Browse a complete list of past exhibitions, from 1883 to 2007, at the exhibition history archive.

Steve McQueen
October 21, 2012–January 6, 2013
Regenstein Hall
Member Preview: October 19–20, 10:30–5:00
The first American museum survey of the work of Steve McQueen presents 15 installations, including one world premiere.
Burnham Library Centennial
September 25, 2012–December 3, 2012
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries (Not open Saturdays and Sundays)
This exhibition features correspondence, photographs, project files, and sketchbooks of numerous artists and architects.
Film and Photo in New York
July 21, 2012–November 25, 2012
Galleries 1–4
Member Preview: July 19, 10:30–8:00, and July 20, 10:30–5:00
Nearly 80 photographic works and rarely seen films made between the 1920s and the 1950s which offer a compelling glimpse of a pivotal time in New York City.
Fabric of a New Nation: American Needlework and Textiles, 1776–1840
July 12, 2012–November 11, 2012
Galleries 57–59
Through over 45 bedcovers, coverlets, needlework, printed handkerchiefs, and other household textiles, this exhibition explores the evolution of an American textile tradition.
Katharina Fritsch
April 21, 2012–November 11, 2012
Bluhm Family Terrace
Sculptor Katharina Fritsch brings a seductive and disturbing otherworldliness to the Bluhm Family Terrace with her meticulously handcrafted reproductions of quotidian objects.
The Formation of the Japanese Print Collection at the Art Institute: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School
August 18, 2012–November 4, 2012
Gallery 107
As an architect, art dealer, and designer, Frank Lloyd Wright was greatly inspired and influenced by the art and culture of Japan.
Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Japanese Art
May 9, 2012–October 28, 2012
Gallery 109
This exhibition features significant acquisitions of ceramics and prints that both quote from Japan’s past and offer a new avenue for the worldwide appreciation of craft.
Told and Retold: Picture Book Artists from Studio Goodwin Sturges
May 12, 2012–October 28, 2012
Ryan Education Center, Picture Book Gallery
Familiar stories get an update through the original illustrations and preparatory sketches by eight contemporary illustrators.
The Outdoor Office: Jonathan Olivares Design Research
March 7, 2012–October 14, 2012
Gallery 286
This speculative project from New York–based designer Jonathan Olivares explores the possibility of working outside the traditional office.
Modern Inkers: Experimentation in Comics
July 17, 2012–September 24, 2012
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries (not open Saturdays and Sundays)
This collection chronicles the development of comics from the early innovators who established the medium to contemporary creators.

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