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2021
| Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London | November 13, 2021 – March 13, 2022 |
| What the Nazis Stole from Richard Neumann (and the search to get it back) | April 10, 2021 – January 17, 2022 |
| The Iconic Jersey: Baseball x Fashion | June 12 – September 12, 2021 |
| The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design | February 6 – May 2, 2021 |
2020
| Women of WAM | October 28, 2020 – September 5, 2021 |
| Nature Imagined by Susan Swinand | October 1, 2020 – Feburary 7, 2021 |
| Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere | February 15 – November 8, 2020 |
2019
| Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman | November 16, 2019 – February 16, 2020 |
| With Child: Otto Dix / Carmen Winant | September 21 – December 15, 2019 |
| Travels with Hiroshige | February 23 – May 26, 2019 |
| Monet's Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process | January 25 – April 28, 2019 |
2018
| Preserved Pages: Book as Art in Persia and India, 1300–1800 | October 13, 2018 – January 6, 2019 |
| The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society | September 8 – November 25, 2018 |
| Radiance Rediscovered: Stained Glass by Tiffany and La Farge | June 30, 2018 – December 1, 2019 |
| Exploring the Myths of James Dye | April 7 – September 2, 2018 |
| The Mystery of Worcester's Leonardo | March 10 – June 3, 2018 |
| Dangerous Liaisons Revisited | January 20 – April 22, 2018 |
2017
| Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England | November 11, 2017 – February 4, 2018 |
| Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard | October 14, 2017 – February 25, 2018 |
| Last Defense: The Genius of Japanese Meiji Metalwork | September 13, 2017 – September 2, 2018 |
| America’s Peculiar Institution | August 2017 – March, 2021 |
| Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang | June 24 – November 12, 2017 |
| John O'Reilly: A Studio Odyssey | May 13 – August 13, 2017 |
| Jeppson Idea Lab: Master Vases from Ancient Greece | April 5, 2017 – August 11, 2019 |
| Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Collection of Roberta and Richard Huber |
March 11 – July 9, 2017 |
2016
| KAHBAHBLOOOM: The Art and Storytelling of Ed Emberley |
November 2016 – April 2017 |
| Picket Fence to Picket Line: Visions of American Citizenship |
October 2016 – February 2017 |
| THE BEAUTY OF TYRANNY | October – December 2016 |
| Facing the World: Modernization and Splendor in Meiji Japan |
September 2016 – April 2017 |
| Blood and Honey | June – November 2016 |
| Meow: A Cat-Inspired Exhibition | May – September 2016 |
| Jeppson Idea Lab: The Art of Combat | May – September 2016 |
| The Last Judgment Tapestry | April – September 2016 |
| Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period | January – April 2016 |
2015
| Nature Unfolded: Korean Art from the Collection | December 2015 – April 2016 |
| Jeppson Idea Lab: Olmec Incised Standing Figure | November 2015 – April 2016 |
| Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars | November 2015 – March 2016 |
| Pierre Bonnard, Dining Room in the Country | October 2015 – June 2016 |
| Static Variations: Blue x 2 by Terri Priest | October 2015 – January 2016 |
| Veiled Aleppo | September 2015 – June 2016 |
| The Baskets of Hayakawa Shokosai III | August – December 2015 |
| American Folk Art, Lovingly Collected | July – November 2015 |
| Nagasawa Rosetsu, Bamboo | May – August 2015 |
| Samurai! | April – September 2015 |
| Jeppson Idea Lab: Portrait of a Man by Anthony van Dyck |
March – October 2015 |
| Uncanny Japan: The Art of Yoshitoshi | February – May 2015 |
| Raphael: The Cowper Madonna | January – September 2015 |
| A Screen for the New Year: Pines and Plum Blossoms | January – May 2015 |
2014
| Africa's Children of Arms | November 2014 – September 2015 |
| Norman Rockwell | November 2014 – February 2015 |
