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Exhibitions
Installation view of Live Dangerously, which featured all 100 photographs in Janaina Tschäpe’s series 100 Little Deaths; The exhibition marked the first time the series was displayed in full
Ursula von Rydingsvard: The Contour of Feeling March 22–July 28, 2019
This landmark exhibition presented the artist’s monumental cedar wood sculptures evoking the grandeur and power of nature.
More is More: Multiples May 3–September 22, 2019
Artist-designed objects by Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, Barbara Kruger, and others are distinctively placed between the worlds of art and retail.
Institutional lender: Akron Museum of Art New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Betsabée Romero—Signals of a Long Road Together September 28, 2018–May 2, 2021
Commissioned for NMWA’s public art corridor, Romero’s four totemic sculptures speak to the experience of human migration, cultural traditions, and the protection of family.
Modern and contemporary photography from NMWA’s collection revealed the bold and dynamic ways in which female bodies inhabit and activate the natural world.
“These renderings are radical. It is rare to see images of Black women as avatars with spiritual agency.”—Hyperallergic on Delita Martin: Calling Down the Spirits
Fun Fact Live Dangerously and The End were the third-most-visited exhibitions in NMWA history. Nearly 6,000 of the visitors to those exhibitions came on free Community Days.
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, NMWA Director Susan Fisher Sterling, Diane Gelon, Susan Dunlevy, Sarah Thornton, Judy Chicago, and Claudia Schmuckli pose at the opening reception of Judy Chicago: The End—A Meditation on Death and Extinction
Judy Chicago—The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction September 19, 2019–January 20, 2020
Chicago’s newest body of work—nearly forty works of painted porcelain and glass and two large bronze sculptures—profoundly addressed human mortality and species extinction.
Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age October 11, 2019–January 5, 2020
This focus exhibition examined the lives and work of several highly successful artists in the Netherlands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Institutional Lenders: National Gallery of Art Library; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. Delita Martin: Calling Down the Spirits January 17–April 19, 2020
This exhibition showcased seven of Martin’s monumental prints. Her works create a new iconography for African Americans based on African tradition, personal recollections, and physical materials.
Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico February 28–August 23, 2020
This landmark exhibition presented five decades of Iturbide’s evocative and groundbreaking photographs of her native Mexico.
Institutional lender: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Iturbide’s photographs exist both in an instant and in eternity.”—Washington Post
