List of Birmingham Museum of Art exhibitions
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This is a List of Birmingham Museum of Art exhibitions hosted by the Birmingham Museum of Art since 1990:
1990
- May 19 - August 12: Impressions: Prints by McNeill Whistler
- June 30 - September 2: Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan
- July 29 - September 2: The AmSouth Bank Collection of Naval Paintings and the Battle of Moblie Bay by Xanthus Smith
- August 17 - November 11: Splendors of the American West: Thomas Moran's art of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone
- August 18 - November 11: Social Reform: Women and Pottery in the Arts and Crafts Movement
- August 31 - October 28: Re:memory: Picturing the Private Past
- September 18 - February 2: Intuitive Reality: The Lithographs of George Biddle
- October 21 - January 2: Gold of Africa: Jewelry and Ornaments from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal
- November 2 - April 14: Tradition and Transition: Chinese Paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Specer III
- November 8 - January 13: A Decade Offscreen: Sid Avery's Hollywood, 1951-1961
- November 17 - February 10: Alabama Decorative Arts from the BMA Collection
1991
- January 13 - [[[February 24]]: "That's All Folks!": Bugs Bunny and Friends of Warner bros. Cartoons
- January 22 - March 3: Camera Aesthetis: Recent Acquisitions from the Photography Collection
- February 2 - March 31: Reinstallation of 19th Century Galleries
- February 16 - May 12: Images of Meiji Periods Japan (1868-1912)
- March 1 - May 7: The Stuart Legacy: English Art 1603-1714
- April 14 - June 9: Camera Portraits, 1839-1989: Photographs from the National Gallery, London
- May 19 - July 7: In Our Time: The World As Seem by Magnum Photographers
- May 25 - August 18: "Well May They Be Made": Navajo Textiles from the BMA Collection
- July 7 - October 6: Boxed Assortment: 1970's Print and Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection
- August 10 - October 20: Frank Lloyd Wright; Facets of Design, Selections from the Domino's Pizza Collection
- October 20 - December 8: Model Fiction: The Work of James Casebere
- November 24 - December 31: Images of America: The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
- December 12 - February 29: Pictures of the Cosmos: Tibetan Buddist Tankas
1992
- April 1 - August 1: Art of the Americas: Painting and Objects from the Museum's Permanent Collections
- September 27 - November 5: Views and Visions: Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection
- November 20 - November 22: Dress: Costumes from the Collection of the BMA
1993
- January 24 - February 25: Picture Relations: Photo Essays from the South by Debbie Fleming and Birney Imes
- February 1 - March 1: Jazz Age Costumes
- March 3 - June 3: Image and Text: Art, Medicine, and Learning in the Eighteeth Century
- October 1 - March 1: First East Thomas Project: Rainbows, Fences and Targets
- October 2 - October 17: Fumio Kitaoka: Woodblock Prints
- November 6 - January 2: Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection
- November 13 - January 22: Gertrude Kasebier Photographer
- November 25 - December 1: Prayer Gate
1994
- February 6 - March 20: Objects of Desire
- April 8 - May 1: Costumes from the Metropolitan Opera
- April 15 - May 29: Tiepolo and Canaletto: Prints from the Adolph Weil, Jr. Collection
- April 17 - June 26: Beyond the Tanabata Bridge: A textile Journey in Japan
- May 14 - : Second East thomas Project: New Industrial Sculpture from Germany
- July 10 - September 4: Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
- July 10 - September 4: Lewis W. Hine: Early Work
- - September 11: A Box of Visions
- September 18 - December 31: Van Gogh's Japanese Prints
- September 20 - May 7: Honor Thy Father and Mother: A Multi-Media Installation by Lorenzo Pace
- October 14 - January 8: Made in Alabama: A State Legacy
- October 14 - December 2: John Bohorfoush Collection
- October 14 - February 12: African textiles from the Permanent Collection
