All Past Exhibitions

August 15 - December 10, 2023   Opening Reception is Thursday, August 17, at 5:30 pm. "From micro artworks the size of your hand to mammoth, room-sized installations, the diverse roster of women artists in A Beautiful Mess: Weavers & Knotters of the Vanguard...

August 15 – November 13, 2023   An exhibition in honor of Frank Sampson's forthcoming catalog. Inspired by a love of story-telling and a fascination with animals and art history, Frank Sampson has built a career that has reached a pinnacle in the art community....

April 6 - August 1, 2023   Opening Reception is Thursday, April 6, at 6 pm. Chris Pancoe will lead an informal gallery talk. "Blue ice equals strong and safe ice and the green light for mini temporary villages to form on our frozen rivers and lakes. In this mixed...

April 27 - May 28, 2023   Opening Reception Thursday, April 27th, 6 pm.  Dyan Rey Lecture: May 16th, 6 pm   Artist Statement: Over the last number of years, I have produced a series of paintings depicting some of the women artists who were important...

December 8 - March 26, 2023   Opening Reception is Thursday, December 8, at 5:30pm.Tim Schouten will lead an informal gallery talk.   Schouten is a Canadian artist of settler ancestry, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Although he has exhibited in numerous group...

January 19 - March 26, 2023   Dragonfly Eyes directed by Xu Bing Screening Tuesday, January 25th, at 6 pm. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow with the artist.   Work from the Museum's permanent collection will be on display, January 19th. Xu...

September 1 - November 27, 2022   Opening Reception is Thursday, September 1, from 5:00 - 7:00 pmHors d'oeuvres will be served.  Tim Duffy lecture October 20, 6:00 pm Tim Duffy is the founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a nonprofit organization that...

September 1 - November 27, 2022   Opening Reception is Thursday, September 1, from 5:00 - 7:00 pmDrinks and hors d'oeuvres served. Richard Tsong-Taatarii is a Staff Photographer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and and a documentary photographer of his own...

June 2 - August 20, 2022 Opening Reception is Thursday, June 2, from 5 – 7 pm.Christopher and Sue will be speaking.Drinks and hors d'oeuvres served.  Christopher Benson and Sue McNally both hail originally from Rhode Island but have also spent long periods living,...

April 7 - May 22, 2022   Lecture Thursday, April 21, 6 pm, followed by a reception with the artist.This event is free and open to the public. Join us on a twenty-year travel across North Dakota with Boston-based photographer Jim Dow. In 1981, the Museum...

February 27 - May 22, 2022   The North Dakota Museum of Art announces the opening of From the Collection of Anonymous II, ongoing gifts from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Museum directors make lifelong friends. NDMOA’s Director Laurel Reuter has made...

July 18 - September 14, 2021   Reception Sunday, August 22, 2 - 4 pm Exhibition on loan from RJ and Krista Kern and is a promised gift to the Museum's collection.   I have made photographs in all 50 states; scoping out the lay of the land and the hand of man...

July 7 - July 12, 2021   The landscape of South Dakota, remote, yet beautiful, has left its mark on Carol Hepper, a native of the state. It has elicited from her an extraordinarily poetic response in the form of a body of work that unites respect for the past and...

July 7 - July 12, 2021 Todd Hebert received his BFA from the University of North Dakota and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has been a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; and the Core Residency Program at the Glassell...

March 21 - May 31, 2021   The North Dakota Museum of Art will open Conservation Through Clay by Fargo-based artist Brad Bachmeier on Sunday, March 21. There will be no opening reception, but the artist will record a talk which the Museum will upload to YouTube...

April - October 7, 2020 We asked that you submit images of what you are doing to be creative in this time of social distancing, and you answered our call. We are honored to receive an outpouring of images coming from around the world. So far we've recieved over...

March 2020 - December 2020   A Multi-media celebration of Native American life and art pulled from the Museum’s Permanent Collection and from artists from around the country. The exhibition includes works by: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Julie Buffalohead, Rick...

March 2020 - December 2020 All the matriarchs in Lynne Allen’s family were members of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota. All were sent away to government boarding schools, to realign their cultural heritage. Allen addresses the consequences in...

SELECTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM'S PERMANENT COLLECTION Armando RamosAlbert BelleveauElias SimeBarton Lidice BenesCraig LangagerGreg BlairArnold SaperConstanza RESRoss RolshovenGuillermo Srodek-HartKiki SmithAganetha DyckRobert PeluceWilliam T. WileyBartosz BedaLEFT TO...

May 19th - August 15th 2019   Rogers' work explores the American obsession with acceleration, aggression, and adrenal pursuits. Created from a mix of hard and soft materials, the sculptures range from fantastic creatures made of decommissioned firearms to...

April 24- July 7, 2019 Who owns the power or controls it? Who has the power and can it be shifted, negotiated. Nature pitted against Humans is one of the most important power struggles of our time. Wealth against Poverty is another. People against Government....

January 27 until February 2, 2019   This Week Only is the Museum’s most popular exhibition in our own region. Imagine a panoply of art from the Red River Valley and surrounding plains and woodlands; walls covered with works springing from our own place to...

October 14, 2018 - January 17, 2019 This overview of Walter Piehl’s paintings and drawings cover the years 1962–2018. Since the exhibit spans Piehl’s entire career there are pieces from 1960 through 1964 when he was a student at Concordia College in Moorhead,...

