Past Exhibitions
2023 season
September 15 – December 30, 2023 / Downstairs
- Distant Visions: John Woolsey
- deep field: Amanda Lilleston
- Then to Now: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection
- An Unconscious Mind: Salvador Dali from the Permanent Collection
September 15 – December 2, 2023 / Upstairs
- Susan Abbott: An Artists Pilgrimage – Paintings from the Camino de Santigo
- Double Take: Works from the Permanent Collection
May 19 – September 2, 2023 / Downstairs
- Body Language: Lesia Sochor
- Nightlife NYC 1977-2023: Meryl Meisler
- Signs of Life: 2023 Young Curators
May 19 – August 19, 2023 / Upstairs
- Gold Dust: Nathan Brad Hall
- 70’s Suburban Sensibilities Friends & Family: Meryl Meisler
- Out of the Kitchen & Onto the Walls: Works from the Permanent Collection
January 20 – April 29, 2023 / Downstairs
- Gather: Colleen McCubbin Stepanic
- Unconstrained Forms: Works from the Collection
- In the Shadows: Works from the Collection
- Urban Narratives: Works from the Collection Closed for construction project February 10, 2023
January 20 – April 21, 2023 / Upstairs
2022 season
September 23 – December 30, 2022 / Downstairs
- Shelf Life: Sydney Licht
- Life & Still: Anat Shiftan
- Flock Together: Works from the Collection
- New Acquisitions to the Collection / Downstairs
September 23 – December 3, 2022 / Upstairs
May 20 – September 3, 2022 / Downstairs
- Home Fires Burning: Robin Mandel
- Time and Time Again: Carly Glovinski
- America on a First Name Basis: Matthew Cornell
- Of a Feather: Works by Walter H. Rich
- Selections from the Museum Collection
May 20 – August 18, 2022 / Upstairs
January 14 – April 30, 2022 / Downstairs
- Deborah Dancy: Circling Time
- Jen Wink Hays: Valley Low
- Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Permanent Collection
- Color Photographs from the Permanent Collection
January 14 – April 21, 2022 / Upstairs
- The Fractured Negative: Alastair Finlay
- Materiality: Stella Waitzkin
- Selections from the Permanent Collection
2021 season
August 17 – December 30, 2021 / Downstairs
- Sidney Russell: The Big Stitch
- Future Possessive: Emily Eveleth
- Roman Franc: Watch the Birdie!
- Domesticated: Amy Stein
- Inflorescence: Works from the Museum Collection
August 17 – December 30, 2021 / Upstairs
- tender land: Shona Macdonald
- The Soul of It: Anne Arnold
- Open Lens: Photographs from the Museum Collection
- New Acquisitions to the Museum Collection
January 21 – July 31, 2021
- Vision Accomplished: Thomas Cornell
- Living Windows: Gene Felice and Kimathi Moore
- Pop Art and Influence
2020 season
August 4 – December 23, 2020
- Being Here – Marcie Jan Bronstein
- Wood Nymphs – JoAnne Carson
- Maine Inspired: Art Luminaries at the Bicentennial
January 10 – May 2, 2020
- Cover the Waterfront – Teresa Dunn
- Oculus – Deirdre Murphy and Scott White
- Rhythm from Within: Photographs by Michael Philip Manheim
- Fresh Paint – New Acquisitions to the Museum Collection
2019 season
September 13 – December 21, 2019
May 17 – August 31, 2019
- When There Was Another Me – Harold Garde
- Symphony of Passion – Alison Weld
- Our Hands Are Full of Color – Julie Beck
- Through Restraint – 2019 Young Curators
January 18 – May 4, 2019
2018 season
September 14 – December 29, 2018
- Second Nature – Shelley Reed
- Olio – Darren Emenau
- So Real – Selections from the Permanent Collection
May 25, 2018 – September 1, 2018
- Works From 2013-2018: Steve Bartlett
