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The Mystical Drawings of George M. Silsbee (1840 - 1900) 28 Jan - 13 Mar 2021 Read more

Leopold Strobl: One
29 Oct 2020 - 23 Jan 2021 Read more

C.T. McClusky: Circus Surreal
17 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 Read more

Rosie Camanga: Flash!
11 Jun - 4 Sep 2020 Read more

Vernacular Woman
17 Jan - 7 Mar 2020 Read more

Ken Grimes: Alien Variations
12 Dec 2019 - 4 Jan 2020 Read more

Frederick Sommer: Visual Affinities
24 Oct - 27 Nov 2019 Read more

Shut Up: Joe Massey's Messages From Prison
12 Sep - 19 Oct 2019 Read more

Jazz - Demisch Danant Gallery
10 Sep - 19 Oct 2019 Read more

Thomas Lyon Mills: Liminal Space
11 Jul - 7 Sep 2019 Read more

Renaldo Kuhler: Rocaterrania
9 May - 3 Jul 2019 Read more

Playing Games: Chance, Skill, and Abstraction
28 Mar - 4 May 2019 Read more

Alfred Neumayr: Mythical Creatures
19 Jan - 9 Mar 2019 Read more

Gerald Slota: After
29 Nov 2018 - 5 Jan 2019 Read more

Beatrice Scaccia: Is There an Outside?
18 Oct - 21 Nov 2018 Read more

Working Girls: An American Brothel, circa 1892
The Secret Photographs of William Goldman 13 Sep - 13 Oct 2018 Read more

Clarence Schmidt: "Let's Call it Hope"
14 Jun - 17 Aug 2018 Read more

Eddie Arning (1898-1993): Under The Influence
19 Apr - 9 Jun 2018 Read more

Chelsea Doors
5 Apr - 12 Aug 2018 Read more

George Widener: Magic Circles
1 - 31 Mar 2018 Read more

William Hawkins: An Imaginative Geography
A Traveling Museum Retrospective 16 Feb 2018 - 1 Apr 2019 Although he has long enjoyed a prominent place in the canon of self-taught artists, the Ohio painter William Lawrence Hawkins (1895–1990) has received less than his fair share of attention in recent times. This monograph―the first in 20 years―introduces Hawkins’s exuberant paintings to a wider audience at a time when... Read more

Outliers and American Vanguard Art
Traveling Museum Exhibition 28 Jan 2018 - 18 Mar 2019 Self-taught artists—variously termed folk, primitive, visionary, naïve, and outsider—have played a significant role in the history of modernism, yet their contributions have been largely disregarded or forgotten. Again and again in the United States during the past century, vanguard artists found affinities and inspiration in the work of their untutored,... Read more

Gil Batle: Re-Formed
19 Jan - 24 Feb 2018 Read more

Insiders: Henry Ray Clark & Frank Jones
7 Dec 2017 - 13 Jan 2018 Read more

Martín Ramírez...A Journey
26 Oct - 2 Dec 2017 Read more

The Unmediated Vision of William Hawkins
14 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 Read more

Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation
ICA LA 9 Sep - 31 Dec 2017 Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation is the first monographic presentation of the celebrated self-taught artist Martín Ramírez in Southern California. The exhibition will include approximately 50 drawings and collages produced by Ramírez while institutionalized from 1931 until his death in 1963. The exhibition is part of Pacific... Read more

I Do, I Do
29 Jun - 9 Sep 2017 Read more

Hiroyuki Doi, Soul
11 May - 24 Jun 2017 Read more

Rosie Camanga (1910-?): Rose Tattoo
9 Mar - 6 May 2017 Read more

Lidia Syroka: Body Alchemy
20 Jan - 4 Mar 2017 Read more

Changed: The Altered Photograph
1 Dec 2016 - 14 Jan 2017 Read more

Marcos Bontempo: Light and Dark
20 Oct - 26 Nov 2016 Read more

Toni Ross: The Presence of Absence
8 Sep - 15 Oct 2016 Read more

Bastienne Schmidt: Typology of Women
21 Jul - 19 Aug 2016 Read more

Laura Craig McNellis: Structures
9 Jun - 15 Jul 2016 Read more

Leopold Strobl: Smallscapes
28 Apr - 4 Jun 2016 Read more

Expiration Date
10 Mar - 23 Apr 2016 Read more

Günther Schützenhöfer: As I See It
22 Jan - 5 Mar 2016 Read more

Hatched in Prison: The Art of Gil Batle
5 Nov 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 Read more