June 26th - September 9th 2018    This retrospective exhibition was organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art. The show included over 120 images, beginning with Geesaman’s 1979-80 Twins Series and continuing through the Quarry Series, Mendota Bridge, Wax...

February 11, 2018   On display are works from: Christopher Benson Lisa Nankivil Francisco Alvarado-Juarez Mary Bonkemeyer Alexa Horochowski Margaret Wall-Romana John Hitchcock Rena Effendi Mollie Douthit Mary Lucier Barton Benes Rick Bartow Duane Mickelson Paul...

February 11, 2018   Bradford Hansen-Smith is a working artist. He is also a teacher. Wholemovement™ is the process of learning geometry through folding paper circles. Developed by sculptor Bradford Hansen-Smith, this guide for teachers and home-schooling parents...

January 28 - February 4, 2018   The Museum held its first This Week Only show in 2018. Imagine a panoply of art from the Red River Valley and surrounding Plains; walls covered with works springing from our own place to brighten up our lives in the dead of winter....

August 13, 2017 - January 10, 2018 In my work, nature is a metaphor for the complexity of the human condition. The vulnerability of the environment should be a universal concern that transcends cultures and borders. As an artist keenly aware of the urgency of...

August 13, 2017 - January 10, 2018  Weeds are plants that grow in places other than where humans determine they should be. Weeds are the bane of existence across North Dakota, now an intensively planted, agricultural paradise. An adjacent industry has arisen just to...

August 13 - October 22, 2017 “I use forms of meditation to engage in a visual dialogue, using processes both ancient and contemporary, to experience a personal journey both true and beyond words.” -Marley Kaul These paintings were completed between October of 2016 and...

June 15 - July 23, 2017 Rena Effendi was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and grew up in the USSR, witnessing her country’s path to independence—one marred by war, political instability, and economic collapse. From the outset, Effendi focused her photography on issues of...

June 1 - July 31, 2017 Home is where we live and for most of us the place where we are most comfortable. Beyond Home is everywhere else. This exhibition is drawn from the North Dakota Museum of Art’s permanent collection. It is artwork the Museum holds in trust for...

May 7 - July 30, 2017 Artist's Statement The continual undercurrent to my work is a curiosity in representing objects, spaces, or people that are important to me through paint. The material of paint allows an equalization of importance to these subjects, and through...

April 2, 2017   Zemer Peled’s Suspension, is a site-specific environment composed of delicately interlocked porcelain lines suspended in air. This installation is presented alongside brother Amit Peled’s cello program “Journey with My Jewishness” and provides a...

April 2 - May 31, 2017   Susana Amundaraín is a Venezuelan-born American artist. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Amundaraín’s work is represented in museums in South America and the United States, as well...

March 6 - May 1, 2017 In 1941 the U. S. Justice Department converted Fort Lincoln from a surplus military post into an internment camp to detain people arrested in the United States as enemy aliens. Over its five-year operation as a camp, the Bismarck facility housed...

February 23 - March 26, 2017 As you travel around the Red River Valley by car, fields of sugar beets extend in all directions as far as the eye can see. The only visual relief comes in the form of small groups of people at work weeding in the field. In July of 1995...

February 5 - 12, 2017   Looking. Looking. Looking. It is essential that we at the North Dakota Museum of Art discover the work of our own artists who haven’t yet crossed our radar. Our audience is interested in what artists they already know are up to. Artists...

September 24 - October 16, 2016                November 1 - November 27, 2016 On display in the Jean Dean Holland Gallery were works from the North Dakota Museum of Art's Permanent Collection.   Artists included: Lee Bontecour Terry Evans Jay Heikes John...

September 24, 2016 - January 15, 2017 Join us and Winnipeg artist James Culleton to celebrate the completion of Dear Margery, his three-year investigation into the history of McCanna House and its owner, the late Margery McCanna. Tour McCanna House at McCanna, ND,...

July 19 - September 18, 2016 A sense of the local is central to Nancy Friese’s work, which documents places and events that are specific and personal, while offering them up to be shared by the viewer. Friese is a landscape artist, and, though she lives and works most...

May 24 - July 13, 2016 Rick Bartow is a major American painter. He is also widely recognized as a significant West Coast, American Indian artist who has been an active painter, sculptor, and printmaker since the late 1970s. His art, though deeply personal, speaks to...

April 6 - May 25, 2016 This body of work combines projected light, video and sculptures that have origins in my research as a Fulbright Fellow in Indonesia. There, I was concerned with Javanese cosmology, tools for navigating the relationship between humans and nature...

April 3 - May 15, 2016 I started to realize that art wasn’t just located in the studio...I started to see that there was as much significance in the moments when I wasn’t really making anything, or those moments leading up to the art. So that’s become more important...

April 3 - May 15, 2016 Artists Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje Master Printmaker Kim Fink   In the summer of 2015, the three artists began an outstanding project that resulted in twenty-six prints that chronicle stories of individual Native people who live within...

February 6 - March 4, 2016 Kim Fink has taught at the University of North Dakota since 1999. He is now in his final semester, retiring in May 2016. As a beloved Professor of Art and Printmaking, he has developed a highly regarded printmaking program at the University,...

