2022 Exhibitions
Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art
November 11, 2022–February 5, 2023 • Western & Southern Galleries (Galleries 232 & 233)
Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art considers the compelling visual language of dance in the arts from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan region from the first to the twenty-first century. Through religious, courtly, and everyday objects, the exhibition illustrates how dance occupies a uniquely important place in the region.
Natural World
September 30, 2022–January 15, 2023 • Vance Waddell and Mayerson Galleries (Galleries 124 and 125), with additional installations elsewhere in the museum.
Commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum, Natural World is a collaboration between artists John Edmonds and David Hartt, poet and scholar Jason Allen-Paisant, and organizing curator Nathaniel M. Stein. The project explores meanings of nature and naturalness through overlapping dialogues with history, collections, and institutions.
Galloping Through Dynasties
October 7, 2022–January 1, 2023 • Schiff Gallery (Gallery 234)
The 60 works of art on display—drawn from the collections of leading U.S. and Asian museums—decode the symbolic language of horses in Chinese art and reveal rich information about China’s history and culture.
Performing the Goddess
August 16–December 11, 2022
Intimate and intense, Kishore’s Performing the Goddess is a serial portrait that puts us in proximity with an actor’s private rite of transformation.
Truth and Inspiration, An ArtsWave Showcase
July 15–August 14, 2022
If you look closely at the work in the exhibition, you’ll see that there is pain and heartache. Skepticism. Futility. But also Hope. Imagination. Commitment. These are emotional drivers we can all connect to. If we care about a future where we value all people and all contributions, it starts right here.
Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom by Joseph Urban
July 8–October 2, 2022
The elements from this modern and fanciful bedroom with black glass walls and silvered ceiling constitute the largest collection of Urban-designed furnishings in a public institution.
Gee Horton’s “Coming of Age”
July 6–October 9, 2022
Gee Horton’s “Coming of Age” series is a visual and thematic exploration of the complexities of African American Adolescence. Through the iconography of Contemporary culture, and Hip-hop music, he dignifies and celebrate the Black experience while addressing the vulnerability of youth in Black on Both Sides and Me Against the World.
Henry Mosler Behind the Scenes: In Celebration of the Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial
June 10–September 4, 2022
Born in Prussia to a Jewish family that settled in Cincinnati, Henry Mosler (1841–1920) achieved an international reputation for narrative paintings rich in detail. This exhibition relates Mosler’s journey and traces the development of his paintings through studies across media.
Mexican Printmakers 1920s–1950s
April 16, 2022–August 14, 2022
One of the major social upheavals of the early twentieth century was the decade-long Mexican Revolution (1910–20). During the post-revolutionary decades, a remarkable artistic outpouring followed.
Black & Brown Faces: Paying Homage To
March 25–June 19, 2022
Building on the impact of 2020’s inaugural Black & Brown Faces exhibition, this presentation expands the representation of Midwestern artists of color to 15. Each brings their own interpretation of portraiture paying homage to 15 living honorees of color who are working to make our city a more equitable and just community.
One Each: Still Lifes by Cézanne, Pissarro and Friends
March 11–May 8, 2022
These five paintings combine familiar subjects from the kitchen counter and dinner table—a glass of wine, freshly-caught fish, a loaf of bread, lemons—with revolutionary artistic intent. The artists’ methods of making are put boldly on view—broad and emphatic brushwork, paint sculpted on the canvas. The Impressionists termed this audacious rebalancing of priorities and values in an artwork “sincerity.”
David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
February 25–May 15, 2022
David Driskell (1931–2020) was one of the most revered American artists of his generation and a powerful advocate for the recognition of Black artists and their contributions to art history. Featuring sixty vibrant paintings, prints, drawings and collages, this exhibition surveys Driskell’s versatile artistic practice.
Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
February 25–May 15, 2022
Working Together is the first major museum exhibition about the Kamoinge Workshop, a groundbreaking African American photographers’ collective founded in New York City in 1963. The founders chose the name Kamoinge—meaning “a group of people acting and working together” in the Gikuyu language of Kenya—to reflect their shared dedication to community, collective action, and a global outlook.
A Tribute to the Artistic Vision of Shinoda Tōkō
December 22, 2021–March 20, 2022
With impeccable placement, using a myriad of brushes, her simple bold strokes balance line and form, stillness and motion with delicate grays and intense blacks creating works of elegant visual poetry.
Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick
From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
November 5, 2021–January 16, 2022
Drawing on mythology, art history and American history, Walker’s art challenges viewers to take a critical and haunting view of the past while proposing questions around the challenges we continue to face collectively today.