| Polly Apfelbaum – Nevermind: Works from the 90s | October 2014 – March 2015 |
| KNIGHTS! | September 2014 – November 2016 |
| Perfectly Strange | September 2014 – January 2015 |
| Rembrandt and Steen: Loans from the Leiden Gallery | August 2014 – August 2015 |
| Jeppson Idea Lab: Portraits by William Hogarth | July 2014 – February 2015 |
| Abstractions in Blue: Works from the Wise Collection | June 2014 – January 2015 |
| KNIGHTS! | March 2014 – November 2016 |
| Guns without Borders in Mexico and Central America | March – November 2014 |
| New acquisitions (photos by LaToya Ruby Frazier) | through July 2014 |
| “Majicolor” Prints by Majima Ryoichi | February 2014 – November 2014 |
| Jeppson Idea Lab: Michael Benson | January – June 2014 |
2013
| You Are Here | December 2013 – August 2014 |
| Works in Process: from Proof to Print | December 2013 – April 2014 |
| Chinese Personal Adornments | September 2013 – February 2014 |
| Five Works by Three Generations of Yoshida Family Artist |
August 2013 – January 2014 |
| Winogrand's Women Are Beautiful | August – November 2013 |
| Orantes: Ancient Statues from South Italy | June – December 2013 |
| Looking West and Looking East Landscape Prints by Yoshida Tōshi (1911-95) |
June – November 2013 |
| Nancy Spero: Cri du Coeur | May – October 2013 |
| Portrait Photographs of Artists | May – July 2013 |
| The Allure of Blanc de Chine | February – August 2013 |
| Silent Gardens The "White-line" Print Series by Yoshida Tōshi (1911-95) |
January – July 2013 |
| Charline von Heyl | November 2010 – March 2013 |
2012
| Bostonians in Miniature Portraits and Lives, 1810-1835 |
December 2012 – September 1, 2013 |
| Looking at the Stars Prints by Imamura Yoshio (Japanese, b. 1948) |
December 2012 – May 2013 |
| Prints by Georges Rouault | December 2012 – March 2013 |
| Jill Slosburg-Ackerman – In Rome: The Pine Grove. And. Natura naturans; natura naturata. | November 2012 – March 2013 |
| 20th Century American Drawings | October – December 2012 |
| Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation | September 2012 —June 2013 |
| Spotlight on Maki Haku (1924-2000) | July 2012 – January 2013 |
| Pilgrimage to Hokusai's Waterfalls | May – November 2012 |
| Small Porcelain Luxuries from China | March – August 2012 |
| Carrie Moyer: Interstellar | February – August 2012 |
| Eight Views of the Ryūkyū Islands | February – July 2012 |
2011
| Ladies of the House Portrait Miniatures of Women from the Permanent Collection |
December 2011 – May 2012 |
| In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans |
December 2011 – May 2012 |
| Hymn to the Earth: Photographs by Ron Rosenstock | December 2011 – July 2012 |
| Rest Elsewhere: Netherlandish Mannerist Prints | October – December 2011 |
| More Than Face Value Non-Traditional Subjects in American Miniature Painting |
June – November 2011 |
| The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux | April – October 2011 |
| Leisure, Pleasure, and the Debut of the Modern French Woman | May – September 2011 |
2010
| Dandies | November 2010 – May 2011 |
| Goya and the Bullfight | December 18, 2010 – April 17, 2011 |
| Édouard Manet's The Dead Toreador | September 25, 2010 – March 20, 2011 |
| Place as Idea | October 9, 2010 – February 20, 2011 |
| Portrait Photographs | August 21 – November 28, 2010 |
| Minimalism: Logic Structure in the Graphic Arts | April 10 – July 11, 2010 |
| Selections from Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present | March 7 – May 30, 2010 |
2009
| What Matters | December 19, 2009 – August 22, 2010 |
| Twelve Zodiacal Animals | July 11, 2009 – May 30, 2010 |
| A Miniature Milestone: The Marianne E. Gibson Portrait Miniature Gallery at 20 | December 2, 2009 – April 8, 2010 |
| Intaglio: Italian Etchings and Engravings | November 21, 2009 – March 7, 2010 |
| Bound by Fashion: The Corset in European Art | September 16, 2009 – January 10, 2010 |
| Printmaking Methods | Relief | June 27 – October 18, 2009 |