February 6 - March 4, 2016 With artists Bill Harbort, Terry Jelsing, and Tim Schouten. They will speak at the opening. In 2012, the North Dakota Museum of Art was one of ten cultural organizations in the country to be awarded the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s...

October 17 - December 15, 2015 On display in the Jean Dean Holland Gallery were works from the North Dakota Museum of Art's Permanent Collection.   Artists included: Mary Bonkemeyer Rena Effendi Glen Hanson Bill Harbot Graciela Iturbide Douglas Kinsey Marley Kaul...

October 17 - December 13, 2015 At the most basic level—and beyond attempting to link the “formal” language of abstraction with the folk art of jianzhi (paper-cut)—I also tinker with subtle, symbolic implications and metaphors that connect the past and the present,...

June 16 - July 26, 2015 Twenty years ago, photographer and native New Yorker Jill Brody began to visit Montana. Instead of finding only the expected stereotypical cowboy culture of the West, she saw diversity and difference. On Tuesday, June 16, at 7 pm the exhibition...

June 16 - June 26, 2015 Something Absurd is the second exhibition in "The Art Makers" series. Underwritten by William Wosick of West Fargo, "The Art Makers" will allow artists to create new bodies of work based in a singular idea or theme. This might entail an...

April 28 - June 7, 2015 On June 22, 2011, the Souris River ravaged Minot, North Dakota. Forcing its way through homes, it seized thousands of precious items carrying them to new resting places. Foremost among the displaced were hundreds, possibly thousands, of books. ...

February 15 - April 19, 2015 December 2012, thirty earthenware pots and a few clay and wood sculptures arrived at the Museum, a gift from Thomas McNemar who spent twenty years in West Africa amassing an extensive collection of African art. He became a dealer whose...

November 9, 2014 - January 14, 2015 Visit the Sanny Ryan Gallery and Mezzanine level to see works from the North Dakota Museum of Art Permanent Collection.   Artists include: Magdalena Abakanowicz Caroline Dukes Signe Stuart Theodore Waddell Martie Zelt Eric Budd...

November 9 - January 14, 2015 The Vase Project: Made in China—Landscape in Blue is a conceptual work consisting of 101 porcelain vases painted by Qing Hua (blue-and-white) artists in Jingdezhen, China. The exhibition results from the unusual collaboration of the...

August 3 - October 12, 2014 Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) is a fine art print publisher established in 1957 by Tatyana Grosman. Initially making lithographs with artists such as Larry Rivers, Sam Francis, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, ULAE sparked a...

August 3 - October 12, 2014 Journey to the prairies of western North Dakota with nationally acclaimed photographer Terry Evans and award-winning journalist and filmmaker Elizabeth Farnsworth to explore the impact of the current oil boom on the Williston Basin region....

August 3 - October 12, 2014 In 1973, the first major Pop Art Auction took place in New York at Parker Bernet, the Robert and Ethel Scull collection. As Assistant Director of Dayton’s Gallery 12, I was there with John Stoller, the Gallery Director, and we purchased two...

June 5 - July 27, 2014 Mary Bonkemeyer. Painter/poet. Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A. Ms. Bonkemeyer studied with Philip Guston and worked with Richard Diebenkorn and Nancy Graves. She thinks of her paintings “as traces or marks that weave together, quiver, alternate,...

May 4 - July 27, 2014 Seattle-based sculptor Craig Langager offered the North Dakota Museum of Art a selection from his major sculptures for its collection. Many of these works are based on his memories and experiences of being on the Northern Plains in the 1980s and...

February 8 - May 28, 2014 In 2012, the Museum was one of ten art institutions in the country to receive the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's Artistic Innovation and Collaboration grant, a three-year grant designed to encourage artistic collaboration and innovation....

February 8 - April 27, 2014 Arnold Saper was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1933. He attended the University of Manitoba and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1961.  After earning a Certificate in Education, Mr. Saper taught for several years in high...

November 16 - January 21, 2014 Vernal Bogren Swift is a batik-maker. Her choice of art forms, her fascination with pattern, and her receptivity to the myths of many cultures originated in Africa. She explores the relationship of geology and perception and incorporates...

November 16 - January 21, 2014   Sanny (Suzanne) Ryan was a founding Trustee of the North Dakota Museum of Art and the Museums Foundation. In her honor, the Museum has recently acquired a remarkable African Terracotta Collection. This exhibition opens in...

August 22 - January 21, 2013   The exhibition consists of one painting – Through the Eye of the Needle to the Anvil, an homage to his mother who was an early North Dakota aviation pioneer. The painting measures 17 x 46 feet and once installed, will cover the...

August 27 - October 20, 2013 Jennifer Angus first showed at the Museum in 2003, as part of the group exhibition Bugs and Such. Angus returns to fill the Museum's galleries with more exotic bugs and creatures. “My installation, In the Midnight Garden, takes inspiration...

June 5 - August 6, 2013 Washed in stillness and beauty, this gathering of Robert Archambeau’s work from the past ten years speaks to an intensely lived life. Having celebrated his eightieth birthday in the spring of 2013, this unretired artist spends endless hours in...

June 5 - August 6, 2013 Violet Isle is the product of photographers and partners, Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb. The couple returned to Cuba in 2000 to teach a photography workshop. This return to Cuba sparked two separate projects: Alex's documentation of Cuban...

