Current Exhibitions
Living In America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem, and Modern Housing, September 8, 2017–December 17, 2017
Lina Puerta: Manigua, July 17, 2017–June 29, 2018
Maggie Goldstone: Animating our World, September 2017–June 2018
Leslie Jiménez: It is Here| It is Now | I Am, October 7, 2017–April 6, 2018
Upcoming Exhibitions
Arthur Mitchell: Harlem's Ballet Trailblazer January 13–March 11, 2018
MODA Curates 2018: Anna Bella Geiger: Here is the Center March 23–April 8 2018
MODA Curates 2018: New Talent March 23–April 8 2018
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet to Matisse and Beyond, October 24, 2018–February 10, 2019
Past Exhibiti ons
Kathleen Granados: Within Reach, June 7–September 16, 2017
Gina Malek: Traces, September 2016–June 30, 2017
Uptown, June 2, 2017–August 20, 2017 (New Venue: Lenfest Center for the Arts on the Manhattanville Campus)
Tomo Mori: Concerto Encircling, September 2016–June 30, 2017
Eva Nikolova: The Edifice of Memory, February 8–May 12, 2017
Invisible Cities: MODA 2017, April 19–May 20, 2017
2017 First-Year MFA Exhibition, March 24–April 8, 2017
Finesse, January 18–March 11, 2017
Uday K. Dhar: From Purusha to Paradise, November 5, 2016–February 10, 2017
The Expanded Subject, September 7– December 10, 2016
Scherezade Garcia: In Transit/Liquid Highway, September 15, 2015–June 2016
Lorella Paleni: Otherwordly, September 15, 2015–June 2016
Lines of Flight: MODA 2016, April 20– June 4, 2016
2016 First-Year MFA Exhibition, March 26–April 9, 2016
Open This End: Contemporary Art From the Collection of Blake Byrne, January 20–March 12, 2016
Rembrandt's Changing Impressions, September 9–December 12, 2015
Maya Hayuk: From the Chem Trails Series, October 3, 2014–June 2015
A Curious Blindness: MODA 2015, April 22–June 13, 2015
2015 First-Year MFA Exhibition, March 27–April 11, 2015
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, November 15, 2014–March 14, 2015
Sylvan Cemetery: Architecture, Art and Landscape at Woodlawn, September 3–November 1, 2014
Vargas–Suarez Universal: Vector Composition No. 1, 2013, October 10, 2013–June 2014
HYPER-RESEMBLANCES: MODA 2014, April 22–June 7, 2014
2014 First-Year MFA Exhibition, March 28–April 12, 2014
Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902–1936, January 22–March 15, 2014
Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's "Selves", September 4–December 7, 2013
Speak, Memory: MODA 2013, May 1–June 8, 2013
2013 First-Year MFA Exhibition, April 6–20, 2013
Conceptual Geographies: Frames and Documents: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, January 23–March 23, 2013
Robert S. Duncanson: An Antebellum African American Artist, September 5–December 8, 2012
Cross-Time Stories, May 9–June 9, 2012
2012 First-Year MFA Exhibition, April 13–28, 2012
Félix Candela: 1910–2010, February 11–March 31, 2012
Social Forces Visualized: Photography and Scientific Charity, 1900–1920, November 9–December 17, 2011
Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy Classroom, September 7–October 22, 2011
Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming, April 26–June 11, 2011
2011 First-Year MFA Exhibition, April 9–16, 2011
Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible, January 19–March 26, 2011
Nancy Holt: Sightlines, September 22–December 11, 2010
Edward Koren: The Capricious Line, April 28–June 12, 2010
2010 First-Year MFA Exhibition, April 7–17, 2010
Pictures for Books: Photographs by Thomas Roma, January 20–March 27, 2010
The New Acropolis Museum, October 21–December 19, 2009
Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas, April 29–June 6, 2009
2009 First-Year MFA Exhibition, April 4–18, 2009
Modernism and Iraq, January 27–March 28, 2009
Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, September 17–December 13, 2008
Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University, March 26–June 21, 2008
Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910–1960, January 23–March 8, 2008
Revolutions: A Century of Makonde Masquerade in Mozambique, September 18–December 8, 2007
2007 First–Year Exhibition, April 21–June 2, 2007
Robert Moses and the Modern City, January 31–April 14, 2007
Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York, September 27–December 9, 2006
Lubomír Šlapeta (1908–1983) and Cestmír Šlapeta (1908–1999): Czech Architecture after Hans Scharoun, April 18–June 10, 2006
First-Year MFA Exhibition, April 1–8, 2006
A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art, February 21–March 18, 2006
Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 24–February 11, 2006
"Please, teach me..." Rainer Ganahl and the Politics of Learning, September 28–December 10, 2005
Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919–1935 — Selections from the Collection of Stephen Garmey, April 19–June 11, 2005
2005 First-Year MFA Exhibition, March 30–April 9, 2005
