Archives of past exhibitions
Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks
June 6 – October 25, 2024
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Tokaido: Dreamscapes by Ando Hiroshige
April 27 – October 13, 2024
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Wanda Koop: WHO OWNS THE MOON
April 11 – August 4, 2024
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Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore: Giants of Modern Art
February 10 – June 2, 2024
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The Pop of Life!
August 31, 2023 – July 28, 2024
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Nathalie Bujold: Pixels, Petit Point and Monument
September 11, 2023 – March 31, 2024
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Françoise Sullivan: “I let rhythms flow”
November 11, 2023 – February 18, 2024
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Marisol: A Retrospective
October 7, 2023 – January 21, 2024
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Parall(elles): A History of Women in Design
Feburary 18 – May 28, 2023
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Nalini Malani: Crossing Boundaries
March 23 – August 20, 2023
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Wolves: The Art of Dempsey Bob
May 18 – September 10, 2023
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Thought and Splendour of Indigenous Colombia: Portable Universe
June 3 – October 1, 2023
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Nicolas Party: L’heure mauve
Feburary 12 – October 16, 2022
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Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together
March 17 – July 10, 2022
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Niamh
June 6 – October 13, 2022
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Contre-espace
June 10 – December 18, 2022
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Views of Within: Picturing the Spaces We Inhabit
June 1, 2022 – July 2, 2023
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Stanley Février: Museum of the Art of Today / Department of the Invisible
June 15 – August 28, 2022
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Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me
September 1, 2022 – January 15, 2023
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Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956-1971
September 15, 2022 – January 29, 2023
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Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music
October 15, 2022 – February 19, 2023
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TUSARNITUT! Music Born of the Cold
November 10, 2022 – March 12, 2023
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Revelations: Prints by Albert Dumouchel in the Collection of the MMFA
December 1, 2022 – March 26, 2023
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GRAFIK! Five Centuries of German and Austrian Graphics
February 11 – July 4, 2021
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Yann Pocreau: Impermanencies
April 10 – August 1, 2021
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Caroline Monnet: Ninga Mìnèh
April 21 – August 1, 2021
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Riopelle: The Call of Northern Landscapes and Indigenous
February 11 – September 12, 2021
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Adrift
May 31 – October 10, 2021
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MOMENTA x MMFA : Anne Duk Hee Jordan
Intimacy of Strangers
September 4, 2021 – 2 january, 2022
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Sisyphe : Performance marathon de Victor Pilon
September 28 – 27 october, 2021
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Ragnar Kjartansson, Sumarnótt: Death Is Elsewhere
September 28, 2021 – 2 january, 2022
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The World of Yousuf Karsh: A Private Essence
September 22, 2021 – January 30, 2022
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“How long does it take for one voice to reach another?”
September 11, 2021 – February 13, 2022
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Outside the Frame: Works by Artists among Us
September 11, 2021 – February 13, 2022
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Ecologies: A Song for Our Planet
March 10, 2021 – April 3, 2022
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Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism: Signac and the Indépendants
From July 4 to October 1, 2020
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Sailboats
A poetic installation bu collectif Escargo on Du Musée Avenue
From July 13 to October 25, 2020
Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives
From September 14, 2019 to March 13, 2020 and June 6 to June 28, 2020
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Untamed Colour: Celebrating Jean McEwen
From September 17, 2019 to March 13, 2020
About Face
Photographs by Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and Rachel Harrison from the Collection of Carol and David Appel
From December 11, 2019 to March 13, 2020
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Avant-garde Montrealers
Jewellery, Glass and Ceramics as Envisioned by Gallerists Jocelyne Gobeil, Elena Lee and Barbara Silverberg
From April 2, 2019 to June, 2020
"For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"
Selections from The Bailey Collection
From December 4, 2019 to March 13, 2020
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About face
Photographs by Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and Rachel Harrison from the Collection of Carol and David Appel
From December 11, 2019 to March 29, 2020
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Obsession: Sir William Van Horne’s Japanese Ceramics
From November 20, 2019 to March 1, 2020
Contemporary Artists at Play: Flirting with Codes, Tricks and Subterfuge
From July 2, 2019 to March 13, 2020
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Alinka Echeverría: Simulacra
From September 5 to December 1, 2019
Omar Ba: Same Dream
From May 30 to November 10, 2019
Strut the Catwalk!
