All Past Exhibitions
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron
May 3–July 28, 2024
Idris Khan: Repeat After Me
April 5–August 11, 2024
2024 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 24–April 7, 2024
Winter Series: Larry Bell’s Iceberg
January 13–March 10, 2024
Life Captured in Line: 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Prints
December 15, 2023–August 18, 2024
Beyond Heights: Skyscrapers and the Human Experience
December 8, 2023–September 8, 2024
50 Paintings
November 17, 2023–June 23, 2024
Darrel Ellis: Regeneration
October 20, 2023–January 14, 2024
Art, Life, Legacy: Northern European Paintings in the Collection of Isabel and Alfred Bader
September 29, 2023–January 28, 2024
A Very Strong Likeness of Her: Portraiture and Identity in the British Colonial World
June 23–October 22, 2023
In Honor of Kevin Fahey: Selections from the Fahey/Grzebielski Collection
June 2–October 1, 2023
Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980
March 24–July 23, 2023
Native America: In Translation
February 24–June 25, 2023
2023 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 4–March 19, 2023
After Ashcan: The 14th Street School
December 9, 2022–March 26, 2023
David Claerbout: The Close
November 18, 2022–January 8, 2023
Playing Favorites: Spotlight on the Petullo Collection
October 8, 2022–April 23, 2023
The Ashcan School and The Eight: “Creating a National Art”
September 23, 2022–February 19, 2023
James Benning and Sharon Lockhart: Over Time, Chapter II
September 2, 2022–January 1, 2023
On Repeat: Serial Photography
September 2, 2022–January 1, 2023
Convoy of Wounded: An Artist’s Experience of War
August 5, 2022–March 26, 2023
Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret
June 3–October 16, 2022
Distinctive Individuality: George Mann Niedecken’s Milwaukee Interiors
March 25–October 9, 2022
Shifting Perspectives: Landscape Photographs from the Collection
March 18–July 3, 2022
Currents 38: Christy Matson
February 25–July 17, 2022
2022 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 5–March 20, 2022
In the Dark: European Prints, 1600–1910
January 14–June 5, 2022
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain
December 3, 2021–March 27, 2022
Byrdcliffe: Creativity and Creation
July 15–August 29, 2021
The Quilts of Pauline Parker
July 15–December 5, 2021
First Impressions: Early Printed Books in Europe
July 15–December 12, 2021
American Memory: Commemoration, Nostalgia, and Revision
July 15, 2021–January 16, 2022
Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920
June 11–October 3, 2021
Virtual: 2021 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 6–March 21, 2021
Susan Meiselas: Through a Woman’s Lens
December 4, 2020–April 11, 2021
2020 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 1–March 15, 2020
Experimental Ink: Nineteenth-Century French Prints from the Hockerman Collection
November 22, 2019–March 29, 2020
A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection
November 15, 2019–March 22, 2020
Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking
October 3, 2019–February 9, 2020
Portrait of Milwaukee
September 6, 2019–March 1, 2020
James Benning and Sharon Lockhart: Over Time, Chapter I
September 6, 2019–March 1, 2020
The Bauhaus, László Moholy-Nagy, and Milwaukee
August 9, 2019–June 7, 2020
Petite Posters: Jules Chéret and Le Courrier français
June 28–November 17, 2019
Nares: Moves
June 14–October 6, 2019
Charles Radtke: Contained
April 19–August 25, 2019
Sara Cwynar: Image Model Muse
March 8–August 4, 2019
The Art of Devotion: Illuminated Manuscripts from Local Collections
March 1–June 16, 2019
Bouguereau & America
February 15–May 12, 2019
2019 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 2–March 17, 2019
The San Quentin Project: Nigel Poor and the Men of San Quentin State Prison
October 18, 2018–March 10, 2019
Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America
September 28, 2018–January 6, 2019
Family Pictures
September 14, 2018–January 20, 2019
Constable? A Landscape Rediscovered
September 7, 2018–February 17, 2019
William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance
June 22–August 19, 2018
Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals: Carleton E. Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H. H. Bennett
May 18–August 26, 2018
Extraordinary Elegance: Nathan Lumbard’s Desk-and-Bookcase
May 11–November 25, 2018
Epic and Intimate: Seventeenth-Century French Prints from the Hockerman Collection
