Exhibition History

2020-2021 Academic Year
  • Let's Celebrate Ashley Bryan!
    Let’s Celebrate Ashley Bryan!
  • Evolve: a changing exhibition of work from the collection
    Evolve: a changing exhibition of work from the collection
  • Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective (Cancelled due to COVID-19 public health crisis)
    Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective (Cancelled due to COVID-19 public health crisis)
  • The Way Things Go
    Peter Fischli and David Weiss:
    The Way Things Go
+2019-2020
  • DeWitt Hardy: Master of Watercolor
    DeWitt Hardy: Master of Watercolor
  • Uncovered: Selections from the Collection
    Uncovered: Selections from the Collection
  • German Art Posters
    German Art Posters
  • Vanessa German: Miracles and Glory Abound
    Vanessa German: Miracles and Glory Abound
  • Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Stages for Being
    Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Stages for Being
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2020
    Senior Thesis Exhibition 2020
+2018-2019
  • Lori Nix/Kathleen Gerber, Subway, 2012, archival pigment print, 40 x 50 inches, courtesy of ClampArt, New York City
    Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era
  • Amy Stacey Curtis, 20 Hour Drawing, 2010,grahite, 22.5x22.5 in for poster
    Amy Stacey Curtis: Time and Place
  • Peter Turnley, Kurdish Refugees from Iraq, the Gulf War, Southern Turkey, 1991, Archival Pigment Print, 24 x 20 inches, Bates College Museum of Art, Gift of Jacqueline and John Urbano
    Peter Turnley: Refugees
  • Valley of Tishnar, 1966, oil on canvas, 23 x 35 inches, Private collection
    Dahlov Ipcar: Blue Moons & Menageries
  • Marsden Hartley, Reclining Figure, ca. 1940
    Maine Moderns: Drawings by Marsden Hartley and Carl Sprinchorn
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2019
    Senior Thesis Exhibition 2019
+2017-2018
  • Georga Morgan-Fleming, Untitled, 2018, Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches
    Senior Thesis Exhibition 2018
  • Celebrating Peoples History: Iraq Veterans Against the War - Ten Years of Fighting for Peace and Justice
    Celebrating Peoples History: Iraq Veterans Against the War – Ten Years of Fighting for Peace and Justice
  • Kate Gilmore: In Your Way
    Kate Gilmore: In Your Way
  • At Home and Abroad: The Marsden Hartley Memorial Collections
    At Home and Abroad: The Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
  • Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, Dying
  • Literary
+2016-2017
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2017
  • Recent Acquisitions: Martin Puryear, Prints
  • PHANTOM PUNCH: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia in Lewiston
  • Mythology
  • Robert Indiana: Now and Then
  • Jay Bolotin: The Book of Only Enoch
+2015-2016
  • David C. Driskell: The Doorway Portfolio
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2016
  • The View Out His Window (and in his mind’s eye): Photographs by Jeffery Becton
  • The Art of Occupy: The Occuprint Portfolio
  • Maine Collected
  • Points of View
  • The Painter of Maine: Photographs of Marsden Hartley
  • Directors’ Cut: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail at the Portland Museum of Art
+2014-2015
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2015
  • Greg Shattenberg: Prints and Drawings
    Greg Shattenberg: Prints and Drawings
  • Back and Forth: The Collaborative Works of Dawn Clements and Marc Leuthold
    Back and Forth: The Collaborative Works of Dawn Clements and Marc Leuthold
  • Photographs by Women: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection
    Photographs by Women: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection
  • Convergence: Jazz, Films, and the Visual Arts
    Convergence: Jazz, Films, and the Visual Arts
  • Encountering Maine
+2013-2014
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2014
  • Polish Posters: Art and Allusion
  • Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center
  • How to Make the Universe Right: The Art of the Shaman in Vietnam and Southern China
  • Redefining The Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers
  • Selections from Berenice Abbott’s Portrait of Maine
+2012-2013
  • Selections from the Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2013
  • Dozier Bell: Mind’s Eye
  • Fransje Killaars: Color at the Center
  • Max Klinger (German, 1857 – 1920), The Intermezzi Portfolio
  • Robert S. Neuman’s “Ship to Paradise”
  • Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography
+2011-2012
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2012
    Senior Thesis Exhibition 2012
  • Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008)
    Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008)
  • James Ensor: Scènes de la vie du Christ and other works
    James Ensor: Scènes de la vie du Christ and other works
  • 25: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    25: Selections from the Permanent Collection
  • Enrique ChagoyaAyer es nunca jamais, Hoy es siempre todavia, 2006acrylic and water-based oil on canvas, 60 x 80 in.Courtesy George Adams Gallery, New York
    Tale Spinning
  • Manuel Alvarez Bravo – Fotografias de Mexico (1933-1976)
  • Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth
    Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth
  • Emerging Dis/Order: Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth, and Andrea Sulzer
    Emerging Dis/Order: Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth, and Andrea Sulzer
  • Selected Drawings & Photographs from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
    Selected Drawings & Photographs from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
+2010-2011
  • Senior Thesis 2011
    Senior Thesis 2011
  • Bound to Art: Illustrated Books from Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
  • Dialogue, a video series
  • Selections From the Collection of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art
    Selections From the Collection of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art
  • Ogunquit Museum of American Art
    Ogunquit Museum of American Art
  • The Committee on Public Art announces the arrival of Sui JianguoÕsSculpture Legacy Mantle (Mao Jacket) on the Bates Walk. The work is on loan for one year.Sui Jianguo is considered one of the premier sculptures in China today and his work has been displayed in the pivotal international exhibitions of Chinese art in the past twenty years. These exhibitions include ÒMade in China,Ó ÒArt and ChinaÕs Revolution,Ó "New Art from China: post-89," ÒChina TradeÓ and ÒBeautiful Cynicism.Ó His series of Mao suits are considered icons of contemporary Chinese art. The iconic Mao jacket, emptied of its signature occupant, appears in a monumental scale draped in irony. The 4-ton metal jacket is 3 meters high, 2.5 meters wide, and 1.5 meters deep.Sui Jianguo received his MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His studio is based in Beijing and he is a Professor and the Chair of the Central Academy Sculpture Department.Frank Toth of JC Super & Sons in Harrison, NJ, drove the Mao jacket up to Bates.Leo Castonguay, working on hooking up statue, and Jerry Castonguay, at wheel of the crane, manage moving the scultpture into place.