ME: Photographic Self Portraits
17 Sep - 31 Oct 2015 Read more

Ken Grimes: Text Messages
25 Jun - 25 Jul 2015 Read more

Debbie Han: Here and Now
16 May - 20 Jun 2015 Read more

Five by Seven
7 - 9 May 2015 Read more

Martín Ramírez: Forever
26 Mar - 2 May 2015 Read more

Pulp Drunk: Mexican Pulp Art
23 Jan - 14 Mar 2015 Read more

Bastienne Schmidt: Topography of Quiet
11 Dec 2014 - 15 Jan 2015 Read more

Dan Miller: Creative Growth
30 Oct - 6 Dec 2014 Read more

Body Electric
18 Sep - 25 Oct 2014 Read more

Tim Freccia: Life and Death
10 Jul - 13 Sep 2014 Read more

George Widener: Time Lapse
29 May - 5 Jul 2014 Read more

Alice Hope: TAB
3 Apr - 24 May 2014 Read more

Nancy Blum: Wonderland
20 Feb - 29 Mar 2014 Read more

I.D. Photo Badge Portraiture
24 Jan - 15 Feb 2014 Read more

Martin Thompson: Positive/Negative
19 Dec 2013 - 18 Jan 2014 Read more

Gerald Slota: Story
21 Nov - 14 Dec 2013 Read more

Out of Their Elements
17 Oct - 16 Nov 2013 Read more

Günther Schützenhöfer: Everyday Objects
12 Sep - 12 Oct 2013 Read more

Rebecca Norris Webb: My Dakota
20 Jun - 17 Aug 2013 Read more

Marcos Bontempo: Dancing in the Void
16 May - 15 Jun 2013 Read more

William Hawkins: Making Itself
21 Mar - 11 May 2013 Read more

Tricia Cline + Toc Fetch: Mythology
14 Feb - 16 Mar 2013 Read more

Henry Darger: Landscapes
13 Dec 2012 - 9 Feb 2013 Read more

The Artists of Gugging
25 Oct - 8 Dec 2012 Read more

Kindergarten
6 Sep - 13 Oct 2012 Read more

Weather
21 Jun - 17 Aug 2012 Read more

Bastienne Schmidt: Silhouette Vessels
17 May - 16 Jun 2012 Read more

Laura Craig McNellis: Out of the Closet
12 Apr - 12 May 2012 Read more

Hester Simpson
23 Feb - 7 Apr 2012 Read more

Jean Dubuffet: Dubuffet and the Art Brut
5 Jan - 18 Feb 2012 Read more

Toni Ross
17 Nov - 30 Dec 2011 Read more

Martin Ramirez: Landscapes
13 Oct - 12 Nov 2011 Read more

Sofia Silva: Spreading Out
8 Sep - 8 Oct 2011 Read more

Scott Ogden and C.J. Pyle: Twisted
23 Jun - 19 Aug 2011 Read more

Justin Canha: Carnivorous
19 May - 18 Jun 2011 Read more

Rene Pierre Allain: Steel Bars
14 Apr - 14 May 2011 Read more

Frederick Sommer: Choice and Chance, Structure Art and Nature
24 Feb - 2 Apr 2011 Read more

Hiroyuki Doi
6 Jan - 19 Feb 2011 Read more

George Widener: Dates
18 Nov 2010 - 2 Jan 2011 Read more

Gerald Slota/Neil Labute: Home.Sweet.Home
14 Oct - 13 Nov 2010 Read more

Ed Welch: Signs
7 Sep - 9 Oct 2010 Read more

Dan Miller: Large Drawings
7 Jun - 20 Aug 2010 Read more

Ben Hotchkiss: Village
20 Apr - 5 Jun 2010 Read more

Martín Ramírez: Reframing Confinement
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 31 Mar - 12 Jul 2010 The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía offers this retrospective exhibition, the first of its kind in a European institution, of the remarkable drawings by Martín Ramírez (Tepatitlán de Morelos, Mexico, 1895 - Auburn, USA, 1963), considered one of the most notable masters of self-taught art in the 20th... Read more

Ken Grimes: Contact
25 Feb - 3 Apr 2010 Read more

William Hawkins: Architectural Paintings
7 Jan - 20 Feb 2010 Read more

Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb: Violet Isle
5 Nov 2009 - 2 Jan 2010 Read more

Tricia Cline and Toc Fetch: Exiles in Lower Utopia
10 Sep - 31 Oct 2009 Read more

Sip the Cool-Aid
4 Aug - 4 Sep 2009 Read more

Paul Aaron Johnson: Home Away From Home
21 May - 21 Jul 2009 Read more

MAKE
16 Apr - 16 May 2009 Read more

Laura Craig McNellis
26 Feb - 11 Apr 2009 Read more

Sacrificial Love Society: The Visionary Drawings of Stephen Palmer
6 Dec 2008 - 11 Jun 2009 Read more