May 4–August 12, 2018
Daring Technique: Goya and the Art of Etching
April 20–September 9, 2018
Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England
March 1–May 20, 2018
2018 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 3–March 18, 2018
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip
January 26–April 22, 2018
Turning to Turner
December 22, 2017–April 29, 2018
Designing Paris: The Posters of Jules Chéret
December 15, 2017–April 29, 2018
Jaime Hayon: Technicolor
December 8, 2017–March 25, 2018
Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France
November 4, 2017–January 28, 2018
Anthony Hernandez
September 15, 2017–January 1, 2018
The Temple of Flora
August 4–December 10, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for the Prairie
July 28–October 15, 2017
Rashid Johnson: Hail We Now Sing Joy
June 23–September 17, 2017
Modern Folk
June 9–December 10, 2017
Paul Druecke: A Social Event Archive
May 12–August 27, 2017
Alluring Artifice: Mannerism in the Sixteenth Century
April 7–July 30, 2017
How Posters Work
March 31–June 25, 2017
Milwaukee Collects
March 10–May 21, 2017
Eastman Johnson and a Nation Divided
February 10–May 21, 2017
2017 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 4–March 19, 2017
Helen Levitt: In the Street
January 27–April 16, 2017
James Nares: In the City
January 27–April 16, 2017
Currents 37: LAWRENCE WEINER: INHERENT INNATE TENSION
January 20–April 2, 2017
Gods and Heroes: Classical Mythology in European Prints
December 2, 2016–April 2, 2017
Paper Play: Kindergarten to Contemporary Art
November 19, 2016–October 29, 2017
Nature and Opulence: The Art of Martin Johnson Heade
November 18, 2016–February 26, 2017
Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s
October 21, 2016–January 22, 2017
Ralston Crawford: Art Is for Every Day
September 30, 2016–January 29, 2017
Rineke Dijkstra: Rehearsals
September 9, 2016–January 1, 2017
The Lives of Others: Portraits from the Photography Collection
September 9, 2016–January 1, 2017
Corot, Daubigny, Millet: Visions of France
August 5–November 27, 2016
From Rembrandt to Parmigianino: Old Masters from Private Collections
July 30–October 23, 2016
Small Expressions: Handweavers Guild of America
July 23–August 14, 2016
American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood
June 10–September 5, 2016
America Seen! Regionalism from the American Art Collection
May 27–September 25, 2016
Penelope Umbrico: Future Perfect
May 5–August 7, 2016
Taking Center Stage: The Lanford Wilson Collection of Self-Taught Art
April 15–July 3, 2016
Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Painter-Etcher
April 8–July 31, 2016
Nature and the American Vision
February 26–May 8, 2016
The Collaboratory
February 20, 2016–March 1, 2017
2016 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
January 30–March 13, 2016
Sam Francis: Master Printmaker
November 24, 2015–March 20, 2016
John Singleton Copley in Focus
November 24, 2015–May 22, 2016
Light Borne in Darkness
November 24, 2015–April 10, 2016
Dürer and the German Renaissance
November 24, 2015–March 20, 2016
Larry Sultan: Here and Home
October 23, 2015–January 24, 2016
Van Gogh to Pollock: Modern Rebels: Masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
June 18–September 20, 2015
2015 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 5–March 22, 2015
Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair
February 5–May 3, 2015
Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums
October 2, 2014–January 4, 2015
Postcards from America: Milwaukee
July 10–November 2, 2014
Kandinsky: A Retrospective
June 5–September 1, 2014
Art in Bloom: A Tribute to Art and Flowers
March 27–March 30, 2014
Flow: The 2014 NCECA Ceramic Arts Invitational
February 22–March 23, 2014
2014 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 1–March 16, 2014
Uncommon Folk: Traditions in American Art
January 31–May 4, 2014
Currents 36: Dirk Skreber
November 7, 2013–March 2, 2014
Thomas Sully: Painted Performance
October 11, 2013–January 5, 2014
Tattoo: Flash Art of Amund Dietzel
July 3–October 13, 2013
30 Americans
June 14–September 8, 2013
Art in Bloom: A Tribute to Art and Flowers
April 11–April 14, 2013
Celebrating 125 Years of Art
April 6–December 31, 2013
Veterans Book Project: Objects for Deployment
April 4–November 10, 2013
Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America
February 22–May 19, 2013
