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

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Artist Spotlight: David Driskell and Edward Middleton Manigault

• August 23, 2024 - December 1, 2024
• Gallery 2 and 3

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Reynier Llanes: Passages

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

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Artist Spotlight: Merton D. Simpson and William M. Halsey

• April 6, 2024 - August 18, 2024
• Gallery 2 and 3

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Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature

• January 26, 2024 - April 28, 2024
• Galleries 8 & 9

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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

• September 8, 2023 - January 14, 2024
• Galleries 8 & 9

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Beverly McIver: Full Circle

• April 28, 2023 - August 6, 2023
• Galleries 8 & 9

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Damian Stamer: Ruminations

• March 17, 2023 - October 8, 2023
• Galleries 2 & 3

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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

• October 14, 2022 - March 5, 2023
• Galleries 2 & 3

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Bo Bartlett: Earthly Matters

• September 9, 2022 - January 15, 2023
• Galleries 8 & 9

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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

• February 25, 2022 - October 9, 2022
• Galleries 2 & 3

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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

• January 21, 2022 - August 7, 2022
• Gallery 8

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Romare Bearden: Abstraction

• October 15, 2021 - January 9, 2022
• Galleries 8 & 9

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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

• April 30, 2021 - October 3, 2021
• Gallery 9

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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

• January 22, 2021 - April 18, 2021
• Gallery 9

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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

• 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

• August 21, 2020 - January 10, 2021
• Gallery 8

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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

• 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

• January 17, 2020 - January 10, 2021
• Gallery 9

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Charles Edward Williams: SUN + LIGHT

• October 11, 2019 - February 2, 2020
• Gallery 2

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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

• September 13, 2019 - January 5, 2020
• Gallery 8

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Rauschenberg in Charleston

• September 13, 2019 - January 5, 2020
• Gallery 9

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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

• May 24, 2019 - August 18, 2019
• Galleries 8 & 9

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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

• January 18, 2019 - May 12, 2019
• Gallery 9

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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

• 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

• September 28, 2018 - January 6, 2019
• Galleries 8 & 9

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A Day at the Beach

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

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Vanishing Charleston

• May 25, 2018 - October 21, 2018
• Gallery 3

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Printmaking: Process to Product

• April 27, 2018 - September 16, 2018
• Gallery 9

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Radcliffe Bailey: Pensive

• April 27, 2018 - September 16, 2018
• Gallery 8

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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

• October 6, 2017 - January 7, 2018
• Galleries 8 & 9

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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

• September 15, 2017 - May 20, 2018
• Gallery 2

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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

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

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Artists Painting Artists

• May 5, 2017 - September 10, 2017
• Gallery 2

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Perspectives on Place

• May 5, 2017 - September 10, 2017
• Gallery 3

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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

• January 28, 2017 - April 30, 2017
• Gallery 9

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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

• October 22, 2016 - January 15, 2017
• Galleries 8 & 9

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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

• May 28, 2016 - October 9, 2016
• Gallery 8

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Still-Life Painting in America

• May 28, 2016 - November 27, 2016
• Gallery 2

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Whistler and Japonisme

• May 28, 2016 - November 27, 2016
• Gallery 3

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Beyond the Darkroom: Photography in the 21st Century

• April 20, 2014 - August 3, 2014
• Galleries 2 & 3

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John Westmark: Narratives

• April 4, 2014 - August 3, 2014
• Gallery 4

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20th Century American Regionalism and the Charleston Renaissance

• Permanent Exhibition
• Gallery 6

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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

• Permanent Exhibition
• Galleries 1, 4, and 5

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Mary Jackson Modern and Contemporary Gallery

• Permanent Exhibition
• Gallery 7

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Miniature Portraits

• Permanent Exhibition
• Gallery 5

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OMNISCIENCE A Sculpture by Fred Wilson

• Permanent Exhibition
• Meeting Street

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Celebrating the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art

• October 11, 2024 - January 12, 2025
• Gallery 8 and 9

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Beeple

• December 13, 2024 - April 27, 2025
• Gallery 1, 2, and 3

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Statement Pieces: Contemporary Fashion Design and the Gibbes Collection

• January 31, 2025 - April 27, 2025
• Galley 8 and 9