Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Exhibition Archive Date Exhibition Title Organized By
2/27/03 - 5/18/03 Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting The Museum of Modern Art, New York
11/14/02 - 3/2/03 Directions-Cecily Brown Hirshhorn Museum
10/24/02 - 1/20/03 Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Tate Modern, London
7/18/02 - 10/27/02 Directions: Ron Mueck Hirshhorn Museum
6/20/02 - 9/8/02 Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
3/21/02 - 6/23/02 Directions-Ernesto Neto Hirshhorn Museum
2/28/02 - 9/2/02 Metropolis in the Machine Age Hirshhorn Museum
2/14/02 - 5/12/02 H.C. Westermann Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
11/15/01 - 2/18/02 Directions-Marina Abramovic Hirshhorn Museum
10/18/01 - 1/13/02 Juan Muñoz Hirshhorn Museum and The Art Institute of Chicago
7/25/01 - 10/23/01 Directions–Tacita Dean Hirshhorn Museum
6/20/01 - 9/16/01 Clyfford Still: Paintings 1944-1960 Hirshhorn Museum
3/15/01- 7/1/01 Directions–Tim Hawkinson Hirshhorn Museum
2/28/01 - 5/13/01 William Kentridge Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
11/16/00 - 2/19/01 Directions– Dana Hoey Hirshhorn Museum
10/26/00 - 1/22/01 Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective American Federation of Arts, New York
9/14/00 - 3/14/01 The Collection in Context: Horace Pippin’s Holy Mountain III Hirshhorn Museum
7/14 /00- 10/26/00 Directions–Cathy de Monchaux Hirshhorn Museum
6/29/00 - 9/17/00 Ed Ruscha Hirshhorn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
4/19/00 - 6/18/00 Dali’s Optical Illusions Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
3/16/00 - 6/20/00 Directions–Leonardo Drew Hirshhorn Museum
2/24/00 - 4/23/00 Robert Gober: Sculpture and Drawing Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
11/17/99 - 2/23/00 Directions–Shahzia Sikander Hirshhorn Museum
10/7/99 - 1/17/00 Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
7/15/99 - 10/17/99 Directions–Sam Taylor Wood Hirshhorn Museum
5/27/99 - 9/6/99 Brice Marden, Works of the 1990's: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
4/7/99 - 5/10/99 Face of Friendship: The Art World Circle of Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn in Documentary Photographs Hirshhorn Museum
2/4/99 - 6/20/99 Directions–Julião Sarmento: Fundamental Accuracy Hirshhorn Museum
10/15/98 - 1/10/99 Chuck Close The Museum of Modern Art, New York
4/2/98 - 9/7/98 Directions–Tony Oursler: Video Dolls with Tracy Leipold Hirshhorn Museum
6/18/98 - 9/13/98 Triumph of the Spirit: Carlos Alfonzo, A Survey 1975 - 1991 Miami Art Museum
6/4/98 - 9/21/98 Collection in Context: Henry Moore’s Stringed Figure No. 1 Hirshhorn Museum
3/19/98 - 6/21/98 Directions–Kiki Smith: Night Hirshhorn Museum
2/19/98 - 5/17/98 George Segal: A Retrospective: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
11/20/97 - 2/22/98 Directions–Toba Khedoori Hirshhorn Museum
10/9/97 - 1/11/98 Stanley Spencer: An English Vision Hirshhorn Museum and The British Council, London
7/17/97 - 10/19/97 Directions–Louise Lawler: Monochrome Hirshhorn Museum
6/4/97 - 9/7/97 The Hirshhorn Collects: Acquisitions 1992-1996 Hirshhorn Museum
5/23/97 - 1/4/98 The Collection in Context: Raymond Duchamp-Villon’s The Horse Hirshhorn Museum
3/6/97 - 6/15/97 Directions–Juan Muñoz Hirshhorn Museum
2/20/97 - 5/11/97 Jeff Wall Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
11/20/96 - 5/7/97 The Collection in Context: Paul Gauguin’s Hina with Two Attendants Hirshhorn Museum
11/7/96 - 1/20/97 Directions: Rudolph Schwarzkogler Hirshhorn Museum