From May 13 to October 27, 2019
Thierry Mugler: Couturissime
From March 2 to September 8, 2019
Montreal Couture
From March 2 to September 8, 2019
Alanis Obomsawin, œuvres gravées
Une artiste et sa nation : les vanniers waban-akis d’Odanak
From June 7 to August 25, 2019
Connections: Our Artistic Diversity Dialogues with Our Collections
From September 18, 2018 to June 9, 2019
Liminals: A Para-fiction of Transcendence by Jeremy Shaw
From September 6, 2018 to June 2, 2019
A model in the Studio, Montreal 1880-1950: New Acquisitions
From January 26, 2019 to May 26, 2019
Of individuals and Places: Photographs from Lazare Collection
From November 28, 2018 to April 28, 2019
Bon appétit!
Contemporary Foodware Designs in Quebec
From March 24, 2018 to March 24, 2019
Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor
From Septembre 21, 2018 to February 24, 2019
Resplendent Illuminations - Books of Hours from the 13th to the 16th Century in Quebec Collections
From September 5, 2018 to January 6, 2019
Jean-Michel Othoniel: Motion - Emotion
From June 20 to November 11, 2018
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present
From May 12 to September 16, 2018
Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art
From May 12 to September 16, 2018
From the Hands of the Masters II: From Parmigionino to Matisse
From April 10 to August 12, 2018
Napoleon: Art and court Life in the Imperial Palace
From February 3 to May 10, 2018
Once upon a time... The Western: A new frontier in Art and Film
From October 14, 2017 to February 4, 2018
Revolution
From June 17, 2017 to October 9, 2017
Chagall: Colour and Music
From January 28, 2017 to June 11, 2017
Love Is Love
From May 27, 2017 to October 22, 2017
She Photographs
From July 19, 2016 to February 19, 2017
Pierre Ayot: Work In Progress
From December 20, 2016 to March 19, 2017
The Art of Play: quebec Toymakers' recent Designs
Leila Alaoui: " No Pasara"
From January 17, 2017 to April 23, 2017
Adel Abdessemed: Conflict
From February 21, 2017 to May 7, 2017
La Balade pour la Paix: An Open-air Museum
From June 5, 2017 to October 29, 2017
Wool War One
From November 11, 2017 to January 7, 2018
Kushapetshekan / Kosapitcikan
From October 3, 2017 to March 4, 2018
News takes on an old craft: Contemporary Quebec leatherwork
From April 11, 2017 to March 2018
Woman. Artist. Indigenous.
Nadia Myre: Scattered Remains - Tout ce qui reste
From November 8, 2017 to March 25, 2018
Commemorating Dr. Sean B. Murphy (1924-2017)
From December 12, 2017 to April 2, 2018
Kerry James Marshall
La biennale de Montréal 2016 - THE GRAND BALCONY
From October 19, 2016 to January 29, 2017
Focus: Perfection - Robert Mapplethorpe
From September 10, 2016 to January 22, 2017
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The Black Sun of Melancholy
From August, 2016 to December 11, 2017
Julie Favreau: She Century
From July, 2016 to November 13, 2016
Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque
From June 18, 2016 to October 30, 2016
Pompeii
From February 6, 2016 to September 5, 2016
Partners in Design
From April 19, 2016 to August 21, 2016
The Recovery of Antiquity
From January 12, 2016 to June 26, 2016
Her Story Today
From October 8, 2015 to August 7, 2016
Mathieu Beauséjour
From February 9, 2016 to June 12, 2016
Maxwell Bitton-The art of being unique
February 16 to March 27, 2016
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot-from here to ear v.19
November 25, 2015, to March 27, 2016
1920s Modernism in Montreal. the Beaver Hall Group
October 24, 2015, to January 31, 2016
George S. Zimbel - A Humanist Photographer
September 9, 2015, to January 3, 2016
Metamorphoses. In Rodins's Studio.
