Exhibition History

Discover the stories behind our collections, immerse yourself in the vibrant exhibitions, and become part of a community that celebrates creativity, visual history, and the enduring power of human expression.

Color Real and Imagined - Carrie Mae Weems

2025:

Black Zeitgeist: Atlanta, The Visual Arts, and The National Black Arts Festival | July 18 - December 14, 2025

Sacred Space: Brandywine Workshop and Archives |. January 24 - June 22, 2025

2024:

Converging Realities: The John Rhoden Sculpture Garden and Hammonds House Museum Collection | September 20 - December 15, 2024

Rhythm of Resilience: The Artistry of Sam Middleton | May 17 - August 18, 2024

The Fabric of Our Lives: Precious Lowell’s The Ties That Bind & Ex-Domestication | January 26 - April 14, 2024

2023:

INSIGHT: Body as Artifact, Archive and Memory (Tokie Rome-Taylor) | 2023

Atlanta Black (Paul Stephen Benjamin)

Foundations and Futures | October 20 - December 17, 2023

Edouard Duval-Carrié Histories & Others | July 14 - October 1, 2023

Hammonds House Museum 35 Past is Prologue - 35th Anniversary Edition

2022:

No Justice, No Peace: Protest Photography 1967–2022 (Jim Alexander, Dr. Doris Derby, Sheila Pree Bright, et al.)

My View from Seven Feet (Joe Barry Carroll)

Dans l’espoir d’un Avenir Meilleur (Tracy Murrell)

2021:

Departure (Charly Palmer)

Exhibiting Culture: Highlights from the Collection

2020:

Translocation & Transfiguration (Masud Olufani)

Nu Africans (Maurice Evans & Grace Kisa)

2019:

Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity

Lit Without Sherman: A Love Letter to the West End (Shanequa Gay)

2018:

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (Carrie Mae Weems)

Black Metropolis: 30 Years of Afrofuturism (Tim Fielder)

2010–2017:

Charlotte Riley Webb (2010)

Eye Sea Reflections (Lillian Blades, 2009–2010)

Elizabeth Catlett: Life, Love & Revolution (2006)

Romare Bearden: Atlanta Collects Bearden (2005)

Spiritual Awakening: Wadsworth Jarrell (2002)

Tunde Odunlade: Dreaming Between Worlds (2010)

Praise Songs: William Buchanan, Danny Campbell, Malaika Favorite (2008)

Made with Hands and Hearts: Quilts & Dolls (2007)

Ron Adams: Biography of a Printmaker (2005)

1997–2001:

Precise Significance: Symbolism & Iconology (Lillian Blades, Fahamu Pecou, Anthony Oliver, Ruth Gaskins, Kevin Sipp, Tom Ferguson, et al., 1997–98)

Posters by Jacob Lawrence (1996)

Dear Robert, I’ll See You At The Crossroads (Renee Stout, 1995)

Charles White (1995)

Jeff Donaldson: Thirty Years of Painting (1993–94)

Emma Amos: Paintings and Prints 1982–92 (1994)

Fifty Years of Paintings (Claude Clark, 1990–91)

1988–1989:

Inaugural Exhibition (Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, and others, February 27, 1988)

Art and Document: P.H. Polk’s Photographs (1988)