10/7/96 - 1/12/ 97 Richard Lindner : Paintings and Watercolors 1948-1977 Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
7/18/96 - 10/20/96 Directions: Byron Kim: Grey-Green Hirshhorn Museum
6/20/96 - 9/15/96 Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990's Hirshhorn Museum
3/21/96 - 6/23/96 Directions–Beverly Semmes Hirshhorn Museum
11/18/95 - 2/19/96 Directions–Carmen Lomas-Garza Hirshhorn Museum
10/19/95 - 1/15/96 Stephan Balkenhol: Sculptures and Drawings Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
7/20/95 - 10/22/95 Directions–Martin Kippenberger Hirshhorn Museum
6/30/95 - 1/15/96 The Collection Reviewed: Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Frank Hamiltion Cushing Hirshhorn Museum
6/14/95 - 9/10/95 Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995 High Museum of Art, Atlanta
3/15/95 - 6/25/95 Directions–Cindy Sherman Hirshhorn Museum
11/17/94 - 2/12/95 Directions–Gary Simmons Hirshhorn Museum
11/3/94 - 1/29/95 Bruce Nauman Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
7/21/94 - 11/2/94 Directions–Jeanne Dunning Hirshhorn Museum
6/16/94 - 9/11/94 Felix Gonzalez-Torres “Traveling” Hirshhorn Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
3/17/94 - 6/19/94 Directions–Sue Coe Hirshhorn Museum
2/17/94 - 5/8/94 Gary Hill Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
11/11/93 - 2/20/94 Directions–Glenn Ligon: To Disembark Hirshhorn Museum
10/21/93 - 1/9/94 William de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
6/17/93 - 9/12/93 Directions–Alison Saar Hirshhorn Museum
2/11/93 - 5/9/93 Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
12/17/92 - 3/14/93 Directions–Jac Leirner Hirshhorn Museum
10/15/92 - 1/10/93 Eva Hesse: A Retrospective Yale University Art Gallery
10/1/92 - 1/25/93 Joseph Kosuth WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
9/17/92 - 12/6/92 Directions–Tim Rollins + K.O.S.: Animal Farm Hirshhorn Museum
6/11/92 - 9/7/92 Crosscurrents of Modernism–Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Matta Hirshhorn Museum
2/13/92 - 5/4/92 Directions–Francesc Torres Hirshhorn Museum
2/5/92 - 6/21/92 Martin Puryear The Art Institute of Chicago
5/21/92 - 8/16/92 Directions–Thomas Struth Hirshhorn Museum
11/7/91 - 4/5/92 Alfredo Jaar WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
10/17/91 - 1/20/92 Directions–Saint Clair Cenin Hirshhorn Museum
10/8/91- 1/5/92 Recent Acquisitions 1989-1991 Hirshhorn Museum
6/19/91 - 9/22/91 Directions–Adrian Piper: What It’s Like, What It Is #2 Hirshhorn Museum
6/12/91 - 9/2/91 Awards in the Visual Arts:10 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
3/20/91 - 6/23/91 Ann Hamilton/ Kathryn Clark: View WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
2/20/91 - 5/19/91 Directions–Mike Kelley: Half a Man Hirshhorn Museum
2/13/91 - 5/5/91 Sigmar Polke San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
12/11/90 - 7/7/91 Comparisons: An Exercise in Looking Hirshhorn Museum
11/28/90 - 3/3/91 Lawrence Weiner WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
11/1/90 - 1/27/91 Directions–Boyd Webb Hirshhorn Museum
10/18/90 - 1/6/91 John Baldessari Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
9/26/90 - 2/4/91 Images of American Industry from the Museum’s Collection Hirshhorn Museum
9/19/90 - 12/19/90 Franz Gertsch Nine Large-Scale Woodcuts Hirshhorn Museum
7/25/90 - 11/9/90 David Ireland WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
6/26/90 - 9/30/90 Directions–Christian Marclay Hirshhorn Museum
6/13/90 - 9/9/90 Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
4/25/90 - 7/8/90 Dennis Adams WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
