Past Exhibitions

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Inside Look: Selected Acquisitions from the Georgia Museum of Art

September 18, 2021 — January 30, 2022


With more than 17,000 objects in its collection, the museum cannot show everything all the time. This exhibition features new gifts and purchases across our curatorial departments that have filled critical gaps in the permanent collections.

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Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art

July 17, 2021 — December 5, 2021


This exhibition brings together new and recent works related to Ezawa’s “The Crime of Art” series, a group of light boxes and video animations that chronicle some of the most infamous and high-profile museum heists in history.

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Neo-Abstraction: Celebrating a Gift of Contemporary Art from John and Sara Shlesinger

July 17, 2021 — December 5, 2021


“Neo-Abstraction” highlights the resurgence of abstract art among contemporary artists, drawing from a recent major gift

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In Dialogue: Artist, Mentor, Friend: Ronald Lockett and Thornton Dial Sr.

May 29, 2021 — November 28, 2021


This exhibition will focus on one work by each artist, both gifts from Ron Shelp, comparing their approach to their work and examining the shared relationship that sustained their creativity.

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Rediscovering the Art of Victoria Hutson Huntley

May 22, 2021 — August 15, 2021


Approximately 30 lithographs and two paintings by the woman who was one of America’s leading lithographers during her life

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Echoes from Abroad: American Art from the Collection of Barbara Guillaume

May 22, 2021 — August 15, 2021


Paintings from the collection of Georgia Museum of Art board member and art collector Barbara Guillaume dating from 1878 to 1940

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Hands and Earth: Perspectives on Japanese Contemporary Ceramics

May 22, 2021 — August 15, 2021


Drawn from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection of Japanese Ceramics, “Hands and Earth” features works by some of 20th- and 21st-century Japan’s most important artists.

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Whitman, Alabama

May 8, 2021 — December 12, 2021


This ongoing documentary project by filmmaker Jennifer Crandall brings Walt Whitman’s words to life through the voices of modern-day Alabama residents.

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Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism

February 27, 2021 — June 13, 2021


This exhibition examines the formation and legacy of the magical realist tradition in American painting, from the late 1930s to the early 1970s

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In Dialogue: Look, Paint, Repeat: Variations in the Art of Pierre Daura

February 4, 2021 — May 23, 2021


Four hundred miles south of Paris lies Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, a medieval settlement perched on top limestone cliffs. The village was a source of constant inspiration to many artists, including Pierre Daura and famous poet André Breton. This exhibition uses our recent acquisition of Daura’s “View of Saint-Cirq-LaPopie” to highlight how the artist depicted certain subjects over and over again.