2012

Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII November 10, 2012–February 24, 2013

Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series June 30, 2012 – September 23, 2012

2011

NOW: Chris Martin
Painting Big

Washington Color and Light

NOW: Spencer Finch
My Business, With the Cloud

2010

Chuck Close Prints
Process and Collaboration

A Love of Europe
Highlights from the William A. Clark Collection

Helios
Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change

Turner to Cézanne
Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales

2009

Maya Lin
Systematic Landscapes
March 14 - July 12, 2009

Edward Burtynsky: Oil
October 3 to December 13,2009

William Eggleston
Democratic Camera
Photographs and Video 1961-2008
June 20 to September 20, 2009

2008

Avedon: Portraits of Power

The European Landscape

Elena del Rivero: Home Suite

The American Evolution
A History through Art

2007

Annie Leibovitz
A Photographer's Life, 1990 - 2005
October 13, 2007 to January 13, 2008

Modernism
Designing a New World 1914 - 1939
March 17 - July 29, 2007

Olga Hirshhorn Collects
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Febuary 10 - July 8, 2007

Masterpieces
European Art from the Collection
Febuary 10 - July 29, 2007

2012

Roads of Arabia
August 11, 2012 – December 2, 2012

2010

In the Realm of the Buddha
March 13 - July 18, 2010

Gods of Angkor
Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia
May 15, 2010 - January 30, 2011

2009

The Tale of Shuten Doji
March 21 - September 20, 2009

Tsars and the East
Gifts from Turkey and Iran in The Moscow Kremlin
May 9 - September 13, 2009

Falnama
The Book of Omens
October 24, 2009 - January 24, 2010

Cornucopia
Ceramics from Southern Japan
December 19, 2009 - January 9, 2011

2007

Patterned Feathers, Piercing Eyes
Edo Masters From the Price Collection
November 10, 2007 - April 13, 2008

Wine, Worship & Sacrifice
The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani
December 1, 2007 - February 24, 2008

Encompassing the Globe
Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries
June 24 - September 16, 2007

In the Beginning
Bibles Before the Year 980
Through January 7, 2007

Daoism in the Arts of China
Through June 10, 2007

Perspectives: Simryn Gill
Through April 29, 2007

2012

Ai Wei Wei: According to What?
October 7, 2012 –February 24, 2013

2011

Blinky Palermo
Retrospective 1964-1977
February 24, 2011 to May 15, 2011

2010

Yves Klein
With the Void, Full Powers
May 20, 2010 to September 12, 2010

2009

Louise Bourgeois
February 26, 2009 to May 17, 2009

Ways of Seeing: Guiseppe and Giovanna Panza
October 23, 2008 to January 7, 2009

The Panza Collection
October 23, 2008 to January 11, 2009

Directions: Walead Beshty
Legibility on Color Backgrounds
April 30, 2009 to September 13, 2009

2008

Far from Home: The migration experience in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inside and Out: Recent Trend in the Arts of the Dominican Republic
August 25 to November 7, 2008

2011

American Sabor
Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
July 11, 2011 - October 9, 2011

2009

Scenes of Childhood
Sixty Years of Postwar Japan (PDF)
June 5 - July 15

Netsuke
Miniature Art in the Palm of Your Hand (PDF)
March 16 - May 29

Facing History and Ourselves

2008

Counter-Photography
Japan's Artists Today (PDF)
December 1, 2008 - March 6, 2009

2010

Palladio and His Legacy
A Transatlantic Journey
September 2, 2010 - January 30, 2011

Designing Tomorrow
America's World's Fairs of the 1930s
October 2, 2010 - September 5, 2011

2008

Special Presentation: The World Trade Center Model
November 18, 2008 - January 14, 2009

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
May 3, 2008 - August 24, 2008

2007

Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture
November 3, 2007 - February 17, 2008

2012

Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship March 8, 2013 – September 2, 2013

Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution November 1, 2012 – May 12, 2013