3/7/90 - 6/10/90 Directions–Ilya Kabokov: Ten Characters Hirshhorn Museum
2/8/90 - 5/6/90 Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective Hirshhorn Museum
12/6/89 - 3/11/90 Matt Mullican WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
11/16/89 - 2/11/90 Directions–Susana Solano Hirshhorn Museum
10/12/89 - 1/7/90 Francis Bacon Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
8/1/89 - 10/29/89 Houston Conwill WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
8/1/89 - 10/29/89 Directions–Keith Sonnier: Neon Hirshhorn Museum
6/21/89 - 9/17/89 Robert Moskowitz Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
5/9/89 - 7/23/89 Buster Simpson WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
5/9/89 - 7/23/89 Directions–Ericka Beckman Hirshhorn Museum
3/15/89 - 5/14/89 Recent Acquisitions 1986 - 1988 Hirshhorn Museum
2/1/89 - 4/23/89 Daniel Buren WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
2/1/89 - 4/23/89 Directions–Mel Chin Hirshhorn Museum
12/14/88 - 2/23/89 Gerhard Richter Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
10/26/88 - 1/22/89 Directions–Walter Pichler Hirshhorn Museum
10/25/88 - 10/27/88 - 1/22/89 Krzysztof Wodiczko WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
9/15/88 - 11/13/88 Alberto Giacometti 1901 - 1966 Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
7/12/88 - 9/25/88 Russian and Soviet Paintings, 1900-1930: Selections from the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the State Russian Museum, Leningrad Hirshhorn Museum
6/21/88 - 10/10/88 Directions–Robert Cumming: Intuitive Inventions Hirshhorn Museum
5/12/88 - 8/14/88 Different Drummers Hirshhorn Museum
3/9/88 - 5/30/88 Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
3/9/88 - 5/30/88 Directions–Sherrie Levine Hirshhorn Museum
2/18/88 - 4/17/88 Expressiv: Central European Art since 1960 Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
12/18/87 - 3/13/88 The New Sprit: Artist-Organizers of the Armory Show Hirshhorn Museum
12/2/87 - 2/28/88 Sol LeWitt WORKS Hirshhorn Museum
12/2/87 - 2/28/88 Directions–Joel Shapiro Painted Wood Hirshhorn Museum
11/10/87 - 1/10/88 A Quiet Revolution: British Sculpture Since 1965 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
9/15/87 - 11/29/87 Lucian Freud Paintings British Council, London
8/12/87 - 10/18/87 Roger Brown Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
5/21/87 - 7/26/87 Morris Louis Museum of Modern Art, New York
3/11/87 - 5/24/87 Bridging the Century: Images of Bridges from the Museum’s Collection Hirshhorn Museum
2/19/87 - 4/26/87 Nancy Graves: A Sculpture Retrospective Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
11/17/86 - 3/1/87 Recent Acquisitions 1983 - 1986 Hirshhorn Museum
8/7/86 - 11/16/86 Selections from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest (painting and sculptures Hirshhorn Museum
4/30/86 - 7/6/86 Robert Arneson: A Retrospective Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
2/6/86 - 3/30/86 Directions 1986 Hirshhorn Museum
1/26/86 - 4/13/86 Relief Sculpture–Selections from the Museum’s Collection Hirshhorn Museum
10/16/85 - 1/12/86 Selections from the Collection of Marion and Gustave Ring Hirshhorn Museum
10/3/85 - 1/5/86 A New Romanticism: Sixteen Artists from Italy Hirshhorn Museum
6/5/85 - 9/2/85 Representation Abroad Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
2/20/85 - 4/38/85 Jim Dine: Five Themes Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2/1/85 - 3/31/85 Conservation of Modern Art Hirshhorn Museum
10/4/ 84 - 1/6/85 Content: A Contemporary Focus Hirshhorn Museum