2013 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 2–March 17, 2013
Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London
October 12, 2012–January 13, 2013
Grete Marks: When Modern Was Degenerate
September 6, 2012–February 17, 2013
Sculptural Narratives & Photographic Abstractions
July 5, 2012–January 1, 2013
Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries
June 1–September 9, 2012
Currents 35: Tara Donovan
May 5–October 7, 2012
Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina
April 26–August 5, 2012
Currents 34: Isaac Julien
March 24, 2012–May 5, 2013
Animation: Art Goes to the Movies
February 25, 2012–August 31, 2013
Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection
February 10–May 6, 2012
2012 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition
February 4–March 4, 2012
The Tool at Hand
December 8, 2011–April 1, 2012
Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper
October 14, 2011–January 8, 2012
Yue Minjun: Chinese Contemporary Warriors
September 27–December 4, 2011
Taryn Simon: Photographs and Texts
September 22, 2011–January 1, 2012
Building a Masterpiece: Santiago Calatrava and the Milwaukee Art Museum
September 8, 2011–February 12, 2012
Way of the Dragon: The Chinoiserie Style, 1710-1830
June 30–November 6, 2011
The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City
June 11–September 11, 2011
Warriors, Beasts, and Spirits: Early Chinese Art from the James Conley Collection
June 11–September 11, 2011
Summer of CHINA
June 11–September 11, 2011
Emerald Mountains: Modern Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection
June 11–August 28, 2011
On Site: Zhan Wang
June 11–September 11, 2011
Art in Bloom: A Tribute to Art and Flowers
March 31–April 3, 2011
The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft
March 10–June 12, 2011
Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century
February 12–May 15, 2011
Scholastic Art Awards: 2011 Wisconsin Regional Exhibition
February 5–March 6, 2011
Framing a Decade: Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, 2001–2011
December 9, 2010–April 3, 2011
On Site: Robert Therrien
November 15, 2010–February 20, 2011
European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century
October 9, 2010–January 9, 2011
On Site: Chakaia Booker
September 30, 2010–February 13, 2011
Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware
September 2, 2010–February 6, 2011
Intimate Images of Love and Loss: Portrait Miniatures
July 8–October 31, 2010
Warrington Colescott: Cabaret, Comedy & Satire
June 10–October 3, 2010
The NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quilt
June 8–June 20, 2010
American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collection
May 22–September 6, 2010
Theaster Gates
April 16–August 1, 2010
Art in Bloom: A Tribute to Art and Flowers
April 8–April 11, 2010
Raphael: The Woman with the Veil
March 27–June 6, 2010
Scholastic Art Awards: 2010 Wisconsin Regional Exhibition
February 6–March 21, 2010
Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959
January 30–April 25, 2010
Fifty Works for Fifty States: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
December 17, 2009–February 28, 2010
Green Furniture Design
November 12, 2009–March 14, 2010
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
September 26, 2009–January 3, 2010
Figurative Prints: 1980s Rewind
August 6–November 29, 2009
Contemporary Art Galleries Reinstallation
July 23, 2009–June 1, 2010
American Furniture / Googled
July 9–October 11, 2009
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
June 6–August 23, 2009
American Originals
June 6–August 23, 2009
The Eight and American Modernisms
June 6–August 23, 2009
Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey
April 16–July 12, 2009
Art in Bloom: A Tribute to Art and Flowers
April 2–April 5, 2009
Remains: Contemporary Artists and the Material Past
February 12–June 7, 2009
Jan Lievens
February 7–April 26, 2009
Scholastic Art Awards: 2009 Wisconsin Regional Exhibition
January 31–March 8, 2009
Catesby, Audubon, and the Discovery of a New World
December 18, 2008–March 22, 2009
Act/React Interactive Art
October 4, 2008–January 11, 2009
The Finest in the Western Country: Wisconsin Decorative Arts 1820-1900
September 11, 2008–January 4, 2009
Unmasked and Anonymous: Shimon & Lindemann Consider Portraiture
August 14–November 30, 2008
Gilbert & George
June 14–September 1, 2008
J. Palin Thorley: Modern and Traditional Design in Twentieth-Century Ceramics