| Rona Pondick: The Metamorphosis of an Object | April 18 – October 11, 2009 |
| Spies Like Us! Nathan Hale and Major André | June 5 – September 20, 2009 |
| Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes | March 28 – May 24, 2009 |
2008
| Wall at WAM: “Actions Speak,” THINK AGAIN (David John Attyah and S.A. Bachman) | October 30, 2008 – October 17, 2010 |
| Heavenly and Earthly Delights: An exhibition in two parts | May 10, 2008 – June 7, 2009 |
| Watercolor—Bodycolor | December 20, 2008 – March 1, 2009 |
| Human Nature(s) | November 15, 2008 – February 15, 2009 |
| Sepia Memories: Nineteenth-Century Photographs | August 30 – November 30, 2008 |
| Wall at WAM: Alexander Ross | March 22, 2007 – September 2008 |
| Two Chinas: Chen Qiulin and Yun-Fei Ji | March 8 – September 21, 2008 |
| Inky Tributaries: Contemporary Chinese Prints | May 10 Through August 3, 2008 |
2007
| Textile Heirlooms of the Indus Valley | September 14, 2007 – May 11, 2008 |
| An American Vision: Treasures from the Winterthur Museum | November 4, 2007 – April 6, 2008 |
| Abstract Expressionist Prints | December 22, 2007 – March 30, 2008 |
| Paragons of Fashion: Early Nineteenth Century Japanese Woodblock Prints of Beauties | September 15, 2007 – March 2, 2008 |
| Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home | September 22, 2007 – January 13, 2008 |
| Printmaking Methods/Stencil | September 8 – November 25, 2007 |
| Random Sketches from Here and There: Gouache Drawings by Gustave Baumann | April 28 – July 29, 2007 |
| Ed Ruscha/Raymond Pettibon: The Holy Bible and THE END | April 7 — May 27, 2007 |
2006
| Mountain Harvests: Chinese Jades and Other Treasured Stones | March 4, 2006 – June 17, 2007 |
| La Belle Epoque: Works on Paper, 1885-1915 | December 16, 2006 – March 18, 2007 |
| Wall at WAM: Jim Hodges “Don't Be Afraid” | April 16, 2004 – Spring 2007 |
| Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child (in context) | October 21, 2006 – February 25, 2007 |
| Mi Puerto Rico: Master Painters of the Island, 1780-1952 | October 8, 2006 – January 14, 2007 |
| Horrors of War | September 9, 2006 – November 26, 2006 |
| Surrealist Works on Paper | May 6 – August 19, 2006 |
| David Thorpe: A Meeting of Friends | April 7 – August 13, 2006 |
| Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968—1993 | March 26 – June 25, 2006 |
2005
| New to View: Recent Acquisitions in Photography | December 17, 2005 – April 15, 2006 |
| Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time | November 13, 2005 – February 12, 2006 |
| Pillar-Print Masterpieces: Narrow Glimpses into Japanese Life, Legends, and Literature | August 27, 2005 – January 21, 2006 |
| AFTERBURN—Willie Cole: Selected Works, 1997-2004 | November 13, 2005 – January 7, 2006 |
| Egyptomania: Modern Fascination for and Ancient Civilization | September 17 – November 27, 2005 |
| Hope and Healing:Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague | April 3 – September 25, 2005 |
| Jodie Manasevit: Just Painting | May 13 – August 21, 2005 |
| Printmaking Methods/Lithography | April 30 – July 31, 2005 |
| Evoking Rasa in Luminous Visions: Indian Art from the Herwitz Collection | February 26 – July 17, 2005 |
2004
| Lily van der Stokker | November 18, 2004 – April 3, 2005 |
| Rococo: French 18th-Century Prints | December 19, 2004 – March 20, 2005 |
| Modern Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection | August 6, 2004 – January 23, 2005 |
| Photography at the Worcester Art Museum: Keeping Shadows | October 10, 2004 – January 2, 2005 |
| Japanese Masters of Mezzotint: Yozo Hamaguchi and Katsunori Hamanishi | September 6 – November 28, 2004 |
| How Sculptors See | April 8 – October 10, 2004 |
| An American Impressionist: Joseph H. Greenwood | March 6 – August 8, 2004 |
| Birds in Japanese Art and Poetry | February 21 – July 16, 2004 |
| Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings | October 4 – June 27, 2004 |
