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Past Exhibitions

2013

NEXT at the Corcoran 2013
Shooting Stars: Publicity Stills from Early Hollywood and Portraits by Andy Warhol
Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s
From the Collection: Victor Burgin
Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII
NOW at the Corcoran – Enoc Perez: Utopia
Ivan Sigal: White Road

2012

Gallery 31 – This Is Not a Photo
On the Campaign Trail
Charlotte Dumas: Anima
Cosmo Couture
The Deep Element: Photography at the Beach
5th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series
Manifest: Armed
Continuing Education 2012 Juried Exhibition
Rick Wall: Sculpture & Furniture/Then & Now
Leslie Exton: no day without a line
MA in Teaching Exhibition
NEXT at the Corcoran: Class of 2012
Crossing the Line: 2012 Alumni Exhibition
MA in Art Education Exhibition
Tim Hetherington: Sleeping Soldiers
Shadows of History: Photographs of the Civil War from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell
MA Art and the Book Exhibition
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro: Are We There Yet?
30 Americans
Gordon Parks: Photographs from the Collection
Hank Willis Thomas: Strange Fruit

2011

Prix Pictet: Growth
Chris Martin: Painting Big
Recent Photography Acquisitions
Mads Gamdrup: Renunciation
Charles Sandison: Rage, love, hope, and despair
Washington Color and Light
NEXT at the Corcoran: BFA Class of 2011
Richard Gordon: Meta Photographs
Framed: Street Photography from the Collection
Washington Color and Light (Reopens June 25, 2011)
Robert Irwin, Gypsy Switch, 2010
Spencer Finch: My Business, With the Cloud

2010

A Love of Europe: Highlights from the William A. Clark Collection
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge In a Time of Change
American Falls: Phil Solomon
Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, national Museum Wales
Sargent and the Sea

2009

Edward Burtynsky: Oil
William Eggeston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and video, 1961-2008
Maya Lin Systematic Landscapes
The European Landscape
Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power

2008

Andre Lambertson: Mourning Stories from Which We Rise
Elena del Rivero: Home Suite
The American Evolution: A History through Art
You Won't Believe Your Eyes: 23rd Annual Printmaking Portfolio, 2008, Corcoran College of Art + Design
Access to Life
Chance Encounters: Photographs from the Collection of Norman Carr and Carolyn Kinder Carr
EXPRESSIONS 2008: Art by DC Youth
Standard Operating Procedure: Photographs by Nubar Alexanian
2008 All-Senior Exhibition
2008 BFA Senior Thesis Exhibitions
Looking for the "There There" California Art from the Collection, 1950-2000
Wild Choir: Cinematic Portraits by Jeremy Blake
FotoViajeros: International Experience / Transnational Identity
Ansel Adams
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005

2007

Torkwase Dyson: The Rims Costs but the Guck is for Free
Kyoko Ibe & Mark Lander: Indigenous Papers, Gallery 31
2007 Alumni Juried Exhibition, Recent Graduates: 2002-2006, Gallery 31
Masterpieces: European Art from the Collection
Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939
Olga Hirshhorn Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Senior Thesis Exhibitions, Gallery 31
Joan of Arc

2006

sight/insight: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection
The Paradise Institute
Robert Weingarten: Palette Series
CCA+D: The Eyes of History: Award-Winning Photographs by Members of the White House News Photographers' Association
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: National Student Art Exhibition of 2006 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
CCA+D: Botanical Treasures of Lewis & Clark: New Art for the Bicentennial
2006 U.S. Presidential Scholarsin the Literary and Visual Arts
Expressions 2006
Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour
Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective
John Singer Sargent: Portraits and Models
CCA+D: Ronald Gonzales: Fated Objects and Strange Progeny
Picturing the Banjo
Warhol Legacy: Selections from The Andy Warhol Museum
Sam Gilliam: a retrospective
Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art

