Past Exhibitions
Closed in 2026
Nepantla: The Land is the Beloved
Closed September 6, 2026
Project NW: Epiphany Couch: č’adac (Inheritance)
Closed August 30, 2026
Haunted
Closed June 7, 2026
Project NW: Cable Griffith: Uncanny Twilight
Closed June 7, 2026
The Abiqueños and The Artist
Closed May 31, 2026
Project NW: Ralph Pugay: A Looser Understanding
Closed May 17, 2026
The One-Two Punch: 100 Years of Robert Colescott
Closed March 29, 2026
Echoes of the Floating World
Closed January 4, 2026
Closed in 2025
tomakesenseofitall
Closed October 19, 2025
Charles Peterson’s Nirvana:
On Photography and Performance
Closed August 31, 2025
Metaphor into Form: Art in the Era of the Pilchuck Glass School
Closed June 21, 2025
Project Space | Glass As Canvas
Closed June 21, 2025
Sea Change: The Art of Karen Hackenberg
Closed April 6, 2025
Painting Deconstructed
Closed January 5, 2025
Closed in 2024
what if
June 29 – October 13, 2024
Soft Power
October 14, 2023 – September 1, 2024
Momentum: New Work in the Collection
December 9, 2023- May 26, 2024
Impressionism at TAM
February 18, 2024- April 14, 2024
Places to Call Home: Settlements in the West
February 18, 2018- February 18, 2024
Native Portraiture: Power and Perception
February 18, 2018- February 18 2024
Winter in the West
February 18, 2018- February 4, 2024
Animals: Wild and Captured in Bronze
January 27, 2018- January 14, 2024
On Native Land: Landscapes from the Haub Family Collection
November 6, 2021- January 14, 2024
Closed in 2023
The Current: Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud
April 15, 2023 – October 15, 2023
El Noroeste
September 23, 2023 – October 1, 2023
Camille Patha: Passion Pleasure Power
March 4, 2023 – September 3, 2023
Luces y Sombras: Images of Mexico | Photographs from the Bank of America Collection
October 15, 2022 – February 5, 2023
Rayos: Cine en México
October, 2022 – February, 2023
Closed in 2022
GATHER: 27 Years of Hilltop Artists
March 26 – September 4, 2022
Departures and Divisions: Variation in American Styles, 1900 – 1950
January 22 – September 4, 2022
Closed in 2021
The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
July 30 – December 5, 2021
Immigrant Artists and the American West
February 3, 2018 – October 10, 2021
Mary Van Cline: Selections from the Documenta Project
January 19, 2019 – May 30, 2021
South Sound Selects: Community Choices from the Collection
November 21, 2020 – May 30, 2021
Closed in 2020
Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Their Circle: French Impressionism and the Northwest
September 28, 2019 – January 19, 2020
Debora Moore: Arboria
January 19, 2019 – March 13, 2020 (closed early due to COVID-19)
The Naturalist & The Trickster: Audubon/RYAN!
February 1 – March 13, 2020 (closed early due to COVID-19)
Forgotten Stories: Northwest Public Art of the 1930s
February 22 – March 13, 2020 (closed early due to COVID-19)
Closed in 2019
Bart at TAM: Animating America’s Favorite Family
July 20, 2019 – December 31, 2019
Key to the Collection
December 22, 2018 – October 13, 2019
Familiar Faces & New Voices: Surveying Northwest Art
May 13, 2017 – August 25, 2019
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: In the Footsteps of My Ancestors
March 9, 2019-June 30, 2019
Sun, Shadows, Stone: The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier
October 20, 2018 – February 17, 2019
Closed in 2018
To Sing of Beauty: Paul Stephen Benjamin and C. Davida Ingram
July 21 – September 30, 2018
Captive Light: The Life and Photography of Ella E. McBride
March 17 – July 22, 2018
Anne Appleby: We Sit Together the Mountain and Me
March 10 – July 1, 2018
Zhi LIN: In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads
June 27, 2017 – February 18, 2018
The Dynamic American West: Highlights from the Haub Family Collection
September 2, 2017 – January 28, 2018
The Art of American Framing
September 2, 2017 –January 28, 2018
Well-Worn Narratives: The Mia McEldowney Jewelry Collection
February 6, 2016 – January 18, 2018
Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection
September 2, 2017 – January 7, 2018
Closed in 2017
Promoting the West: Abby Williams Hill and the Railroads
June 3 – October 15, 2017
Cultural imPRINT: Northwest Coast Prints
April 22 – August 20, 2017
Artists Drawn to the West
November 21, 2015 – August 13, 2017
The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today
February 4 – May 14, 2017
The Beauty of a Shared Passion: Highlights from the Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection
October 9, 2016 – April 23, 2017
Coast to Cascades: C.C. McKim’s Impressionist Vision
November 12, 2016 – March 26, 2017
30 Americans
September 24, 2016 – January 15, 2017
Closed in 2016
(Re)Presenting Native Americans
November 21, 2015 – October 30, 2016
Northwest Cowboys in Art
October 31, 2015 – October 30, 2016
What’s New at TAM? Recent Gifts to the Collection
February 6 – September 18, 2016
NW Art Now @ TAM
May 14 – September 4, 2016
Edvard Munch and the Sea
April 9 – July 17, 2016
Saddles, Spurs, and Quirts: The Art of Leatherworking