Simply Brilliant: Artist-Jewelers of the 1960s and 1970s
October 22, 2021–February 6, 2022
Drawn from one of the most important private collections in the world, assembled by Cincinnatian Kimberly Klosterman, this exhibition features the work of independent jewelers such as Andrew Grima, Gilbert Albert, Arthur King, Jean Vendome and Barbara Anton along with work created for Bulgari, Cartier, Boucheron and other major houses.
Stepping in Style: Evening Shoes of the 1950s
March 23, 2021–March 27, 2022
Pulled from the museum’s permanent collection, Stepping in Style features 22 pairs of elegant evening shoes from the 1950s.
The Paper Sculpture Manual
May 20, 2020–December 20, 2022
Cincinnati Art Museum along with the Independent Curators International (ICI) invite our global digital community to create and collaborate with The Paper Sculpture Manual, a downloadable, printable, and shareable manual to take you away from your screens and recreate art experiences in domestic spaces.
do it (home)
May 12, 2020–December 20, 2022
As many of us across the globe are experiencing social distancing and orders to stay at home, the Cincinnati Art Museum is joining Independent Curators International (ICI) and over 30 art spaces around the world in sharing do it (home).
Exhibitions by Year
American Painting: The Eighties Revisited
March 12–October 11, 2021, November 20, 2021–January 30, 2022
Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men: The Berlin Masterpieces in America
July 9–October 3, 2021
Future Retrieval: Close Parallel
February 26–August 29, 2021
Anila Quayyum Agha: All the Flowers are for Me
December 5, 2020–May 30, 2021
The Grand Experiment in Italy: Etchings by Duveneck and His Students
December 5, 2020–April 4, 2021
Frank Duveneck: American Master
December 18, 2020–March 28, 2021
Women Breaking Boundaries
October 11, 2019–January 10, 2021
Black & Brown Faces
October 24, 2020–January 3, 2021
Fired Up: Female Ceramists of Contemporary Japan | December 7, 2019–December 2020
Mighty Women in Miniature | July 27, 2019–November 29, 2020
Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal... | September 4, 2020–November 8, 2020
Mizusashi: Japanese Water Jars from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection | August 18, 2020–October 4, 2020
Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance, 1850–1970 | March 13, 2020–July 5, 2020
"Something Over Something Else:" Romare Bearden's Profile Series | February 28, 2020–June 21, 2020
Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Nourse and Their Contemporaries | December 17, 2019–April 7, 2020
Women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama | November 16, 2019-February 23, 2020
The Levee: A Photographer in the American South | October 5, 2019–February 2, 2020
Treasures of the Spanish World | October 25, 2019–January 19, 2020"
Strong Women: Queens, Goddesses and Amazons | August 6–December 15, 2019
Korean Art in East Asian Gallery | August 20, 2019–December 1, 2019
Materiality: Contemporary Art in Ceramics, Glass, Fiber and Wood | July 14, 2018–November 2019
Kimono: Refashioning Contemporary Style | June 28, 2019–September 15, 2019
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man | April 26/June 7, 2019–September 2, 2019
Childe Hassam: American Impressionist Printmaker | April 9, 2019–August 4, 2019
The Lady's Adviser: Love and Courting on Folding Fans | December 8, 2018–June 30, 2019
Paris 1900: City of Entertainment | March 1, 2019–May 12, 2019
Giorgione's La Vecchia | February 15, 2019–May 5, 2019
Art Academy of Cincinnati: A Celebration in Drawings and Prints | February 1, 2019–April 28, 2019
How Very Droll: British Caricature | December 18, 2018–April 7, 2019
Mark Fox: Nutzilla | July 7, 2018–February 10, 2019
First Photographs: From the Collection | November 9, 2018–February 3, 2019
Collecting Calligraphy: Arts of the Islamic World | September 7, 2018–January 27, 2019
The Fabric of India | October 19, 2018–January 6, 2019
New World Views | September 29, 2018–January 6, 2019
Life: Gillian Wearing | October 5, 2018–December 30, 2018
Centuries of Conflict | August 7, 2018–December 16, 2018
In Praise of Technique: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics | July 17, 2018–December 9, 2018
Mementos of Affection: Ornamental Hairwork in Jewelry and Portrait Miniatures | May 27, 2017–November 2018
