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Past Exhibitions

For details on past exhibitions, please click on the exhibition title below or use the search tool on the upper right of each page by entering an artist or exhibition title to locate what you may be looking for. EXHIBITIONS ARE LISTED UNDER THE OPENING DATE.

Winter/Spring 2024

Fleeting Pleasures: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art
Bowman Bubblegum Trading Cards: Presented by the American Baseball Museum
John Willheim: Secret Photographer
June Wayne: The Dorothy Series

Summer/Fall 2023

Maurice Sendak: 60 Years of Wild Things
The Magic and Flair of Mary Blair
IMAGININGS: Portraits & False Flag | Featuring the photography of Martha Casanave | Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist for 2023
Art of the Word: Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son
Featuring Author & Illustrator John Parra

Winter/Spring 2023

Nathan Oliveira: Rare Works from the Private Collections of His Children
Bruce Beasley: A New Direction, Aurai Wall Works & Sculpture
Arthur Dyson, Organic Architect: A Retrospective, 1960 to Present
Remaking Boundaries: Caroline Harris & Cay Lang from the Permanent Collection

Summer/Fall 2022

A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes
Kim Abeles: A Survey |  Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist for 2022
Art of the Word: Light for All  | Featuring the illustrations of Raúl Colón from the book by Margarita Engle

Winter/Spring 2022

Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop | From the Bank of America Collection
Ansel Adams: 120 Years
Reports to the Contrary: A Persistent Vision - Paintings 1971-2021 by Chester Arnold

2020/2022 (COVID-19 seasons)

Art of the Word: Celebrating Differences |  Featuring the illustrations of Rafael López from the book Just Ask by Sonia Sotomayor
Delicious: The Art of Food
Bonnie Peterson: Another Glorious Sierra Day 
Here She Stands: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection 
Gifted: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919–1956
A Family Dynamic: Richard Amend, Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, and Wyatt Amend
Impressions of Bohemia: Portraits by Jack Coughlin

Summer/Fall 2019

Carmen Hoyos: The Path
Heather Wilcoxon, HER TRUTH: Selected Works 1995-2019 | Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist 2019
Nick Potter: Constructed Utopias
Katie O'Leary: A Natural History of Collage
Will Bullas: M is for Masterpiece

Winter/Spring 2019

BIG: Oversized works form the Permanent Collection
Bryan David Griffith: Rethinking Fire
Gary Geiger: On the Road Again
Coiled and Twined: California Native American Baskets from the Permanent Collection

Summer/Fall 2018 

KAY SEKIMACHI Master Weaver: Innovations in Forms and Materials - Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist 2018
Jenne Giles: Americana
Ernest Lowe: Black Migrants to the Central Valley, 1960-1964
Rollin Pickford: California Light
Guy Diehl: Still Life Tradition
Tell Me Another Story

Winter/Spring 2018

David Tom: Rockfowl and Other Wonders
Marcos Dorado: immigrant me
California Nature: 2018 Hanna S. Barsam Photography Invitational
Holly Lane: Indwelling Nature

Summer/Fall 2017

Joan Schulze: Celebrating 80 | Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist 2017
The AID Memorial Quilt: The NAMES Project Foundation
Maurice Cohen: Order in Complexity
Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions
NANCY YOUDELMAN: Fashioning a Feminist Vision 1974 to 2017
REDRESS: New Work by LESLIE BATTY 

Tell Me a Story 

Winter/Spring 2017/Fall 2016

Hung Liu:  Scales of History
The MAW Collection of Contemporary Mexican Art
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
Art of the Word II
Head to Toe:  Wearable Art
The Making of a Mural (Francisco Letelier)
The Student Mural Project & A Tribute to Francisco Vargas

Summer 2016

Fiber Art Master Works 
Rendering Homage: Portraits of a Patron 
Bob Stocksdale & Kay Sekimachi: Collection of Forrest Merrill 
Mexican Folk Art

