Recent Exhibitions

Opened in 2022

• Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt
• Paul Garland: Intuitive Progression
• Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence
• Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster
• Sky Hopinka: Memories of Movement

Opened in 2021

• 67th Rochester-Finger Lakes 
• Tara Merenda Nelson: FourMats
• Poetry of the Everyday
• The 613 by Archie Rand
• “To Help People See”: The Art of G. Peter Jemison
• A Sense of Place: Prints from the Collection of David Z. Friedberg
• Tony Cokes: Market of the Senses
• Renaissance Impressions
• Chitra Ganesh: Sultana’s Dream
• National Anthem

Opened in 2020

• Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop | Works from the Bank of America Collection
• Season of Warhol | Cow Wallpaper | Silver Clouds | Warhol T.V.
• Melting Animals
• 1940/2020: In Celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the Gallery Council of the Memorial Art Gallery
• The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art

Opened in 2019

• THE FUA KREW
• Ja’Tovia Gary: Giverny I (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE)
• De’VIA: The Manifesto Comes of Age
• Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau
• Kalup Linzy: Conversations wit de Churen V: As da Art World Might Turn
• Rochester Americana: The Watercolors of Karal Ann Marling
• 66th Rochester Finger Lakes
• Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour
• 1969 Turns 50
• The Way Things Go

Opened in 2018

• Her Voice Carries | Prelude
• Modern Czech Photography: A Portfolio
• Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process
• Seeing in Color and Black-and-White
• The Fabric of Survival
• Bruce Nauman: No, No, New Museum
• The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota
• My Life Has Gotten So Busy That It Now Takes Up All of My Time
• Larry Merrill: Photography
• NOSFERATU (The Undead)

Opened in 2017

• Bill Viola: Martyrs–Earth, Air, Fire, and Water
• Beauty is Everywhere
• Wendell Castle Remastered
• Kiyochika & Japan, Transformed: Prints from the Arthur R. Miller Collection
• Charles Atlas: Here she is… v1
• Rainforest IV
• The Power of the Female Gaze
• Reflections on Place & Culture: Downey, Gower, Kluge
• Meleko Mokgosi: Pax Kaffraria
• Robert Rauschenberg: Making History
• Light Spill: An Installation by Gibson + Recoder

Opened in 2016

• M. C. Escher: Reality and Illusion
• Bodies In Space
• Courtly Pleasures: Indian Miniatures from the Permanent Collection
• Afghan War Rugs: The Modern Art of Central Asia
• War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Renewal by Binh Danh and Robert Schultz
• Keith Haring: Apocalypse
• Robert Polidori: Chronophagia
• Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair

Opened in 2015

• Marcel Dzama: Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester’s Dance)
• Art for the People: Carl W. Peters and the Rochester WPA Murals
• Rick Hock: Codices
• Jacob Lawrence: The Legend of John Brown Portfolio
• 65th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition
• In Search of Shadows
• The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection
• Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby

Opened in 2014

• Robert Kirschbaum’s The 42-Letter Name
• Golden Legacy: 65 Years of Golden Books
• Infinity Boxes by Matt Elson
• New Ghosts for A New Age: Yoshitoshi’s New Forms of 36 Ghosts
• 6th Rochester Biennial
• Visions in Black and White: The Graphic Work of Max Klinger
• Matisse as Printmaker: Works from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
• Alexander Matisse: New Ceramics
• Eduardo Paolozzi’s General Dynamic F.U.N.
• Redefining the Multiple: 13 Contemporary Japanese Printmakers
• New Beginnings: Japanese Prints of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s

Opened in 2013

• Memory Theatre 2013
• Connoisseurs Around the Corner: Gifts of Art from MAG’s Founding Family
• 64th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition
• Mortal: A Portfolio of Woodcuts by Kiki Smith
• It Came From the Vault: Rarely Seen Works from MAG’s Collection
• Becoming Modern: Armory Show Artists at MAG
• Art Reflected: The Inspiration of 100 Years
• Episodes From an Unwritten History: Claude Bragdon and Fritz Trautmann

Opened in 2012

• Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3
• High Voltage: The Eccentric World of the Chicago Imagists
• Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design
• Framing Edo: Masterworks from Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views
• Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years of Art for the Community
• Modern Icon: The Machine as Subject in American Art
• In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows
• Transformation/Revelation: The Art of Change

Opened in 2011

• Extreme Materials 2
• Fiberart International 2010
• John Ashbery and Friends: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
• Wine and Spirit: Rituals, Remedies and Revelry

Opened in 2010

• Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s