Make Way for Ducklings: The Art of Robert McCloskey | July 20, 2018–September 9, 2018
Jane Busse: Innovations in Weaving | June 9–September 2, 2018
Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China | April 20, 2018–August 12, 2018
Cagnacci: Painting Beauty and Death | March 23, 2018–July 22, 2018
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics | December 22, 2017–July 15, 2018
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors and Scenes from Western Culture | March 30, 2018–June 17, 2018
American Woman Printmakers | February 20, 2018–May 15, 2018
Marcel Duchamp: Boîte-en-valise | February 10, 2018–May 6, 2018
William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance | April 26, 2017 – May 20, 2018
Multiple Medium: Photographs from the Collection | January 23, 2018–March 25, 2018
Ana England: Kinship | September 8, 2017–March 4, 2018
Made in Cincinnati: Curtis Goldstein and Matt Lynch | October 12, 2017–January 28,2018
Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion | October 13, 2017–January 7, 2018
Albrecht Dürer: The Age of Reformation and Renaissance | November 17, 2017–February 11, 2018
Anila Quayyum Agha: All the Flowers are For Me | June 17, 2017 – October 15, 2017
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America | June 10, 2017 – September 3, 2017
Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light | April 1, 2017 – August 13, 2017
The Poetry of Place: William Clift, Linda Connor, and Michael Kenna | December 10, 2016 – June 11, 2017
Dressed to Kill: Japanese Arms & Armor | February 11, 2017 – May 7, 2017
Transcending Reality: The Woodcuts of Kosaka Gajin | February 11, 2017 – May 7, 2017
Personas: Color Portraits, 1979-1985 | January 28–April 2, 2017
Employed: A Staff Art Exhibition | October 29, 2016 – February 19, 2017
The Book of Only Enoch and The Jackleg Testament, Part I: Jack & Eve | September 24, 2016 – February 26, 2017
The Tree of Life | November 22, 2016 - January 8, 2017
Van Gogh: Into the Undergrowth | October 15, 2016 – January 8, 2017
Kentucky Renaissance: The Lexington Camera Club and It's Community, 1954-1974 | October 8, 2016 – January 1, 2017
Islands of the Blest – at the Mercantile Library | October 1, 2016 – November 19, 2016
Master Cats | July 11, 2016 - November 13, 2016
Elizabeth Nourse: Sketchbooks and Archive | May 14, 2016 - November 14, 2016
Not in New York: Carl Solway and Cincinnati | April 30, 2016 - October 30, 2016
Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt | June 18, 2016 - September 11, 2016
Modern Cat | June 18, 2016 - September 11, 2016
30 Americans | March 19, 2016 - August 28, 2016
Max and Gaby’s Alphabet by Tony Fitzpatrick | March 02, 2016 - July 11, 2016
The Etching Revival from Daubigny to Twachtman | February 13, 2016 - May 08, 2016
Conservation on View: Zaragoza’s Retablo of Saint Peter | January 26, 2016 - April 24, 2016
Sean Scully Etchings for Federico García Lorca | November 21, 2015 - March 20, 2016
Ricercari in Omaggio and Adventures of the Mind | November 10, 2015 to February 28, 2016
Field Guide: Photographs by Jochen Lempert | October 17, 2015 - March 06, 2016
High Style: Twentieth-Century Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection | November 07, 2015 - January 24, 2016
The Tree of Life 2015 | November 17, 2015 - January 10, 2016
Masterpieces of Japanese Art | February 14, 2015 - January 03, 2016
Sublime Beauty: Raphael’s Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn | October 03, 2015 - January 03, 2016
Unknown Elements | November 07, 2015 - January 24, 2016
Art in Bloom 2015 | October 22, 2015 - October 25, 2015
Northern Baroque Splendor, The HOHENBUCHAU COLLECTION from: LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vienna | June 27, 2015 - September 20, 2015
Up at Bat: Warhol and Baseball | April 02, 2015 - August 02, 2015
Human-Altered Landscapes | April 18, 2015 - July 19, 2015
The Total Look: The Creative Collaboration Between Rudi Gernreich, Peggy Moffitt and William Claxton | February 28, 2015 - May 24, 2015
Modern Voices in Japanese Ceramics and Prints | February 07, 2015 - April 26, 2015
Bukang Y. Kim: Journey | December 13, 2014 - March 22, 2015
Color Color | November 22, 2014 - March 22, 2015
Beyond Pop Art: A Tom Wesselmann Retrospective | October 31, 2014 - January 18, 2015
Eyes on the Street | October 11, 2014 - January 04, 2015
