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Past Exhibitions

  • August 17, 2018 - October 28, 2018

    Hiroshi Sugimoto

    Hiroshi Sugimoto's Time Exposed is a haunting portfolio of images that offer a primordial, nonlinear sense of time.

  • August 17, 2018 - October 28, 2018

    The Big Art of Katie Pell

    Katie Pell embraces the beauty in imperfection and the humor in insecurities, welcoming the downtrodden and enveloping them affectionately in oversized art.

  • November 16, 2018 - February 24, 2019

    Midcentury Masters: Jasper Johns’ Gifts to the CMA

    In 1999, Jasper Johns gave the CMA 39 works from his personal collection. Some are by Johns himself; others are by artists he admired, like Josef Albers, Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol.

  • December 5, 2018 - May 19, 2019

    Jackson Pollock: Mural

    Jackson Pollock’s 20-foot-wide Mural changed the destiny of modern art. Not only did it catapult Pollock into the spotlight, it also brought audacious new scale and experimentation to abstract expressionism.

  • February 15, 2019 - April 26, 2019

    Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards

    Our Voice: Celebrating the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards brings together winners and honorees from 1974 to 2018.

  • March 8, 2019 - May 19, 2019

    A Life with Art

    Dwight and Sue Emanuelson have generously given artworks to the CMA for 35 years, and this sweeping four-gallery exhibition celebrates the couple’s ardent engagement with art and artists.

  • April 4, 2019 - June 23, 2019

    Shades of Greene: The Art of Sanford Greene

    Exploring his versatility as an artist and illustrator, this exhibition also features Greene’s newest series Bitter Root, an epic tale about a family of monster hunters set in the Harlem Renaissance.

  • May 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019

    Latinidad: Latin American Art from the Collection

    This exhibition features 20 rarely seen gems from the collection made between the 1950s and early 1990s by artists born in Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

  • June 15, 2019 - September 8, 2019

    Mimi Kato: Ordinary Sagas

    Mimi Kato draws on the rich history and visual traditions of Japanese culture as well as the absurd everyday elements of contemporary life and merges them in imaginary landscapes.

  • June 15, 2019 - September 8, 2019

    Wow Pop Bliss: Jimmy Kuehnle's Inflatable Art

    For this exhibition, Kuehnle is filling four special exhibition galleries with touchable, interactive environments using inflatables that combine sound, light, space, and texture to create unexpected experiences for visitors as they move under, through, and around these works.

  • July 2, 2019 - September 15, 2019

    Indie Grits Lower Richland StoryLab: Places of Freedom

    These works were born of the Lower Richland StoryLab: Places of Freedom, a year-long in-school media program that focuses on the issues faced by rural communities in and around Hopkins, South Carolina, in the 21st century.

  • September 6, 2019 - December 29, 2019

    Seeing Through the Layers

    Maryanna Williams’ imagery creates a dialogue between simple forms and intricate patterns. Close up and filling the picture plane, her subjects shift between realism and abstraction.

  • October 4, 2019 - January 12, 2020

    Van Gogh and His Inspirations

    Van Gogh and His Inspirations, presented by The Blanchard Family, is an original exhibition organized by the CMA that brings the work of one of the most beloved artists in the world to Columbia, South Carolina.

  • October 4, 2019 - January 12, 2020

    En Plein Air: Scenes of South Carolina

    Celebrating the tradition and style of plein air painting seen in Van Gogh and His Inspirations, this invitational exhibition features painters from around South Carolina whose work is as unique and diverse as the state’s landscape.

  • January 3, 2020 - April 26, 2020

    Notes from the Underground

    The designers of these posters created complicated visual experiences with image mashups and vibrating color combinations. This was an intentionally dense style, distinct from the easy-to-read marketing of New York’s Madison Avenue advertising firms.

  • February 6, 2020 - July 5, 2020

    TRIBE: A Celebration of South Carolina Hip-Hop Culture

    TRIBE examines the fluid story of Hip-Hop culture in South Carolina along with the shaping of the art form’s national identity, spanning four decades of historical events and individual contributions from around the state.

  • February 15, 2020 - May 17, 2020

    It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection

    Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has put together one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of horror and sci-fi art. It’s Alive features more than 100 pieces including posters, toys, guitars, masks, and sculptures, many hailing back to the days of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

  • May 1, 2020 - August 23, 2020

    Kitchen Originals: 1950s Dish Towel Designs by John and Earline Brice

    This collection comes from California-based writer Sarah Horowitz, who saw in a single kitchen towel something worthy of study. This is also a story of home furnishing designers John and Earline Kimbrell Brice, whose dish towel designs helped “this business to skyrocket” in the 1950s.

  • June 27, 2020 - September 6, 2020

    Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite

    In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used photography to popularize the political slogan “Black Is Beautiful.” This exhibition — the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career — tells the story of a key figure of the second Harlem Renaissance.

  • July 18, 2020 - September 13, 2020

    Design by Time

    Cutting-edge international designers explore how objects can embody the element of time in this poetic exhibition. Garments that grow, trees that sing, and objects that become their own miniature worlds encapsulate nature’s growth and decay.

  • July 25, 2020 - September 26, 2020

    Anima: The Essence of Blacknuss

    Anima: The Essence of Blacknuss is a community companion show to the exhibition Black Is Beautiful and features the photography of Columbia creative Dalvin “Mustafa” Spann.

  • August 28, 2020 - January 3, 2021

    The Mind of a Renaissance Man: A Celebration of Dr. Randy Mack

    The Mind of a Renaissance Man: A Celebration of Dr. Randy Mack focuses on the life and generosity of Charles Randall Mack. His connection with the museum began in 1970, and over the course of three decades he not only shared his expertise, including writing many of the essays in the CMA’s Renaissance art catalogue, but he and his family also donated over 135 art works to the collection, ranging from Renaissance pieces to contemporary works on paper and photography to Bunzlauer ceramics.

  • October 10, 2020 - January 10, 2021

    Island Nations / Lands Divided

    Sara Schneckloth uses drawing to question how science, imagination, and the body inform one another. The works in this exhibition combine the visual languages of biology and geology into mixed-media drawings.

  • October 17, 2020 - January 10, 2021

    Visions from India

    Visions from India presents a breathtaking sweep of 21st-century painting, sculpture, and multimedia works from India and its diaspora.

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