• Museum visitors discuss Art and a Matter of Place, Fall 2023

  • Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel, Spring 2018

  • Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic, Fall 2017

  • 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

 

Past Exhibitions at the Fleming Museum of Art

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 other exhibitions, please email us.

Spring 2023

Josef Albers - Formulation: Articulation

February 7 - May 20, 2023

Art / Text / Context

February 7 - May 20, 2023

Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine

Extended through May 20, 2023

Collections Spotlight

Ongoing

Fall 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 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

>>> View a PDF of the Fall 2012 semester’s newsletter with complete exhibition descriptions and event listings.

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

>>> View a PDF of the Spring 2012 semester’s newsletter with complete exhibition descriptions and event listings.

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

>>> View a PDF of the Fall 2011 semester’s newsletter with complete exhibition descriptions and event listings.

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

>>> View a PDF of the Spring 2010 semester’s newsletter with complete exhibition descriptions and event listings.
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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

>>> View a PDF of the Fall 2009 semester’s newsletter with complete exhibition descriptions and event listings.

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  

>>> View a PDF of the Fall 2008 semester’s newsletter with complete exhibition descriptions and event listings.

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   

>>> View a PDF of the Fall 2007 semester’s newsletter with complete exhibition descriptions and event listings.

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

>>> View a PDF of the Spring 2006 semester’s newsletter with complete exhibition descriptions and event listings.
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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