June 5 - August 6, 2013   Rebecca Norris Webb is a New York-based photographer. In 2005, Webb set out to photograph her home state of South Dakota, "...a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, coyotes, mule deer,...

April 14 - May 26, 2013 Spring promises to arrive along with “Dancing, Dazzling Beads,” an exhibition dependent upon dazzling, dancing light. The North Dakota Museum of Art, known for its galleries defined by shifting, changing, glorious light, will greet the season...

April 14 - May 26, 2013 Susie Lee grew up in Grand Forks but left to pursue her MFA. Today she calls Seattle home. Lee is returning for her first North Dakota exhibition titled Split Open. According to Lee, "There is a space between the person that left and the person...

February 17 - April 7, 2013 The show “Grids, Blobs, Smears, and Stripes” samples Ray’s abstractions from 1968 to his most recent work. “His work defines a very distinct voice here. His work with material, paper for example, was unique to this area,” said Mark Weiler,...

February 9 - April 7, 2013 Dan Jones is a painter of place, his own place, the utterly flat landscape of the Red River Valley and the rolling hills that flank the forty-mile-wide and two-hundred-mile-long Valley, which isn’t a valley at all but the flood plain of the...

October 28 - January 20, 2013 Born in Valley City in 1972, Todd Hebert spent his early years in McHenry, North Dakota. His father, a high school teacher, moved the family to Dickinson in 1980 to accept the job at Dickinson High School coaching basketball and teaching...

October 28 - January 20, 2013 From Dark into Light features artists with connections to the Grand Forks area. This multi-media exhibition consists of work by Patrick Luber, Professor of Sculpture at the University of North Dakota; Guillermo Guardia, ceramic sculptor...

August 7 - September 30, 2012 Collaborating since the age of three, the identical twin artists, Ryan and Trevor Oakes, create perspective drawings from nature and architecture using an innovative concave easel, invented as part of their ongoing exploration of human...

July 24 - September 24, 2012 Rena Effendi Bill Harbort John Hitchcock Terry Jelsing Mary Lucier Tim Schouten   In the Spring of 2012, the Museum was selected from a pool of 65 national arts organizations to receive the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's Artistic...

June 19 - October 30, 2012   Important works of art owned by the people of North Dakota.   The work in the exhibition represents the top echelon of People’s Gold, according to Museum Director Laurel Reuter. The exhibition consists of fifty-two artists, all...

March 27 - June 10, 2012 Young Dakota Artists features the work of 22 artists living and working in the Dakotas. The exhibition was co-curated by Greg Blair of Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota; and Matthew Wallace of Grand Forks, North...

March 27 - June 10, 2012 This large retrospective survey covers twenty years of one of Ethiopia’s most original and prolific artists. Included are over 100 works made from such things as yarn stitches, tattered fabric, buttons, stuffed goat skins, discarded plastic...

February 12 - March 21, 2012 Photographs document what happened in Peru during one of its most violent periods in history from 1980 to 2000. Textiles testify to the resilience of humans to get through such times. The current exhibition at the North Dakota Museum of...

February 12 - March 21, 2012 Nineteen third-year students in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Department at North Dakota State University were assigned the task to explore, research, and create sketch and model proposals for four cabins or...

November 29 - January 15, 2012 We who live in the woodlands; the moraine ridges, washes and sloughs of the Northern Plains; or along the Central Flyway—that migration route from the Arctic to South America—live among birds. Collected in this exhibition are dozens of...

September 17 - October 23, 2011 Margaret Wall-Romana is a painter who engages with the long history of her medium, with influences as varied as 15th to 17th Century Dutch and Flemish painting, Mannerism, The Hudson River School, Abstract Expressionism and Color Field...

September 17 - October 23, 2011 This large-scale painting project is at a very starting point.  It is based on the essential properties of matter, and the infinite possibilities of immeasurable space, using the Superconducting Supercollider project from the Fermilab...

June 21 - November 14, 2011 “A pipe dream is a fantastic hope that is regarded as being impossible to achieve. This exhibition is dedicated to the people of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, linked by the oil pipeline and their fading hopes for a better future.” – Rena...

June 21 - September 2, 2011 Still life rose its gorgeous head in 17th century Dutch paintings of delectable rotting fruit; sumptuous arrangements of flowers; gleaming tipped glasses, and half-eaten meals. In 1997, Letinsky began to photograph still life tableaus she...

January 23 - June 15, 2011   The North Dakota Museum of Art is filling the galleries with works from the Permanent Collection. The exhibition will be divided into two themes. Visitors will find work based abstraction in one gallery and language-based artwork in...

November 7 - January 9, 2011 Portland artist Lena McGrath Welker has spent the last six years toiling on her exhibition that will fill the galleries of the North Dakota Museum of Art. In 2004, the artist showed four bodies of work from her on-going Navigation Series...

August 24 - October 23, 2010 Fantastic brings together of the work of a dozen artists from the United States, Canada, England, Iceland, and Argentina who delve into the implausible, incredible, and improbable. It is as though the artists provide the viewer with the...

August 24 - October 10, 2010 For decades artist John Snyder has wanted to find a piece of paradise upon which to build a chapel. He recently purchased his “piece of Paradise” in northeast Iowa, and in his current exhibition at the North Dakota Museum of Art he...