October 31, 2015 –July 3, 2016
Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley
January 30 – May 1, 2016
Celebrating 80 Years: People’s Choice
January 30 – March 27, 2016
Art AIDS America
October 03, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Northwest in the West: Exploring Our Roots
May 10, 2014 – January 10, 2016
Closed in 2015
Art of the American West: The Haub Family Collection Inaugural Exhibition
November 15, 2014 – October 18, 2015
Roger Shimomura—An American Knockoff
June 20 – September 13, 2015
Partners in NW Art: Selections from the Aloha Club Collection at TAM
June 27 – September 13, 2015
Eloquent Objects: Georgia O’Keeffe and Still-Life Art in New Mexico
March 1 – June 7, 2015
The Still-Life Tradition in the Northwest
March 1 – June 7, 2015
Mary Lucier: The Plains of Sweet Regret
November 22, 2014 – February 8, 2015
Protective Ornament: Contemporary Amulets to Armor
October 18, 2014 – February 1, 2015
Closed in 2014
Ink This: Contemporary Print Arts in the Northwest
June 7 – October 19, 2014
Photographic Presence and Contemporary Indians: Matika Wilbur’s Project 562
May 17 – October 5, 2014
A Punch of Color: Fifty Years of Painting by Camille Patha
February 1 – May 25, 2014
Shimmering Tree: A Projection by Jennifer Steinkamp
November 9, 2013 – January 26, 2014
Closed in 2013
Austere Beauty: The Art of Z. Vanessa Helder
July 27 – October 20, 2013
Beyond Books: The Independent Art of Eric Carle
Closed June 21, 2013
Drawing Line Into Form Works on Paper by Scuptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon
February 23 – May 26, 2013
Flora and Fine Art 2013: Inspired by Drawing Line Into Form
April 18 – 21, 2013
Memories and Meditations: A Retrospective of Michael Kenna’s Photography
October 6, 2012 – January 6, 2013 (Part One)
January 11 – March 24, 2013 (Part Two)
Andy Warhol’s Flowers for Tacoma
November 3, 2012 – February 10, 2013
Best of the Northwest: Selected Paintings from the Collection
June 23, 2012 – March 17, 2013
Howard Kottler: A Retrospective Look
August 20, 2010 – January 20, 2013
Closed in 2012
Marie Watt: Lodge
June 30 – October 7, 2012
The Marioni Family’s Radical Experimentation in Glass and Jewelry
June 9 – September 23, 2012
HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
March 17 – June 10, 2012
The 10th Northwest Biennial
January 21 – May 20, 2012
At Home Across America: Scenes from the 1930s to 1950s in Prints
November 19, 2011 – February 26, 2012
Folk Treasures of Mexico: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection from the San Antonio Museum of Art
October 29, 2011 – February 19, 2012
The Eloquent Silver Curve: The Jewelry of Flora Book
July 30, 2011 – February 5, 2012
Collecting for the Future: The Safeco Gift and New Acquisitions
June 25, 2011 – January 2012
Closed in 2011
A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer
July 2 – November 6, 2011
Dale Chihuly’s Northwest
May 21 – October 2, 2011
American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
February 26 – May 30, 2011
It Gets Better
Closed April 21, 2011
Mighty Tacoma
October 21, 2010 – April 25, 2011
Edo to Tacoma: Japanese Woodblock Prints
September 4, 2010 – February 13, 2011
The Movement of Impressionism: Europe, America, and the Northwest
October 24, 2010 – February 6, 2011
Closed in 2010
Where Sky Meets Earth: The Luminous Landscapes of Victoria Adams
July 10 – October 3, 2010
Honoring 15 Years of Neddy Artist Fellows
June 5 – August 22, 2010
The Secret Language of Animals
January 23 – June 27, 2010
A Concise History of Northwest Art
October 3, 2009 – May 23, 2010
Speaking Parts: Conversations between Works in the Collection
Closed January 17, 2010
Closed in 2009
2009 Neddy Artist Fellowship
May 23 – October 4, 2009
Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden
June 27 – September 20, 2009
Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection
June 6 – September 13, 2009
David Macaulay: The Way He Works
January 17 – June 14, 2009
The 9th Northwest Biennial
January 31 – May 25, 2009
The Surrealist Impulse: New Acquisitions from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection
September 6, 2008 – May 10, 2009
What Is a Trade? Donald Fels and the Signboard Painters of South India
September 13, 2008 – January 18, 2009
Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art
September 20, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Closed in 2008
Telling Stories: Selections from the Permanent Collection
October 14, 2006 – September 21, 2008
Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible
July 12 – September 7, 2008
The Forty Part Motet, by Janet Cardiff
June 28 – September 7, 2008
2008 Neddy Artist Fellowship
May 31 – August 24, 2008
Renoir as Printmaker: The Complete Works, 1876 – 1912
January 17 – June 29, 2008
A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by Chuck Close, Poems by Bob Holman
March 1 – June 15, 2008
Veiled Northwest: Photographs by Mary Randlett
September 1, 2007 – May 18, 2008
