Exhibition history
Explore exhibitions from The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, from MoMA’s founding in 1929 to the present. These pages are updated continually.
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517: Surrealist Objects
Ongoing
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518: A Surrealist Art History
Fall 2019–Spring 2021
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510: Machines, Mannequins, and Monsters
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
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Cut ’n’ Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City
Jul 10, 2013–Jan 5, 2014
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Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013
Jan 1–Dec 31, 2013
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Artist’s Choice: Trisha Donnelly
Nov 9, 2012–Jul 28, 2013
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Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
May 6–Aug 27, 2012
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Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration
Mar 14–Jul 9, 2012
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Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983
Oct 19, 2011–Feb 12, 2012
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Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part One
Jan 26–Apr 24, 2006
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To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Jul 3, 2002–Sep 6, 2004
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Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to Now
Apr 28–Aug 1, 2004
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Pencil: Drawings from the Collection
Sep 18, 2003–Mar 8, 2004
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Collection Highlights (2001)
Feb 1, 2001–Feb 19, 2002
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Making Choices
Mar 16–Sep 26, 2000
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ModernStarts: Things
Nov 18, 1999–Mar 14, 2000
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MoMA2000, ModernStarts: Places - Unreal City
Oct 28, 1999–Mar 14, 2000
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MoMA2000, ModernStarts: People, Composing with the Figure
Oct 7, 1999–Feb 1, 2000
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Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life
May 25–Aug 26, 1997
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Master Prints from the Collection
May 18–Oct 1, 1996
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Impressions of Nature
Sep 16, 1995–Jan 2, 1996
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A Century of Artists Books
Oct 23, 1994–Jan 24, 1995
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Three Masters of the Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Vasily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee
Jan 27–May 17, 1994
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Modern Drawing: A Selection from the Collection, 1884–1961
Oct 23, 1993–Feb 15, 1994
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Miró Prints and Books from New York Collections
Oct 17, 1993–Jan 11, 1994
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Dada and Surrealism: Selections from the Collection
Apr 15–Jul 6, 1993
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Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jul 1, 1993
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Selections From The Collection (1992)
Sep 9, 1992–Feb 21, 1993
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992
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Modern Drawing from 1881–1940
May 28–Jul 20, 1992
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The Surrealist Drawing: A Selection from the Collection
Apr 18–Sep 3, 1991
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Still Life Into Object
Nov 22, 1990–Mar 19, 1991
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Drawing in Europe, 1881–1938
Jul 19–Sep 21, 1990
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Abstractions
Nov 17, 1988–Mar 26, 1989
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Recent Acquisitions
Nov 24, 1988–Jan 10, 1989
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European Drawing Between the Wars
Oct 24, 1987–Mar 1, 1988
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Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Aug 6–Dec 8, 1987
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Drawings Acquisitions
Jan 24–Jun 14, 1987
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings
May 17–Sep 1, 1984
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The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art
Oct 26, 1983–Jan 3, 1984
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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now
Mar 3–May 15, 1983
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Giorgio de Chirico
Mar 30–Jun 29, 1982
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A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981
Mar 1–16, 1982
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Reinstallation of the Collection
Oct 23, 1980–Jan 3, 1982
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Words and Pictures
Aug 20–Oct 6, 1981
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Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
Oct 25, 1980–Jan 27, 1981
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Art of the Twenties
Nov 14, 1979–Jan 22, 1980
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