Exhibitions

Visions Unsettled: Stages of the Self in the Hispanic World, from the Spanish Empire to the Global Present

Oct 02, 2025 - Dec 21, 2025, Becker Gallery

Visions Unsettled explores how identity has been imagined, fractured, and performed across the Hispanic world from the sixteenth century to today. The exhibition features early modern artworks alongside images by twentieth and twenty-first century photographers and in so doing considers how early interrogations of race, gender, visibility, and the gaze intersect with more contemporary meditations on ritual, marginality, and kinship.

Medieval Art from the Wyvern Collection: Global Networks and Creative Connections

Sep 04, 2025 - Sep 05, 2027, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

This exhibition brings together works of premodern art from the Wyvern Collection (London, United Kingdom) with the collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art to explore the deep ties that linked Asia, the Near East, North Africa, and Europe from the fifth through the fifteenth centuries.

Front Lines: Women Etchers at the Fore, 1880 to Today

Aug 07, 2025 - Aug 16, 2026, Markell Gallery

This exhibition brings together the etchings of an international array of women who have continued the legacy of the etching revival of the turn of the twentieth century, expanding the scope of the medium and their own creative practices. “Front Lines” explores such themes as gender, race, class, and identity in addition to the expressive idioms of both figuration and abstraction.

Flora et Fauna: Nature in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Culture

Mar 06, 2025 - Aug 23, 2026, Walker Gallery

Featuring works from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art spanning nearly two thousand years —from approximately 1300 BCE to 400 CE—Flora et Fauna examines how ancient Mediterranean societies understood and depicted the natural world.

Currents: Art Since 1875

Oct 12, 2023 - Jan 03, 2027, Boyd Gallery

"Currents: Art Since 1875" tells new stories, asks provocative questions, and challenges assumptions about the human experience through works of twentieth and twenty-first century art.

Re|Framing the Collection: New Considerations in European and American Art, 1475-1875

May 14, 2021 - , Bowdoin Gallery

This exhibition of art in the Atlantic World considers empire-building across Europe, North America, and their colonies, and how it shaped interconnected global networks from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.