Past Exhibitions
Couture at Court
September 14–November 10, 2019
From Expressionism to Surrealism: Highlights of Modern Art from the Collection
June 5–October 20, 2019
Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall
June 22–September 15, 2019
Portraying Independence
Through September 16, 2019
Tom Burr / MATRIX 182 / Hinged Figures
June 6–September 8, 2019
Giorgione’s La Vecchia
May 15–August 4, 2019
Nature Through Their Eyes: American Moderns on Paper
March 23–June 23, 2019
Hartford Youth Art Renaissance
April 27–May 26, 2019
Sean Scully: Landline
February 23–May 19, 2019
Emily Mae Smith / MATRIX 181
February 7–May 5, 2019
American Moderns in Watercolor: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries
December 22, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Bed Furnishings in Early America, An Intimate Look
September 26, 2018–January 27, 2019
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
October 20, 2018–January 13, 2019
Bouke de Vries / MATRIX 180
War and Pieces
October 4, 2018–January 6, 2019
Ai Weiwei: Grapes
August 21-November 26, 2018
Conrad Shawcross / MATRIX 179
June 21, 2018-October 21,2018
Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage
June 2,2018-August 26, 2018
David Smith: Figures & Dwelling
January 27, 2018-August 19, 2018
Herbert Ferber: Space in Tension
January 27, 2018-July 29, 2018
Fine Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries
March 10, 2018–July 15, 2018
Mirror, Mirror
December 1, 2017–June 3, 2018
Gorey’s Worlds
February 10, 2018–May 6, 2018
Museum Menagerie
July 22, 2017–April 1, 2018
Sèvres’ Vase de l’Adour: A Closer Look
February 18, 2017—February 25, 2018
Sam Messer / MATRIX 178
Denis the Pirate
October 5, 2017 – February 11, 2018
Sublime North: Romantic Painters Discover Norway
Paintings from the Collection of Asbjørn Lunde
September 7, 2017–January 15, 2018
Morgan: Mind of the Collector
September 23, 2017–December 31, 2017
Keith Sonnier
Three Neons / Three Decades
January 28, 2017–October 8, 2017
Mika Tajima / MATRIX 177
After Life
June 1, 2017–September 3, 2017
Simply Splendid: Rediscovering American Design
May 13, 2017–August 13, 2017
Hand-Painted Pop! Art and Appropriation, 1961 to Now
April 29, 2017–August 13, 2017
John Trumbull: Visualizing American Independence
November 5, 2016–July 23, 2017
Valeska Soares / MATRIX 176
February 2, 2017–May 7, 2017
Utamaro and the Lure of Japan
January 7, 2017–March 26, 2017
Miniature World in White Gold: Meissen Porcelain by Johann Joachim Kaendler
January 16, 2016–January 16, 2017
Dulce Chacón / MATRIX 175
Fallen Angels
October 7, 2016–January 8, 2017
Sam Wagstaff as Curator
September 17, 2016–January 8, 2017
The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum
September 10, 2016–December 11, 2016
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection
June 25, 2016–September 25, 2016
Vanessa German/MATRIX 174
i come to do a violence to the lie
June 9, 2016–September 4, 2016
The End of Innocence: Childhood Torments in the Contemporary Art Collection
February 6, 2016–August 14, 2016
Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion & Its Legacy
March 5, 2016–July 10, 2016
Sound & Sense: Poetic Musings in American Art
November 14, 2015–May 15, 2016
Mark Dion/MATRIX 173
The Wadsworth Atheneum’s Great Chain of Being
October 1, 2015–January 3, 2016
Legacy for the Future: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Winter Antiques Show Loan Exhibition | Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
January 22, 2016–January 31, 2016
Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls
October 17, 2015–January 24, 2016
Director’s Choice
Aspects of Portraiture: Photographs from the Wadsworth Atheneum
July 11, 2015–December 13, 2015
Visions from Home: Surrealism in Connecticut
July 3, 2015–October 18, 2015
Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis
July 3, 2015–September 20, 2015
Mark Bradford / MATRIX 172
June 4, 2015–September 6, 2015
The Jason Tapestries
November 28, 2014–July 5, 2015
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008
January 31, 2015–May 31, 2015
Michael C. McMillen / MATRIX 171
January 31, 2015–May 3, 2015
Heaven and Earth: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection
Through April, 2015
Frohawk Two Feathers / MATRIX 170
October 2, 2014–January 4, 2015
Walton Ford’s Novaya Zemlya
June 14, 2014–December 14, 2014
Ruben Ochoa / MATRIX 169
June 5, 2014–September 7, 2014
Allison Schulnik / MATRIX 168
February 6, 2014–May 4, 2014
An Artificial Wilderness: The Landscape in Contemporary Photography
August 31, 2013–February 23, 2014
The Age of Pleasure and Enlightenment
August 10, 2013–February 23, 2014
Weaving the Myth of Psyche
September 13, 2013–February 16, 2014
Virgil Marti / MATRIX 167
August 1, 2013–January 5, 2014
Media Rewind 1963
June 4, 2013–December 8, 2013
Burst of Light: Caravaggio and His Legacy
March 6, 2013–June 16, 2013
Deb Sokolow / MATRIX 166
February 7, 2013–June 30, 2013
Medieval to Modern: French Drawings and Pastels
September 29, 2012–March 31, 2013
Medieval to Monet: French Paintings in the Wadsworth Atheneum
October 19, 2012–January 27, 2013
Ahmed Alsoudani / MATRIX 165
September 6, 2012–January 6, 2013
James Nares: STREET
June 2, 2012–November 15, 2012
The Museum Collects
June 30, 2012–September 9, 2012
Jan Tichy / MATRIX 164
April 5, 2012–August 5, 2012
Andrew Wyeth: Looking Beyond
March 24, 2012–July 22, 2012
James Welling: “Wyeth”
March 24, 2012–July 22, 2012
Colts & Quilts: The Civil War Remembered
November 16, 2011–May 6, 2012
Claire Beckett / MATRIX 163
November 3, 2011–March 4, 2012
Three Histories: The Wadsworth According to MATRIX
December 24, 2011–March 4, 2012
Patti Smith: Camera Solo
October 21, 2011–February 19, 2012
Shaun Gladwell / MATRIX 162
June 2, 2011–September 18, 2011
Monet’s Water Lilies: An Artist’s Obsession
February 17, 2011–June 12, 2011
Rashaad Newsome / MATRIX 161
February 3, 2011–May 1, 2011
Kim Schoenstadt / MATRIX 160
October 7, 2010–January 9, 2011
American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
October 2, 2010–January 17, 2011
Justin Lowe / MATRIX 159
June 3, 2010–September 5, 2010
Kitty Kraus / MATRIX 158
February 4, 2010–May 2, 2010
