Past Exhibitions

A circular collage featuring various motivational phrases such as "Don't Let Pain Get in the Way" and "Think Big," alongside images of nature, flowers, and scenic landscapes. Words like "Fitness," "Friends," "Kids," and "Vacation" are also included.

Arts and Healthcare My Canvas is My Story

Education Corridor

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My Canvas is My Story features art created by diverse populations, ranging from oncology patients, parents of infants in neonatal intensive care units, young adults coping with trauma, children and adults with disabilities, and children who have recently lost a parent or guardian due to illness.

From Past to Present Selected Masterworks of Korean Art

Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art

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This exhibition features traditional and contemporary Korean art in many media. One gallery focuses on contemporary paintings, ceramics, and sculptures and includes a number of exciting recent acquisitions created by artists such as KIM Hanna, KIM Yik-yung, and PAIK Nam June. The other gallery displays traditional Korean folk paintings and celadons.

Black and white drawing of a modern man and hominids fighting with clubs on a cliff ledge while two hominids watch from a small cave with pterosaurs flying in the background

Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen The Art of EC Comics

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen celebrates the achievements of the most artistically and politically adventurous American comic-book company of the twentieth century: Bill Gaines’s Entertaining Comics, better known to fans all over the world as EC.

Photograph of a distorted reflection of a light-skinned face with pink lips in a makeup mirror. The mirror is in front of a window with several houseplants in the corner.

Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst Relationship

Artist Project Space

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Relationship, created by Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, debuted at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. The JSMA exhibition features 26 photographs from the project, which chronicles Drucker and Ernst's private moments, from 2008 to 2013, as an opposite-oriented transgender couple, during which time Ernst transitioned from female to male and Drucker transitioned from male to female.

A blurry, enlarged photograph of a hand reaching upwards, displayed across two pages. The out-of-focus effect gives the image an ethereal and mysterious quality.

Call and Response

Focus Gallery

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Call and Response brings together four recent acquisitions that invite viewers to consider our own role in artistic communication. Inspired by the JSMA’s recent acquisition of Ann Hamilton’s Signal (2010), the title is derived from a technique in music, where a melody sung by one person is echoed by another.

A black and white photograph of a dancer in motion, wearing a dress and adorned with necklaces, captured mid-dance with a graceful pose.

Strike a Pose Images of Dance from the JSMA’s Collections

Morris Graves Gallery

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Strike a Pose features images from the world of dance drawn from the JSMA’s collection of photography. Representing photographers and dancers active in the United States in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, the images capture a variety of styles of dance, including African, Indian, jazz, modern, and ballet.

Child's drawing of a landscape depicting both underwater and tropical scenes with an airplane and volcano

NewArt Northwest Kids The Road Not Taken

Education Corridor

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NewArt Art Northwest Kids, our annual exhibition of K–12 student art, returns to the Education Corridor Galleries. This year’s theme, “The Road Not Taken,” explores students’ visual depictions and definitions of their lives, travel, or hopes for the future. Students have been encouraged to read Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken and consider the ideas conveyed to them through the poet’s words.

Lithograph with a black and white ancient Greek vase with the word “cultural” written above it next to a log with the word “natural” above it

Everyday Is Not The Same Squeak Carnwath’s Prints and Papers

Artist Project Space

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Contemporary American painter Squeak Carnwath is currently a tenured professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In her work, she combines personal references and icons from anthropology and art history with purely visual elements, and creates thought-provoking combinations of text and image. Regardless of media, everything relates back to the act of painting.

Photograph of a dark-skinned person from the mouth to ribcage. Their hands are held against their chest. The contrast between their light fingernails and dark skin is stark.

From the Heart The Photographs of Brian Lanker

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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This retrospective exhibition explores the range of photographic work by one of America’s masters of the medium, Brian Lanker (August 31, 1947 – March 13, 2011).

Title page of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies with an engraving of Shakespeare.

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library

Focus Gallery

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The exhibition — part of the international events planned for 2016 in observance of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death — will bring the 1623 original edition of the playwright’s first published collection to 53 sites: one site in all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each location will host the exhibition for four weeks.

A mentor and a child are engaged in a hands-on activity at a table. The mentor is wearing a green shirt and a purple apron, while the child is in a white t-shirt. Both are focused on the task, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Art of the Athlete IV

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This year’s exhibition features the work of Casey Benson, Jordan Bell, Dwayne Benjamin, DeForest Buckner, Megan Conder, women’s golf, Tyrell Crosby, Tony Brooks-James, Jalen Jelks, Jordyn Fox, Janita Iamaleava, Glen Ihenacho, Canton Kaumatule, Haniteli Lousi, Austin Maloata,Tui Talia, and Kira Wagoner.