CRMA Past Exhibitions
For more than a century, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has been presenting exhibitions of local and national importance. Presenting ten to fifteen exhibitions each year, the CRMA has presented well over 1,000 exhibitions in its rich 125-year-history. Important solo and group exhibitions of artists such as Jonas Lie (1926), Grandma Moses (1952), and Henri Matisse (2001), and art movements such as African-American Art (1931), Modern Painting (1950), and German Expressionist Prints (2000), are just a few of the many exhibitions we have presented in the past. Below, find a sampling of our more-recent exhibitions.
Beyond the Object: Women Working in Abstraction November 16, 2024-October 26, 2025
Strokes of Genius: American Impressionism and its Legacy June 7, 2025 – September 14, 2025
All that Jazz: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten and George T. Henry May 17, 2025 – August 31, 2025
All Dressed Up (And Down): Depictions of Clothing in the Collection February 8, 2025 – May 18, 2025
Against the Grain: The Artwork of John Schwartzkopf, January 18, 2025 – May 4, 2025
The Vessel: Form and Function, April 20, 2024-March 30, 2025
Inspired by Cedar Rapids: 175 Years of Art October 5, 2024 – January 19, 2025
A More Perfect Union: Political Art from the Collection September 14, 2024 –January 5, 2025
ROY G. BIV: A Rainbow of Art November 18, 2023-October 27, 2024
Thinking Big: Large-Scale Works from the Collection, June 8, 2024-September 15, 2024
Tiny Wonders: Small-scale Works from the Collection, May 18, 2024-September 1, 2024
Land/Scape: Climate, the Environment, and Beyond, An All-Iowa Juried Exhibition February 10 – May 19, 2024
Ravenous: Food in Art: January 20-May 5, 2024
Power and Impact: A Survey of 21st Century Black Visual Arts in Iowa October 28, 2023 – March 31, 2024
Surprise! The New Curator’s Surprise Finds in the Collection September 30, 2023 - January 21, 2024
Adam Rake: World Lines September 9, 2023 – January 7, 2024
Byron Burford: Ringmaster November 19, 2022-October 29, 2023
Chunghi Choo: Visionary; October 29, 2022-October 8, 2023
Work and Society in the 1930s: American Paintings and Photographs from the Shogren-Meyer Collection June 3 – September 10, 2023
Overalls: Grant Wood’s Depictions of Denim, May 13 – August 27, 2023
Built This Way: Architecture in Art February 4-May 14
Through the Lens: Photography after 1950 from the Collection January 14-April 30, 2023
The Collector’s Eye: The Collection of Thomas C. Jackson and Joanne Stevens October 1-January 15, 2023
dreamscape: Surrealism from the Collection; September 10, 2022-December 31, 2022
Dick Pinney: Jack of All Trades Now-October 30, 2022
Abstract Ideas: Abstract Art from the Collection
Tomás and Charlie Lasansky: An Artistic Union June 4 – September 11, 2022
Eve Drewelowe: Painting Her Way May 14 – August 28, 2022
Carl Van Vechten: Man About Town February 5, 2022-May 15, 2022
Freedom's Daughters: New Work by Kathy Schumacher Now-May 1, 2022
Five: Five Contemporary Iowa Landscape Artists
Mildred Pelzer's Iowa
Americans in Paris: Grant Wood and Marvin Cone's 1920 Trip to Paris
Grant Wood Revealed: Rarely Seen Works by an American Master
Seriously Funny: American Gothic Parodies
125! 125 Masterworks from the Collection
Mary Zeran: 10 Years
Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens
Ooh La La: French Works from the Riley Collection
Up All Night: The Art of the Dark
Into The Blue
Kick Up Your Heels: The Fine Art of Shoes
Bruce Beasley: A New Direction
John Beckelman: Horizon Suite
American Visionary: John F. Kennedy's Life and Times
Power and Protest: Political Photographs and Prints
Terra Nova: Ten Years
If We Ran The Zoo: Animals in Children's Book Illustration
One Man, One War, One Hundred Years
The Grand Tour: Europe Through Artists' Eyes
Setting the Table: The Art of Still Life
Flight Pattern: Birds in Art
Edward Hopper: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Letters to My Ancestors: The Watercolors of Tara Moorman
Diego Lasansky: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