2005

William MacLeod: Painter and Curator
Antoine-Louis Barye Bronzes
Combining sight and sound, Jennifer Steinkamp’s Loop installation on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Current Evince: Selected Prints by William T. Wiley from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation
The Corcoran 2005 Print Portfolio: Drawn to Representation
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2005 National Student Art Exhibition
Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art 1770-1950
Sara Pomerance: Tall Tales & Short Stories
Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics from the Corcoran Collection
Dutch Royal Silver: Celebrating the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix
48th Corcoran Biennial: Closer to Home
CCA+D: The Eyes of History 2005: An Exhibition of Award-Winning Photographs by White House Photojournalists
Expressions 2005
STRIPPED: Corcoran College of Art + Design Junior to Stage Non-Performance in front of the Corcoran Gallery of Art on May 10-11
CCA+D: Corcoran Alumni Printmakers, Curated by Georgia Deal
FRANK GEHRY, architect: designs for MUSEUMS
The Body Politic: Portraits of American Presidents
CCA+D: Allyn Massey: Lament
INVENTIONS: RECENT PAINTINGS BY CAIO FONSECA
Chermayeff & Geismar Inc: designing over four decades
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell
Sacrifices and Sorrows: Selected Bronzes by Jeffrey Meizlik
CCA+D: Michelle Repiso STILLS

2004

CCA+D: Rie Tabata
Thinking Inside the Box: The Art of Andrew Krieger
The Furniture of Frank Gehry
The Impressionist Tradition in America
CCA+D: Arash Mokhtar
CCA+D: Three: Recent Corcoran Photography Graduates
2004 Corcoran Faculty Biennial Exhibition
In Search of Self: Paintings and Drawings by Anil Revri
Sally Mann: What Remains
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms: Paintings that Inspired a Nation
Home of the Free National Exhibition
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2004 National Exhibition
The World Press Photo 2004 Exhibition
The Eyes of History 2004: An Exhibition of Award-Winning Photographs by White House Photojournalists
Expressions 2004
Memento: Muriel Hasbun Photographs
The Quilts of Gee's Bend
American Paradigms: David Opdyke and Lane Twitchell
From Folk to Funk: Selections from the Robert A. Lewis Collection
Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction An Exhibition by Jim Sanborn
Bound To Please: Selections from the Cecil G. Behrmann Collection of Bookbinding
Beyond The Frame: The Sculpture of J. Seward Johnson, Jr.

2003

Fashioning Art: Handbags by Judith Leiber
Front Page: The Photographs of Arthur Ellis
Portraits of Places: The Prints of Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist
The Eyes of History 2003: An Exhibition of Award-Winning Photographs by White House Photojournalists
Robert Frank: London/Wales
Whistler and his Circle in Venice
Joseph Mills: Inner City
Black is a Color: African-American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Fantasy Underfoot - The 47th Biennial Exhibition
In Process: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the BFA Program
The Shape of Color: Joan Miró's Painted Sculpture
Emmet Gowin: Changing The Earth

2002

here is new york: a democracy of photographs
Art and Economics: Sienese Paintings from the Dawn of the Modern Financial Age
Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years
The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873 - 1921
The Eyes of History 2002: An Exhibition of Award-Winning Photographs by White House Photojournalists
Larry Rivers: Art and the Artist
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections
Secret Games: Wendy Ewald, Collaborative Works with Children
Celebrating the Legacy III: African-American Art at the Corcoran
Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection

2001

In Response To Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places
Confronting Nature: Icelandic Art of the 20th Century
Restructured Reality: The 1930s Paintings of Francis Criss
Arthur Tress: Fantasic Voyage, Photographs 1956 - 2000
André Kertész and Theodore Fried: Away From Home
Native Land: Photographs from the Robert G. Lewis Collection
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
Willem de Kooning: In Process
The Icing on the Cake: Selected Prints by Wayne Thiebaud
The 46th Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor
Andy Warhol: Social Observer
Jack Boul: Intimate Impressions
Food Chain: Photographs by Catherine Chalmers