June 22 - August 15, 2010 The exhibition was co-curated by NDMOA Director and Chief Curator Laurel Reuter and Icelandic artist Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson. Reuter visited many artist studios in Iceland over the past four years. She ultimately invited Friðjónsson to join...

April 17 - June 13, 2010 Does such a thing as contemporary Indian art exist on the Northern Plains? “Shared Histories,” a new exhibition opening on April 17 at the North Dakota Museum of Art suggests that our northern reservations are shared territory between Indian...

February 17 - April 11, 2010 An American video artist, Cecelia Condit’s work focuses on the contrast between the everyday world and fairy tales, with topics ranging from female aging to the imaginary world of children to suburban cannibalism. Since the early 1980s...

February 17 - April 11, 2010   Born in Lima, Peru, and a one-time philosophy major at the Universidad Católica del Peru, Carlos Runcie Tanaka chose instead to dedicate himself to the art of pottery making, undertaking studies in Brazil, Italy and Japan. Since...

January 25 - April 11, 2010 Paint Local II is the follow-up exhibition to Paint Local, an exhibition which featured the work of Pirjo Berg, Lori Esposito, Dyan Rey, Adam Kemp, Mike Marth and Zhimin Guan. Paint Local II features three Red River Valley painters. Sarah...

September 7 - October 11, 2009 Paint Local features the work of local painters Pirjo Berg, Zhimin Guan, Lori Esposito, Dyan Rey, Adam Kemp, and Mike Marth. Pirjo Berg was born in Helsinki in 1964. She studied Regional Planning at the University of Tampere, Finland,...

June 30 - August 30, 2009 It seems Zoran Mojsilov, a Serbian born and raised in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, was born an artist. At a young age, Mojsilov found himself drawn to making things. He became a toymaker for the neighborhood children at the age of two. By the time...

June 30 - August 30, 2009  Kimmerle was born and raised in Minnesota and has been a photographer for more than 20 years. He moved to Grand Forks in 1996 while working as a photojournalist. His subsequent travels throughout the rural areas of the plains gave him an...

May 3 - June 21, 2009 Nancy Sutor, independent curator, the Lannan Foundation and the Santa Fe Art Institute organized The History of the Future, which includes work by photographers Michael Berman and Julian Cardona and writer Charles Bowden. For over 30 years the...

May 3 - June 21, 2009 Born and raised in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sophiya attended the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, where she selected Printmaking as her field of choice. After three years of intensive etching, she pursued a two-year Printmaking Masters...

February 15 - April 26, 2009 In February 2008, the Museum unveiled the first installment of this three-part exhibition series in which artists respond to war as it affects ordinary, non-military people. Artists and War I, was a multi-media group exhibition of six...

November 5 - January 5, 2009 After living in the United States for nearly thirty years, I still define myself as English. I almost live in two worlds, watching BBC television, listening to BBC Radio 4: all my news and sense of America is filtered through those...

November 5 - January 5, 2009   A multimedia exhibition including work from: Thomas Allen Albert BelleveauBarton BenesDeborah Mae BoardKim BromleyThomas BrummettCecelia ConditDon GahrLynn GeesamanVance GellertGuillermo HartHenry HorensteinSusana JacobsonKate...

August 23 – October 5, 2008   As a printmaker, Tarsia is part of a tradition of artists who acknowledge that their plates—the pieces of metal, plastic, wood and linoleum that they print from—are the true objects of their affection. Covered with marks, lines, and...

June 10 - August 10, 2008 “I came to North Dakota because I wanted to see where Teddy Roosevelt went after his wife died. It turned out to be a place where you could empty your soul into the sky,” according to American landscape photographer Greg Conniff. He is one of...

April 6 - June 1, 2008 Works of art by Native American artists from the University of North Dakota Art Collection.  The exhibition highlights the university’s extensive holding of Native North American Art, including numerous historical, traditional, and ceremonial...

March 6 - June 1, 2008   The Museum Collects represent a wealth of artwork. While housed on the campus, the Museum is a separate institution managed by its own Board of Trustees. Thus the collection is owned by the Museum, which holds it in trust for the general...

February 10 — March 30, 2008   A multi-media group exhibition of artists from around the world creating art about the war or conflict. This is the first is a series of exhibitions that will ultimately result in a publication and touring exhibition about the...

January 20 – February 2, 2008   A look at over sixty works of art from the collection's of:Sara Christensen and Gregory BlairChad CayaJan HeitmannAdam KempBrian LofthusTricia and Jamie LunskiAmy Jo and Derik LysteDanielle Masters and Les MooreWade MyszkaJennifer...

November 18 - January 13, 2008 Warren MacKenzie: Legacy of an American Potter is an exhibition presenting 300 seminal works produced by the artist over a sixty-year period (1947-2006). Recognized as a true master of 20th Century ceramic art, MacKenzie embodies eastern...

November 18 - January 13, 2008 Seattle-based sculptor Craig Langager has recently offered the North Dakota Museum of Art a selection from his major sculptures for its collection. The Museum invites the public to help decided which pieces should be accepted. Many of...

September 23 - November 10, 2007 I love the fact that the label on this specimen includedthe stomach contents. I also like this specimen becauseit was the only one that I saw in the drawers that hadits wing outstretched.              —Terry Evans Terry Evans has spent...