2011

America I AM
February 2, 2011 - May 1, 2011

Race to the End of the Earth
May 25, 2011 - August 21, 2011

Etruscans
June 10, 2011 - September 25, 2011

Animal Grossology
September 26, 2011 - January 8, 2012

Anglo-Saxon Hoard
October 29, 2011 - March 4, 2012

2010

Da Vinci
June 18, 2010 - September 12, 2010

Design for the Other 90%
April 28, 2010 - September 6, 2010

Geckos
September 24, 2010 - January 5, 2011

Wild Music
October 1, 2010 - January 2, 2011

2009

Terra Cotta Warriors
Guardians of China's First Emperor
Nov 19, 2009 to March 31, 2010

2008

Frogs
January 28 to May 11, 2008

Crittercam
The World Through Animal Eyes
March 21, 2008 - May 3, 2009

Zheng He June 11 to September 7, 2008

Whales/Tahora
October 15,2008 - January 18,2009

2012

National Museum of African Art Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa
April 22, 2013-January 5, 2014

African Cosmos: Stellar Arts
June 22, 2012 – December 3, 2012

2011

Central Nigeria Unmasked:
Arts of the Benue River Valley
September 14, 2011 - March 4, 2012

2010

Grass Roots
African Origins of an American Art
June 23, 2010 - November 28, 2010

2009

Artful Animals
July 1, 2009 - July 25, 2010

Yinka Shonibare MBE
November 10, 2009 - March 7, 2010

2008

El Anatsui: Gawu
May 2008 through August 2008

2007

African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection
February 15, 2007 - March 22, 2009

2010

De-installation of the Agustus Alfred Machine shop for Phase 1 of the renovation of the museum.

2010

New York Avenue Sculpture Project!
Niki de Saint Phalle
April 28, 2010 - November 1, 2011

2011

The Black List
Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
October 28, 2011 - April 22, 2012

Recent Acquisitions
November 18, 2011 - November 4, 2012

2008 - 2009

Rajesh Nair: Timeless Existence
November 12, 2008 - February, 2009

Barcelona Projects: Building the Future
August 2008 - November 2008

2007

Two Windows on the Willard
The Photographs of Carol M. Highsmith and Frances Benjamin Johnston
September 15, 2006 - January 5, 2007

1997

Star Wars: The Magic of Myth

2006

Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection
April 4 - December 31, 2006

2006

Hokusai
March 4-May 14, 2006

Style and Status:
Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey
October 29, 2005 - January 22, 2006

2006

Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth
June 22, - September 10, 2006

2005

Visual Music
June 23, 2005 - September 11, 2005

Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor
February 10, 2005 - May 8, 2005

Ana Mendieta
Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985
October 14, 2004 - January 2, 2005

2003

Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting
February 27, 2003 - May 18, 2003

2002

Directions:Ron Mueck
July 18, 2002 - October 27, 2002

2005

Paradox and Coexistence II
Art of Latin America 1981-2000

Nikkei Latin American Artists of the 20th Century
Artists of Japanese Descent from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru.

2004

Indigenous Presence in Bolivian Folk Art
A Celebration of Everyday Life.

Vive Haiti! Contemporary Art of the Haitian Diaspora

Tradition and Entrepreneurship Popular Arts and Crafts from Peru.

First Inter-American Competition and Exhibition of Digital Photography.

A Century of Painting in Panama

2003

Our Voices, Our Images
A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

Dreaming Mexico
Painting and Folk Art from Oaxaca

DigITALYart

2002

First Latin American and Caribbean Video Art Competition and Exhibit

The Art of Belize: Then and Now

Faces of Northeastern Brazil
Popular and Folk Art

Paradox and Coexistence
Latin American Artists, 1980 - 2000

A Challenging Endeavor
The Arts in Trinidad and Tobago

2001

Art of the Americas
Selections from the IDB Art Collection

Tribute to Chile
Violeta Parra 1917-1967, Exhibition of Tapestries and Oil Painting

Strictly Swedish
An Exhibition of Contemporary Design

Honduras
Ancient and Modern Trails

2000

Masterpieces of Canadian Inuit Sculpture

Two Visions of El Salvador
Modern Art and Folk Art

On the Edge of Time
Contemporary Art from the Bahamas

New Orleans
A Creative Odyssey

1999

Magazine: Americas
June 1999

2005

Tools of the Imagination
March 5 - October 10, 2005

2004

Five Friends From Japan
Children in Japan Today
November 4, 2004 - February 13, 2005

Liquid Stone
New Architecture in Concrete
June 19, 2004 to January 29, 2006

Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio Community Architecture
May 22 - September 6, 2004

