CMA galleries are temporarily closed for a lighting update project. We are still open for events and rentals, and will begin reopening galleries on May 24 with Sam Gilliam: Printmaker. Learn more about the project here.
August 23, 2023 - August 31, 2025
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.
May 24, 2025 - August 31, 2025
This exhibition features 37 of Gilliam's finest prints created between 1972 and 2009, from the Michael K. and Marian E. Butler Collection of Miami, Florida.
Bringing together a multigenerational group of 15 Black artists working in and around abstraction, Let’s Have a Talk pushes against longstanding expectations that work by Black artists must present a clear message about their racial identity and experience, and it celebrates their crucial, yet often dismissed, role in abstract art.
September 27, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Keith Haring (1958–1990) emerged as a shooting star of the New York art scene in the 1980s. His simply drawn figures turned Haring into one of the best-known artists of his generation. Radiant Vision is a collection that features over 250 original works including drawings on paper, lithographs, silkscreens, posters, and other items that illustrate the entire span of Haring’s short but prolific career.