The Tree of Life | November 11, 2014 - January 04, 2015
Conversations around American Gothic | August 30, 2014 - November 16, 2014
Building Pictures: Architectural Photographs by Édouard Baldus | July 19, 2014 - October 26, 2014
Cincinnati Silver: 1788–1940 | June 14, 2014 - September 07, 2014
Cries in the Night: German Expressionist Prints around World War I | June 21, 2014 - August 17, 2014
Big Pictures | June 01, 2014 - May 31, 2015
Portraits of the Artist | March 22, 2014 - June 22, 2014
Todd Pavlisko: Crown | March 15, 2014 - June 15, 2014
The Collections: 6,000 Years of Art | December 01, 2011 - June 01, 2014
1962 Porsche | April 08, 2014 - June 01, 2014
From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith | February 22, 2014 - May 18, 2014
Genius and Grace: François Boucher and the Generation of 1700 | February 14, 2014 - May 11, 2014
Elizabeth Nourse: Rites of Passage | November 23, 2013 - March 02, 2014
What’s New: Fashion and Contemporary Craft | September 07, 2013 - January 19, 2014
Degas, Renoir, and Poetic Pastels | October 26, 2013 - January 19, 2014
Realm of the Immortals: Daoist Art in the Cincinnati Art Museum | October 12, 2013 - January 05, 2014
Taming the Elements: Contemporary Japanese Prints and Ceramics | October 12, 2013 - January 05, 2014
The Tree of Life | November 19, 2013 - January 01, 2014
Corporation to Community: Selected Paintings and Silver from P&G | December 08, 2012 - November 10, 2013
The Renovation and Reinstallation of the Schmidlapp Gallery | October 29, 2011 - October 29, 2013
Cincinnati Everyday | May 25, 2013 - September 22, 2013
Eternal Summer: The Art of Edward Henry Potthast | June 08, 2013 - September 08, 2013
Crosley Motors Incorporated, Super Sport, 1951 | June 11, 2013 - August 25, 2013
Cincinnati Summer | June 01, 2013 - August 16, 2013
Memories: Some Favorite Objects, An Exhibition Selected by Emily Rauh Pulitzer | April 26, 2013 - July 28, 2013
James Welling: Monograph | February 02, 2013 - May 05, 2013
Jaguar XK | January 29, 2013 - April 07, 2013
Behind the Seams: Exhibiting and Conserving Fashion and Textiles | December 22, 2012 - April 28, 2013
Toulouse-Lautrec and the Spectacles of Paris | October 13, 2012 - January 13, 2013
1954 Kaiser-Darrin | August 22, 2012 - January 06, 2013
Herb Ritts: L.A. Style | October 06, 2012 - January 01, 2013
Doug and Mike Starn: Gravity of Light | October 06, 2012 - December 30, 2012
Sarah Vanderlip: Drawings for Sculptures of Buildings | September 29, 2012 - December 09, 2012
Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008): Artist, Expatriate, Benefactor | September 29, 2012 - December 09, 2012
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit | May 26, 2012 - September 09, 2012
The Art of Sound: Four Centuries of Musical Instruments | June 16, 2012 - September 02, 2012
Impressions of Venice | March 17, 2012 - August 26, 2012
Printmaking Today | June 02, 2012 - August 19, 2012
Aston Martin’s DB5 | June 19, 2012 - July 15, 2012
Picasso Prints | December 17, 2011 - May 13, 2012
Monet in Giverny: Landscapes of Reflection | February 04, 2012 - May 13, 2012
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth | January 21, 2012 - April 29, 2012
Jim Dine: In Celebration of Pinocchio | April 04, 2012 - April 23, 2012
A Tribute to “Skip” Fleischmann | November 19, 2011 - March 18, 2012
4th Floor Award - Trial by Fire: New Glass Works by Darren Goodman | September 24, 2011 - January 01, 2012
Art Deco: Fashion and Design in the Jazz Age | October 08, 2011 - January 01, 2012
Darkness Into Light: Mezzotint Rediscovered | September 24, 2011 - December 05, 2011
Art In Bloom 2011 | November 03, 2011 - November 06, 2011
Conserving Van Gogh | May 17, 2011 - September 05, 2011
DRAW: Here, There, and Everywhere | June 04, 2011 - September 04, 2011
Not Just Pretty Pictures: The Carl M. Jacobs III Collection | June 11, 2011 - August 28, 2011
The Cincinnati Art Award: Gifts and Warhol Portraits of Douglas Cramer | May 04, 2011 - August 21, 2011
The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company, 1878-1939 | February 26, 2011 - July 10, 2011
The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c Collection | January 29, 2011 - May 15, 2011
Going Dutch: Contemporary Design from Collections and the Cincinnati Art Museum | February 12, 2011 - April 10, 2011
Wedded Perfection: Two Centuries of Wedding Gowns | October 09, 2010 - January 30, 2011