- December 14 - March 12: In the Open Art
1995
- February 2 - April 16: Alfred L. Scheinberg Collection of African Ceramics
- March 4 - April 30: Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy
- March 4 - April 30: Dale Chihuly Vitreographs: Prints from Glass Plates
- April 22 - June 18: The Golden Age of Dutch Painting
- April 22 - : The Third Thomas Project: The Elegant Forms of Peer Veneman
- May 7 - : Staffs of Life: Rods, Staffs, Scepters, and Wands from the Coudron Collection of African Art
- July 2 - October 25: Robert Doisneau and Elliot Erwitt: On Modern Life
- July 22 - September 3: Botticelli to Tiepolo: Three centuries of Italian Painting from Bob Jones University
- September 17 - November 26: Under a Spell: Sequin Voodoo Flag Art from Antoine Oleyant/Haiti and Tina Girouard/Louisiana
- October 6 - December 31: Echizen: Eight Hundred years of Japanese Stoneware
- October 29 - January 7: Art of the American West
- December 6 - December 8: In the Company of Animals
- December 10 - March 3; Speaking in Forms: African and American Art from the Permanent Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art
1996
- January 21 - March 3: Photographs from the Collection of Rena Hill Selfe
- February 4 - April 7: Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen
- April 1 - May 26: The Elegant Brush: Korean Paintings from the collections on Dr Won-Kyung Cho
- May 18 - August 31: The Precolumbian Ballgame: 3000 Years of Sport and Sacrifice
- July 1 - September 1: Qin/The First Emperor: Treasurers from Ancient China
- October 20 - September 1: The South by Its Photographers
- November 12 - March 2: Birmingham Views: The Birmingham News Centennial Photographic Collection
1997
- January 19 - March 29: Southern Arts and Crafts: 1890-1949
- February 1 - May 31: African Visions: Sacred Art and Ceremony of the Basotho
- March 23 - August 3: Cast in Splendor: German Cast Iron Decorative Arts at the Birmingham Museum of Art
- April 11 - July 6: Looking Down Yosemite Valley: Paintings by Albert Bierstadt
- May 18 - August 31: Crosscurrents of Culture: Arts of Africa and the Americas in Alabama Collections
- June 8 - August 10: Audubon’s America: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection
- August 31 - February 1: An American Inpressionist: Henry Potthast
- September 28 - October 14: Lasting Impressions: Twentieth-century Prints from the Permanent Collection (Elliot, curator)
- November 15 - April 5: Finder's Keepers: Illuminations by Harry Anderson
1998
- January 25 - April 5: Ancient Gold Jewelry from the Dallas Museum of Art
- The Artist in the Studio: Interactive Art Space For Children and Their Families (Fowler, curator)
- March 15 - May 3: Low Virtues: The Value of Human-Scale Architecture to Birmingham Urbanism
- April 26 - June 14: Images of the Floating World: Japanese Prints From the Birmingham Museum of Art (Wood, curator)
- April 26 - June 14: Otsu-e: Japanese Folk Paintings from the Harriet and Edson Spencer Collection (Wood, curator)
- May 17 - August 23: Shades of the South: Photography from the Permanent Collection
- June 18 - September 6: Art on Wheels: Selections from the Baber Vintage Motorsports Museum
- July 9 - September 6: William Christenberry: The Early Years, 1954-1968
- November 1 - November 29: Síndrome de Angloa
- November 1 - January 3: Chokwe!: Art and initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples (Gordon, curator)
- November 14 - January 31: Constructing Structure: Ilya Bolotowski, Al Head, Leon Polk Smith, and George Rickey
- December 5 - June 6: Perspectives 2: Saint Clair Cemin (David Moos, curator)
1999
- January 31 - April 4: Art at the End of the Century: Contemporary Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum (David Moos, curator)
- February 12 - April 4: Infra-Slim Spaces:The Pysical and Spiritual in the Art of Today (David Moos, curator)
- May 2 - July 4: Roads Less Traveled: American Paintings 1833-1935
- October 3 - January 16: Near East, Far Dreams: Egypt in the Nineteenth Century Imagination