Settlement and Sanctuary on Cyprus from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages: Views from the Columbia University Excavations at Phlamoudhi, January 20–March 19, 2005
The Troubled Search: The Work of Max Abramovitz, September 15–December 11, 2004
Restoring Byzantium: The Kariye Camii in Istanbul and the Byzantine Institute Restoration, April 13–June 12, 2004
2004 First-Year MFA Exhibition, March 26–April 4, 2004
The Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Chinese Painting from the University of Michigan Museum of Art, January 20 –March 20, 2004
Reflection: Seven Years in Print The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, September 23–December 13, 2003
Moscow: City, Spectacle, Capital of Photography, April 30–June 21, 2003
2003 First-Year MFA Exhibition, April 10–April 19, 2003
Jean Fautrier: 1898–1964, January 29–March 29, 2003
Roger Ferri: Architectural Visionary, October 9–December 21, 2002
Paris as Gameboard: Man Ray's Atgets, April 24–June 15, 2002
The Print in Italy: 1550–1620, February, 6–March 30, 2002
Arte Povera: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, October 3–December 8, 2001
Louise Bourgeois: Illustrated Books, April 24–June 9, 2001
Percival Goodman: Architect, Teacher, Planner, February 6–March 31, 2001
Architect of Dreams: The Theatrical Vision of Joseph Urban, October 10–December 16, 2000
First-Year MFA Exhibition, April 26–June 3, 2000
Gateway to Metropolis: New York's Pennsylvania Stations, February 2–April 1, 2000
Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts—Events, Objects, Documents, October 6–December 11, 1999
1999 MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 14–June 5, 1999
The Inventive Hand: Selections of Work by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, January 27–March 20, 1999
Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy, September 16–November 21, 1998
Brushed Voices: Calligraphy in Contemporary China, April 14–June 6, 1998
The Visual Front: A Collection of Spanish Civil War Posters, February 3–March 28, 1998
Mastering McKim's Plan: Columbia's First Century on Morningside Heights, October 8, 1997–January 17, 1998
26 Positons: MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 23–May 31, 1997
Robert Motherwell on Paper, January 29–March 29, 1997
Apostles in England, Sir James Thornhill & the Legacy of Raphael's Tapestry Cartoons, October 15–December 21, 1996
The Old World Builds the New: The Guastavino Company and the Technology of the Catalan Vault, 1885–1962, April 30–June 15, 1996
Kōbō Abé as Photographer, April 8–21, 1996
Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design, 1917–1937, February 7–March 30, 1996
The Post–Pre–Rephaelite Print, October 11–December 15, 1995
6 Artists: New Faculty from Visual Arts, March 29–June 3, 1995
Fields of Vision: The art of Sotho Habitation, October 19–December 17, 1994
Unfaded Pageant: Edwin Austin Abbey's Shakespearean Subjects, April 13–June 4, 1994
Mark Rothko: The Spirit of Myth, February 2–March 19, 1994
Picturing the White City: Architectural Photography from the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, November 17–January 22, 1994
Goya's Graprichos from the Brooklyn Museum, September 15–November 7, 1993
"O Soul, Come Back!": The World of the Han Dynasty Tomb, March 24–June 5, 1993
Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture, November 11, 1992–Junauary 15, 1993
BCCDHHHJKNPPRSSW: Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, September 16–October 31, 1992
Actors, Courtesans, and Famous Vistas: Japanese Art From Columbia Collections, April 29–June 12, 1992
Victorian Pleasures: The Liman Collection of 19th-Century American Board and Table Top Games, November 13, 1991–January 25, 1992
Robert Smithson Unearthed: Works on Paper, 1957–1973 September 11–October 26, 1991
New Art 1991: MFA Exhibition, May 15–June 22, 1991
Contemporary Architectural Drawings: Donations to the Avery Library Centennial Drawings Archive, April 3–May 4, 1991
Artists of The Nation: An exhibition celebrating the 125th Anniversary of The Nation Magazine, November 15, 1990–January 26, 1991
Emerging Japanese Architects of the 1990's, September 14–November 14 3, 1990
New Art: MFA Exhibition, MAy 15–June 23, 1990
Julius S. Held: Drawings from His Collection, April 11–May 5, 1990
Love Flight of a Pink Candy Heart: Paintings by Florine Stettheimer from the Columbia University Collection, February 16–March 31, 1990
Terra Firma: Land and Landscape in Art of the 1980s, October 18–December 2, 1989
Graphic Evolutions: The Print Series of Francisco Goya, February 2 March 18, 1989
Impossible Picturesqueness: Edward Lear's Indian Watercolors, 1873–1875, October 19–December 3, 1988
Sexual Difference Both Sides of the Camera, March 24–May 7, 1988
Jim Parker: The Abstract Works, February 20–March 12, 1988
Similia Dissimilia, December 4, 1987–January 30, 1988
Meyer Shapiro: Works of Art 1919–1979, April 18–May 23, 1986
Inaugural Exhibition: Works from Columbia University Collections, April 4, 1986