2007

Jasper Johns
An Allegory of Painting, 1955 - 1965
January 28- April 29, 2007

Strokes of Genius
Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings
November 19, 2006-March 18, 2007

Prayers and Portraits
Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych
November 12, 2006-February 4, 2007

Constable's Great Landscapes
The Six-Foot Paintings
October 1, 2006-January 2, 2007

The Streets of New York
American Photographs from the Collection, 1938 - 1958
September 17, 2006-January 15, 2007

2006

Henri Rousseau
Jungles in Paris
July 16- October 15, 2006

Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
June 18- September 17, 2006

Dada
February 19-May 14, 2006

Cézanne in Provence
January 29-May 7, 2006

2005

Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
March 20 - June 12, 2005

Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
October 3, 2004-January 9, 2005

Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 18, 2004-February 6, 2005

2004

The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place
April 4-July 25, 2004

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
April 4-July 25, 2004

The Art of Romare Bearden
September 14, 2003-January 4, 2004

2002

The Quest for Immortality:
Treasures of Ancient Egypt
June 30-October 14, 2002

Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown
June 2-September 2, 2002

2001

Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
October 8, 2000-January 28, 2001

2000

Johannes Vermeer's The Art of Painting
November 24, 1999-February 8, 2000

Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages
October 3, 1999-January 9, 2000

The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China
September 19, 1999-January 2, 2000

1999

Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868
November 15, 1998-February 15, 1999

Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
October 4, 1998-January 3, 1999

1998

Mark Rothko
May 3-August 16, 1998

Degas at the Races
April 12-July 12, 1998

Alexander Calder 1898-1976
March 29-July 12, 1998

Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance
November 2, 1997-March 1, 1998

Thomas Moran
September 28, 1997-January 11, 1998

1997

Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment
September 21-December 14, 1997

Winslow Homer and the Civil War: Recent Acquisitions
July 17-September 21, 1997

Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906
March 30-July 27, 1997

Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei
January 19-April 6, 1997

Michelangelo and His Influence: Drawings from Windsor Castle
October 27, 1996-January 5, 1997

1996

Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico
June 30-October 20, 1996

Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures
June 23-September 29, 1996

The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France
February 4-April 28, 1996

Johannes Vermeer
November 12, 1995-February 11, 1996

Winslow Homer
October 15, 1995-January 28, 1996

John Singleton Copley in England
October 11, 1995-January 7, 1996

1995

James McNeill Whistler
May 28-August 20, 1995

Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology
February 12-May 7, 1995

The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century
January 29-April 23, 1995

1992

Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration
October 12, 1991-January 12, 1992

Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper
May 10-September 7, 1992

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints
May 3-August 16, 1992

1991

Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange
May 12-September 2, 1991

2006

Altered Landscapes, Central and Rock Creek Parks:
Photographs by Victoria Cooper

Cityscapes:
Ink Paintings by Steven John Fuchs

2005

Architecture in Perspective 20

The Initiated Eye: Secrets, Symbols, Freemasonry and the Architecture of Washington, DC with Paintings by Peter Waddell

Landmarks of New York

Heather Allen:
Architectural Textiles

Doodles, Drafts, and Designs:
Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian Institution

Janos Enyedi: Made in America:
The American Industrial Landscape - Reconstructed

2004

Aerospace Design:
The Art of Engineering from NASA's Aeronautical Research

Design Excellence:
Public Patronage of Architecture and Art, Selections from the U.S. General Services Administration

Timeless Experience:
An Architectural Journey through Itria, Italy, Photographs by Rajesh Nair

2003

Schematics:
Paintings by James Heron

The World Trade Center:
Preserving an American Treasure

Reflections on Architecture:
Paintings by Joey P. Manlapaz

Laying the Foundation for Liberty:
The Statue of Liberty's Pedestal

2002

Tobacco:
Architectural Photographs by Maxwell MacKenzie

Echoes of Memory:
Paintings by Sherry Zvares Sanabria Painter Sherry

Inside the Temple of Liberty:
19th-Century Interiors of the United States Capitol, Paintings by Peter Waddell

The Nature of Architecture: Photographs by Amy Lamb

Great Spaces, Great Faces:
Sections and Elevation Models of Historic Architecture

Skyscrapers:
The New Millennium