August 9 - September 16, 2007 Jim Dow has been coming to North Dakota since 1981, first commissioned by the Museum to photograph folk art within the environment. By 2000 Jim’s directive was to shoot “whatever catches your fancy” while wandering the blue highways and...

August 9 - October 7, 2007 Brian Paulsen, long recognized as a major North Dakota artist, has been winning prizes across the country for decades. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see Brian’s insouciant, irrational, and serendipitous paintings on paper—all...

August 9 - October 7, 2007 Kellyann Burns creates taut and luscious minimal paintings and drawings that trace their roots to earlier minimal and color field paintings, plus not so spare  collages cut from the sandpaper she uses to pare away her paint surfaces....

May 19 - July 29, 2007 Jim Cottrell and Joe Lovett, who live and work in New York City, have been collecting art since 1976. They began by forging personal relationships with artists, which, in turn, evolved into long-term commitments to their work. The aesthetic of...

March 27 - May 27, 2007   While all but Lalla Essaydi use their own bodies as the impetus for their art, the work in the exhibition has nothing to do with portraiture in the conventional sense. Moroccan Lalla Essaydi covers whole rooms and the women who inhabit...

February 11 - March 18, 2007 Thirty-nine artists have created artwork based on selected passages of the original journal entries of Lewis and Clark. Exhibition consists of work in paint, sculpture, fiber and ceramics. Gretchen BedermanKimble BromleyBrent BraniffNancy...

February 11 - March 18, 2007 The 10 year anniversary of the winter of 1996 - 1997. Featuring Ebb Tide by Barton Benes of New York, Mitzuo Toyazaki of Kobe Japan, who watched the flood ravish Grand Forks from his home and mounted an exhibition in a Kyoto gallery for...

December 10 - February 4, 2007 Quiet and lively, somber and humorous, the works in this exhibition employ elemental materials and concentrated handwork. Drawn, painted, glued, powdered, hammered or cut – one finds multiple experiences of time, space and breath. Works...

October 22 - December 3, 2006 Georgie Papageorge grew from the soul of South Africa. Born there, raised there, rooted there, she consciously chose to stay—through the rich years of plenty for white South Africans, through the terror and fear that escorted out years of...

October 12 - January 6, 2007 Thirty-six national and international artists explore the idea of self. Via paint, ceramics and fiber, artists tell their own stories. How we view ourselves depends on many factors. Numerous artists from around the United States were asked...

August 1 - September 12, 2006 Six small chapels are springing up amid the peonies and granite sculpture in the garden of the North Dakota Museum of Art. It is the collaborative work of painter Marjorie Schlossman and architects Michael Burns, Joel Davy, Jef Foss,...

June 17 - July 23, 2006 Cyrus Swann is a multi-media artist who focuses on three-dimensional ceramics, moving from pottery, to sculpture, to installation. According to the artist, “My work explores the depths of form and surface available in the medium but also...

June 17 - September 19, 2006 For nearly three years Vance Gellert has been traveling through Minnesota and North Dakota in search of self-taught artists who are compelled to do their craft. His photographs of the artists and the landscapes in which they live are...

April 9 - June 11, 2006   The North Dakota Museum of Art is interested in the difference between art of the region and what one finds throughout the nation. It is with this idea in mind that Land and Spirit, a collection of work by 27 regional, national and...

February 4 - April 2, 2006 Thirteen artists are featured in the first exhibition. They include Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Douglas Kinsey, David Madzo, Duane Penske, Kiki Smith, Frank Bigbear, Peter Dean, Shana Kaplow, Sterling Rathsack, Magdalena Abacanovich, David...

November 20, 2005 - January 15, 2006 Onofrio's object-filled work constructs a world of fond memories, humor and stories of life and art. Onofrio's work has always been geared towards the recreation of imagined journeys, unattainable adventures and longed-for lands....

November 20, 2005 - January 9, 2006 Judy Jennings was born in Winnipeg, although she spent twenty years in Ontario as a nurse before returning to her hometown. She gave up the medical field in order to concentrate on glass. According to Jennings, "I began working with...

August 13 - October 23, 2005   Echavarría was one of the twelve artists included in the recent Museum exhibition, The Disappeared. This is his first comprehensive solo museum exhibition in the US. He spent thirty years as a novelist before turning to conceptual...

June 14 - August 1, 2005   Background of the Project : The town of Argus was the creation of the railroad, and the railroad had no right to be there. Yet once it crossed the river there was no stopping it from going on into the emptiness. What was hauled into the...

March 29 - June 5, 2005 Catalog published by Charta and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Written and edited by Reuter with Preface by Lawrence Weschler   Funded by the Otto Bremer Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Lannan Foundation   "To...

February 7 - March 20, 2005  This exhibition spotlighted contemporary video from those east-central European countries that recently joined the European Community. It included fifty-two works by over three dozen artists from sixteen countries including Estonia,...

January 29 - March 15, 2005 As you travel around the Red River Valley by car, fields of sugar beets extend in all directions as far as the eye can see. The only visual relief comes in the form of small groups of people at work weeding in the field. In July of 1995...

November 14, 2004 - January 9, 2005 The exhibition depicted blustery landscapes in Maine marked by ice fishing shacks. Taken from 1998 through 2003, the meticulously crafted color photographs of vernacular architecture capture the serenity and solitude of ice fishing...