May 31, 2015 to October 18, 2015
Michael Williams: Yard Salsa
June 9 to September 27, 2015
Marion Wagschal: Portraits, Memories, Fables
April 9 to August 9, 2015
From Gainsborough to Moore
April 15 to August 16, 2015
Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism
January 31 to May 31, 2015
Shirin Neshat: Illusions & Mirrors
October 22, 2014 – February 1, 2015
Anne Frank: A History for Today
January 8 to 28, 2015
Remarkable Contemporary Jewellery
Until March 2, 2015
Warhol Mania
From November 6, 2014, to March 29, 2015
The Patriotism of Death
November 11, 2014, to March 29, 2015
Benoit Aquin
February 18 to May 24, 2015
Owen Kydd: Durational Photographs
September 10 to December 6, 2015
Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands
January 25 to June 8, 2014
Jules de Balincourt - Paintings 2004-2013
November 8, 2013, to March 30, 2014
1+1=1
When Collection Collide: The Musée d’art contemporain at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
February 22 to June 15, 2014
Realms of Shadow and Light
Quebec and Canadian Drawings from the Museum’s Collection
December 3, 2013, to March 30, 2014
Splendore a Venezia
Art and Music from the Renaissance to Baroque in Venice
October 12, 2013, to January 19, 2014
Fabulous Fabergé
From June 14 to October 12, 2014
Michel Lemieux | Victor Pilon : Dreamscapes
International Digital Arts Biennal
From May 1 to October 12, 2014
60 Million Girls
From October 23 to November 23, 2014
From Van Gogh to Kandinsky
Impressionism to Expressionism, 1900-1914
From October 11, 2014, to January 25, 2015
Auteur Photography in Quebec:
A Collection Takes Shape
July 16 to November 10, 2013
Michel Campeau, Industrial Splendour and Fetishism:
The Bruce Anderson Collection
July 16 to November 10, 2013
Chihuly
June 8 to October 20, 2013
Peru: Kingdoms of the sun and the Moon
February 2 to June 16, 2013
"In These Drawings my Hands are Dreaming"
Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
April 11 to June 30, 2013
From the Hands of the Masters
Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
April 11 to June 30, 2013
Continental European Prints froms the Collection of the Montreal Museu, of Fine Arts : From Schongauer to Picasso
April 4 to June 30, 2013
Trans-Form/Pose/Figure by the Artist Laurent Craste
May 13 to March 30, 2014
Claude Cormier - TOM II (Field of Poppies)
May 15 to October 8, 2013
Once Upon A Time... Impressionism:
Great French Paintings from the Clark
October 13, 2012, to January 20, 2013
Beyond Pop Art: Tom Wesselmann
May 19 to October 7, 2012
Lyonel Feininger: from the Bauhaus to Manhattan
January 1 to May 13, 2012
Landscape, Revolution, People: Photographs by Aydin Matlabi
December 18, 2012, to March 17, 2013
As Far as We Were, As Close as I Close as I Can
Photographs by Chih Chien Wang
December 18, 2012, to March 17, 2013
Dominique Blain's "Missa"
August 21 to October 14, 2012
Antoni Tàpies's "In Memoriam"
September 20 to December 9, 2012
Piano Panier Piano Panier: The Shopping Cart as Seen by Paprika
August 28, 2012, to May 12, 2013
Nineteenth-century British Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada
May 29 to September 23, 2012
Claude Cormier - TOM I
May 14 to November 28, 2012
Fragmentation
Adaptation of Three Scenes from the Show LIPSYNCÉH directed by Robert Lepage
April 18 to August 5, 2012
Samare
September 14, 2011, to August 19, 2012
The Warrior Emperor and China's Terracotta Army
February 11 to June 26, 2011
Red Flag: Contemporary Chinese Art in Montreal Collections
March 3 to June 5, 2011
Five Centuries of European Prints from the Collection of Drs. Jonathan Meakins and Jacqueline McClaran
The Physician’s Eye
April 5 to August 21, 201
Serge Murphy: The Shape of Days
June 22 to October 2, 2011
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaulthier: From the Sidewlak to the Catwalk
June 17 to October 2, 2011
Big Bang: Creativity Is Given Carte Blanche
November 6, 2011, to January 22, 2012
Inner Space: An Installation by Michael Merrill
November 6, 2011, to January 22, 2012
Dorothea Rockburn: In My Mind's Eye
November 6, 2011, to April 1, 2012
Tête-à-tête: Protraits of Quebec Artists by Richard Max Tremblay
September 30, 2011, to February 5, 2012
