This listing of archived exhibitions includes all of our past exhibitions since the fall of 2001. For earlier exhibitions or for questions regarding these or othre exhibitions, please email us.
Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel, Spring 2018
Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic, Fall 2017
High Trash, Spring 2013
Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon, Spring 2015
Pop Art Prints, Spring 2016
In Grain: Contemporary Work in Wood, Fall, 2013
Sargent to Basquiat: University of Vermont Alumni Collections, Fall 2016
Past Exhibitions at the Fleming Museum of Art
Fall 2022
Rockwell Kent: Prints from the Ralf C. Nemec Collection
September 13 - December 9, 2022
Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine
February 8 - December 9, 2022
Call and Response: Personal Reflections on the Fleming Collection
September 13- December 9, 2022
Absence
Ongoing
The Montier Portraits
September 13- December 9, 2022
Spring 2022
UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage
February 8 - May 6, 2022
Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine
February 8 - December 9, 2022
Storytelling Salon
September 14. 2021 - May 6, 2022
Absence
September 14, 2021 - Ongoing
Fall 2021
Learning Studio
September 14 - December 10, 2021
Storytelling Salon
September 14. 2021 - May 6, 2022
Absence
September 14, 2021 - Ongoing
Abstracts: Opening Space for Imagination
September 14 - December 10, 2021
Fall 2020
Reckonings: Fleming staff reflect on the collection and our current moment
Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
Spring 2020
Let's Have a Ball! Wood Gaylor and the New York Art Scene, 1913-1936
February 7 - May 8, 2020
WARP: War Rugs of Afghanistan
February 7 - May 8, 2020
Fall 2019
Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection
September 27 – December 13, 2019
RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST!
September 27 – December 13, 2019
Spring 2019
Small Worlds: Miniatures in Contemporary Art
February 13 – May 10, 2019
Global Miniatures
February 13 – May 10, 2019
Behind the Schemes: When Helen of Troy came to UVM
March 5 – May 10, 2019
Fall 2018
The Impossible Ideal: Victorian Fashion and Femininity
September 21 – December 14, 2018
House to Home
September 21 – December 14, 2018
New England Gallery
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel
January 30 – May 20, 2018
Honoré Daumier's Bluestockings
January 23 – May 20, 2018
Edwin Owre: Brenda and Other Works
February 28 – April 1, 2018
Fall 2017
Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic
September 26 — December 15, 2017
Herbert Barnett: Vermont Life and Landscape, 1940-1948
September 26 — December 15, 2017
Spring 2017
New Gallery of Asian Art
Opens January 17, 2017
Catherine Jansen: 1008
January 31 - May 21, 2017
Imbibe: Drinking In Culture
January 24 – May 21, 2017
Two Artist’s Books by Barbara Bloom with text by Susan Tallman
April 4 – May 21, 2017
Fall 2016
Sargent to Basquiat: University of Vermont Alumni Collections
September 22 – December 16, 2016
Early American Portraits
On view starting Fall 2016
Contemporary Voices from Vermont
Ongoing
Loans from the Hood Museum of Art
Ongoing
Spring 2016
Pop Art Prints
February 2 – May 22, 2016
Samuel Bak: Survival and Memory
February 10 – May 22, 2016
Sex Objects: Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality
September 8, 2015 – May 22, 2016
Fall 2015
In Grain: Contemporary Work in Wood
September 15 – December 18, 2015
World Leaders & Global Citizens: Photographs by Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator
September 22 – December 18, 2015
Spring 2015
Travelers in Postwar Europe: Photographs by H. A. Durfee, Jr., 1951-53
January 20 - June 28, 2015
Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon
February 3 - June 21, 2015
Fall 2014
Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
September 2 - December 12, 2014
Civil War Objects From the University of Vermont Collections
September 9, 2014 - May 17, 2015
Civil War Era Drawings From the Becker Collection
September 16 - December 12, 2014
Spring 2014
ANONYMOUS: Contemporary Tibetan Art
January 28 - June 22, 2014
EAT: The Social Life of Food
September 17, 2013 - May 18, 2014
Dorothy and Herb Vogel: On Drawing
January 14 - May 18, 2014
Contemporary Voices from Vermont
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Look Again: Images of Daily Life, 17th - 21st Century
October 1 - December 13, 2013
Dorothy and Herb Vogel: Fifty Works for Fifty States
September 3 - December 13, 2013
Contemporary Voices From Vermont
January 15 - December 13, 2013
Oceanic Art and the Performance of Life
September 18, 2012 - May 24, 2013
Spring 2013
High Trash
February 12 - May 19, 2013
Andy Warhol's Athletes
March 19 - May 19, 2013
Fall 2012
Pre – Columbian Collection
Opened September 4, 2012
Outcasts and Rebels: Prints by William Blake and Leonard Baskin
September 25 – December 14, 2012
Thornton Dial, Sr.: Thoughts on Paper
September 25 – December 14, 2012
From Mourning to Night: John Singer Sargent and Black in Fashion
October 2 – December 14, 2012
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Spring 2012
Up in Smoke
January 17 – August 26, 2012
Imagining the Islamic World: Early Travel Photography/J. Brooks Buxton
January 25 – May 20, 2012
Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran
January 25 – May 20, 2012
A Discerning Eye: Selections from the J. Brooks Buxton Collection
February 7 – June 3, 2012
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Fall 2011
Aki Inomata: Why Not Hand Over a ‘Shelter’ to Hermit Crabs?