Heavy Metal: Arms and Armor from the Cincinnati Art Museum | October 23, 2010 - January 16, 2011
Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman | September 18, 2010 - January 02, 2011
Starburst: Color Photography in America, 1970-1980 | February 10, 2010 - January 02, 2011
Body and Soul: German Prints and Drawings of the Twentieth Century | September 04, 2010 - January 02, 2011
Thomas Schiff: Las Vegas 360 | May 01, 2010 - September 26, 2010
Walker Evans: Decade by Decade | June 12, 2010 - September 05, 2010
Cincinnati Collects America | June 12, 2010 - September 05, 2010
Big Country: Charley Harper Draws America | June 12, 2010 - September 05, 2010
See America | May 21, 2010 - September 05, 2010
1956 Ford Thunderbird | April 26, 2010 - August 30, 2010
Robert Rauschenberg: Star Quarters | April 09, 2010 - August 30, 2010
ArtWorks: The American Road | June 22, 2010 - August 29, 2010
Draw: What America Means to Me | May 29, 2010 - August 15, 2010
Coast to Coast American Prints 1960-2010 | May 29, 2010 - August 15, 2010
Martin Puryear Prints | January 30, 2010 - June 13, 2010
Edna Boies Hopkins Color Woodcuts | February 20, 2010 - May 02, 2010
Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) | February 20, 2010 - May 02, 2010
electric earth by Doug Aitken | December 19, 2009 - April 11, 2010
Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry | November 17, 2009 - January 17, 2010
2007 Morgan Aero 8 | September 01, 2009 - January 11, 2010
Famous Faces, Average Joes: The Work of C.F. Payne | September 01, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Roaring Tigers, Leaping Carp: Decoding the Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting | October 09, 2009 - January 03, 2010
4th Floor Award: Don Lambert — Supernova Terra Firma | September 05, 2009 - November 29, 2009
Image Conscious: Photography and Contemporary Art | May 16, 2009 - October 11, 2009
Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection | June 20, 2009 - September 13, 2009
Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women | June 06, 2009 - September 06, 2009
Virgins to Vixens: Picturing American Women, 1880-1930 | May 16, 2009 - September 06, 2009
1963 Corvette Stingray Z06 | June 08, 2009 - August 31, 2009
Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful | May 30, 2009 - August 23, 2009
Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale | February 10, 2009 - June 07, 2009
Surrealism and Beyond in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem | February 15, 2009 - May 17, 2009
Stewart Goldman: Presence through Absence | February 28, 2009 - May 10, 2009
Noel Martin, 1922-2009 | March 06, 2009 - May 03, 2009
Isn’t It Great To Be an Artist?: Insider/Outsider Art from the Robert A. Lewis Collection | January 31, 2009 - April 26, 2009
Ryan McGinness: Aesthetic Comfort | October 20, 2008 - February 15, 2009
2005 Porsche Carrera GT Roadster | September 16, 2008 - February 01, 2009
China Design Now | October 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009
Illusion and Reality: Prints by Jiří Anderle | September 27, 2008 - January 03, 2009
Gregory Crewdson: Beneath the Roses | June 21, 2008 - October 05, 2008
The 1949 Vincent HRD Series B Rapide Motorcycle and Continental Bullet Sports Side Car | May 20, 2008 - September 15, 2008
Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay | June 14, 2008 - September 07, 2008
Long Time No See: Hidden Treasures from the Cincinnati Art Museum | June 28, 2008 - August 31, 2008
Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum | February 16, 2008 - June 01, 2008
Maps and Manifests: New Work by Mark Bradford | March 01, 2008 - May 25, 2008
Rembrandt: Three Faces of the Master | March 08, 2008 - May 21, 2008
1969 Jaguar E-Type Series II Roadster | January 29, 2008 - May 18, 2008
LeWitt x 2: Selections from The LeWitt Collection | February 09, 2008 - May 04, 2008
Designed to Dazzle: Cincinnati Collects Tiffany Jewelry | November 02, 2007 - February 17, 2008
Ferrari 412P | September 11, 2007 - January 27, 2008
Vanishing Frontier: Rookwood, Farny, and the American Indian | October 20, 2007 - January 20, 2008
The Lure of the Arctic: Eskimo and Inuit Artifacts from the W. Roger and Patricia K. Fry Collection | October 20, 2007 - January 06, 2008
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