Exhibitions
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Special exhibitions
- Ancient Masters in Modern Styles >
- The Valley of the Shadow >
- Jean Hélion >
- Making Science Visible >
- Emilio Sanchez >
- Photography from the Museum Collection >
- Émilie Charmy and the Feminine in Modern French Art >
- Japanese Color Woodblock Prints >
- American Impressionism and After >
- Tom Burckhardt >
- The Adoration of the Magi by Bartolo di Fredi >
- Curator's Choice >
- Master Printmakers >
- 100 Years of Photography >
- Figure Study: The Fourteenth Street School and the Woman in Public >
- Variety, Archeology, and Ornament: Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice >
- The Dancer and the Dance: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs >
- Excavating New Ground: American Art in the 1970s >
- Society Portraits: Andy Warhol's Photographic Legacy >
- Southern Views/Southern Photographers >
- Treasures Rediscovered:
Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University > 
Cultural Crossings Conference >- Expressions of the Buddhist Faith >
- From the Collection >
- Calder: Capturing Movement >
- Janine Antoni: At Home in the Body >
- Highlights from the Collection: From Rodin to Warhol >
- Figure in Photography, 1995-2005 >
- Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece >
- The Expanding Eye: Art Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe >
- Abstract Photography: Selections from Glenstone >
Summer 2009
Spring 2009
- Leadership | With the Line of Daumier >
- Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris >
- The Hand and the Soul >
- American Impressionism and Urban Realism >
Fall 2008
Summer 2008
- Sedentary Pleasures: Uncommon Stools by Irwin Berman >
- New Media Gallery Programs >
- LOOK HERE Speed >
- Charlottesville Collects: Himalayan Art >
- Mutual Attraction: Photographs from the Collection of the University of Virginia Art Museum >
- John Toole: Itinerant Painter >
Winter 2008
Fall 2007
- Exhibitions from the Collections >
- Arshile Gorky: Drawings, The Early Years >
- William Christenberry: Site/Possession >
- The Dresser Trunk Project >
- New Media Gallery Programs >
Spring 2007
- A Decade of Collecting >
- Charlottesville Collects: African American Art >
- Photography from the Collection >
- Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms >
2006
- New Dreams for Old: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kluge-Ruhe Collections >
- Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture >
- Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from Chine and the U.S. >
- John Barber's Sketchbook: The Redevelopment of an Artist >
- Art/Not Art: Made in Oceania >
- Humanism and Enigma: the Art of Honoré Sharrer >
- Guardian of the Flame: Art of Sri Lanka >
- A Soldier's Life: Selections from the Charles J. Brown Soldier Trust >
- Tomorrow's Treasures:
Selections from the Fredrick & Lucy S. Herman Foundation Drawing Collection > - Landon Collection of Fine and Decorative Arts >
- Arts Board 2006 Preview Exhibition: Allyson Mellberg & Alberto Rey >
- Mapping the Dark >
- The Mutant Artist: Photography, Prints, and Drawings from the Collection >
- The Social Lens: Photography from the Graham Collection >
2005
- A Jeffersonian Ideal:
Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry Landon Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts > - Insistent Absence: The Unacknowledged Influence of Ukiyo-e on Modern Japanese Prints >
- The Power of the North: German, Dutch, and Flemish Old Master Prints >
- Advent: Work by Chica Tenney >
- Mi Cuerpo, Mi Pais: Cuban Art Today >
- Portraiture: Identity >
2004
- Jefferson In & Out >
- Paradise Lost: Landscape Photographs by Sally Mann >
- Emmet Gowin: Photograph >
- The Odyssey: Watercolors by Karen Shea >
- Extreme Time: The Video Art of Bill Viola >
- Whiteness, A Wayward Construction >
- Lifeline: Movement and Time in Prints, Drawings from the Collection >
- The Museum: Conditions & Spaces >
- American Collage >
2003
- Honoring the Legacy of Lewis and Clark:
Native American Art and the Nineteenth Century American West > - Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain >
- Political Humor: A Tribute to Herblock >
- Masterworks of African Art: Selections from the Collection >
- Re-Imagining Ireland: Irish Art Today >
- Reverie and Reality: Photographs by Rodney Smith >
- Emile Brzezinski: New Directions and Judith Shatin's Tree Music >
- Roads Taken: 20th Century Prints and Drawings from the Collection >
- New Work by Gay Outlaw >
- "Purple with love's wound": Tim Rollins + K.O.S. >
- Steam Power: Railroad Photographs by O. Winston Link >
- Pierre Huyghe: Third Memory >
- The Moon Has No Home: Japanese Color Woodblock Prints from the Collection >
- Our View: Photography Contest Winner >
