Past Exhibitions
2024 - 2025
Reading Signs: Jasper Johns and Glenn Ligon in Print
2023 - 2024
Corot and the Cliché-verre in Nineteenth-Century France
2019 - 2020
Special Installations: Entering Edo and Find Me Unafraid
2018 - 2019
For Effect: Emphatic Bodies from the Renaissance to the Industrial Age
Salon 2018: Selections from the Davison Art Center Collection
Special Installations: David Schorr and First Year Matters
2017 - 2018
Reclaiming the Gaze: African American Prints and Photographs, 1930 to Now
Sasha Rudensky: Acts and Illusions
2016 - 2017
Changing Visions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs during the Weimar Republic and After
2015 - 2016
Philip Trager: Photographing Ina
Passion and Power: German Prints in the Age of Dürer
Phantom Bodies: Photographs by Tanya Marcuse
2014 - 2015
Personal Recollections: Gifts from Robert Dannin & Jolie Stahl
Call to Action: American Posters in World War I
2013 - 2014
Oral Fixations: Drawings by Julia Randall
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Themes and Variations: Seriality in American Prints, 1960-1980
2012 - 2013
Artists Take Action: Protest Posters Today
(Re)viewing Bodies: Selected American Photographs, 1930-2000
2011 - 2012
APOTHECARY (storehouse): new paintings by David Schorr
Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu
2010 - 2011
Collecting Photographs: Ellen G. D'Oench and the Growth of a Collection
Caprice and Corruption: 18th-Century Prints
2009 - 2010
Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artist's Books by Robin Price, Publisher
Creative Acts: Recent Acquisitions at the Davison Art Center
2008 - 2009
Modern Times: American Graphic Arts, 1900-1950
Document or Art? Photography in the Long 19th Century, 1839-1914
The Bizarre and the Beautiful: Fantasy as Visual Pleasure in Renaissance and Baroque Prints
2007 - 2008
Music and Modernism in the Graphic Arts, 1860-1910
Satire and Society: Honoré Daumier and French Lithography
Keiji Shinohara: Color Harmony
2006 - 2007
A Newspaperman's Eye: American Photographs from the Collection of Russell G. D'Oench
Multiple Fascinations: Dutch and Flemish Prints from Bruegel to Rembrandt
2005 - 2006
Philip Trager: A Retrospective
The Imaginary Life of Ordinary Things: the dish ran away with the spoon
Wordplay: Text and Image from 1950 to Now
American Document: Barbara Morgan Dance Photographs
2004 - 2005
Single Impressions: Monotypes and Monoprints
Jim Dine, The Photographs, so far
2003 - 2004
Staging War: Images and Artists in Conflict
Duality/Dialectic: New Perspectives on the DAC Collection
Unexpected Dimensions: Works from the Lewitt Collection
Larry Fink: Making Out, 1957-1980
2002 - 2003
Some Things Worth Looking Into: Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and American Pictorial Photography
John Heartfield: Fighting the Dogs of War
A Dog's Life: Images from Dürer to Wegman
Vis-à-Vis: Five Centuries of Portraiture
Ruin and Redemption in Urban Landscape
This Must Be the Place: Five Centuries of Landscape Art
2001 - 2002
Thanks to Good Friends: 40 Years of the Friends of the Davison Art Center
What's Going On: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the 1970s
Abstraction and Representation: Contemporary Architectural Drawings
Imaging Dance: Works from the DAC Collection
David Schorr: Illustrations to Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
Anni Albers: Works on Paper from The Albers Foundation
2000 - 2001
New on View: Recent DAC Acquisitions
New Vistas: Watercolors by John Martin
Changing Paris: A Tour along the Seine, Photographs by Philip Trager
1999 - 2000
150 Years of Photography: Highlights from the DAC Collection
Life as Circus: Max Beckmann's The Fair
Fifty Years of Chinese Woodblock Prints: Art for the People
1998 - 1999
Printmaking in America, 1960-1990
L'Estampe moderne: A Century After
Fantasy and Reality: Works by 18th-century Venetian Printmakers
Perceptions of the Moment: The Snapshot Aesthetic
Re-Presenting Art: Four Decades of Postmodernism
"Spirit of the Metropolis": Berenice Abbott's New York
Alice Burr, Photographer: A California Pictorialist Rediscovered
1997 - 1998
Art of Ink in America: Fourth International Contemporary Calligraphy Exhibition
Looking In: Photographs from the Collection of Andrew Szegedy-Maszak and Elizabeth Bobrick
Renaissance Prints: A Study Exhibition
Industrials, Pastorals, The Elements: Sandra Newbury Photographs
Illustrating Knowledge: Three Centuries of Printed Images
Fantasy and Reason: Prints by Francisco Goya
1996 - 1997
Glenn Ligon: Untitled (Two White/Two Black) & Runaways
Imaginary Prisons: Piranesi's Carceri
Renaissance Prints: A Study Exhibition
Trick or Treat: Surprises from the Davison Art Center
Images of Children in Farm Security Administration Photographs
Still Time: Sally Mann Photographs 1971-1991
1995 - 1996
From Daguerreotype to Photogravure
Keiji Shinohara: Interpretations in Woodcut
Photographs by Philip Trager: Recent Gifts
Icons of Modernity: Building New York
Exact Imaginations: The Oriental in 19th-century Photographs of Southeast Asia