Exhibition history
Exhibitions from our founding in 1929 to the present are available online. These pages are updated continually.
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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
May 6–
July 5, 1981 The Museum of Modern Art
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Photography (Winter 1978–1979): Alternative Gestures: Another Look at Dance Photography
December 3, 1978–
January 21, 1979 MoMA PS1
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Photography (Spring 1987): Victor Schrager: Photography
April 26–
June 21, 1987 MoMA PS1
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New Photography 2012: Michele Abeles, Birdhead, Anne Collier, Zoe Crosher, Shirana Shahbazi
October 3, 2012–
February 4, 2013 The Museum of Modern Art
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More than One Photography: Works since 1980 from the Collection
May 14–
August 9, 1992 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 2013: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Lisa Oppenheim, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan
September 14, 2013–
January 6, 2014 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 8: Dieter Appelt, Ellen Brooks, Darrel Ellis, Dennis Farber, Robert Flynt, Mary Miss, Gundula Schulze and Toshio Shibata
October 29, 1992–
January 12, 1993 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 9: Christopher Giglio, Boris Mihailov, Mark Steinmetz, and Beat Streuli
October 7, 1993–
January 4, 1994 The Museum of Modern Art
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American Surrealist Photography
April 14–
July 5, 1994 The Museum of Modern Art
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Recent Acquisitions: Photography
February 4–
April 6, 1993 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 6: Paul D’Amato, Carl Pope, and JoAnn Verburg
October 18, 1990–
January 8, 1991 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography: Zeke Berman, Antonio Mendoza, Judith Joy Ross, and Michael Spano
August 22–
December 3, 1985 The Museum of Modern Art
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The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
August 1–
November 1, 2010 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 14: Jeanne Dunning, Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Harrison, Sam Taylor-Wood
October 15, 1998–
January 12, 1999 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 7: Eberhard Grames, Sheron Rupp, and Stephen A. Scheer
October 17, 1991–
January 7, 1992 The Museum of Modern Art
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Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960
January 28–
May 9, 2011 The Museum of Modern Art
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Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990
April 16–
June 28, 2004 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 12: Richard Billingham, Thomas Demand, Osamu Kanemura, Sophie Ristelhueber, Georgina Starr, Wolfgang Tillmans
October 24, 1996–
February 4, 1997 The Museum of Modern Art
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Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West
March 29–
June 8, 2009 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 5: Vincent Borrelli, Thomas Florschuetz, Mike Mandel
October 26, 1989–
January 9, 1990 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 3: Paul Graham, Barbara Norfleet, and Thomas Roma
October 15, 1987–
January 5, 1988 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky
September 10, 2008–
January 12, 2009 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 2009: Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, Sara VanDerBeek
September 30, 2009–
January 11, 2010 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 2: Mary Frey, David Hanson, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia
October 9, 1986–
January 6, 1987 The Museum of Modern Art
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British Photography from the Thatcher Years
February 14–
April 28, 1991 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 4: Patrick Faigenbaum, Reagan Louie, and Michael Schmidt
October 20, 1988–
January 10, 1989 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography ’05: Carlos Garaicoa, Bertien van Manen, Phillip Pisciotta, Robin Rhode
October 21, 2005–
January 16, 2006 The Museum of Modern Art
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Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015
November 7, 2015–
March 20, 2016 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 2007: Tanyth Berkeley, Scott McFarland, Berni Searle
September 30, 2007–
January 1, 2008 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 13: Rineke Dijkstra, An-My Lê, Vik Muniz, Kunié Sugiura
October 24, 1997–
January 13, 1998 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 2006: Jonathan Monk, Barbara Probst, Jules Spinatsch
September 21, 2006–
January 8, 2007 The Museum of Modern Art
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The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook
April 16, 2012–
April 21, 2013 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 10: Shimon Attie, Abelardo Morell, Jorge Ribalta, Michal Rovner
October 20, 1994–
January 10, 1995 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho
September 29, 2010–
January 10, 2011 The Museum of Modern Art
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The Young Rebel in American Photography, 1950–1970
July 23–
October 13, 1992 The Museum of Modern Art
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Fame After Photography
July 8–
October 5, 1999 The Museum of Modern Art
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XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography
May 10, 2013–
January 6, 2014 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 2011: Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen, Zhang Dali
September 28, 2011–
January 16, 2012 The Museum of Modern Art
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Being: New Photography 2018
March 18–
August 19, 2018 The Museum of Modern Art
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American Photography 1890–1965 from the Collection
February 20–
October 8, 1997 The Museum of Modern Art
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Pictures of the Times: A Century of Photography from The New York Times
June 27–
October 8, 1996 The Museum of Modern Art
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New Photography 11: Uta Barth, Joseph Bartscherer, Ulrich Görlich, Eric Rondepierre
October 19, 1995–
January 9, 1996 The Museum of Modern Art
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Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography
May 7, 2010–
April 18, 2011 The Museum of Modern Art
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Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Edward Steichen Photography Center
May 27, 1964
The Museum of Modern Art
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Photography: Inaugural Installation
November 20, 2004–
June 6, 2005 The Museum of Modern Art
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Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960
July 26–
October 2, 1978 The Museum of Modern Art
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Photography 1839–1937
March 17–
April 18, 1937 The Museum of Modern Art
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California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe
June 28–
August 22, 1989 The Museum of Modern Art