The Presence of the Past: Art from Central and West Africa
, Markell GalleryThis exhibition highlights how the arts of Central and West Africa represent social themes across time.
Current Exhibitions
Andrea Dezsö: The Visitors
, Becker Gallery"The Visitors" features new work by Andrea Dezsӧ together with art from Bowdoin’s collections.
Fast Fashion/Slow Art
, Boyd Gallery"Fast Fashion / Slow Art" features films, videos, installations, and performances by an international group of emerging and established contemporary artists and filmmakers.
Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815–1860
, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher GalleryThis exhibition celebrates the artist and inventor Rufus Porter (1792–1884), an imaginative polymath and entrepreneur curious about art, science, and communication technologies.
Maine’s Lithographic Landscapes: Town & City Views, 1830-1870
, Center Gallery, Focus GalleryExplores the history of Maine town and city views published during the first fifty years of statehood through major lithographs and several related paintings.
Assyria to America
, Walker Gallery, Assyrian Gallery"Assyria to America" examines the ancient and modern histories of Bowdoin’s six reliefs from ancient Nimrud.
Emerging Modernisms, American and European Art, 1900–1950
, Shaw Ruddock GalleryThis overview of Bowdoin’s collection of artwork from the first half of the twentieth century addresses the development of new visual languages and new philosophical sensibilities as artists explore how to render the ineffable tangible.
Upcoming Exhibitions
- At First Light: Photographs of Maine Artist Studios and Homes by Walter Smalling.
- At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine.
- New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection.
- Creeping Pavement: Depictions of an Urbanizing America.
- There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art.