June 5–August 17, 2008
On Site: Santiago Cucullu (MF Ziggurat)
April 24, 2008–January 4, 2009
A Revolutionary in Milwaukee: The Designs of George Mann Niedecken
April 17–July 20, 2008
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945
February 7–May 4, 2008
Sensory Overload: Light, Motion Sound and the Optical in Art since 1945
January 24, 2008–June 7, 2009
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public Library
January 10–March 23, 2008
Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery
October 25, 2007–February 10, 2008
Martín Ramírez
October 6, 2007–January 13, 2008
Saarinen-Designed War Memorial Center 50th Anniversary Exhibition
October 1–December 31, 2007
Photographs from the Ends of the Earth
September 13–December 24, 2007
Going out of Style: 400 Years of Changing Tastes in Furniture
June 21–October 30, 2007
Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape
June 9–October 9, 2007
Adolph Gottlieb: Early Prints
May 24–August 19, 2007
Currents 33: Gregor Schneider
February 16–May 6, 2007
Craftways: English Artisans in Seventeenth-Century New England
February 8–May 27, 2007
Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s
January 27–April 15, 2007
Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity
November 16, 2006–January 1, 2007
Currents 32: Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets Its Maker
October 5, 2006–January 14, 2007
In Living Color: Photographs by Saul Leiter
September 28, 2006–January 21, 2007
Géricault to Toulouse-Lautrec: Nineteenth-Century French Prints
May 25–September 12, 2006
Paper Trail: Prints from the Chipstone Collection
May 16–September 10, 2006
Masters of American Comics
April 29–August 13, 2006
Crisis of Modernism: The Post-Minimal Rebellion
February 9–May 7, 2006
Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light
January 28–April 9, 2006
Enter the Dragon: The Beginnings of English Chinoiserie, 1680 – 1710
December 22, 2005–April 30, 2006
The American West 1871-74: Photographs from the American Geographical Society Library
October 27, 2005–January 1, 2006
Rembrandt and His Time: Masterworks from the Albertina, Vienna
October 8, 2005–January 8, 2006
John Szarkowski: Photographs
September 29, 2005–January 1, 2006
Warrington Colescott Prints and Watercolors: A Brief History
August 18–November 18, 2005
Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity
July 7–October 9, 2005
About Face: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the African-American Image
June 30–November 27, 2005
CUT/Film as Found Object
June 25–September 11, 2005
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920
May 19–November 5, 2005
Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement
April 28–August 7, 2005
Highlights of the Bradley Collection
April 8–November 5, 2005
Tea Table Coffee Table
February 24–June 12, 2005
Degas Sculptures
February 19–June 5, 2005
Mark Lombardi: Global Networks
January 13–April 10, 2005
Stories to Tell and Retell: The Puppets of Ashley Bryan
November 19, 2004–August 28, 2005
Masterpieces of American Art, 1770 - 1920: From the Detroit Institute of Arts
October 23, 2004–January 30, 2005
Super Hits of the '70s: Photographs from the Collection
October 8, 2004–January 2, 2005
Eva Zeisel: The Playful Search for Beauty
October 8, 2004–February 6, 2005
Artists Interrogate: Politics and War
September 17–December 24, 2004
On Site: Liam Gillick
September 1, 2004–September 1, 2005
Magnetic North: The Landscapes of Tom Uttech
July 10–October 3, 2004
Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony
June 25–November 19, 2004
Currents 31: Robert Melee
June 18–September 19, 2004
Judy Pfaff & Gregory Conniff: Camera and Ink
May 21–August 29, 2004
On Site: Andrea Zittel
May 1–August 15, 2004
American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840
April 10–June 20, 2004
Slipware Traditions
March 12–June 6, 2004
The Incisive Imagination: Jacques Callot and His Contemporaries
February 6–May 2, 2004
Defiance Despair Desire: German Expressionist Prints from the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection
January 17–March 14, 2004
Design Reform: Decorative Arts and the Manifesto, 1850-1920
November 14, 2003–February 22, 2004
John Currin: Works on Paper
October 17, 2003–January 11, 2004
Laura Owens
October 13, 2003–January 18, 2004
The Incredible Elastic Chairs of Samuel Gragg
July 11–October 19, 2003
Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
June 7–September 7, 2003