November 14, 2004 - January 9, 2005 Rivers, Edens, Empires presented a century of exploration that features the expedition of the Corps of Discovery as the culminating moment in the quest to connect North America by means of a waterway passage. Like so many other...

August 19 - October 24, 2004 Welker comes from Oregon. Her work grew out of her early years as a weaver. She makes densely layered installations about language both written and musical. She is interested in how communication takes place without either words or musical...

August 19 - September 26, 2004 British painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer, David Hockney, had achieved international success by the time he was in his mid-20s, and has since consolidated his position as by far the best-known British artist of...

August 19 - September 26, 2004 The exhibit consisted of steer heads, a life-size Bison and an array of stitched and collaged fabric hangings. The bison remained with the Museum, a gift from the artist. Champlin graduated from the University of North Dakota with a BFA...

June 10 - August 8, 2004 Walking into the exhibition of her work was like stepping into a history lesson in the continuation of twentieth century painting. For just as the seeds of Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park Series can be seen in the landscape paintings of Henri...

April 24 - August 1, 2004 A video installation commissioned by the North Dakota Museum of Art. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Mary Lucier began to visit North Dakota, traveling across seasons and time, venturing into the far northwest corner of the state,...

February 29 - April 28, 2004   The North Dakota Museum of Art is proud to present New Work by Barton Benes in his third solo exhibition with the NDMOA. For forty years Barton Benes has been collecting relics, inanimate witnesses to history. Tiny observers to murders,...

January 24 - February 22, 2004 The photographs in the exhibition were the result of PH15, a workshop that puts cameras in the hands of teenagers from some of the most violent and impoverished barios in Buenos Aires, Argentina: Villa Number 15, so-called "Ciudad...

November 9 - January 11, 2004 Bugs own the air. Fish possess the lakes and streams. The two came together at the North Dakota Museum of Art in the exhibition Bugs & Such. Four artists--all women--filled the galleries with specimens retrieved from the fishing...

August 3 - September 28, 2003 Mercil produced—together with a number of 3-dimensional objects—a group of new, large-scaled drawings on wallpaper and plywood panels that use, as source materials, texts and illustrations from early farmer's almanacs. Carpenter's manuals...

May 25 - July 20, 2003   The North Dakota Museum of Art organized a retrospective of the paintings of the late North Dakotan artist Thorarin Snowfield. His parents immigrated from Iceland to Manitoba, Canada, and then settled in the Icelandic community of Mountain,...

April 11 - May 18, 2003 Kristin Jonsdottir is an artist from Ejafjordur, Iceland, who currently lives and works in Reykjavik. Her textiles have been shown internationally in both Europe and North America. In 2001 Jonsdottir’s felt banners and wall pieces were included...

March 28 - July 25, 2003 In the early 1990s the North Dakota Museum of Art commissioned Klett to photograph images of shields as they appear in rock art throughout the Western United States. Klett traveled from Montana to Arizona and New Mexico to create this body of...

March 28 - July 25, 2003 Michael Boyd of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe created an on-site mural about contemporary and Native American life in the East Gallery of the North Dakota Museum of Art during regular hours for two months. Boyd is interested in not only the...

March 23 - May 18, 2003   Walter Dorwin Teague was an industrial designer who pioneered in the establishment of industrial design as a profession in the United States. Teague, who studied painting at the Art Students League in New York (1903-07), began his...

March 23 - May 18, 2003 “Leave a little emptiness between the distant and the near.” According to Hatfield, this statement by Wang Wei, a Chinese painter and poet of the eighth century, is an instruction, an invention, and has become a guiding principle for her. “The...

February 28 - April 11, 2003 The exhibition highlighted the work of South African artist, Georgie Papageorge. She was born in Simonstown, South Africa, and educated at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. For years, Papageorge explored the idea of social and...

February 28 - April 11, 2003  In 1941 the U. S. Justice Department converted Fort Lincoln from a surplus military post into an internment camp to detain people arrested in the United States as enemy aliens. Over its five-year operation as a camp, the Bismarck facility...

January 19 - March 16, 2003  David Madzo, born in 1954, grew up on a ranch in Medora, North Dakota, in the German immigrant community of southwestern North Dakota. About it he says, I'm from a divided household: German Catholic and agnostic. We call it renegade...

November 12, 2002 - January 12, 2003 Bresnahan designed the kiln and named it in honor of his mentor, Sister Johanna Becker, a distinguished scholar of Japanese art who taught at Saint John's. The kiln was completed in October 1994 with the help of thirty volunteers....

November 12, 2002 - January 12, 2003 María Magdalena Campos-Pons, a woman, an expatriate, and a Cuban, makes art about identity and memory. Like all good art that begins in the personal, her work echoes the lives of all Black people rooted in Cuba, and of legions of...

August 13 - September 29, 2002 Vanessa Lawrence, a landscape artist from Scotland, painted sunrises. She was near the elevator on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower the morning the plane hit. Forty-five minutes later she emerged at street level,...

June 13 - August 4, 2002 North Dakota artist, Ross Rolshoven, widely known for his hand-tinted photographs and assemblages, holds the inaugural exhibition in a program to spotlight local artists at the North Dakota Museum of Art. Rolshoven's assemblages are...