| Wall at WAM: Julian Opie | April 2002 – March 2004 |
| Glexis Novoa | October 18, 2003 – February 22, 2004 |
2003
| Printmaking Methods: Etching | December 20, 2003 – February 8, 2004 |
| A Gift of Light: Photographs in the Janos Scholz Collection | September 6 – November 30, 2003 |
| Richard Yarde: Ringshout | June 7 – September 21, 2003 |
| English Color Prints | May 17 – August 10, 2003 |
| Samurai Spirit | April 4 – June 22, 2003 |
| Ambreen Butt | March 1 – May 11, 2003 |
| Flora in Winter | February 6-9, 2003 |
2002
| The Harlem Renaissance and It's Legacy | January 18, 2002 – April 13, 2003 |
| Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits | October 6, 2002 – January 26, 2003 |
| Norman Bluhm Drawings | October 19 – December 22, 2002 |
| Printmaking Methods/Engraving | June 8 – September 15, 2002 |
| Tony Feher: Maybe/Enjoy | April 26 – August 11, 2002 |
| Weegee's World: Life, Death, and the Human Drama | April 5 – June 2, 2002 |
| Collective Images: The Sketchbooks of John Steuart Curry | February 23 – May 5, 2002 |
| Staged! Contemporary Photography by Gregory Crewdson, Rosemary Laing, and Sharon Lockhart | December 15, 2001 – March 24, 2002 |
2001
| Dressing Up: Photographs of Style and Fashion | November 10, 2001 – January 20, 2002 |
| Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum | October 7, 2001 – January 6, 2002 |
| Lewis deSoto | September 1 – November 18, 2001 |
| In Color: Recent Acquisitions of American Prints | July 28 – October 7, 2001 |
| Jennifer Reeves | April 28 – August 5, 2001 |
| The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints | April 22 – June 17, 2001 |
| Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years | April 1 – June 10, 2001 |
| Denise Marika: Unearthed | April 5 – June 3, 2001 |
| Paul Revere: Artisan and Patriot | April 17, 2000 – April 22, 2001 |
| Chuck Close | December 9, 2000 – March 25, 2001 |
| Wall at WAM – Annette Lemieux “Two Vistas” | January 19, 2000 – March 1, 2001 |
| Fresh Woods and Pastures New: 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings from the Peck Collection | December 16, 2000 – February 25, 2001 |
| Antioch: The Lost Ancient City | October 8, 2000 – February 4, 2001 |
2000
| Insight: Photographs from the George Eastman House | September 16 – November 16, 2000 |
| Painting Pushed to Extremes | July 15, 2000 – November 12, 2000 |
| Face to Face: Artists and Their Work | July 15, 2000 – September 3, 2000 |
| Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era | May 6, 2000 – July 2, 2000 |
| Blowup: Recent Sculpture and Drawings by Heide Fasnacht | April 2, 2000 – June 11, 2000 |
| Robert Capa: Photographs | April 2, 2000 – June 5, 2000 |
| Pissarro and Other Masters: The Stoddard Legacy | February 19, 2000 – April 17, 2000 |
| Outlook: Collecting the Contemporary | September 25, 1999 – February 20, 2000 |
| Hiroshige: 53 Stations on the Tokaido | October 30, 1999 – January 16, 2000 |
| Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau | October 16, 1999 – January 2, 2000 |
| Worcester's Community Mosaic | September 16, 2000 – Ongoing |
Pre-2000
| Terrific Tokyo: A Panorama of Prints | April 17 – July 4, 1999 |
| All that is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School | March 13 – June 27, 1999 |
| Urban Visions | February 27 – May 2, 1999 |
| A New England Home: Prints by Currier & Ives | November 1, 1998 – January 3, 1999 |
| My Favorite Work of Art Exhibition | November 22, 1997 – December 31, 1998 |
| Previous Wall Project | July 1, 1998 – December 31, 1998 |
| Building and Form: Ansel Adams & Architecture | August 15 – October 18, 1998 |
| Master & Remarkable Drawings | April 18 – June 21, 1998 |
| European Color Prints: 1500-1900 | April 11 – June 14, 1998 |
| Tape Art Mural | April 15 – May 10, 1998 |
| Winslow Homer: By Land and By Sea | January 25 – March 22, 1998 |
| American Impressionism | October 5, 1997 – January 4, 1998 |