Resolute Bay: The Daytime Journey in the Night
November 6, 2011, April 8, 2012
Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour
February 12 to May 2, 2010
Studio Glass: Anna and Joe Mendel Collection
April 8, 2010, to January 3, 2011
"WE WANT MILES": Miles Davis vs. Jazz
April 30 to August 29, 2010
Inspira: how Cirque du soleil Inspired the House of Bucheron to Create of Luxury Jewellery
April 1 to August 29, 2010
Rouge Cabaret: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otton Dix
September 24, 2010, to January 2, 2011
Exodus
January 28 to June 27, 2010
Pierre Dorion, Paintings and Photography
March 4 to May 30, 2010
Drive End : Martin Beauregard
June 17 to September 19, 2010
The Symbolist Muse: A Selection of Prints from the National Gallery of Canada
July 16 to October 21, 2010
The Earth Is Blue Like an Orange: Works from the Collection of Contemporary Art at MMFA
September 14, 2010, to August 21, 2011
The Tribe and the Hermit Michel Rouleau's Tent-Chairs
July 13 to November 14, 2010
Denis Gagnon Shows All
October 19, 2010, to February 13, 2011
19th-Century French Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada
November 4, 2010, to March 20, 2011
Van Dongen: Painting the Town Fauve
January 22 to April 19, 2009
Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918
June 18 to September 27, 2009
Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko
April 2 to June 21, 2009
Betty Goodwin, 1923-2008: In Memoriam
February 19 to April 26, 2009
Kent Monkman Dance to the Berdashe
May 6 to October 4, 2009
Frédéric Back: One with Nature
June 18 to September 27, 2009
J.W. Waterhouse: Garden of Enchantment
October 2, 2009, to February 7, 2010
The Fantastical World of Érik Desmazières
September 10, 2009, to January 3, 2010
The painter as Printmaker: Impressionist Prints from the National Gallery of Canada
September 10 to December 6, 2009
Global Warning: Scenes froms a Planet under Pressure. Works from the MMFA's Collection of Cotemporary Art
November 10, 2009, to August 22, 2010
Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today
January 31 to June 8, 2008
Yves Saint Laurent
May 29 to September 28, 2008
Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Work
September 25, 2008, to January 18, 2009
American Prints between the Wars
February 26 to October 26, 2008
Refus Global: 60 Years Later
June 19 to February 2, 2009
The Artistic Legacy of the Montreal Sulpicians
September 13 to December 9, 2007
e-art: New Technologies and Contemporary Art Ten years of Accomplishments by Daniel Langlois Foundation
September 20 to December 9, 2007
David Claerbout: Replaying Narrative. Le Mois de la Photo at the Museum
September 6 to October 21, 2007
The Gilded Bronzes of Cartoceto di Pergola
July 7, 2007, to February 10, 2008
John Lurie: The Erotic Poetry of Hoog
June 28 to September 16, 2007
Emily Carr: New Perscpectives on a Canadian Icon
June 21 to September 23, 2007
American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow
May 17 to October 28, 2007
Once upon a Time... Walt Disney: The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios
March 9 to June 24, 2007
Maurice Denis Earthly Paradise
February 22 to May 20, 2007
Impressions of Humanity: The Freda and Irwin Browns Collection of Master Prints
January 17 to April 22, 2007
All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works
December 6, 2007, to March 2, 2008
Pellan: The Prints
December 8, 2006, to May 13, 2007
Sobey Art Award 2006
October 17, 2006, to January 7, 2007
Germaine Krull: The Monte-Carlo Years
October 18, 2006, to January 7, 2007
Odilion Redon's Haunted Realm
Lithographs from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada
October 13, 2006, to January 14, 2007
Girodet. Romantic Rebel
October 12, 2006, to January 21, 2007
Sound and Vision: Photographic and Video Images in Contemporary Art
A Selection of Works from the MMFA, NGC and AGO
July 11 to October 22, 2006
ItuKiagâtta! Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of the TD Bank Financial Group
June 29 to October 8, 2006
Il Modo Italiano: Italian Design and Avant-garde in 20th Century
May 4 to August 27, 2006
Pietro Bracci: Italian Designer of the Rococo
