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EXHIBITIONS

The Gibbes presents an innovative series of 6 to 8 special exhibitions per year.

Exhibitions are designed as an experimental platform for engaging with art in new and exciting ways and challenging established interpretations. The program strives to promote creativity, introduce new art forms, provide perspective on larger community issues, encourage freedom of thought, and connect with the broadest possible audience.

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Something Terrible May Happen: The Works of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward “Ned” I.R. Jennings

Something Terrible May Happen: The Works of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward “Ned” I.R. Jennings

  • October 20, 2023 - March 10, 2024
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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The Bitter Years: Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection

The Bitter Years: Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection

  • September 8, 2023 - January 14, 2024
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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Beverly McIver: Full Circle

Beverly McIver: Full Circle

  • April 28, 2023 - August 6, 2023
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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Damian Stamer: Ruminations

Damian Stamer: Ruminations

  • March 17, 2023 - October 8, 2023
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art

  • February 3, 2023 - April 16, 2023
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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From Chaos to Order: Greek Geometric Art from the Sol Rabin Collection

From Chaos to Order: Greek Geometric Art from the Sol Rabin Collection

  • October 14, 2022 - March 5, 2023
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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Bo Bartlett: Earthly Matters

Bo Bartlett: Earthly Matters

  • September 9, 2022 - January 15, 2023
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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OMNISCIENCE: A Sculpture by Fred Wilson

OMNISCIENCE: A Sculpture by Fred Wilson

  • May 27, 2022 - June 15, 2022
  • Campbell Rotunda
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William Eggleston: Photographs from the Laura and Jay Crouse Collection

William Eggleston: Photographs from the Laura and Jay Crouse Collection

  • February 25, 2022 - October 9, 2022
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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A New Deal: Artists at Work

A New Deal: Artists at Work

  • January 21, 2022 - August 7, 2022
  • Gallery 9
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Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice

Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice

  • January 21, 2022 - August 7, 2022
  • Gallery 8
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Romare Bearden: Abstraction

Romare Bearden: Abstraction

  • October 15, 2021 - January 9, 2022
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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Light Effects: The French Impressionists

Light Effects: The French Impressionists

  • September 3, 2021 - February 20, 2022
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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Japonisme in Charleston: Alice Smith and Her Circle

Japonisme in Charleston: Alice Smith and Her Circle

  • April 30, 2021 - October 3, 2021
  • Gallery 9
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Lasting Impressions: Japanese Prints from the Read-Simms Collection

Lasting Impressions: Japanese Prints from the Read-Simms Collection

  • April 30, 2021 - October 3, 2021
  • Gallery 8
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In Body and Soul: The Figure in Modernist Photography

In Body and Soul: The Figure in Modernist Photography

  • January 22, 2021 - April 18, 2021
  • Gallery 9
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Manning Williams: Reinventing Narrative Painting

Manning Williams: Reinventing Narrative Painting

  • January 22, 2021 - April 18, 2021
  • Gallery 8
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Charleston Collects: Devotion and Fantasy, Witchcraft and the World's End

Charleston Collects: Devotion and Fantasy, Witchcraft and the World's End

  • October 9, 2020 - August 15, 2021
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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Building a Legacy: The Vibrant Vision Collection of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman

Building a Legacy: The Vibrant Vision Collection of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman

  • August 21, 2020 - January 10, 2021
  • Gallery 8
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Charleston Collects: British Sporting Art from the Penkhus Collection

Charleston Collects: British Sporting Art from the Penkhus Collection

  • February 7, 2020 - October 4, 2020
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection

Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection

  • January 17, 2020 - August 9, 2020
  • Gallery 8
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A Return to the Grand Tour: Micromosaic Jewels from the Collection of Elizabeth Locke

A Return to the Grand Tour: Micromosaic Jewels from the Collection of Elizabeth Locke

  • January 17, 2020 - January 10, 2021
  • Gallery 9
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Charles Edward Williams: SUN + LIGHT

Charles Edward Williams: SUN + LIGHT

  • October 11, 2019 - February 2, 2020
  • Gallery 2
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Tabitha Vevers: Lover's Eyes

Tabitha Vevers: Lover's Eyes

  • October 11, 2019 - February 2, 2020
  • Gallery 3
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Influence and Inspiration: The Art of Jill Hooper, Ben Long, and Frank Mason

Influence and Inspiration: The Art of Jill Hooper, Ben Long, and Frank Mason

  • September 13, 2019 - January 5, 2020
  • Gallery 8
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Rauschenberg in Charleston

Rauschenberg in Charleston

  • September 13, 2019 - January 5, 2020
  • Gallery 9
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Luminous Landscapes: The Golden Age of British Watercolors

Luminous Landscapes: The Golden Age of British Watercolors

  • June 21, 2019 - October 6, 2019
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem

Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem

  • May 24, 2019 - August 18, 2019
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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New Acquisitions Featuring Works by African American Artists

New Acquisitions Featuring Works by African American Artists

  • February 22, 2019 - June 16, 2019
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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Anna Heyward Taylor: Intrepid Explorer

