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Special exhibitions

Fall 2011

• 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 >

Summer 2011

• New Images, New Techniques: Abstraction in British Screenprints circa 1970 >

Spring 2011

• Excavating New Ground: American Art in the 1970s >
• Society Portraits: Andy Warhol's Photographic Legacy >
• Southern Views/Southern Photographers >

Fall 2010

• From Classic to Romantic >
• African Art: Beyond the Modernist Lens >
• Man Ray >

Spring 2010

• 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 >

Fall 2009

• 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

• Bayly building renovations >

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

• Gabriel Laderman: Unconventional Realist >
• El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios >

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

• Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art >
• New Media Gallery Program >

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

• African Art and the Virtual Museum >

1993

• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning (Virtual Exhibition) >
• Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village (Virtual Exhibition) >

1991

• Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque Printmaking >

Traveling exhibitions

William Christenberry: Site/Possession
Organized by Andrea Douglas, the Museum's curator of exhibitions, in close collaboration with the artist, this traveling exhibition offered a re-evaluation of the artist's oeuvre, focusing on his drawings and Klan Room Tableau.
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A Soldier's Life Selections from the Charles J. Brown Soldier Trust
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