The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art

The University of Chicago

Exhibition venues · Chicago, United States

Past exhibitions

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

Unto Thee

23 Sep 2025 – 5 Jul 2026

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

Beyond Boundaries

Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art at the Smart

29 Mar 2026 – 5 Jul 2026

ZHUANG Hui, WANG Wei

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

Not all realisms

Photography, Africa, and the long 1960s

23 Feb 2023 – 9 Jul 2023

James Barnor, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ernest Cole, Peter Magubane …

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self

29 Jan 2019 – 19 May 2019

Robert Gober, Ayana Jackson, Geng Jianyi, Ana Mendieta …

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

Revolution Every Day

14 Sep 2017 – 28 Jan 2018

Lene Berg, Olga Chernysheva, Gustav Klutsis, Vitaly Komar …

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television

16 Feb 2016 – 11 Jun 2017

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

Vostell Concrete 1969-1973

17 Jan 2017 – 11 Jun 2017

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

There was a whole collection made

Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman

22 Sep 2016 – 30 Dec 2016

Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Brassai, Chuck Close …

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

To See in Black and White

German and Central European Photography, 1920s-1950s

1 Oct 2015 – 10 Jan 2016

Ernö Berda, Frantisek Drtikol, Lyonel Feininger, Hannah Hoech …

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

East Village

12 Feb 2015 – 21 Jun 2015

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

Inspired by the Opera: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video

13 Feb 2014 – 15 Jun 2014

CHEN Qiulin, LIU Wei (*1972), CUI Xiuwen, LIU Zheng

The Smart Museum of Art · Chicago (US)

City Unclaimed

19 Jan 2013 – 8 Dec 2013

All exhibitions (28)