- October 3 - January 16: Searching for Ancient Egypt
- April 25 - July 4: Remembered Past, Discovered Future - The Alabama Architecture of Warren, Knight, and Davis, 1906-1961, 1999
- October 18 - January 8: William Wegman: Fashion Photographs (David Moos, curator)
- November 14 - June 30: Perspectives 3: Luis Jimenez (David Moos, curator)
2000
- February 13 - April 30: Perspectives 4: Dori and Joseph DeCamillis (David Moos, curator)
- March 5 - May 21: Sign and Gesture: Contemporary Abstract Art from the Haskell Collection (David Moos, curator)
- Baskets of Splendor: Japanese Ikabena Baskets (Wood, curator)
- March 26 - June 11: A Mark in Time: Masterworks of Contemporary Alabama Crafts (Forschler, curator)
- May 6 - June 4: Having a Ball: Fifty Years of Evening Couture (Forschler, curator)
- June 25 - September 3: Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity: Paintings from the 1990s (David Moos, curator)
- July 16 - September 10: Matisse from the Baltimore Museum of Art (David Moos, curator)
- August 1 - October 29: Dream Worlds: German Porcelain Figures from Jugenstil to Art Deco (Forschler, curator)
- October 8 - December 31: Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City (David Moos, curator)
- October 8 - December 31: Girlfriend! The Barbie Sessions by David Levinthal (David Moos, curator)
- October 8 - December 31: Soiree in Bamako: Studio Photography in Mali (Jordan, curator)
- November - : Native American Gallery Reinstallation
- December 3 - April 29: Perspectives 5: Jessica Diamond Painting (David Moos, curator)
- December 3 - January 28: Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings from the collection of Richard Castellane (David Moos, curator)
2001
- January 21 - April 1: Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millenium (David Moos, curator)
- March 1 - March 30: Youth Art Month Exhibition 2001 (Marchicelli, curator)
- March 5 - May 27: The Noblemen of Stone:Fifty Years of Collecting Jade in Birmingham (Huang, curator)
- April: Birmingham International Festival 2002 - Salute to Hungary (Marchicelli, curator)
- April 6 - : Reinstallation of 14th to 18th Century Italian Art (and other nationalities) (O'Grody, curator)
- June 10 - September 2: Crazy!: Crazy Quilts From the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art (Gail Trechsel, curator)
- July 1 - September 1: Beatriz Milhazes (David Moos, curator)
- September 14 - January 6: Gracious Splender: The William Hansell and Susan Mabry Hulsey Collection (O'Grody and David Moos, curators)
- September: American Gallery Reinstallation (David Moos and Forschler, curators)
- October 6 - January 6: Perspectives 6: Lawrence Weiner (David Moos, curator)
- October 14 - January 6: In the Presence of Spirits: Selections from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon (Jordan and Wood, curators)
- December 15 - April 15: Chinese New Year Prints: Celebrating Wealth and Prosperity (Huang, curator)
2002
- January 20 - April 7: Methods and Media: Drawings from the Birmingham Museum of Art (O'Grody, curator)
- February 10 - April 14; European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (O'Grody and David Moos, curators)
- March 1 - March 30: Youth Art Month Exhibition 2002 (Harris, curator)
- March - : Reinstallation of the Korean Collection (Wood, curator)
- April: Birmingham International Festival 2002 - Salute to South Africa (Harris, curator)
- April 7 - June 16: Ndebele Beadwork from South Africa (Harris, curator)
- May 5 - July 14: Glass of the Avant Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus (Forschler, curator)
- May 26 - September 11: Julie Moos: Hat Ladies (Stephens, curator)
- September 5 - July 6: Stephen Hendee: Perspectives 7 ([David Moos]], curator)
- September 22 - January 5: Matières de Rêves: Stuff of Dreams, From Paris Musée des Art Décoratifs (Forschler, curator)
- September 22 - January 5: French Paintings from the Speed Museum (O'Grody, curator)
- October 6 - December 29: Guiseppe Moretti: Master Sculptor and Father of Vulcan (Fowler, curator)