- They Are Each Other For A While: Diana Schmertz
- Safe House: Helen O’Leary
- Sylvan Natural History: Eric Lindveit
- Young Curators 2018
January 12, 2018 – May 5, 2018
- Nowhere In Particular: Poogy Bjerklie
- Elastic Cache: Craig Taylor
- Entangled Pairs: Andrea Sulzer
- Shadows of Earth: Caleb Charland
2017 season
September 15, 2017 – December 30, 2017
- Maine and Again: Jack Balas
- Littoral Drift Nearshore: Meghann Riepenhoff
- Traces: Amy Theiss Giese & Kelly Anderson-Staley
- Tintype Portraits: Keliy Anderson-Staley
May 19, 2017 – September 2, 2017
- Somewhere: Jason Bard Yarmosky
- I Wear What I Want: Susan Barnett
- What Lies Beneath: Lee Cummings
- Humanity Within: Young Curators
January 13, 2017 – May 6, 2017
2016 season
September 23 – December 31, 2016
May 13, 2016- September 10, 2016
January 15–April 30, 2016
2015 season
October 2–December 31, 2015
- Natural History: Traer Scott
- Celebrating Photography in Maine: Selection from the Bruce Brown Collection
- Paul Myoda
June 19th – September 19, 2015
- With Ties to Maine: Selections from the Permanent Collection
- Anna Hepler: Blind Spot
- Inter/Dimension: Niho Kozuru
- Young Curators
January 16, 2015 – March 21, 2015
- Global Change: The Dance of Contingencies – Deborah Cornell and Barbara Putnam
- King & Clown: Dan Estabrook
- Infra/Structure: Rachel Hellmann
2014 season
October 3, 2014–January 3, 2015
- Out of Nowhere: John Gallagher Paintings 1996 – 2014
- Tales from the Turnpike: Suzanne Laura Kammin
- Staring at the Sun with a Penny in My Pocket: Matt Phillips
- The Little Fools: Roz Liebowitz
- Awake: Paintings by Maya Brodsky
- Looking Back Six Years: Part Two, Selected New Acquisitions
- Young Curators – Eight Scoops
- Passion and Adornment: Works by Amy Beeler
- Looking Back Six Years – Part One, Selected New Acquisitions
- Jay Kelly: Works from 2007 to 2014
January 17–March 22, 2014
- Paintings by Hannah Cole
- Piranesi to Picasso: Master Prints from the Collection
- Painter and Installation Artist Kenny Cole
2013 season
October 4, 2013–January 4, 2014
- Susan Burnstine & Lynn Saville: From the Shadows
- Sachiko Akiyama: On Finding Home
- Gregory Kalliche: GPOY
June 21–September 21, 2013
- Joanne Freeman: Three Chords
- Rachelle Agundes & Sean Downey: Travel in My Borrowed Lives
- Emily Trenholm: Monhegan: A New Perspective
- Young Curators: Lightscapes, Selections from the Permanant Collection
April 5–June 8, 2013
- I – 95 Triennial: From Connecticut to Maine
- John Bailly in collaboration with poet Richard Blanco: Place of Mind
January 18–March 20, 2013
- Robert Rivers: The Promised Land
- Michael Crouser: Dog Run
- Candice Ivy: Honey from the Belly of the Lion
2012 season
October 5, 2012–January 5, 2013
June 22–September 15, 2012
- Chris Natrop: Lily Ponder
- Richard Haden: Carved Signs
- Arnold Mesches: A Minispective
- Young Curators: Nature vs. the Mechanistic World
April 6–June 9, 2012
January 13–March 24, 2012
- The Moment: Paintings by Michael De Brito
- Lori Nix: The City
- Brett Day Windham: I Put A Spell On You
- George Terry: Because You’re Mine
2011 season
October 14–December 30, 2011
- The Global Lens:Large-Scale Photographs by Dominic Chavez
- Studio Life: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings by Carlo Pittore
- Constructions: Abe Ajay
June 24–September 24, 2011
- Photo National 2011: A Survey of Contemporary Photography
- New Dawn Fades: Photographs by Thomas Hager
April 8–June 11, 2011
- Shadow Play: Works by Brian Shure
