August 23, 2023 - August 31, 2026

Our Story Matters Gallery

The Our Story Matters Gallery is a partnership between The Columbia Museum of Art, the USC Center for Civil Rights History and Research, and Columbia SC 63: Our Story Matters. It features preeminent exhibitions on African American life and culture in Columbia from Reconstruction through the student activism of the 1960s and 1970s.

January 16, 2026 - December 31, 2050

CMA Collection

Come see the newly organized collection! We've gathered ancient and modern works of art, together in one space, that explore our shared archetypes, myths, and ideals.

January 17, 2026 - July 19, 2026

Jasper Johns: All Familiar Things

Carolina, where he had been stationed at Fort Jackson, to New York, where he would seriously pursue a career as an artist. He became fascinated with ordinary symbols: numbers, flags, and targets, which he manipulated in diverse ways across media.

January 17, 2026 - January 17, 2027

Richard Samuel Roberts: A Columbia Legacy

Richard Samuel Roberts (1880 - 1936) established his photo studio 1119 Washington Street in Columbia in 1922. He was one of only a few professional African American photographers operating in the South at that time and counted the burgeoning Black middle class as his patrons. Largely self-taught, Roberts possessed a keen eye for detail and composition, elegantly posing his sitters in a manner that exuded dignity and grace.

January 17, 2026 - March 4, 2027

Winston Wingo: Who Would We Be/Who Could We Be?

Since the 1970s, Winston Wingo (b. 1952, Spartanburg, SC) has explored the tension between technology and humanity in a dynamic series of sculptural heads. These bronze-cast cyborgs embody the contrast between industrial and organic forms.

March 21, 2026 - June 28, 2026

Rodney McMillian: A Son of the Soil

McMillian (b. 1969, Columbia, SC; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) confronts American identity by addressing complex histories — of class and race, of landscape and region, of art and a nation.

August 22, 2026 - January 3, 2027

Body Matters

Body Matters celebrates the importance of the hand in handwork and encourages viewers to consider their own relationships with objects both in and outside the galleries.

February 13, 2027 - June 13, 2027

Barbara Rossi: Fantastic Forms

Barbara Rossi (American, 1940–2023) was a key figure among the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists that uniquely blended sources ranging from Surrealism to the grotesque.

February 13, 2027 - June 13, 2027

Kate Hooray Osmond: Beautiful Everything Now

Beautiful Everything Now is a survey dedicated to Kate Hooray Osmond, the Charleston-based painter whose work explores awareness through a nonjudgmental lens, and the coexistence of multiple experiences. Luminous color and unexpected vantage points converge into scenes where joy and sorrow, creation and destruction, and distance and intimacy all unfold at once. Osmond’s paintings resist fixed readings, instead presenting a dynamic visual field in which meaning remains fluid and unresolved.

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Our Story Matters Gallery

CMA Collection

Jasper Johns: All Familiar Things

Richard Samuel Roberts: A Columbia Legacy

Winston Wingo: Who Would We Be/Who Could We Be?

Rodney McMillian: A Son of the Soil

Body Matters

Barbara Rossi: Fantastic Forms

Kate Hooray Osmond: Beautiful Everything Now

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