6/9/84 - 8/19/84 Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
4/4/84 - 6/17/84 German Expressionist Sculpture Los Angeles County Museum of Art
3/15/84 - 5/13/84 Drawings: 1974 - 1984 Hirshhorn Museum
12/8/83 - 2/12/84 Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art Hirshhorn Museum
10/6/83 - 1/18/84 Direct Carving in Modern Sculpture: Selections from the Museum’s Colleciton Hirshhorn Museum
9/15/83 - 11/17/83 Purchases by the Hirshhorn Museum 1974 - 1983 Hirshhorn Museum
6/16/83 - 8/14/83 Friedel Dzubas Hirshhorn Museum
5/12/83 - 7/17/83 Joseph Stella: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
3/10/83 - 5/15/83 Directions 1983 Hirshhorn Museum
1/13/83 - 3/15/83 The Eight and the Independent Tradition in American Art Hirshhorn Museum
11/24/82 - 1/2/83 Paintings from Pakistan Pakistan National Council of the Arts by arrangement with the Smithsonian
11/4/82 - 1/16/83 From the Life of the Artist: A Documentary View of David Smith Hirshhorn Museum
11/4/82 - 1/16/83 David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
8/5/82 - 10/3/82 Soyer Since 1960 Hirshhorn Museum
8/5/82 - 10/3/82 Raphael Soyer Sixty-five Years of Printmaking Hirshhorn Museum
7/28/82 - 8/29/82 Modern Indian Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, by arrangement with the Smithsonian
5/20/82 - 7/18/82 Samuel Murray: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum
4/30/82 - 6/27/82 DeStijl, 1917- 1931 Visions of Utopia Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2/25/82 - 5/16/82 Red Grooms from the Museum’s Collection Hirshhorn Museum
1/21/82 - 2/22/82 Five Distinguished Alumni: The W.P.A. Federal Art Project Hirshhorn Museum
12/17/81 - 2/28/82 Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors Hirshhorn Museum
9/17/81 - 11/15/81 R.B. Kitaj Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
7/16/81 - 9/20/81 Larry Rivers: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum
6/4/81 - 8/9/81 Kenneth Snelson Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
4/23/81 - 6/19/81 Barbara Hepworth: The Hirshhorn Museum Collection Hirshhorn Museum
3/19/81 - 6/21/81 Robert Natkin: Prints and Painted Prints Hirshhorn Museum
3/16/81 - 4/26/81 Mahmond Moukhtar: 1881 - 1934 Egyptian government, by arrangement with the Smithsonian
2/12/81 - 5/3/81 Directions 1981 Hirshhorn Museum
11/20/80 - 2/16/81 The Avant-Garde in Russia 1910 - 1930: New Perspectives Los Angeles County Museum of Art
9/18/80 - 12/14/80 Edwin Dickinson: Selected Landscapes Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
8/14/80 - 1/4/81 Reuben Nakian: The Hirshhorn Museum Collection Hirshhorn Museum
7/31/80 - 10/5/80 Art Deco Posters from the Library of Congress Hirshhorn Museum
6/4/80 - 8/10/80 Brancusi as Photographer Akron Art Institute, Ohio
5/22/80 - 9/21/80 The Fifties: Aspects of Paintings in New York Hirshhorn Museum
4/17/80 - 7/6/80 Alexander Exter: Marionettes and Theatrical Design Hirshhorn Museum
3/20/80 - 6/8/80 Miró: Selected Paintings Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
2/7/80 - 2/24/81 Hans Richter’s Stalingrad (Victory in the East) Hirshhorn Museum
12/20/79 - 2/10/80 Fernando Botero Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
12/5/79-1/20/80 Raphael Soyer: A Birthday Celebration Hirshhorn Museum
11/14/79 - 3/2/80 Oscar Bluemner: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum
10/4/79 - 11/25/79 Arshile Gorky: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Colleciton Hirshhorn Museum
10/4/79 - 11/25/79 Murals Without Walls: Arshile Gorky’s Aviation Murals Rediscovered The Newark Museum, New Jersey
