Past Exhibitions

This section features the exhibitions presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since the launch of our Web site on June 17, 1996.

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Select a title --- Select ---- 19th-Century French Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada A Dealer for “Living Art”: Selected Works from the Max and Iris Stern Donation to Montreal A Topsy-Turvy World: Museum Employees in the Spotlight Adrien Hébert: An Artist's View of Montreal Harbour Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer, Master Printmaker of the German Renaissance: Works from the National Gallery of Canada All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works Aluminum by Design American Prints between the Wars American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow Asterix, the Exhibition Betty Goodwin Big Bang: Creativity Is Given Carte Blanche Body in the Lens Budding Sculptors Carl Poul Petersen, Silversmith Catherine the Great Art for Empire Masterpieces from The State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg Cecil Buller (1886-1973): A Retrospective Complicity Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-garde Dallaire David Blackwood David Claerbout Denis Gagnon Shows All Dorothea Rockburne : In My Mind's Eye Drive End Duane Michals: Words and Images e-art: New Technologies and Contemporary Art Édouard Vuillard: Post-Impressionist Master Edwin Holgate Edwin Holgate at the Galerie d’art Beaverbrook, Fredericton Edwin Holgate at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary Edwin Holgate at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg Edwin Holgate at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Emanuel Hahn and Elizabeth Wyn Wood Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from The British Museum Exiles and Emigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler Exodus Expanding Horizons Ferdinand Hodler, Draftsman Five Centuries of European Prints from the Collection of Drs. Jonathan Meakins and Jacqueline McClaran Flying colours Francesco Goya and Jake and Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of War Françoise Sullivan Frédéric Back: One with Nature Fritz Brandtner - A Gift From Dürer to Rembrandt From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l’Orangerie Gábor ?sz: The Liquid Horizon Gabor Szilasi: Photographs, 1954-1996 Gallery Space Devoted to the Artist Marc-Aurèle Fortin Gauguin to Toulouse-Lautrec: French Prints of the 1890s Geneviève Cadieux George Segal, a Retrospective Germaine Krull. The Monte Carlo Years Girodet, Romantic Rebel Girodet, Romantic Rebel at the Art Institute of Chicago Girodet, Romantic Rebel at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Global Village: The 60s Global Warning: Scenes from a Planet under Pressure Goodridge Roberts Revealed Henri Cartier-Bresson: Pen, Brush and Cameras Herbert List, Romantic Wanderer High Points: Selection from the Collection of Contemporary Canadian Art Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences Holly King: Landscapes of the Imagination Husband and Wife Il Modo Italiano Italian Design and Avant-garde in the 20th Century Il Modo Italiano Italian Design and Avant-garde in the 20th Century at the Royal Ontario Museum Imagine Impressions of Humanity: The Freda and Irwin Browns Collection of Master Prints Inner Space - An Installation by Michael Merrill INSPIRIA Italian Old Masters from Raphael to Tiepolo The Collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts ItuKiagâtta! Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of the TD Bank Financial Group J. W. Waterhouse Jack Lenor Larsen: Creator and Collector Jacques Hurtubise Jean Cocteau. Enfant Terrible Jean McEwen “Hand to Colour” Joe Fafard: The Bronze Years John Lurie Keith Haring Kent Monkman Kiki Smith La forme des jours [The Shape of Days] Lines of Enquiry Litteraly and Figuratively. Photographic Portraits Lyonel Feininger: From Manhattan to the Bauhaus Magritte Matter of Inspiration Maurice Denis Earthly Paradise Mediterranean Gold: Ancient Jewellery from the Dallas Museum of Art Mexican Modern Art, 1900-1950 Monet at Giverny Napoleon New Frontiers Nicolas Baier — Hunting Gallery Odilon Redon’s Haunted Realm: Lithographs from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada Once upon a Time Disney at The Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris Once upon a Time Walt Disney: The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios Opéra de Montréal Takes the Stage at the Museum Pellan: The Prints Picasso érotique Picture This: The Object Is the Subject Pierre Ayot Unlimited Pierre Dorion Pietro Bracci: Italian Sculptor and Architect of the Rococo Pipilotti Rist Piranesi-Goya: Roma fantastica and the Sleep of Reason Postwar American Prints and Drawings Pre-Columbian art Primates Red Flag Refus Global 60 Years Later: Recent Acquisitions René Derouin: Frontières, Frontiers, Fronteras Resolute Bay - The Daytime Journey in the Night Richelieu: Art and Power Right under the Sun Landscape in Provence, from Classicism to Modernism (1750-1920) Riopelle Riopelle: Canadian Artist at the Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersbourg, Russia Riopelle: Canadian Artist at the Musée Cantini, Marseille, France Rolph Scarlett: Art, Design and Jewellery ROUGE CABARET Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco Sacred Africa. Ancient Art from Sub-Saharan Africa. Works from the Collections of the Cirque du Soleil, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Redpath Museum, McGill University Sam Borenstein Sculpting Possibilities L’Anonyme at the Museum Sean Murphy: The Collector’s Eye Selections from the Museum’s Collection of European Master Drawings Sobey Art Award 2006 Soulages: The Black, the Light Sound and Vision Photographic and Video Images in Contemporary Canadian Art – A Selection of Works from the MMFA, NGC and AGO Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles Studio Glass Tanagra, a small world in clay The Art of Madeleine Dansereau, Jeweller The Artistic Legacy of the Montreal Sulpicians The Earth is Blue Like an Orange The Famous Gilded Bronzes of Cartoceto di Pergola On Exhibition for the First Time Outside Italy The Fantastical World of Érik Desmazières The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation The Painter as Printmaker: Impressionist Prints from the National Gallery of Canada The Ravages of War The Symbolist Muse The Time of the Nabis The Tribe and the Hermit The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe, 1600-1750 The Warrior Emperor and China's Terracotta Army TIFFANY GLASS Transformation: Saidye Bronfman Award 1977-1996 Van Dongen Voyage into Myth: Gauguin to Matisse, the French Avant-Garde from the Hermitage Museum Warhol Live Yves Saint Laurent “WE WANT MILES” ¡Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today