Past Exhibitions

Community Arts Initiative: Our Family Portrait

May 18–October 27, 2024

For “Our Family Portrait,” Boston-based artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee (b. 1990) guided more than 150 students through creating cyanotype prints...

Ancestors and Place: Indigenous North American Prints

April 27–October 27, 2024

The words ancestors and place have many connotations, but for Indigenous peoples, they are tied to all things. Place extends beyond a single location...

Songs for Modern Japan
Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900–1950

April 13–September 2, 2024

Japan experienced a whirlwind of change between 1900 and 1950. At the turn of the century, Western music notation had become a sign of modernity...

Dress Up

April 13–September 2, 2024

“Playing dress up begins at five and never truly ends.” Fashion allows us to take on different roles, choosing clothes, jewelry, shoes, handbags, and...

Perspectives: Art from MFA Staff

April 4–May 4, 2024

Presented at the Copley Society of Art on Newbury Street, this exhibition features work by MFA staff who explore the idea of perspectives through a...

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

March 24–July 28, 2024

From tradition to trendsetting Today, South Korea is a cultural superpower—a global trendsetter producing award-winning films like Parasite, riveting...

Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party

December 20, 2023–June 24, 2024

For more than five decades photojournalist Stephen Shames (b. 1947) has used his work to call attention to a wide range of social issues—from the...

Dinorá Justice: The Lay of the Land

November 18, 2023–April 14, 2024

Brazilian American artist Dinorá Justice (b. 1969) uses a distinct visual vocabulary to examine intertwined histories of gender, landscape, and visual...

Creative Spaces: The Photographer’s Studio as Inspiration

November 11, 2023–April 28, 2024

A photographer’s studio is a laboratory of creativity—a physical and psychological space for meditation, collaboration, and experimentation. “Creative...

Mondrian: Foundations

November 11, 2023–April 28, 2024

In the years around 1900, before Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) created some of the most recognizable abstract canvases of the last century, he turned his...