Past Exhibitions

Community Arts Initiative: Building with Light

May 13–December 13, 2017

Over the past school year, students from the Museum’s ten Community Arts Initiative (CAI) partners visited the MFA with artist Julie Martini as part of the MFA’s 12th annual Artist Project.

Club Americano

April 22–June 4, 2017

Pablo Helguera cordially invites you to “Club Americano”

Botticelli and the Search for the Divine

April 15–July 9, 2017

This exhibition is the largest, most important display of Botticelli's works in the US.

An Enchanted Land
A Century of Indian Paintings at the MFA

April 10, 2017–January 7, 2018

"An Enchanted Land" celebrates the centennial of the MFA’s collection of Indian art with a display of some of the most extraordinary examples of...

Matisse in the Studio

April 9–July 9, 2017

Inspiration is everywhere

Darkness Made Visible
Derek Jarman and Mark Bradford

March 25–July 30, 2017

The exhibition pairs Derek Jarman’s final feature-length film Blue (1993) with Mark Bradford’s video installation Spiderman (2015)—both riveting first...

Memory Unearthed
The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross

March 25–July 30, 2017

“Memory Unearthed” offers an extraordinarily rare glimpse of life inside the Lodz Ghetto during its existence from 1940 to 1944, through the lens of Polish Jewish photojournalist Henryk Ross (1910–1991).

“I must tell you what I saw”
Objects of witness and resistance

March 25–July 30, 2017

Adjacent to “Memory Unearthed” in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, is a special installation of objects and works of art that bear witness...

Daniela Rivera: The Andes Inverted

March 4, 2017–February 25, 2018

Daniela Rivera’s museum installations often focus on uncanny spatial and material dislocations. Breaking from the traditional mold of painting, she...

Past Is Present: Revival Jewelry

February 14, 2017–August 19, 2018

Whether copying or choosing motifs to reinterpret, jewelers have always looked to the past for inspiration. The practice became popular in the 19th...