Martín Ramírez: The Last Works
American Folk Art Museum, New York 7 Oct 2008 - 12 Apr 2009 Considered one of the self-taught masters of twentieth-century art, Martín Ramírez (1895–1963) created hundreds of drawings and collages of remarkable visual clarity and expressive power within the confines of DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, California, where he resided for the last fifteen years of his life. Nearly one hundred of... Read more

Martin Ramirez
2 Oct - 29 Nov 2008 Read more

Amanda Means: Glass + Light
4 - 27 Sep 2008 Read more

Crossover 2
23 Jun 2008 - 21 Feb 2009 Read more

Alexander Calder: Goauches
17 Apr - 17 May 2008 Read more

hester simpson's related paintings
24 May - 16 Jun 2007 Read more

Rebecca Norris Webb: The Glass Between Us
18 May - 24 Jun 2007 Read more

People's Pictures: The Art of Conceptual Photograph
19 Apr - 19 May 2007 Read more

Martín Ramírez
Traveling Museum Exhibition 23 Jan 2007 - 6 Jan 2008 One of the self-taught masters of twentieth-century art, Martín Ramírez created some three hundred artworks of remarkable visual clarity and expressive power within the confines of DeWitt State Hospital, in Auburn, California, where he resided for the last fifteen years of his life. Ramírez’s complexly structured works are characterized by... Read more

Ninjinsky: A Dance With Madness
30 Nov 2006 - 13 Jun 2007 Read more

Christopher Adams: Dangerous Body
19 Oct - 18 Nov 2006 Read more

Philippe Weisbecker: Archeology of the Future
14 Sep - 14 Oct 2006 Read more

Dreamland, Coney Isalnd: 1905-1925
29 Jun - 19 Aug 2006 Read more

Robert Sholtie's Evolution
13 Apr - 13 May 2006 Read more

Marc Dennis, New Paintings, Caravaggio's Cat and Other Things Unseen
23 Feb - 8 Apr 2006 Read more

Judith Scott and Jill Bonovitz: Forming Lines
12 Jan - 18 Feb 2006 Read more

David Levinthal: Bellies, Bags & Bazooms
23 Jun - 19 Aug 2005 Read more

Elinor Carucci: Diary of a Dancer
21 Jun - 21 Jul 2005 Read more

Michael Flomen: Teeming
5 May - 19 Jun 2005 Read more

Lisette Model / Cline: Saints and Exiles From Stories Never Written
10 Feb - 19 Mar 2005 Read more

Autism Aspergers Art / Year to Year
7 Jan - 5 Feb 2005 Read more

Joel-Peter Witkin: Heart Beats Dust
4 Nov - 31 Dec 2004 Read more

Max Streicher: Quartet
4 Nov - 31 Dec 2004 Read more

Barminski: Is this Important East / Webb: Esperando
9 Sep - 20 Oct 2004 Read more

Water
17 Jun - 20 Aug 2004 Read more

Hinds Bidaut: Nature Morte / Kessell: Floriegium
6 May - 12 Jun 2004 Read more

Simpson: New Paintings / Shaw: information and witnesses
26 Mar - 1 May 2004 Read more

Julie Farstad / Hester Simpson
12 - 15 Mar 2004 Read more

Variations: American Game Boards / Stern: Inheritance
12 Feb - 20 Mar 2004 Read more

Cut it Out / Joseph Heidecker
14 Jan - 7 Feb 2004 Read more

Larry Gianettino: More close Friends
26 Nov 2003 - 10 Jan 2004 Read more

marc dennings paintings
16 Oct - 22 Nov 2003 Read more

Michael Martone, Vintage, Dark, Light
14 Oct - 22 Nov 2003 Read more

Morris Newman Paintings
5 Sep - 22 Oct 2003 Read more

Joel-Peter Witkin: the mystery of presence
5 Sep - 22 Oct 2003 Read more

hans Neleman night chicas
4 Sep - 11 Oct 2003 Read more

Home
24 Jul - 25 Aug 2003 Read more

luis Mallo
19 Jun - 18 Jul 2003 Read more

gerald Slota: Fable
8 May - 14 Jun 2003 Read more

Bohnchang Koo (recent work)
27 Mar - 3 May 2003 Read more

Joe Burns: Portraits
13 Feb - 22 Mar 2003 Read more

EJ Kelty: Under the Big Top
9 Jan - 1 Feb 2003 Read more

Graphic Content
21 Nov 2002 - 4 Jan 2003 Read more

alexander tsiaras: BIRTH
21 Nov 2002 - 4 Jan 2003 Read more

gaggles, flocks and coves; further, exaltations and murders
20 Jun - 16 Aug 2002 Read more

