Archives of past exhibitions

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

Froms 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

Annes 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