9/26/79 - 3/23/80 Josef Albers: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum
7/25/79 - 11/18/79 David Smith: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum
6/28/79 - 9/16/79 Grant Mudford Photographs Hirshhorn Museum
6/14/79 - 9/3/79 Directions Hirshhorn Museum
5/9/79 - 8/12/79 A.H. Mauer: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum
3/29/79 - 6/10/79 David Hockney: Travels with Pen, Pencil, and Ink International Exhibitions Foundation
3/15/79 - 5/3/79 Calder’s Universe Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1/25/79 - 4/8/79 Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
12/21/78 - 2/18/79 Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
11/9/78 - 1/1/79 Louis M. Eilshemius: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
10/4/78 - 11/26/78 Saul Steinberg Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
9/13/78 - 1/14/79 George Grosz: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum
8/11/78 - 10/30/78 Phillip Evergood: Selections from The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum
7/28/78 - 9/22/78 Henry Moore: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Hirshhorn Museum
6/15/78 - 9/4/78 “The Noble Buyer:” John Quinn, Patron of the Avant Garde Hirshhorn Museum
4/14/78 - 6/26/78 Els Quatre Gats: Art in Barcelona around 1900 Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
3/30/78 - 4/30/78 Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros: A Selection from Mexican National Collections The Mexican government, by arrangement with the Smithsonian
3/16/78 - 5/7/78 Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art The Art Institute of Chicago
12/22/77 - 2/12/78 Gregory Gillespie Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
11/17/77 - 1/30/78 The Animal and Art: Selections from The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection Hirshhorn Museum
10/27/77 - 1/2/78 Probing the Earth: Contemporary Land Projects Hirshhorn Museum, with tour
10/1/77 - 11/27/77 Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
8/18/77 - 10/10/77 The Arthur B. Carles Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Hirshhorn Museum
7/20/77 - 10/2/77 Summer Sculpture 77: Jules Olitski Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
6/16/77 - 9/5/77 The Photography of Leland Rice Hirshhorn Museum
5/24/77 - 9/5/77 The Thomas Eakins Collection in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Hirshhorn Museum
3/23/77 - 7/24/77 Acquisitions 1974 - 1977 Hirshhorn Museum
2/3/77 - 4/10/77 Fourteen Canadians: A Critics Choice Hirshhorn Museum
12/2/76 - 2/6/77 Peter Plagens: Works on Paper Hirshhorn Museum
12/2/76 - 2/6/77 E.E. Cummings : The Poet as Artist Hirshhorn Museum
1/19/76 - 3/6/77 Chac - Mool: A Bicentennial Loan from Mexico The Mexican government, by arrangement with the Smithsonian
11/11/76 - 1/9/77 Alfred Leslie Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
10/14/76 - 1/2/77 Hans Hofmann Hirshhorn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
9/16/76 - 11/14/76 John Covert Hirshhorn Museum
6/29/76 - 9/6/76 Thomas Hart Benton: The Sources of Country Music Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville
5/20/76 - 10/20/76 The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America 1876 - 1976 Hirshhorn Museum
3/4/76 - 6/7/76 Artists, Authors, Others: Drawings by David Levine Hirshhorn Museum
12/18/75 - 2/15/76 The Sculpture and Drawings of Elie Nadelman Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
9/25/75 - 11/9/75 Soto: A Retrospective Exhibition Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
10/4/74 - 5/12/76 Inaugural Exhibition Hirshhorn Museum