2002
- Treasures of an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain >
- To Delight the Eye and Transport the Viewer: Dutch Landscape Prints of the Golden Age >
- Sam Abell: The Photographic Life >
- Stillwater: Photographs by William Wylie >
- The Imagination on Edge: European Prints from 1745 to 1901 >
- The Orchid Pavilion Gathering Chinese Painting from the University of Michigan Museum of Art >
- Tears: Installation by Michele Leavitt >
- "Wizdumb" from the West: Contemporary Art in the Collection >
2001
- Poetry of the Prosaic: Early 20th Century American Painting >
- Virgins, Gods, Saints and Lovers: Strangeness and Style in Mannerist Prints >
- Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye >
- Conversation with Igun: Sculpture by Melvin Edwards >
- Surely We Are Essential: Images of Nursing in the Twentieth Century >
- Galactic Journal: Recent Paintings and Collages by Robert Reed >
- Elements: New Work by Jan Aronson >
- The Art of John Dos Passos >
- This is Not a Photograph >
- Singular Visions: Folk Art from Charlottesville Collections >
- Masquerades >
- From Alf to Zox: Contemporary Art from the Collection >
- The Mystical Arts of Tibet >
2000
- The Mystical Arts of Tibet >
- Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium >
- African/American: Graphic Work by Contemporary Women Artists >
- Dragonfly, Bear, and Eagle: The Ralph E. Olson Collection of Native American Art >
- Expanded Visions:
Ceramic art in the 1970s-80s from the Collection of Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason > - Adja Yunkers: To Invent a Garden >
- Pati Hill: Wall Papers >
- Photography Against Itself: Contemporary Photographs from the Museum Collection >
- Charlottesville Collects >
- Beyond the Vanishing Point: Photographs by Warren Neidich >
1999
- Hot Off the Press: Contemporary Prints from the Museum Collection >
- Y'a Nene: The Aesthetics of "Sweetness"in African Art and Performance >
- Still Time: Photographs by Sally Mann >
- David Bunn: Here, There, and (nearly) Everywhere >
- The Printed World of Pieter Bruegel the Elder >
- The Eyes of Haiti: A Renaissance in Art >
- In Honor of Alan Groh '49: The Buzz Miller Collection of American Art >
- David Salle: The Drunken Chauffeur >
- With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage, Photographs by Mary Motley Kalergis >
- The Heritage of Our Ancestors: Work by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Kay WalkingStick >
1998
- The Power of Woe, the Power of Life (Virtual Exhibition) >
- Collection Highlights: Art from Ancient America >
- Making it Real: Truthfulness in Photographic Images >
- In Our Time: Contemporary Art from the Collection (Virtual Exhibition) >
- Sonorous Void: Book Art from the School of Paris, 1931-1945 >
- Painted Places: Monumental Bark Paintings from Australia >
- Focus on Rodin: Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection >
- Thornton Dial:
The Tiger Looking In Paintings and Watercolors from the Collection of Virginia Union University > - Treasures of Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger's Craft >
- The Divine and The Domestic: Ancient Art from the Mediterranean >
- The Glory Days: The Beat Generation Photographs of Fred W. McDarrah >
- New Work: Two Virginia Artists, Susan Bacik >
- New Work: Two Virginia Artists, Robert Strini >
- Nizhoni, A Beautiful Rug: The Bertha Brossman Blair Collection of Southwestern Textiles >
- The 3000th Anniversary of Jerusalem, City of David: A Tapestry by Leah Gropen >
1997
- Shaping the Landscape Image, 1865-1910: John Douglas Woodward >
- A Holy Experiment: Video Installation by Beth B >
- (Un)Chained: Visions of Freedom and Unfreedom in Prints and Photographs >
- Realms of Heroism: Indian Paintings from the Brooklyn Museum of Art >
- Harmony and Balance: Pattern in Native American Art >
- American Views: The Photographs of David Plowden
- "Let's Have a Talk" Commentary in Contemporary Prints
- Universes in Collision: Men and Women in 19th-Century Japanese Prints (Virtual Exhibition) >
1996
1994
- The Art of the African Mask, virtual exhibition
1993
- African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning (Virtual Exhibition) >
- Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village (Virtual Exhibition) >
1991
Blogs
- Alfred Stieglitz, Gallery 291 & Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature, Art, and Abstraction
- Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece
- Mutual Attraction: Photographs from the Collection of the University of Virginia Art Museum
- Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
Public art
Traveling exhibitions
Ancient Masters in Modern Styles
Chinese Ink Paintings from the 16th-21st Centuries
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