Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village
Explore the life and legacy of Richmond native Benjamin Wigfall (1930–2017)—artist, educator, and champion of arts equity. In this first retrospective of his pioneering career, the exhibition...
View ArticleWhitfield Lovell: Passages
Be transported by Whitfield Lovell’s evocative multisensory installations, conté drawings, and assemblages. Whitfield Lovell: Passages is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this renowned...
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Horses and Heroes in the Age of Napoleon: The Equestrian Drawings of Carle...
Born Antoine Charles Horace Vernet in Bordeaux, France, Carle Vernet was a painter, engraver, and lithographer trained in the style of the Neoclassical school. In addition to working alongside his...
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Athena LaTocha
In this installation of monumental works on paper, Athena LaTocha invites viewers to meditate on the landscape as a geographic space, a repository of history, and a personified living entity. Her works...
View ArticleDawoud Bey: Elegy
Mesmerizing and evocative, these 50 photographs and two film installations by contemporary American artist Dawoud Bey contemplate landscapes in Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio as deeply profound...
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Fine Arts and Flowers 2024
Fine Arts and Flowers 2024 will be a spectacular museum-wide exhibition of floral designs inspired by works of art in VMFA’s permanent collection. Held biennially since 1987, Fine Arts and Flowers...
View ArticleWillie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist
Celebrate this groundbreaking, internationally renowned photographer and painter whose remarkable Richmond-based career spans over six decades. Presenting 70 photographs and 8 paintings by the Richmond...
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The Art of Advertisement: Art Nouveau Posters of the Late 19th Century
This selection from VMFA’s collection of Art Nouveau posters highlights the late 19th-century design style, which emphasized beauty in natural forms and movement and was often expressed through...
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Early Childhood Annual Exhibition
VMFA is pleased to present works of art selected from our Early Childhood Education programs. Each work on display was created in one of our many programs designed to reach children ages three months...
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Museum Leaders in Training Exhibition
VMFA is pleased to present a project developed by students who participated in this year’s Museum Leaders in Training (MLiT) program. The work in this exhibition highlights a project inspired by Willie...
View ArticleSamurai Armor from the Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller
Explore more than 140 exquisitely crafted objects belonging to one of the largest and most refined collections of Japanese armor. The assembled works showcase the ceremonial adornments of samurai...
View ArticleTheaster Gates: Wonder Working Power
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents Theaster Gates: Wonder Working Power, a site-specific installation by the Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and professor. Visitors will behold Theaster...
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Producing the Picturesque: Watercolors and Collaborative Prints by Kawase Hasui
Kawase Hasui (1883–1957) was the most significant Japanese woodblock artist of the 20th century, designing around six hundred print compositions over the course of his career. Hasui’s print designs...
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American, born Hungary: The Hungarian-American Photographic Legacy
American, born Hungary: The Hungarian-American Photographic Legacy will fill in a missing chapter of 20th-century art history. Curated by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Director and CEO Alex Nyerges, the...
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Experimental Lines: Impressionist and Postimpressionist Drawings from the...
The Impressionists, and later the Postimpressionists, were both lauded and criticized for their revolutionary painting techniques, yet these artists were equally groundbreaking in their radical drawing...
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A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845
Explore the American South’s distinct, evolving, and contradictory character through an examination of photography from the 19th century to the present. A Long Arc: Photography and the American South...
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Teen Stylin’ 2024: MEMENTOS
This exhibition features designer renderings and garments created by fifty-eight Virginia students in grades six through twelve who participated in the Teen Stylin’: Mementos runway show, held May 5,...
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The Impressionist Revolution:Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art
Opening at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in spring 2025, The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art explores the fascinating story of Impressionism from its birth...
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Ted Joans: Land of the Rhinoceri
In Ted Joans: Land of the Rhinoceri, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents a suite of 31 works—in watercolor, pencil, ink, crayon, and collage that the artist completed in 1956 and gathered in a...
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Early Childhood Education Student Show
About This Exhibition The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents selected works of art from our Early Childhood Education programs. Each work on display was created in one of VMFA’s many programs...
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