June 13 - August 4, 2002 The exhibition consisted of rare, black and white photographs from the Los Angeles Police Department archives. Most of the photographs had never been published or even viewed by anyone outside the police department. The images of crime scenes,...

April 9 - June 2, 2002 Cross Generational is an exhibition that will bring together the work of four contemporary Native American artists from the Plains States who are at varying stages in their artistic careers and in their experiences and lives. Participating...

February 14 - March 31, 2002 The exhibition brought to the United States the work of three established painters from Argentina: Ana Fabry, Mario Perez and Eduardo Esquivel. These mature, mid-career artists were born and raised in provincial Argentinean cities. Ana...

November 10, 2001 - January 15, 2002 Anchored in the idea of "cloth as the language of many worlds," the exhibition brought together traditional textiles from the Americas, Japan and India. Using textiles as their story boards, the makers relate narratives of family,...

July 26 - September 30, 2001 Universal Themes in the Life and Culture of the South is a thematic exhibition drawn from an extensive and remarkable collection of painting, photography, sculpture and folk art assembled by Julia J. ("Judy") Norrell of Washington, DC. A...

March 18 - May 27, 2001 Conceptual Photography from Cuba, curated by leading Cuban art historian, Christina Vives, included the following artists who live in Cuba: Pedro Abascal, Juan Carlos Alom, Raúl Cordero, José Manuel Fors, Carlos Garaicoa, Lázaro Saavedra...

November 4 - January 15, 2001 The work of fifteen contemporary Scandinavian fiber artists exhibiting in A Scandinavian Sensibility range from exquisite tapestries by Swedish-born artist, Helena Hernmarck, recently awarded a medal from the King and Queen of Sweden, to...

November 4 - January 1, 2001 Contemporary Norwegian Sculpture and Installation presents Norwegian art that is global in its outlook and ambition, yet Norwegian in attitude. The exhibition includes six mid-career artists whose work ranges from sculpture (the creation...

April 23 - June 18, 2000 This exhibition, portraying the rural folk art culture of North Dakota, was commissioned by the North Dakota Museum of Art in the 1980s with a grant from Target Stores through the Dayton Hudson Foundation. Over the past 20 years Dow, his wife...

March 12 - April 16, 2000 The trees and roots are us and we are them in each culture on planet earth. Due to enslavement, there is a distinctiveness in African American life that forewarned an association with roots and the soil; toil, sweat, misery, pain and...

November 13, 1999 - January 16, 2000 "We make no plans, Have no regrets.No guilt. We abandon expectation.Nothing surprises us.I don't know why, Orpheus.It's just that we're content.Do you think I've been  pining for you?"                - William Borden, except from...

November 11 - January 23, 2000 "I am so often awe struck by the power and beauty of colors as they respond to one another. Their potency symbolizes life’s intensity and the passion we bring to it. The man-made structures in these images represent the foundations that...

November 11 - January 23, 2000 Paula Santiago, the artist, melds the worlds of darkness and light, of time unremembered and today, of the ancient art of the pre-Columbian cultures and her own modern Mexico. She began, however, in an ordinary way. Born in 1969,...

November 11 - January 23, 2000 From 1991 through 1994 Fenton taught in Japan. While living there Fenton assembled a series of visual metaphors that address the quiet strength of the Japanese people, as well as the fetishistic and ritualistic iconography of their...

May 26 - July 11, 1999 Claire Van Vliet was born in 1933 in Ottawa, Canada. During part of her early childhood she lived on Salisbury Plain near the early fortification rings and Stonehenge. Her father was a pilot at the air base. After her family returned to Canada,...

April 25 - May 23, 1999 In this exhibition of glass vessels, demonstrates how far the field of art glass has come since he entered the picture. Chihuly is most frequently lauded for revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement, by expanding its original premise of the...

March 18 - April 19, 1999 Victor Masayesva is one of the most original artists working today in the Southwest. His visually and intellectually complex layering of video and audio effects, still photographs and hand-painting contrast aspects of Native American cultures...

March 18 - May 19, 1999 The art of Hillary Leone and Jennifer Macdonald explores secret stories and embedded codes, alternately speaking and refusing to speak to its viewer. Over the course of their ten-year collaboration, the artists have produced sculptural objects...

May 14 - August 2, 1998 The 1997 Flood of the Red River of the North Under the Whelming Tide, examined our own audience's experience of the flood. Our goal is to place what happened to our community within a global perspective, and to use art to give shape to the...

September 28 - November 5, 1995   The installation Post Testament is composed of bound and printed books that resemble valuable literary volumes. Printed in English, the contents are the melding of several pre-existing texts. The main text is from King James...

October 10 - November 28, 1993March 25 - May 29, 1994July 17 - September 11, 1994  Air, space, movement. Silk, linen, bamboo and paper. For centuries the creative spirit of Japan has emerged through these elements. Spare and refined. Abstract, ethereal, spiritual....

Summer 1993 A Home Away From Home at the North Dakota Museum of Art A Book From The Sky installed in the North Dakota Museum of Art, Summer 1993. The artist invented 4,000 make-believe Chinese characters, the number it takes to communicate in ordinary Chinese life. He...

This North Carolina artist came to North Dakota in the fall of 1990 to create an installation for the exhibition Nature's Materials. While traveling about the country looking for swamp willow he discovered the shelterbelts that define our flat landscape. Combining the...