Past Exhibitions

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Where Shadows Cross: Photography by Jim Fiscus

July 22, 2023 — October 8, 2023


Iconic image maker Jim Fiscus produces layered single-frame stories that comment on human experience

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In Dialogue: Power Couple: Pierre and Louise Daura in Paris

June 24, 2023 — February 11, 2024


Portraits of Joaquín Torres-García’s daughters by Pierre Daura and Louise Heron Blair

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Southern/Modern

June 17, 2023 — December 10, 2023


“Southern/Modern” will be the first project to survey comprehensively the rich array of paintings and works on paper created in the American South during the first half of the 20th century. Featuring more than 100 works of art drawn from public and private collections across the country, it brings together a generation’s worth of scholarship.

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“Art is a form of freedom”

March 4, 2023 — July 2, 2023


This exhibition results from a collaborative project that brought works of art from the museum’s collection into classrooms at Whitworth Women’s Facility, a prison in north Georgia. The incarcerated women there selected the works in this exhibition and wrote prose and poetry in response to them.

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Sky Hopinka: Lore

February 11, 2023 — September 24, 2023


Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this video work stemming from Hollis Frampton’s 1971 experimental film “Nostalgia.”

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Object Lessons in American Art: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum

February 4, 2023 — May 14, 2023


“Object Lessons in American Art” features four centuries of works from the Princeton University Art Museum that collectively explore American history, culture and society.

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Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund

October 8, 2022 — January 8, 2023


This exhibition is the first large-scale survey of the Do Good Fund’s remarkable and sweeping collection of photography made in the South from the 1950s to the present.

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Infinity on the Horizon

September 3, 2022 — December 30, 2022


This exhibition highlights modern and contemporary objects in the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection by prominent and lesser-known artists that can be characterized as abstract landscapes

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Allison Janae Hamilton: Between Life and Landscape

September 3, 2022 — February 5, 2023


Allison Janae Hamilton’s works often include spectral figures to convey the role of nature in Black experience as beautiful and fragile, hopeful and haunted.

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In Dialogue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mentor and Muse

September 3, 2022 — June 18, 2023


This focused exhibition highlights Black artist Henry Ossawa Tanner’s impact on several younger artists: Palmer C. Hayden, William H. Johnson, William Edouard Scott and Hale Woodruff.