Past Exhibitions
Michaelina Wautier and ‘The Five Senses’
Innovation in 17th-Century Flemish Painting
November 12, 2022–November 5, 2023
Centered around her rare series The Five Senses (1650), this is the first gallery space in the Americas dedicated to the art of Michaelina Wautier...
Frank Bowling’s Americas
October 22, 2022–April 9, 2023
“Modernism belonged to me also.” So resolved British Guiana–born artist Frank Bowling in 1966, when he moved from London to New York City, impelled by...
Body Awareness: Maria Lassnig’s Experimental Films
October 15, 2022–April 2, 2023
Although best known as a painter, Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) began to experiment with film in 1970. From that point on, she created animations using...
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography
October 9, 2022–January 16, 2023
Reconsidering the pictures we remember. Revealing the stories we don’t know.
Portraits of Leadership
Responses to the Obama Portraits
September 3–October 30, 2022
Get Tickets Included with General Admission Portraits from the community featuring leaders of all kinds What does leadership look like? In response to...
The Obama Portraits Tour
September 3–October 30, 2022
The acclaimed portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama come to the MFA on the final stop of their national tour.
The Stillness of Things
Photographs from the Lane Collection
August 27, 2022–February 27, 2023
This exhibition presents nearly 60 innovative photographs—all departures from the traditional still life—drawn from the MFA’s Lane Collection. Grouped...
The Banner Project: Diedrick Brackens
June 16, 2022–June 19, 2023
Through dreamlike woven tapestries, Texas-born artist Diedrick Brackens (b. 1989) explores African American and queer identity, his own life, and...
Community Arts Initiative: Empowered Faces
June 3–October 24, 2022
“Empowered Faces” is a mixed-media mural that showcases young artists’ self-portraits through abstracted forms. Artist and educator Perla Mabel...
Touching Roots
Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas
May 26, 2022–July 30, 2023
Africa is at once a point of origin and a myriad of associations—real and imagined—for many Black artists working in the Americas. In the 20th century...