August 30 – December 16, 2012
Systems in Art
August 30 – December 16, 2012
Wosene Worke Kosrof: Paintings from the Paul Herzog and Jolene Tritt Collection
September 13 – December 16, 2012
Contemporary Voices from Vermont
September 20 – December 16, 2012
The Incised Line: Engraving from the Fleming Museum Collection
September 20 – December 16, 2012
Andrew Raftery: Open House
September 20 – December 16, 2012
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Spring 2011
Shahram Entekhabi: Happy Meal
January 17 – June 3, 2011
Masked Spectacle: Commedia dell’Arte and Bread and Puppet Theater
January 18 – May 8, 2011
Pippo Lionni
January 25 – May 22, 2011
Georges Rouault: Cirque de L’etoile Filante
January 25 – May 22, 2011
Under the Big Top: The Fine Art of the Circus in America
January 25 – May 22, 2011
“To Look on Nature”: Paintings by Jay Hall Connaway
March 1 – September 5, 2011
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Fall 2010
Shadows of the Samurai: Japanese Warrior Traditions
October 14, 2010 – May 11, 2011
Christo and Jean – Claude: The Tom Golden Collection
September 21 – December 18, 2010
Metals/Materials/Culture
October 5 – December 18, 2010
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Spring 2010
Andy Warhol: Fashionistas and Celebrities
January 19 – April 25, 2010
Views and Re – Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons
January 26 – May 23, 2010
Storied Objects: Tracing Women’s Lives in Vermont
February 16 – September 3, 2010
Picture Yourself: The Photobooth in America 1926 – 2010
May 11 – September 12 , 2010
A Centennial Celebration: The Art of Francis Colburn and Ronald Slayton
June 8 – August 29 , 2010
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Fall 2009
Egyptomania
September 22 – December 18, 2009
Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
October 6 – December 18, 2009
Cuban Artists’ Books and Prints: 1985 – 2008
October 13 – November 25, 2009
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Spring 2009
Objects of Power and Identity
January 13 –May 10, 2009
Hugh Townley: Against the Grain
January 13 – March 22, 2009
More than Bilingual: William Cordova/Major Jackson
January 27 – May 10, 2009
A Beckoning Country: Art and Objects from the Lake Champlain Valley
April 14th – September 20, 2009
Elizabeth Billings: The Ties that Bind
May 26 – October 4, 2009
Buffalo Soldiers in Vermont
June 2 – September 13, 2009
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Fall 2008
Stooks, Stacks, and Sheaves: Agricultural Landscapes in America 1850 – Present
September 2 – December 19, 2008
Buddha in Paradise: Tibetan Art from the Rubin Museum
September 16 – December 19, 2008
Architectural Improvisation: A History of Vermont’s Design/Build Movement
September 25 – December 19, 2008
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Spring 2008
Actors and Exorcists: Masks of Sri Lanka
January 15 – June 8, 2008
Between Soft Machines and Hard Science: The Interstitial of W. David Powell
January 15 – June 8, 2008
100 Suns
January 31 – June 1, 2008
Water Works: Water – inspired Art and Objects from the Fleming Museum Collections
June 12 – August 24 , 2008
Stitched Together: Quilts and their Stories from the Fleming
June 24 – August 29, 2008
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Fall 2007
Heel to Toe: Shoes from the Fleming Museum
September 4 – December 14, 2007
Material Pursuits
September 4 – December 14, 2007
En Route: Travel Photography from UVM Collections
September 13 – December 14, 2007
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Spring 2007
Tourism: Curious Conquests and Unlikely Trophies
January 16 – June 10, 2007
Ambreen Butt: I Need a Hero
January 16 – June 3, 2007
Burlington and Winooski 1920 – 2020: The Evolution of Our Built Environment
February 22 – June 24, 2007
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Fall 2006
The Aesthetics of Fire: Glass Sculpture by Tony Jojola/Preston Singletary
September 5 – December 15, 2006
Fleming at 75: From Curator’s Cabinet to Modern Museum
September 5 – December 15 , 2006
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Spring 2006
Artists’ Books
January 17 – June 4, 2006
Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos
February 16 – May 14, 2006
The Inferno of Dante by Michael Mazur
February 16 – June 18, 2006
Immortal Likeness: Portraits from the Permanent Collection
June 13 – August 27, 2006
Colors of the Amazon: Featherworks from Nalin and Petersen Collections
July 20 – November 19, 2006
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Fall 2005
Worlds of Tea
September 13 – December 16, 2005
Eadweard Muybridge
October 4 – December 16 , 2005
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Spring 2005
Art/Document: Defining American Photography
January 18 – April 24, 2005
Collecting the Body. Transferring Desire
January 18 – June 5, 2005
Miniature Worlds: The Art of India
February 22 – June 5, 2005
Frank Hewitt’s Four Corner Series
May 17 – September 18, 2005
Familiar Terrain
June 14 – September 2, 2005
New Turf
July 6 – October 30, 2005
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Fall 2004
The Chinese Scholar’s World
September 30 – December 20, 2004
Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido
September 30 – December 20, 2004
Bernd Heinrich: The Naturalist as Artist
September 30 – December 20, 2004
Fungi, Unicorns, and Beached Whales
September 30 – December 20, 2004
Spring 2004
Arts of Asia: Recent Acquisitions from the Nalin, Duke, and Pickens Collections
February 8 – June 27, 2004
“The Netherlandish Proverbs” by Peter Brueghel the Younger
March 9 – June 6, 2004
Aftermath: Work by Leigh Burton and Wendy Hirschberg
July 8 – September 12, 2004
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