Past Exhibitions
Fragments of Self
SMFA at Tufts Juried Student Exhibition
This exhibition brings together work from emerging artists that explores the different aspects of personhood—their own and those of others. The...
Tha Sun Will Set
Contemporary Abstraction and the Body
Comprising nine works by three generations of female artists from the Americas, “Tha Sun Will Set: Contemporary Abstraction and the Body” draws from...
Power of the People: Art and Democracy
“Power of the People: Art and Democracy” highlights the ways in which art has expressed ideas about democracy throughout history and how artists have...
Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore
American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and British sculptor Henry Moore (1898–1986) are among the most distinctive artists of the 20th century...
Dalí: Disruption and Devotion
The outlandish and iconoclastic artist Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) is famous for his bizarre imagery and distinctive Surrealist vision. He was, however...
Edwin Holgate as Printmaker
Among the most celebrated works by Canadian artist Edwin Holgate (1892–1977) are his prints. Although modest in number—he made just over sixty, almost...
Barbara Bosworth: The Meadow
In 1996 artist Barbara Bosworth (b. 1953) began photographing a meadow in Carlisle, Massachusetts, just northwest of Boston. Returning regularly over...
Hyman Bloom: Landscapes of the Mind
“Hyman Bloom: Landscapes of the Mind” invites visitors into the artist’s imagination to experience nature as he did.
Community Arts Initiative: Our Family Portrait
For “Our Family Portrait,” Boston-based artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee (b. 1990) guided more than 150 students through creating cyanotype prints...
Four Womxn: New Musings on Blackness
Inspired by “Four Women,” Nina Simone’s 1966 song of archetypes and stereotypes bestowed upon Black women, this exhibition explores those ideations...