Winter/Spring 2016

Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray
Anne Scheid: Body/Land III
Sonia Romero: Printmaker
Richard G. Freitas: Promise Land

RAD Fresno State Women

Fall 2015

Margaret Lazzari | Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Art for 2015 
Hanna S. Barsam Photography Invitational:  Urban California
Ron Wigginton with Morris Graves: from The Lake 
Bob Nugent:  Insetos 
Imaginary Worlds

Summer 2015

GRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE: Six Decades of Printmaking:  Karl Albert Kasten (1916-2010)
RODNEY HARDER: world
Bob Kolbrener: In Real Time, Celebrating 50 Years in Photography 
The Abstract Spirit: Etchings from the Permanent Collection

Seiji Kunishima:  From the Permanent Collection

Winter/Spring 2015

1915-2015: Tradition, Legacy, Culture:  Commemorating the 100th Year Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
Matt Black:  From Clouds to Dust

The Abstract Spirit: Etchings from the Permanent Collection
Leo Politi:  Moy Moy

Fall 2014

Mildred Howard: Collective Memory
The AIDS Memorial Quilt:  The NAMES Project Foundation 
Gallery 25:  40th Year Anniversary
Platinum:  Photography of Tom Millea

Summer 2014 

Norman Rockwell:  Lithographs from the Permanent Collection
Ethan Russell:  Best Seat in the House
Rock On... Photography of Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal and Jason DeBord
Wilderness:  Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act 
Annette Corcoran:  Fantastical Form

Winter/Spring 2014

Traditions of the West:  Honoring 100 Years of the Clovis Rodeo
Joseph DeLappe:  Social Tactics
Art of the Word 

Fall 2013

C. Normart:  50 Years of Downtown
#Downtown Visions
Ann Page:  Selected Experiments (1971 to 2012)
The Extraordinary Familiar:  Beth Van Hoesen and Mark Adams
Ansel Adams:  Mountain, Coast & Desert (through August 24, 2014) 

Summer 2013

Emmy Lou Packard:  Diego, Frida & Me (through January 5, 2014)
Sonya Rapoport's ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?
Addicott Collection
David Ligare:  River/Mountain/Sea
Pose, Gesture, Image:  IDENTITY
Classical Impulse 
Trashique 2013

Winter/Spring 2013

Breakthrough
Eclectic:  A Section of Women Artists of Central California 
Ends of Utopia

Fall 2012

Soul Calling:  A Photographic Journey through the Hmong Diaspora 
Threads of Life:  The Art of Houa Vang
In the Garden of Delight:  Adornments by Arline Fisch
Stickwork:  The Environmental Art of Patrick Dougherty
Ansel Adams' Born Free and Equal:  Photographs from the Manzanar Relocation Camp, 1943-1944

Summer 2012

Renzi:  Art, Life, Legacy
Fig Tree Gallery 50th Anniversary Exhibition
Esmeralda & Nye:  Photography by Bruce Haley
Hardy Hanson:  1935 to 2012
Ynez Johnston: From the Museum's Permanent Collection

Winter/Spring 2012

Sikhs:  Legacy of the Punjab
Nights in the Square:  Revolution in Egypt
Edges:  From the California Contemporary Art Collective
Ad Infinitum: The Sculpture of Raphael X. Reichert
Visual Metaphors: The Photography of Richard Garrod

Fall 2011

Geography of Memory:  Land, Nature, and Spirit in the Works of Amalia Mesa-Bains, 1991-2011
Baron Bixler:  A New Pastoral:  Views of the San Joaquin Valley
Icons from the Collection of A. Stefanopoulos
Micha Langer's Lost Lake and Beyond:  Photo Impressions

Summer 2011

Berkeley Abstract Expressionism, 1955 to 1965
Beauty of Nature:  Meditations on Line, Shape, and Form
Copper & Bronze:  Elemental Forms

Winter/Spring 2011

 The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection
Tracey Adams: Between Gesture and Geometry
Jerrie Peters:  Contemplating My Muses
Winston Boyer: 38 Years of Landscape Photography