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Past Exhibitions

 

love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death — Andy Warhol Media Works 
May 13–September 6, 2010
 

 

Kurt 
May 13–September 6, 2010
 

 

Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act 
October 15, 2009–April 11, 2010
 

 

Michelangelo Public and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti 
October 15, 2009–January 31, 2010
 

 

Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78 
June 25–September 7, 2009
 

 

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery 
February 26–May 25, 2009
 

 

George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings 
February 26–May 25, 2009
 

 

Edward Hopper's Women 
November 13, 2008–March 1, 2009
 

 

S'abadeb—The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists 
October 24, 2008–January 11, 2009
 

 

Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past 
June 19–September 21, 2008
 

 

Roman Art from the Louvre 
February 21–May 11, 2008
 

 

The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece 
January 26–April 6, 2008
 

 

Japan Envisions the West:
16th–19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum
 
October 11, 2007–January 6, 2008
 

 

Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings 
October 11, 2007–January 6, 2008
 

 

SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle 
May 5–September 9, 2007
 

 

Five Masterpieces of Asian Art 
The Story of their Conservation
May 5–September 9, 2007
 

 

Everything Under the Sun: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham 
July 11, 2009–August 22, 2010
 

 

The End of the Ancestors: The Narrative Art of Bruce subiyay Miller 
December 2, 2009–August 1, 2010
 

 

SAM Next: Heide Hinrichs 
November 7, 2009–June 13, 2010
 

 

Nicolas Provost: Selected Works 
September 16, 2009–February 28, 2010
 

 

A Bead Quiz 
August 5, 2008–February 12, 2010
 

 

Andrew Wyeth: Remembrance 
June 25–October 18, 2009
 

 

SAM Next: Corin Hewitt 
April 4–October 18, 2009
 

 

Titus Kaphar: History in the Making 
April 3–September 7, 2009
 

 

Young Americans 
Video Installation
March 19–August 30, 2009
 

 

Tack and Jibe 
November 21, 2008–May 4, 2009
 

 

SAM Next: Enrico David 
November 8, 2008–March 15, 2009
 

 

Black Art 
May 2, 2008–March 15, 2009
 

 

Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest 
August 5, 2008–February 5, 2009
 

 

Smoke and Mirrors 
May 10–November 9, 2008
 

 

SAM Next: Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen 
April 19–October 26, 2008
 

 

Fresh Impressionism 
May 27–September 21, 2008
 

 

Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints 
April 1–July 4, 2010
 

 

Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur 
January 29–April 26, 2009
 

 

Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Art from Korea 
July 19–December 7, 2008
 

 

Transforming Traditions: Japanese and Korean Art Since 1800 
May 23, 2009–February 21, 2010
 

 

Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious Motifs in East Asian Art 
May 23, 2009–February 21, 2010
 

 

A Black-and-White World: The Art and Lessons of Chinese Rubbings 
April 10–November 29, 2009
 

 

Discovering Buddhist Art—Seeking the Sublime 
Asian Art from SAM's Permanent Collection
July 18, 2003–December 21, 2008
 

 

Su-Mei Tse: East Wind 
April 5–December 7, 2008
 

 

Pattern Richness in Modern Japanese Textiles 
February 15, 2007–July 6, 2008
 

   

Su-Mei Tse: East Wind 
April 5, 2008
 

 

Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art 
August 9–December 2, 2007
 

 

Ink in Motion:
The Art of Sio Ieng Ng
 
August 9–December 2, 2007
 

 

Geoff McFetridge: in The Mind 
March 29, 2008–August 8, 2010
 

 

Dennis Oppenheim: Safety Cones 
May 17–October 26, 2008
 

 

Art in the Park 
January 20, 2007–May 20, 2008
 

 

 

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