Past Exhibitions

Re-Framed: American Life, Legacy, and Ideals

April 24, 2021 - April 7, 2024

Katazome Today: Migrations of a Japanese Art

July 1, 2023 – January 28, 2024

Outside the Lines

August 24, 2019 – October 15, 2023

The Art of Jean LaMarr

January 28 – June 11, 2023

Jacob Hashimoto: The Fractured Giant

January 21, 2023 – January 21, 2024

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: “Untitled” (L.A.)

February 5 – December 18, 2022

Jacob Hashimoto: Fractured Giants

October 29, 2022 – January 14, 2024

Willem Volkersz: The View From Here

October 8, 2022 – January 8, 2023

Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance

June 11 – September 18, 2022

Contemporary Cuban Art: History, Identity, and Materiality

March 5 – May 22, 2022

Everyday Objects: The Enduring Appeal of Still Life

March 5 - October 9, 2022

Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea

July 31, 2021 - February 13, 2022

Suchitra Mattai: Breathing Room

July 24, 2021 – January 30, 2022

The World Stage: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

March 6 – July 11, 2021

Io Palmer: Desired Interruptions

August 22, 2020 – July 4, 2021

Ceramics and Textiles from the Southwest

May 4, 2019 – April 4, 2021

Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin

August 8, 2020 – February 14, 2021

Collector’s Choice: Selections from Boise Art Museum’s Collectors Forum

November 28, 2020 - February 7, 2021

Women in American Impressionism: Three Masterworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

