Exhibitions at Smithsonian American Art Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Much Here is Beautiful

Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial

18 Sep 2026 – 18 Apr 2027

Tom Arndt, Eric Baden, Evan Baden, Janet Delaney …

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

The Last Post

3 Jul 2025 – 8 Nov 2026

Shahzia Sikander

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass

8 Dec 2023 – 9 Aug 2026

Isaac Julien

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

The Island

16 Aug 2024 – 4 May 2025

Tuan Andrew Nguyen

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Looking Forward, Looking Back

22 Sep 2023 – 7 Jul 2024

Carrie Mae Weems

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Musical Thinking

New Video Art and Sonic Strategies

16 Jun 2023 – 29 Jan 2024

Mariam Ghani, Martine Gutierrez, Arthur Jafa, Liz Magic Laser …

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

American Myth & Memory

7 Jun 2019 – 14 Oct 2019

David Levinthal

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

A box of ten photographs

6 Apr 2018 – 27 Jan 2019

Diane Arbus

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Sites Unseen

21 Jun 2018 – 6 Jan 2019

Trevor Paglen

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

13 Oct 2017 – 11 Mar 2018

Kara Walker

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

American Visionary: John F. Kennedy’s Life and Times

3 May 2017 – 17 Sep 2017

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography

12 May 2017 – 6 Aug 2017

Manuel Acevedo, Oscar Castillo, Anthony Hernandez, Hiram Maristany …

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Harlem Heroes

28 Aug 2016 – 19 Mar 2017

Carl van Vechten

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Watch This!

New Directions on the Art of the Moving Image

9 Sep 2016 – 6 Mar 2017

Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Peter Campus, Alex Prager

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

No Mountains in the Way

26 Feb 2016 – 31 Jul 2016

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Beyond Beauty

23 Oct 2015 – 20 Mar 2016

Irving Penn

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Watch This!

New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image

1 May 2013 – 15 Feb 2015

John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine …

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Landscapes In Passing

26 Jul 2013 – 20 Jan 2014

Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, Elaine Mayes

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

A Democracy of Images

Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

28 Jun 2013 – 5 Jan 2014

Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Roy DeCarava, Mitch Epstein …

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Global Visionary

13 Dec 2012 – 11 Aug 2013

Nam June Paik

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Pilgrimage

20 Jan 2012 – 20 May 2012

Annie Leibovitz

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry

1 Oct 2006 – 8 Jul 2007

William Christenberry

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

The Central American Journey

2 Feb 2007 – 28 May 2007

Eadweard J. Muybridge

Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington (US)

Funney/Strange

4 Jul 2006 – 24 Sep 2006

William Wegman