explores how peoples’ experiences with nature inspire them to connect, care, and act.

    July 1, 2022 – March 28, 2025

    Natural History Museum

  • Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social Change

    Music HerStory explores the countless contributions of women changemakers, groundbreakers, and tradition-bearers.

    June 22, 2022 – March 24, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Artists at Work

    This juried exhibition underscores the often-hidden talents within the Smithsonian community with 57 pieces on display.

    March 20, 2024 – March 21, 2025

    Ripley Center

  • Voting by Mail: Civil War to COVID-19

    The presidential election year is the appropriate time to reflect on past examples of national voting by mail.

    August 24, 2024 – February 23, 2025

    Postal Museum

  • Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939

    Brilliant Exiles illuminates the accomplishments of sixty unconventional women who pursued their personal and professional aspirations in Paris.

    April 26, 2024 – February 23, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Inauguration 2025: Donald J. Trump

    A photograph of President-elect Donald J. Trump is displayed to coincide with the 60th presidential inauguration Jan. 20.

    January 13, 2025 – February 11, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • (re) Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946-1965

    Twenty Richard Avedon images spanning two decades, curated from the Smithsonian’s photo history collection, are on display.

    December 9, 2022 – February 2, 2025

    American History Museum

  • An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama

    An Epic of Kings offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see twenty-five folios from the now dismantled manuscript—the Great Mongol Shahnama.

    September 21, 2024 – January 12, 2025

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson

    Jackson creates a series of haunting, yet profoundly beautiful and empowering encounters that draw upon African water spirits from Senegal to South Africa.

    April 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025

    African Art Museum

  • Gunboat Philadelphia

    Built in 1776, the gunboat Philadelphia is the oldest American fighting vessel in existence.

    July 3, 1965 – January 6, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life

    Wheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks.

    July 14, 2023 – January 5, 2025

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women

    Learn how the featured artists mastered and subverted the everyday materials of cotton, felt, and wool to create deeply personal artworks.

    May 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025

    Renwick Gallery

  • Baseball: America's Homerun

    The National Postal Museum presents a blockbuster exhibition exploring America’s national pastime.

    April 9, 2022 – January 5, 2025

    Postal Museum

  • Commissioned Portrait of Oprah Winfrey

    Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren painted Winfrey in a purple taffeta dress amidst a lush garden at her California home.

    December 13, 2023 – December 15, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Park Chan-kyong: Gathering

    The exhibition features a range of works that highlight Park’s masterful use of the photographic medium to explore the enduring traces of tradition, history, and disaster in contemporary society. 

    October 7, 2023 – October 14, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints

    Staging the Supernatural brings together a collection of vibrant, colorful woodblock prints and illustrated books depicting the porous boundary between the real world and the world of supernatural beings in Japanese cultural history.

    March 23, 2024 – October 6, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • Africa Trail

    Cheetahs, ostrich, addaxes, kudus, and a Hartmann’s mountain zebra all reside on Africa Trail.

    August 19, 1992 – September 16, 2024

    National Zoo

  • Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980

    The paintings and calligraphy in this exhibition fuse reality with imagination and remain important to understanding the continuing, complex engagement of Japanese artists with China.

    March 16, 2024 – September 15, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, West Building


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