Mead Art Museum Exhibition Archive

Fall 2023

• Boundless
• Seeping In: Elizabeth James Perry

Spring 2023

• Architectural Ghosts
• God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
• "Untitled” (Blue Placebo)
• 6th Annual Black Art Matters

Fall 2022 - Closed due to Steeple construction

Spring 2022

• What Looms Large
• 5th Annual Black Art Matters Festival: Student Visual Art Showcase
• Liliana Porter: Two Realities

Fall 2021

• A Room That Grew: Justin Kimball and Jonathan Jackson

Spring 2021

• 4th Annual Black Art Matters Festival: Student Visual Art Showcase
• The Living Room
• Founding Narratives
• Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts

Fall 2020

• Embodied Taste

Spring 2020

• The Best Impressions: Inside the Edward C. Crossett Collection of Prints
• Ten Years of Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisitions
• Rotherwas Project 5: Christopher Myers, The Red Plague Rid You for Learning Me Your Language

Fall 2019

• Constructing Collage

Spring 2019

• Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
• Fleeting Nature: Selections from the Collection

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Fall 2018

• Abstraction: New Acquisitions at the Mead
• Rotherwas Project 4: Yinka Shonibare MBE, The American Library Collection (Activists)
• Timing is Everything

Spring 2018

• HOUSE: Selections from the Collection of John and Sue Wieland
• Unraveling by Sonya Clark ’89
• Fragmented Identities: The Gendered Roles of Women in Art through the Ages
• New Publics: Art for a Modern India, 1960s–90s
• Hall Walls: Tatiana Potts

Fall 2017

• Tell It Like It Is—or Could Be
• Rotherwas Project 3: Saya Woolfalk, Life Products and the ChimaCloud
• Home Away from Home: Russian Artists Abroad
• From the Picturesque to the Modern Vision: Landscape Painting in Europe Across the Centuries
• The American Collection: Two Centuries of Art at Amherst (reinstalled)
• Picturing American Identity

Summer 2017

• Perspectives on Michael Mazur
• Collector’s Journey: Highlights from the Print Collection of Dr. William A. Weary, Class of 1964
• From Father to Son: Master Prints from the Collection of Dr. K. Frank Austen, Class of 1950

Spring 2017

• Mead Reimagined, Take 2
  • Accumulations: 5,000 Years of Objects, Fictions and Conversations (reinstalled)
  • The American Collection: Two Centuries of Art at Amherst (reinstalled)
  • Rotherwas Project 2: Kota Ezawa, Gardner Museum Revisited
  • Seeing Single Chanel Video: Amherst Film and Media Studies Faculty Selection

Fall 2016

• Mead Reimagined
  • Accumulations: 5,000 Years of Objects, Fictions and Conversations
  • The American Collection: Two Centuries of Art at Amherst
  • Precious: Finding the Wondrous in the Mead's European Collection
  • Art from Africa: A Selection of Works Given by Amherst Collectors
  • From Russia with Love: Selections from the Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937, Collection of Russian Art
  • Rotherwas Project 1: Amanda Valdez, Ladies' Night
  • Hall Walls: Rico Gatson

Spring 2016

• First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Tom Friedman: Untitled (Foundation)
• Second-Hand Reading: William Kentridge and Zanele Muholi
• Unimaginable by One Mind Alone: Exquisite Corpses from the William Green Collection of Japanese Prints

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2015

• Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries
• Sea Change: Trade and Transformation in the Age of Discovery and Beyond
• By the Light of the Silvery Moon: After Dark in Painting and Print
• Styled in Stone
• Gods, Kings, Lovers: Paintings from Courtly India
• Fifty Years of Shōwa Japan: The Photography of Kageyama Kōyō
• Nature, Pleasure, Myth: Animals in the Art of Japan
• Jonathon Keats: Photographing Deep Time
• Interwoven

2014

• World Cups: A Cross Cultural Look at Drinking Vessels
• Unlocking Wonder: A Peek into the World of Luxury Cabinets
• Pain's Pyrotechnic Spectacle: The Sino-Japanese War in Print
• Paper Landscapes: Prints of the American City and Countryside, 1820–1920
• Images of the Unimaginable: Art from the First World War
• Animals in the Art of the Ancient Americas
• An Unblemished Mirror of Truth: Kyohei Inukai, Robert Brackman, and Portraits of American Tragedy
• Schubert Sound Installation
• Going Digital: Peter Milton's Tracking Shot
• New Arrivals: Modern and Contemporary Additions to the Collection
• On the Glorious Stage of Death: The Attack on Port Arthur in Woodblock Prints