Threads that Bind: Works by Pacific Northwest African American Quilters
December 18, 2007 – February 17, 2008
Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter
September 29, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Closed in 2007
Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
September 22 – December 9, 2007
The Quiet Landscapes of William B. Post -and- 36 Views of Japanese Woodblock Prints: Selections from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection
June 23 – September 16, 2007
Sparkle Then Fade
May 17 – September 3, 2007
2007 Neddy Artist Fellowship
June 2 – August 19, 2007
Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon
February 3 – June 10, 2007
Paul Strand Southwest
January 27 – May 23, 2007
8th Northwest Biennial
February 10 – May 6, 2007
Symphonic Poem: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
September 16, 2006 – January 28, 2007
The Art of Eric Carle
October 7, 2006 – January 21, 2007
Trimpin: Conloninpurple
September 26, 2006 – January 14, 2007
Closed in 2006
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
June 10 – September 17, 2006
Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters
May 13 – September 4, 2006
2006 Neddy Artist Fellowship
May 20 – August 13, 2006
The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935
February 4 – May 21, 2006
Contemporary Photography and the Garden – Deceits and Fantasies
January 14 – April 30, 2006
Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design, 1927 – 1936
September 24, 2005 – January 15, 2006
The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy
October 8, 2005 – January 1, 2006
A Sense of Place: Selections from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection
September 11, 2004 – January 22, 2006
Closed in 2005
Carving a Legacy: Innovation in Coast Salish Art
June 16 – September 25, 2005
Zero Karat: Jewelry in Non-Precious Materials from the Museum of Arts & Design
May 14 – September 11, 2005
A Decade of Excellence: Celebrating the Neddy Artist Fellowship
January 29 – June 5, 2005
Marsden Hartley: American Modern
January 15 – May 1, 2005
Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
October 2, 2004 – January 16, 2005
Scott Fife
September 18, 2004 – January 2, 2005
Closed in 2004
Look Alikes: The Decal Plates of Howard Kottler
September 4 – December 14, 2004
Andy Goldsworthy: Mountain and Coast Autumn into Winter
June 19 – September 19, 2004
Northwest Biennial: Buildingwise
April 17 – September 6, 2004
Lewis and Clark Territory: Contemporary Artists Revisit Place, Race, and Memory
February 12 – June 6, 2004
A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918 – 1939
December 20, 2003 – March 28, 2004
Dale Chihuly: Mille Fiori
May 3, 2003 – January 18, 2004
Closed in 2003
The Art of Nathan Oliveira
August 2 – November 30, 2003
Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Guy Anderson
May 3 – August 10, 2003
Indivisible: Stories of American Community
January 24 – April 27, 2003
12th Street Series: Never Late for Heaven: The Art of Gwendolyn Knight
January 14 – May 2, 2003
Snapshots: Memories and Community at Tacoma Art Museum
January 24 – May 2, 2003
Closed in 2002
Alex Katz
June 29 – September 8, 2002
Bill Viola: Something Above, Beyond, Below, Beneath
June 4 – September 15, 2002
The IBIS Project: Early Computer-Assisted Art in the Northwest
June 22 – September 15, 2002
Pressed: The Silkscreen
June 22 – September 15, 2002
12th Street Series: Jack Dollhausen: A 30 Year Start
April 19 – June 16, 2002
Artificial Intelligence in Art
April 9 – June 16, 2002
Pressed: The Lithograph
April 9 – June 16, 2002
Geometric Abstraction
March 19 – May 27, 2002
Art for the Masses: Associated American Artist Prints
December 4, 2001 – March 30, 2002
Pressed: the Woodcut
December 4, 2001 – March 30, 2002
Urban Invasion: Paintings by Chester Arnold
December 11, 2001 – March 10, 2002
Closed in 2001
Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art
July 7 – November 25, 2001
Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
April 7 – June 17, 2001
12th Street Series: Rick Bartow
March 27 – June 17, 2001
The New Frontier: Art and Television, 1960-1965
January 18 – March 18, 2001
Unseen Hurrell: Classics and Rediscovered Photographs from the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
January 9 – March 18, 2001
The Home Show: Early Television in the Puget Sound Region
January 18 – March 25, 2001
TV Sculptures by Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz
January 18 – March 25, 2001
In Style: Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19th Centuries
October 7, 2000 – January 7, 2001
Clearly Brilliant: A Decade of Pilchuck Glass School’s Emerging Artists in Residence
October 7, 2000 – January 1, 2001
Under The Influence: Contemporary Jewelry, Metalwork and Ethnography
September 19, 2000 – January 1, 2001
Closed in 2000
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art
July 8 – September 17, 2000
Intimate Landscapes: Photographs from the Carolyn and Edward Hoffman Collection
July 8 – September 17, 2000