Past Exhibitions

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2024

Ubuhlanti: Solution-Oriented Being Pop-Up Platform | Nov. 13-20
Conversations in Color: New Print Acquisitions
Holly Wright: Vanity
Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies
The Spaces We Seek
Pop-up Exhibition: Works from The Fralin’s Collection by artists featured in THE SLIP
Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala
Patricia Michaels: Bringing Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives

2023

Voices of Connection: Garamut Slit Drums of New Guinea
Figure and Fable: Aesop through the Ages
Looking Up
Radioactive Inactives: Patrick Nagatani & Andrée Tracey
N’Dakinna Landscapes Acknowledged
Look Three Ways: Maya Painted Pottery
Processing Abstraction

2022

Joanne B. Robinson Object Study Gallery
Kenji Nakahashi: Weighing Time
Earthly Exemplars: The Art of Buddhist Disciples and Teachers in Asia
Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography 
Joseph Cornell: Enclosing Infinity
Carrying On
Alternative Futures
Focus On: Laura Aguilar
Beyond Pictorialism: Early 20th-Century Photography and the Fine Arts
Gandharan Sculpture from the Alan D. and Ann K. Wolfe Collection

2021

Open Window: Emilio Sanchez on Paper 
Nostalgia U.S.A.
Skyscraper Gothic
Delicate Trades: British Porcelain, Global Connections
Everyone a Curator: The Langhorne Collection of 18th-Century Prints
Solitude
Focus On: Sally Mann & Pamela Pecchio
Expressing Identity: Works from Summer Studio at The Fralin (on view at New City Arts)

2020

Figures of Memory

2019

The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles
Select Works from The Alan Groh-Buzz Miller Collection
Otherwise
Time to Get Ready: fotografía social
Asian Art from the Permanent and Select Private Collections
OF WOMEN BY WOMEN
The Print Series in Bruegel’s Netherlands: Dutch and Flemish Works from the Permanent Collection
sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies.
Pompeii Archive: Photographs by William Wylie

2018

Highlights from the Heywood and Cynthia Fralin Collection
Highlights from the Heywood and Cynthia Fralin Collection
Unexpected O'Keeffe: The Virginia Watercolors and Later Paintings
Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu
Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu
Reflections: Native Art Across Generations
Reflections: Native Art Across Generations
In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950-Now
In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950-Now
20th Century Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection
Art of Protest
A Painter’s Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb
From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson's Architecture & Design
Visiting Artist Sheryl Oring, Writer's Block
Feminine Likeness: Portraits of Women by American Artists, 1809-1950 | Selections from the Collection of The Fralin Museum of Art

2017

Dealer's Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945–1966
Collect, Care, Conserve, Curate: The Life of the Art Object
Imagining Antiquity: Italianate Prints from the Langhorne Collection
Grasping at the Ephemeral: Explorations on Change from the Permanent Collection
Kevin Everson: Rough and Unequal

2016

Ann Gale: Portraits
A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne
THE GREAT WAR: Printmakers of World War I from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
New Acquisitions: Photography
Andy Warhol: Icons
Art Lovers
Fish and Fowl
Richard Serra: Prints
Navajo Weaving: Geometry of the Warp and Weft
Two Extraordinary Women: The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway and Mary Darby Robinson

2015

Collection: Sol LeWitt and Photography
Jacob Lawrence: Struggle... From the History of the American People
Cavaliers Collect
Innocence and Experience: Childhood in Art
Figures for the Soul
What is a Line?
A Portrait of the Artist, 1525-1825

2014

Gordon Parks - The Making of an Argument
The Lyrical Line
Realms of Earth and Sky
Postwar British Prints
Vinland - Recent Work by Cindy Bernard
Reflections and Undercurrents
Portraying the Golden Age - Prints from the Collection
Joseph Cornell and Surrealism
Jasper Johns - Early Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Lucian Freud - Etchings

2013

Patrick Dougherty
Émilie Charmy
In the Shadow of Stalin - The Patterson Family in Painting and Film
Frenemies - Animals in Art
From Alaska to the Mountain Peaks of Central Mexico - Depicting Native American Life in the Late Nineteenth Century
Ansel Adams - A Legacy
Becoming the Butterfly - Portraits of James McNeill Whistler
Corot to Cézanne - French Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
STrAY - Found Poems from a Lost Time Suzanne McClelland
Traces of the Hand: Master Drawings from the Collection of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman

2012

Making Science Visible
Making Science Visible
Making Science Visible The Photography of Berenice Abbott
Jean Hélion Reality and Abstraction
The Valley of the Shadow American Landscapes in the Time of the Civil War
Ancient Masters in Modern Styles Chinese Ink Paintings from the 16th – 21st Centuries
Photography from the Museum Collection
Looking at the New West - Contemporary Landscape Photography
Emilio Sanchez Cityscapes
Émilie Charmy and the Feminine in Modern French Art
American Impressionism and After Highlights from the Collection of W. Heywood Fralin, Sr. and Cynthia Kerr Fralin
Japanese-color-woodblock-prints
The Adoration of the Magi by Bartolo di Fredi A Masterpiece Reconstructed
100 Years of Photography
Master Printmakers The Italian Renaissance and Its Modern Legacy
Curator's Choice People, Places, and Things
Tom Burckhardt Paintings

2011

Henry Moore - Seated Woman