October 21, 2017 – July 1, 2018 | Gallery 375 | Free Exhibition George Morrison (1919–2000) constantly explored new ways to translate nature and personal experience. Born near Grand Marais, Minnesota, Morrison trained in Minneapolis before moving to New York in 1943
Morrison American (Grand Portage Anishinaabe), 1919-2000 Untitled, 1960 Oil on canvas Gift
September 29, 2019 – January 5, 2020 | Target Gallery | General Admission $20; My Mia Member $16; Investor+ Free; Youth 17 and Under Free Tickets on sale now. General Admission $20 My Mia Member $16 Investor+ Free Youth 17 and Under Free Mia’s companion exhibition to „Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975“ features drawings, textiles, video, photography, and installations made by artists from the Southeast Asian diaspora who have been deeply engaged with the impact and legacy of the American War in Vietnam. The artists reflect on migration, memory, the effect of violence on the landscape and on communities, healing, and trauma. The Twin Cities is home to a large Southeast Asian population, many of whom arrived in the wake of the war
, 1972, 22, From the 50-panel series Hmong Migration, 1993-2001, Oil on canvas, Gift
November 16, 2024 – August 31, 2025 | Gallery 315, 316 | Free Exhibition Otto Dix (1891–1969) served in the German army during World War I. For three years, he led a machine-gun unit and experienced the horror of trench warfare firsthand
Van Derlip Fund and Gift of funds from Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison and the Regis
February 1, 2019 – November 29, 2020 | Charleston Dining Room and Charleston Drawing Room, G336 and 337 | Free Exhibition For North Americans living in the late 1700s and early 1800s—whether free or enslaved, Native American, or of African or European descent—a common set of historical forces impacted life, albeit in very different ways. The experiences of territorial conflict, international diplomacy, trade, and shifting national identities are explored through the artworks and furnishings installed in the 1772 Charleston Dining and Drawing Rooms, from the home of John Stuart, the superintendent of Indian Affairs for Britain’s southern colonies in North America. This project is part of Living Rooms, an initiative to present Mia’s historic interiors and decorative arts collections in new ways. Mia gratefully acknowledges the support and contributions of the many individuals and communities whose histories are told in this exhibition. Generous support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and donors at the 2014 Mia Gala. Additional support provided by the Chipstone Foundation.
Skip to main content Charleston Drawing Room, 1772, cypress, paint, gift of James
July 16, 2021 – April 24, 2022 | Gallery 315 | Free Exhibition This exhibition introduces Mia’s groundbreaking acquisition of the Fly Zine Archive, a thematically focused collection of nearly 2,000 zines, comics, and underground publications by a diverse range of punk, anarchist, feminist, and LGBTQ+ artists and writers active in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Compiled by the New York–based artist and activist Fly NYC, the archive chronicles the graphic art and printed ephemera connecting the alternative subcultures that flourished in urban centers in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s
bound volume, Fly Zine Archive, The Mary and Robyn Campbell Fund for Art Books and gift
February 10, 2024 – November 10, 2024 | Gallery 226, 227 | Free Exhibition Tanaka Ryōhei (1933–2019) was a prolific Japanese printmaker who specialized in etchings. Born and raised in Takatsuki, he grew up surrounded by the rural landscapes of western Japan, which would become the subject of his prints
Gift of Sue Y.S.
June 1, 2024 – February 16, 2025 | Gallery 251, 252, 253 | Free Exhibition Bizen ware, characterized by its rich reddish-brown clay with natural ash glaze, is one of Japan’s six pottery traditions. Originating from today’s Okayama prefecture on the Seto Inland Sea, its history reaches back to the 14th century
vessel, 2015, Bizen ware; stoneware with natural ash glaze and hidasuki marks, Gift
August 1, 2015 – March 27, 2016 | Gallery 353 | Free exhibition Like a tree pruned one too many times, some of the museum’s finest artworks have been forced to stay quiet. These are watercolors, pastels, gouaches, charcoals, and ink drawings that are rarely exhibited out of concern for their light-sensitive materials
Landscape with Trees near Hillegom, c. 1800 Black chalk with brush and gray wash Gift
February 10, 2024 – May 5, 2024 | Cargill Gallery | Free Exhibition From the dragon’s first appearance in art some eight to nine thousand years ago, during the early Neolithic period, these ferocious beasts have occupied an honored place in Chinese culture. Their majestic power has inspired art in nearly every medium—jade to bronze, ceramics to paintings
China, Tang dynasty (618-907), Pair of flying dragons, 8th century, gilt bronze, Gift
March 12, 2022 – July 31, 2022 | Harrison Photography Gallery | Free Exhibition Photographs are both things and ideas. Before they were pixels on a smartphone or stashed up in the cloud, photographs were objects printed on tangible goods
Time – (B), 1985, Kenji Nakahashi, Japanese, 1947 – 2017, Gelatin silver print, Gift