david Johansen: saints and sinners
8 May - 14 Jun 2002 Read more

David Graham: Taking Liberties
28 Mar - 4 May 2002 Read more

Judith Scott: Cocoon
28 Mar - 4 May 2002 Read more

Industrial Modern: Rendering of a Future Past
14 Feb - 23 Mar 2002 Read more

debbie fleming caffery: polly
10 Jan - 16 Feb 2002 Read more

Hawkins
10 Jan - 16 Feb 2002 Read more

Hester Simpson
1 Nov - 5 Jan 2001 Read more

Amanda Means
6 Sep - 13 Oct 2001 Read more

Donald Mitchell: Outside Reality
17 May - 23 Jun 2001 Read more

Lillian Bassman: Men
17 May - 23 Jun 2001 Read more

Revenge
5 Apr - 12 May 2001 Read more

John Monteith: Recent Work
24 Feb - 31 Mar 2001 Read more

Patterns: Abstraction in 20th Century Quilts
24 Feb - 31 Mar 2001 Read more

Judith Scott
18 Jan - 19 Feb 2001 Read more

Laura Craig McNellis
18 Jan - 17 Feb 2001 Read more

William Hawkins: The Drawings in Context
Springfield Museum of Art 13 Jan - 25 Feb 2001 William Hawkins was born in Kentucky on July 27, 1895, though he spent much of his adult life in and around Columbus, Ohio, where he moved in 1916 to avoid a shotgun wedding. One of the most highly regarded African American self taught artists of the twentieth century, Hawkins worked... Read more

Julianne Swartz: Shadow House
30 Nov 2000 - 13 Jan 2001 Read more

Karl Mann
14 Sep - 18 Oct 2000 Read more

Mark Kessell: Deguerreotypes
14 Sep - 14 Oct 2000 Read more

Thornton Dial: Drawings
11 May - 24 Jun 2000 Read more

Charles Dellschau: Aeronautical Notebooks
6 Apr - 6 May 2000 Read more

Jayne Hinds Bidaut: Tintypes
23 Nov 1999 - 15 Jan 2000 Read more

Larry Gianettino
23 Nov 1999 - 15 Jan 2000 Read more

Akin & Ludwig Photographs
14 Oct - 20 Nov 1999 Read more

William Hawkins: Collage
9 Sep - 9 Oct 1999 Read more

Eldon Garnet: Fissure + Breathless + Fracture
11 Mar - 24 Apr 1999 Read more

Laura Craig McNellis: night work
11 Mar - 24 Apr 1999 Read more

Thornton Dial: His Spoken Dreams
19 Nov 1998 - 16 Jan 1999 Read more

Larry Gianettino
19 Nov 1998 - 16 Jan 1999 Read more

Arthur Ganson's Machines
30 May - 18 Jul 1998 Read more

Bill Traylor, an American Prodigy
20 Nov - 24 Dec 1997 Read more

William Hawkins Paintings
7 Oct - 16 Nov 1997 Read more

Michael Martone
4 Sep - 4 Oct 1997 Read more

Creative Growth Center
22 May - 21 Jun 1997 Read more

Dumb
13 Mar - 12 Apr 1997 Read more

Gerald Slota: Extraordinary Madness
10 - 31 Jan 1997 Read more

Eugene on Bruenchenhein Paintings
26 Jan - 24 Feb 1996 Read more

Gerald Slota
9 Dec 1995 - 20 Jan 1996 Read more

Char Davie's Osmose
26 Oct - 2 Dec 1995 Read more

Delirium
6 Jun - 17 Aug 1995 Read more

Laura Craig McNellis's works on paper
25 May - 1 Jul 1995 Read more

Mary T. Smith/ James Billie Lemming
30 Jun - 30 Jul 1994 Read more

Eileen Doman Snapshots
12 May - 23 Jun 1994 Read more

Dwight Mackintosh
18 Apr - 1 Jun 1994 Read more

Sculpture 1880-1980
17 Mar - 30 Apr 1994 Read more

Dwight Mackintosh
11 Mar - 1 May 1993 Read more

Ken Grimes
11 Dec 1992 - 15 Jan 1993 Read more

Warren McArthur (1885-1961), Machine Age Furniture
5 Dec 1992 - 16 Jan 1993 Read more

Sam Doyle
15 Sep - 6 Oct 1992 Read more

Purvis Young
9 May - 15 Jun 1992 Read more

Magic, Power, Mystery
9 Apr - 16 May 1992 Read more

Laura Craig McNellis
21 Jan - 6 Mar 1992 Read more

Chance
1 Dec 1991 - 19 Jan 1992 Read more

Sanford Darling
24 Feb - 24 Mar 1991 Read more

The Dial Family
13 Jan - 17 Feb 1991 Read more

Eddie Arning
12 Dec 1990 - 18 Jan 1991 Read more

William L. Hawkins 1895-1990
11 Oct - 10 Nov 1990 Read more

Martín Ramírez, Pintor Mexicano (1885-1960)
Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City 1 Mar - 1 Jun 1989 Read more