Past Exhibitions

Throughout the Museum’s history the staff has produced a wide array of critically acclaimed exhibitions both with works from the permanent collection and with objects borrowed from other institutions.

In addition, we have hosted a number of nationally and internationally recognized exhibits curated by organizations that specialize in traveling shows. Some of our more recent exhibitions are archived here. Please browse the links to the left to view our past exhibitions by year

  • Being There: Photographs by James P. Blair

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    This exhibition takes an intimate look at the work of renowned photographer James P. Blair, who for more than thirty-five years traveled the world for the National Geographic Society. His images not only transport us to places most of us will never visit, the best of them have become part of our visual lexicon and remind us that the world is a varied and stimulating place, sometimes breathtaking in its beauty and at other times heartbreaking in its degradation.

  • 50/50: Fifty Years of Collecting for Middlebury

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    Fifty years ago Middlebury began the formal process of acquiring art for its permanent collection. This exhibit marks that anniversary by bringing together one work from each year. Included are paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photography, from antiquity to the present and from diverse cultures around the world.

  • Modern and Contemporary Works from the Permanent Collection

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    This exhibition presents more than thirty works from the museum’s modern and contemporary collections, including recent video works by William Kentridge, Tracey Moffatt, and the Swiss team of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Other artists represented include Andrew Lenaghan, Banksy, Damian Hirst, Shazia Sikander, Dale Chihuly, Elizabeth Catlett, Andy Warhol, Judy Chicago, Christian Marclay, Kara Walker, and Dennis Byng.

  • Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place

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    Featuring more than 100 outstanding works of art from the Newark Museum’s extraordinary collections, Wondrous Worlds will showcase the long history, vast geographic expanse and amazing diversity of works of art in the Islamic world.

  • 1968: The Whole World is Watching

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    1968 was a year of upheaval and transformation. It was a year in which national and international events spawned intense vocal expression and protest. This exhibit, through the lens of art, music, and literature, looks back fifty years to consider the issues then transforming American society.

  • Just Kids: Photographs from the Nicholas Gift

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    The Museum recently received an extensive collection of photographs of children from all corners of the globe. In this exhibition we survey a range of documentary and intimate images that depict the characteristic activities, delights, and inevitable sorrows of childhood. Photographers whose works are on view include Ken Heyman, Ilse Bing, Dmitri Baltermants, Danny Lyon, and Leonard Freed.

  • Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art

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    The paintings, sculptures, works of silver, furniture, and other decorative objects of this exhibition demonstrate the wide range of artistic production and devotional practice of colonial Latin America. Drawn from the Collection of the Fondacion Cisneros, founded to enhance the appreciation of art from Latin America, the exhibition reveals the great wealth of the region from the late 17th century until the 1820s.

  • Thinking Through Art

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    Presenting art from around the globe, this year’s Thinking through Art exhibition invites school students and teachers—and all visitors—to engage in conversations about their relationship to the surrounding world.

  • 10 Years: The Cameron Print Project

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    Since 2008 the Studio Art Program has hosted an annual week-long visit of a Cameron Visiting Artist who creates a print or series of prints with students enrolled in Professor Hedya Klein’s silkscreen class. This exhibition includes all of the works produced under this extraordinary collaborative program. Prints by students working with Mark Dion, Derrick Adams, Tomas Vu, Kati Heck, and Rona Yefman, among other artists, will be on view.

  • The Soviet Century: 100 Years of the Russian Revolution

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    The 1917 Russian Revolution ushered in a new era of human history. The objects featured here showcase four different moments in Russian and Soviet history, demonstrating how material culture served as a space in which governing forces, both Tsarist and Communist, sought—sometimes unsuccessfully—to gain legitimacy and shape the country’s moral fabric.