2013

• This Just In! Additions to the Collection from Pompeii to Today
• As it Almost Was: Amherst College's Monuments to Lord Jeffery
• To Be at the Farther Edge: Photographs Along the New England Trail
• Mementoes from Mesopotamia
• A New Blake for Amherst
• Art for All: Additions to the Collection from Antiquity to Today
• Isosteeple: An Installation in Stearns Steeple

2012

• Reinventing Tokyo: Japan's Largest City in the Artistic Imagination
• Days of Their Lives? Fact and Fiction in 19th-Century Genre Painting and Works on Paper
• Exotic Muses: Dancers by Robert Henri and Nick Cave
• PHOTOdocument: 20th-Century American Photography and Found Text

2011

• Picturing Enlightenment: Thangka in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
• Disunion! The American Civil War 150 Years Later
• A Memorial Display in Honor of Jerome "Jerry" Liebling - Photographer, Filmmaker, Educator
• Enduring Impressions: Prints from the Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb and Esther Sternlieb Collection of American Art
• How He Was to His Talents: The Work of Ernest Haskell
• Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863): An Amherst Woman of Art and Science

2010

• Goya: Prints of Darkness
• Beyond Ideology: Russian Art of the 1960s and 1970s from the collection of Thomas P. Whitney '37
• Reinstallation Summer 2010
• An Expanding Lens: New Photographic Acquisitions at the Mead Art Museum
• The Magic of Signs: American and European Art of the 1950s and 60s from the Collection of Richard S. Zeisler '37

2009

• Interpreting The Dream: A Recent Painting by Will Barnet in Context
• Divination
• In Memoriam of Michael Mazur, Class of 1957
• Docent Acquisition Display
• What Avant-Garde Was
• Lino Mannocci: Sea, Sky, Smoke
• Hendrick Goltzius's 'Life of the Virgin': Surpassing Tradition

2008

• ALARM de ALARM (PROPAGANDA IN ALASKA) New and Recent Works by Jonathan Meese from the Collection of Adam Lindemann '83 and Amalia Dayan
• Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit
• Celebrating a Transforming Legacy: Russian Art from the Collection of Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937
• The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today
• The Water's Edge: Innovation and Exploration in Watercolor

2007

• Amherst College Portraits: A Community Collaboration with Wendy Ewald and Brett Cook
• A Room with a View: The Photography of Abelardo Morell
• Visionary Anatomies
• Back to the Future: Contemporary American Art from the Collection
• Through British Eyes: British Art at the Mead
• Stephan Koplowitz: REVEALED at Amherst College
• Off the Shelf: Artists‚ Books from Amherst College Collections
• Chuck Close: Self-Portrait/Scribble/Etching Portfolio, 2000

2006

• The Print, the Pear, and the Prostitute: Art, Politics, and Society in 19th-Century France
• Pop!
• Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century
• Duane Michals: Photography and Reality
• George Bellows: A Ringside Seat
• Some Assembly Required: Cumulative Visions
• Natalia Goncharova: Mystical Images of War

2005

• The Empress Josephine: Art and Royal Identity
• Small British Paintings
• David Nash: The Language of Wood/Sculpture and Drawings from the Recent Gift of Andrew and Bronya Galef
• Student Curated Exhibitions: Spring 2005
• "Quicker Than a Wink:" Photographs by Harold Edgerton
• Town and Country: Modern Life in America

2004

• Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson
• Recent Acquisitions and Loans of East Asian Art
• Visions of Haiti: Vodou and Carnaval à Jacmel
• Works On Paper: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
• The Pain of War
• Cloth Only Wears to Shreds: Yoruba Textiles and Photographs from the Beier Collection

2003

• Off the Beaten Track
• Amherst College Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit
• American Edge: Photographs by Steve Schapiro
• Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University 1958–1972

2002

• Assembly/Line: Works by Twentieth-Century Sculptors
• An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim
• The Belles of Amherst: Contemporary Women Artists in the Collections of the Mead Art Museum and University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• The Ties that Bind: The Family in European Prints, 15th - 20th Centuries
• Casa Mañana: The Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular Arts

2001

• The Myth and Madness of Ophelia
• 18 Alumni Artists
• Humanity in Action: Resistance and Rescue: Photographs by Judy Ellis Glickman
• A New York View: Modern Art from the Collection of Steven M. Jacobson '53
• The World Opened Wide: 20th-Century Women Artists from the Collection of Thomas P. Whitney '37
• Locally Grown: Photographs by Jerome Liebling
• Emmet Gowin: Photographs