November 9, 2019 - November 8, 2020

Ann Gardner: The Shape of Air

January 18 - August 2, 2020

Margaret Jacobs: Steel Medicine

June 8, 2019 – July 26, 2020

The 2020 Idaho Triennial

March 8 – July 19, 2020

Impressionism in the Northwest

November 9, 2019-February 9, 2020

Wally Dion: Current

July 27, 2019 – January 5, 2020

Sarah Sense: Cowgirls and Indians

May 18 – October 27, 2019

Stephanie Wilde: Introspective

June 29 - October 13, 2019

2019 Boise State University Biennial Faculty Exhibition

March 30 – July 28, 2019

Jae Yong Kim: Donut Ever Forget Me

January 26 – July 7, 2019

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25

March 2 – June 2, 2019

Construction, Deconstruction, and Abstraction: The Art of James Castle

April 24, 2018 - May 26, 2019

Higher Ground: 10th Biennial High School Art Exhibition

March 16 - April 28, 2019

An Intentional Eye: Select Gifts from Wilfred Davis Fletcher

May 6, 2017 - April 14, 2019

Charles Gill: Observatory

November 3, 2018 – March 3, 2019

Consider the Source

October 14, 2017 – March 3, 2019

A New State of Matter: Contemporary Glass

November 3, 2018 - February 3, 2019

Matteo Pugliese: The Guardians

August 11, 2018 – January 6, 2019

Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art

June 16 – October 7, 2018

Pierre Daura: Fifty Fifty

June 16 – October 7, 2018

Heather Carson: Sculpted Light

March 3 – July 22, 2018

Mapping the Present: Selections from the Driek and Michael Zirinsky Collection

February 17 – July 15, 2018

Cheryl K. Shurtleff: The Road is Wider than Long

September 30, 2017 – May 20, 2018

Jo Hamilton: Knots in Time

January 13 – May 13, 2018

Bricks and Stones

June 24, 2017 - February 11, 2018

Mapping the Past: Selections from the Thomas J. Cooney Collection

August 5, 2017 - January 28, 2018

Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain

August 12 - December 17, 2017

When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection

June 10 – August 27, 2017

2017 Idaho Triennial

February 18 - July 16, 2017

Geraldine Ondrizek: Chromosome Painting II

February 4 - June 4, 2017

Higher Ground 2017

March 4* - April 30, 2017

Tall Tales

April 9, 2016 – April 9, 2017

Modern and Contemporary Ceramics: Kay Hardy and Gregory Kaslo Collection

February 22, 2014 – March 19, 2017

Laura Heit: Earth & Sky

August 13, 2016 – February 19, 2017

Minidoka: Artist as Witness

October 8, 2016 – January 15, 2017

Burchfield Botanicals

June 18 - September 18, 2016

Karen Woods: The Way to Wilder

May 21 – September 11, 2016

In Appreciation: New Gifts to the Boise Art Museum

May 28 - August 28, 2016

Folk Art: The Drew and Katie Gibson Collection

February 27 – July 24, 2016

Adonna Khare: The Kingdom

February 6 – May 29, 2016

Paul Vexler: Ribbons

June 20, 2015 - May 8, 2016

Weather or Not

April 11, 2015 - March 20, 2016

Chinese Gardens

November 14, 2015 - February 14, 2016

Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami

October 24, 2015 – January 17, 2016

Group f/64: Revolutionary Vision

May 16 – October 25, 2015

Richard C. Elliott: Language of Light

June 13 – October 4, 2015

Co-Creation Project

May - September 2015

Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City

January 31 – May 24, 2015

Dragon

December 13, 2014 – May 24, 2015

In the Shadows

Feburary 7 - May 24, 2015

By the Yard: Dresses in the Garden

October 11, 2014 - May 17, 2015

Higher Ground 2015

March 7 - April 26, 2015

A Matter of Taste: Food for Thought

August 23, 2014 – February 15, 2015

James Castle

July 6, 2013 – February 1, 2015

Gail Grinnell: angle of repose

June 28 – November 30, 2014

Arp, Mirό, Calder

August 30, 2014 – January 11, 2015

Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power

June 7 – August 17, 2014

Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft

May 17 – August 10, 2014

Anna Fidler: Vampires and Wolf Men

February 1, 2014 – May 25, 2014

Night Hunter and Night Hunter House: A film and sculptural installation by Stacey Steers

January 25 - June 08, 2014

Origins: Objects of Material Culture

February 23, 2013 – January 12, 2014

Kahn and Selesnick: Mars Revisited

June 15, 2013 – January 5, 2014

2013 IDAHO TRIENNIAL

November 16, 2013 - April 27, 2014

Kehinde Wiley The World Stage: Israel

June 22 – October 27, 2013

Lisa Kokin: How the West Was Sewn

October 5, 2013 – April 27, 2014

URBAN

May 18 - September 22, 2013

William Morris and Alexis Rockman: The Art of Nature

December 8, 2012 – June 2, 2013

Billie Grace Lynn: White Elephants

November 17, 2012 - May 19, 2013

Troy Passey: left unsaid

November 24, 2012 - May 19, 2013

Wilfred Davis Fletcher Collection: In the Abstract

December 15, 2012 - May 19, 2013

Higher Ground: 7th Annual High School Exhibition

March 16 – May 5, 2013

Eastern Traditions | Western Expressions

February 25, 2012 – January 6, 2013

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

May 19 - November 4, 2012

Open to Interpretation

December 17, 2011 – April 15, 2012

Mike Rathbun: The Situation He Found Himself In

June 25, 2011 - March 11, 2012

Full Circle

April 3, 2010 – January 8, 2012

Comics at the Crossroads

August 20 – November 27, 2011

Catherine Courtenaye: Paintings

May 14 - November 20, 2011

Special Soles

May 14 - August 7, 2011

The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories

May 1 - July 31, 2011

Jill Fitterer/ Laura Berman: Converging Collections

April 23 – June 5, 2011

Higher Ground: 6th Biennial High School Exhibition

February 26 – May 1, 2011

Stephen Knapp: Lightpaintings

October 9, 2010 – April 17, 2011

Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment

December 18, 2010 – April 10, 2011

Intersection

August 28, 2010 – March 27, 2011

Composed: New and Recent Gifts from the Collection of Gary Bettis

October 16, 2010 – February 20, 2011

2010 Idaho Triennial

September 4 – December 5, 2010

Birds of a Feather

June 12 - October 3, 2010

Wanxin Zhang: A Ten Year Survey

May 22 – September 19, 2010

John James Audubon: American Artist and Naturalist

June 5 – August 22, 2010

More Than a Pretty Face

April 27 - June 13, 2010

Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon

February 6 – May 16, 2010

FIRST Robotics Team’s Robots

February 6 – May 16, 2010

Idea as Art: Contemporary Works on Paper

November 7, 2009 – May 9, 2010

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

January 30 – April 25, 2010

Patchwork: Historical Quilts

August 29, 2009 – March 14, 2010

A Survey of Gee’s Bend Quilts

October 10, 2009 – January 17, 2010

Corrugated: Sculpture by Ann Weber

May 23 – November 8, 2009

Kid Stuff

June 6 – October 11, 2009

James Castle: Tying it Together

May 2 – September 27, 2009

Devorah Sperber: Threads of Perception

June 20 – September 20, 2009

Go Figure: Selections from the Permanent Collection

February 16, 2008 –August 2, 2009

Calendar of Events

⇐ ⇒November 2018

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
28	29	30	31	1	2	3 November 3, 2018x A New State of Matter: Contemporary Glass Charles Gill: Observatory
4	5	6 November 6, 2018x 10:30 pm Drawing From Observation	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	1