    Mao Jacket
  • Metamorphosoes: A Collaboration with Ovid by Wally Reinhardt
  • Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
    Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
  • Recent Acquisitions
    Recent Acquisitions
  • Maine Landscapes - Then and Now
    Maine Landscapes: Then and Now
  • Joseph Nicoletti: A Retrospective
+2009-2010
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2010
    Senior Thesis Exhibition 2010
  • Barry Nemett - Drawing from Italy
    Barry Nemett: Drawing from Italy
  • Joel M. Babb - The Process Revealed
    Joel M. Babb: The Process Revealed
  • Collection Project 4 - Alumni Collections
    Collection Project 4: Alumni Collections
  • Our Positive Bodies - Mapping Our Treatment, Sharing Our Choices
    Our Positive Bodies: Mapping Our Treatment, Sharing Our Choices
  • Landscape Drawings from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
    Landscape Drawings from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
  • Bernard Langlais - Medium and Abstraction
    Bernard Langlais: Medium and Abstraction
+2008-2009
  • Senior Exhibition 2009
  • The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away
  • Recent Acquisitions: Collection Project III
  • Plien Air Painting Exhibition of the Workshop 2008
  • Figure Drawings from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
  • Stairway to Heaven
  • Style: "bates1"
    Flourishing Folk
+2007-2008
  • Senior Exhibition 2008
  • The Kimono and Traditional Japanese Culture: Investigating Kimono through Ukiyo-e
  • Taking Different Trails: The Artists’ Journey to Katahdin Lake
  • Wildness within Wildness without
  • Restop: The Proposal
  • Green Horizons
+2006-2007
  • Senior Exhibition 2007
    Senior Exhibition 2007
  • Scrape, Cut, Gouge, Bite, Print...The Graphic Work of Charlie Hewitt 1976-2006
    Scrape, Cut, Gouge, Bite, Print…The Graphic Work of Charlie Hewitt 1976-2006
  • Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale
    Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale
+2005-2006
  • Josef Koudelka
    Josef Koudelka
  • Senior Exhibition 2006
    Senior Exhibition 2006
  • Eric HongistoUntitled (Theory of Tumbleweeds), 2004acrylic and yarn balls132 x 200 x 3 inches
    Activator
  • Keith Tyson
    Keith Tyson
  • Off the Coast: Landscape Chronology
    Off the Coast: Landscape Chronology
  • Bates Faculty
    Bates Faculty
  • Robert Indiana: The Hartley Elegies
    Robert Indiana: The Hartley Elegies
  • The Environment of Landscape: Works from the Olivia and Ellwood Straub Collection
    The Environment of Landscape: Works from the Olivia and Ellwood Straub Collection
+2004-2005
  • Senior Exhibition 2005
    Senior Exhibition 2005
  • Early French Photography: Art and Industry
  • New Acquisitions: Local and Global Contemporary Photography
    New Acquisitions: Local and Global Contemporary Photography
  • Between Science and Art: X-ray Photographs by Judith K. McMIllan
    Between Science and Art: X-ray Photographs by Judith K. McMIllan
  • The Body Holographic: Harriet Casdin-Silver
    The Body Holographic: Harriet Casdin-Silver
  • Videodrome II
    Videodrome II
  • Marsden Hartley: Image and Identity
    Marsden Hartley: Image and Identity
  • Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium
    Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium
+2003-2004
  • Senior Exhibition 2004
  • Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change
  • From Byzantium to Russia: Popular Icons for Personal Devotion
  • Manuel López Oliva, Cuba and the Theater of Desire