Anna Heyward Taylor: Intrepid Explorer

  • January 18, 2019 - May 12, 2019
  • Gallery 9
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Lying in Wait: Sporting Art by Ogden M. Pleissner

Lying in Wait: Sporting Art by Ogden M. Pleissner

  • January 18, 2019 - May 12, 2019
  • Gallery 8
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Charleston Collects: South Asian Art

Charleston Collects: South Asian Art

  • October 26, 2018 - February 17, 2019
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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A Dark Place of Dreams: Louise Nevelson with Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock, and Kate Gilmore

A Dark Place of Dreams: Louise Nevelson with Chakaia Booker, Lauren Fensterstock, and Kate Gilmore

  • September 28, 2018 - January 6, 2019
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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A Day at the Beach

A Day at the Beach

  • May 25, 2018 - October 21, 2018
  • Gallery 2
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Vanishing Charleston

Vanishing Charleston

  • May 25, 2018 - October 21, 2018
  • Gallery 3
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Printmaking: Process to Product

Printmaking: Process to Product

  • April 27, 2018 - September 16, 2018
  • Gallery 9
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Radcliffe Bailey: Pensive

Radcliffe Bailey: Pensive

  • April 27, 2018 - September 16, 2018
  • Gallery 8
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A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America

A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America

  • January 19, 2018 - April 15, 2018
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States

Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States

  • October 6, 2017 - January 7, 2018
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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Magic in the Mundane: Modernist Photography from the Robert Marks Collection

Magic in the Mundane: Modernist Photography from the Robert Marks Collection

  • September 15, 2017 - May 20, 2018
  • Gallery 3
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Mexico and the Charleston Renaissance

Mexico and the Charleston Renaissance

  • September 15, 2017 - May 20, 2018
  • Gallery 2
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Artist, Scientist, Explorer: Mark Catesby in the Carolinas

Artist, Scientist, Explorer: Mark Catesby in the Carolinas

  • May 12, 2017 - September 24, 2017
  • Gallery 8
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Out of the Wild: Animals in Contemporary Art

Out of the Wild: Animals in Contemporary Art

  • May 12, 2017 - September 24, 2017
  • Gallery 9
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Artists Painting Artists

Artists Painting Artists

  • May 5, 2017 - September 10, 2017
  • Gallery 2
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Perspectives on Place

Perspectives on Place

  • May 5, 2017 - September 10, 2017
  • Gallery 3
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History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence

History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence

  • January 28, 2017 - April 30, 2017
  • Gallery 8
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Painting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser

Painting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser

  • January 28, 2017 - April 30, 2017
  • Gallery 9
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Painting a Nation: Hudson River School Landscapes from the Higdon Collection

Painting a Nation: Hudson River School Landscapes from the Higdon Collection

  • December 2, 2016 - April 23, 2017
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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Realm of the Spirit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection and the Gibbes Museum of Art

Realm of the Spirit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection and the Gibbes Museum of Art

  • October 22, 2016 - January 15, 2017
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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Beyond Catfish Row: The Art of Porgy and Bess

Beyond Catfish Row: The Art of Porgy and Bess

  • May 28, 2016 - October 9, 2016
  • Gallery 9
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The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South

The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South

  • May 28, 2016 - October 9, 2016
  • Gallery 8
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Still-Life Painting in America

Still-Life Painting in America

  • May 28, 2016 - November 27, 2016
  • Gallery 2
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Whistler and Japonisme

Whistler and Japonisme

  • May 28, 2016 - November 27, 2016
  • Gallery 3
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Beyond the Darkroom: Photography in the 21st Century

Beyond the Darkroom: Photography in the 21st Century

  • April 20, 2014 - August 3, 2014
  • Galleries 2 & 3
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John Westmark: Narratives

John Westmark: Narratives

  • April 4, 2014 - August 3, 2014
  • Gallery 4
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20th Century American Regionalism and the Charleston Renaissance

20th Century American Regionalism and the Charleston Renaissance

  • Permanent Exhibition
  • Gallery 6
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Betwixt and Between

Betwixt and Between

  • Permanent Exhibition
  • 2nd Floor Atrium
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Kim and Jim Pallotta Main Gallery featuring 18th and 19th Century American Paintings, Sculpture, and The Rivers Collection of Decorative Arts

Kim and Jim Pallotta Main Gallery featuring 18th and 19th Century American Paintings, Sculpture, and The Rivers Collection of Decorative Arts

  • Permanent Exhibition
  • Galleries 1, 4, and 5
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Mary Jackson Modern and Contemporary Gallery

Mary Jackson Modern and Contemporary Gallery

  • Permanent Exhibition
  • Gallery 7
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Miniature Portraits

Miniature Portraits

  • Permanent Exhibition
  • Gallery 5
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OMNISCIENCE A Sculpture by Fred Wilson

OMNISCIENCE A Sculpture by Fred Wilson

  • Permanent Exhibition
  • Meeting Street
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Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature

Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature

  • January 26, 2024 - April 28, 2024
  • Galleries 8 & 9
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Reynier Llanes: Passages

Reynier Llanes: Passages

  • May 24, 2024 - September 15, 2024
  • Galleries 8 & 9

Permanent Collection