- Implements: Recent Sculpture by J.T. Gibson
- Hanging Drawings: Nancy Murphy Spicer
- Permanent Collection Gallery
January 14–March 26, 2011
- Fear & Play: Paintings by Jonathan Lux
- The Gesture Contained: Recent Sculptures by Joshua Enck
- New York New York: Photographs from the Museum Collection
2010 season
October 8–December 30, 2010
- A Pointed View Photographs by Ilya Askinazi
- String Too Short to Use Recent Works by Todd Watts
- Pablo Picasso The Passionate Print
June 25–September 18, 2010
- Ceremonies of Mud New Paintings by Alfredo Gisholt
- Both Sides of the Camera Photographs from the Collection of Judith Ellis Glickman
- Cloudscapes A Selection from the Permanent Collection
April 23–June 12, 2010
January 15–April 3, 2010
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- Resonant Places Paintings by Megan Chase
- Simple Complexity Installation and Works by Gerry Stecca
- Bio-Permutation Sculptures by David Isenhour
- Burnt Cove Watercolors of the Maine Landscape by Gerald Matthew Immonen
2009 season
October 2–December 31, 2009
- Roadside Ghosts: Photographs by Dave Anderson
- Evergreen: Installation by Wendy Wischer
- Abstract New England: Six Perspectives
June 26 – September 19, 2009
- Highway of Thought: Photographs by David Hilliard
- Elegant Darkness: Photographs by Connie Imboden
- Recent Sculptures by Christopher S. Frost
April 17 – June 19, 2009
- Vessels Absent: Installation by Aaron Stephan
- Selected Works on Paper: Aaron Stephan
- Successive Approximations: Works by Carol Prusa
January 16 – April 1, 2009
- Metaphysics of Landscape : Paintings by Timothy McDowell
- A Bit of Colored Ribbon: Works by John Bailly
- Gyotaku Fish Prints by Boshu Nagase (Ended March 21, 2009)
2008 season
October 11, 2008 – January 3, 2009
- Reclaimed: Works by Mildred Johnson and David McLaughlin, Angelo Ippolito
- Celebrities and Socialites: Photographs by Andy Warhol
July 18 – October 1, 2008
April 18 – July 5, 2008
December 7, 2007 – April 5, 2008
2007 season
October 12 – December 1, 2007
July 13 – October 6, 2007
- Millions Taken Daily : Photographs from Everyone and Everywhere
- Being Where : Looking Into Landscape
- K-12 Art from Our Community
April 27 – June 30, 2007
April 4 – April 29, 2007
January 26 – April 14, 2007
October 20 – January 13, 2007
2006 season
July 14 – October 7, 2006
April 14 – July 1, 2006
January 20 – April 8, 2006
October 21 – January 14, 2006
2005 season
July 15 – October 8, 2005
April 8 – July 2, 2005
January 21 – April 22, 2005
2004 season
September 24, 2004 – January 8, 2005
June 25 – September 18, 2004
- Berenice Abbott:Cities Portraits
- Westward Visions: Prints by Karl Bodmer and George Catlin from the Collection of A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.,
- Dozier Bell
April 2 – June 19, 2004
- Jim Dow: American and National League Stadiums
- Marguerite Robichaud: Over Yonder
- Jessica Gandolf: Paintings
January 23 – March 27, 2004
- Expanding Universe: The Recent Paintings of Al Held
- Prospect of Light: Images from Pinhole and Plastic Cameras
- Drawing as Thinking
2003 season
October 02 , 2003 – January 17, 2004
- John Marin’s Maine
- Hollywood Icons, Local Demons: Ghanaian Popular Paintings by Mark Anthony
- Jonathan Bailey: Seeing Bangor
July 18 – September 20, 2003
May 16 – July 5, 2003
- Melville Mclean: Northeast by Southwest
- Wood Engravings: From the Collection
- George Lloyd: The Transition Years 1982 – 1984
March 28 – May 10, 2003