April 14 to September 17, 2006
Nicolas Baier: Hunting Gallery
March 21 to May 28, 2006
A Topsy-Turvy World: Museum Employees in the Spotlight
March 16 to June 4, 2006
Sculpting Possibilities L'Anonyme at the Museum
March 16 to April 2, 2006
Catherine the Great: Art for Empire Masterpieces from the State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg
February 2 to May 7, 2006
Literally and figuratively: Photographic Portraits
December 15, 2005, to May 21, 2006
Right under the Sun: Landscape in Provence, from Classicism to Modernist (1750-1920)
September 22, 2005, to January 8, 2006
Sam Borenstein
June 29 to September 18, 2005
Edwin Holgate
May 26 to October 2, 2005
Jack Lenor Larsen: Creator and Collector
June 23 to August 21, 2005
Jean McEwen: "Hand to colour"
April 6 to August 14, 2005
Cecil Buller (1886-1973): A Retrospective
April 21 to June 12, 2005
Sean Murphy: The Collector's Eye
April 21 to June 12, 2005
Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum
January 27 to May 23, 2005
**A Dealer for "Living Art": Selected Works from the Max and Iris Stern
Donation to Montreal **
September 1, 2004 to January 2, 2005
Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco
September 30 to December 12, 2004
High Points: contemporary Canadian Art - ten years of Acquisitions
June 9 to October 3, 2004
Jean Cocteau: Enfant terrible
May 6 to August 29, 2004
Albrecht Dürer, Master Printmaker of the German Renaissance: Selections from the National Gallery of Canada
April 7 to August 6, 2004
Tanagra, a Small World in Clay
February 5 to May 9, 2004
Ferdinand Hodler, Draftsman
October 8, 2003, to March 21, 2004
**Global Village: the 60s **
October 2, 2003, to March 7, 2004
Gabor Osz: The Liquid Horizon
September 11, 2003, to January 11, 2004
Françoise Sullivan
June 18 to October 5, 2003
Édouard Vuillard: Post-Impressionist Master
May 15 to August 24, 2003
Fritz Brandtner
April 25 to July 13, 2003
Carl Poul Petersen, Silversmith
February 13 to April 13, 2003
Rolph Scarlett: Art, design and Jewellery
February 13 to April 13, 2003
Voyage into Myth: Masterpieces of the French Avant-Garde from the Hermitage Museum
January 31 to April 27, 2003
Richelieu: Art and Power
September 20, 2002, to January 5, 2003
Riopelle
June 20 to September 29, 2002
Italian Old Masters from Raphael to Tiepolo: The Collection of the Budapest museum of Fine Arts
April 24 to August 4, 2002
Herbert List, Romantic Wanderer
January 23 to April 28, 2002
Jessica Diamond
Octobre 17, 2002, to January 26, 2003
Rainfall with Language – Freedom Series, project 4
Piranèse-Goya: Roma fantastica and the Sleep of Reason
October 10, 2001, to January 27, 2002
Francesco Goya and Jake and Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of War
Prints from the Bruce Bailey Collection, Toronto
October 10, 2001, to January 27, 2002
Aluminium by Design
August 23 to November 4, 2001
Picasso Érotique
June 14 to September 16, 2001
Pierre Ayot Unlimited
March 29 to June 17, 2001
Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences
November 16, 2000, to April 16, 2001
From Dürer to Rembrandt
September 15, 2000, to April 1, 2001
From Renoir to Picasso
Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
June 1 to October 15, 2000
Pipilotti Rist
May 11 to August 6, 2000
Geneviève Cadieux
April 6 to July 2, 2000
Dallaire
March 2 to April 30, 2000
Gauguin to Toulouse-Lautrec: French Prints of the 1890s
February 3 to April 16, 2000
René Derouin Frontières, Frontiers, Fonteras
January 14 to March 14, 1999
Monet at Giverny: Masterpieces from the Marmottan Museum
January 28 to May 9, 1999
Davis Blackwood
February 4 to April 4, 1999
Goodridge Roberts Revealed
April 1 to June 13, 1999
New Frontiers
June 17 to August 2, 1999
Cosmos: From Romantiscism to the Avant-garde, 1801 to 2001
June 17 to October 17, 1999
Structurs and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles
September 16 to November 14, 1999
Holly King: landscapes of the imagination
September 23 to December 5, 1999
Mexican Modern Art, 1900-1950
November 4, 1999, to February 6, 2000
Triumphs of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe, 1600-1750
December 9, 1999, to April 9, 2000