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 American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square
New York, NY 10023
United States

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Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists

Apr 10, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026

Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United States

Apr 10, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026

An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles

Sep 26, 2025 to Mar 1, 2026

Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets

Feb 12, 2025 to May 25, 2025

Somewhere to Roost

Feb 12, 2025 to May 25, 2025

Anything But Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic

Sep 13, 2024 to Jan 5, 2025

Francoisc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut

Apr 12, 2024 to Aug 18, 2024

Somewhere to Roost

Apr 12, 2024 to May 25, 2024

Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North

Nov 15, 2023 to Mar 24, 2024

Marvels of My Own Inventiveness

Nov 15, 2023 to Mar 24, 2024

What That Quilt Knows About Me

Mar 17, 2023 to Oct 29, 2023

Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work

Mar 17, 2023 to Oct 29, 2023

Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered

Sep 23, 2022 to Jan 29, 2023

Pushing Boundaries: 60 Years of AFAM Exhibitions

Sep 23, 2022 to Jan 29, 2023

Multitudes

Jan 17, 2022 to Sep 5, 2022

Six Decades Collecting Self-Taught Art

Aug 26, 2020 to Jan 2, 2022

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds

Jun 23, 2021 to Jan 2, 2022

PHOTO/BRUT collection Bruno Decharme & compagnie

Jan 23, 2021 to Jun 6, 2021

American Perspectives: Highlights from the American Folk Art Museum

Feb 10, 2020 to Jan 3, 2021

Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler

Sep 17, 2019 to Jan 26, 2020

Wall Power

Aug 6, 2019 to Sep 1, 2019

Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art

Mar 19, 2019 to Jul 28, 2019

A Kingdom in Pieces

Jan 16, 2019 to Mar 29, 2019

John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night

Oct 30, 2018 to Feb 24, 2019

Paa Joe: Gates of No Return

Oct 30, 2018 to Feb 24, 2019

Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863)

Jun 12, 2018 to Oct 14, 2018

Holding Space: The Museum Collects

Mar 5, 2018 to Jul 5, 2018

Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic

Jan 21, 2018 to May 27, 2018

War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics

Sep 6, 2017 to Jan 7, 2018

Eugen Gabritschevsky: Morphology of the Imperceptible

Mar 13, 2017 to Aug 13, 2017

Carlo Zinelli (1916-1974)

Mar 13, 2017 to Aug 13, 2017

Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America

Oct 6, 2016 to Feb 26, 2017

Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett

Jun 21, 2016 to Sep 18, 2016

Once Something Has Lived It Can Never Really Die

Jun 21, 2016 to Sep 18, 2016

Spring Fling: Quilts from the Collection

May 14, 2016 to Jun 5, 2016

Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection

Jan 20, 2016 to May 8, 2016

Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet

Oct 13, 2015 to Jan 10, 2016

When the Curtain Never Comes Down

Mar 26, 2015 to Jul 5, 2015

A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America

Dec 16, 2014 to Mar 8, 2015

Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget

Sep 2, 2014 to Nov 30, 2014

Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic

Sep 5, 2014 to Nov 30, 2014

Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum

May 13, 2014 to Aug 17, 2014

Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art

Jan 21, 2014 to Apr 23, 2014

Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collection of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Jun 11, 2013 to Sep 22, 2013

Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections

Jun 11, 2013 to Sep 22, 2013

Recent Gifts

Jun 11, 2013 to Sep 22, 2013

Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed

Jan 24, 2013 to May 26, 2013

Foiled: Tinsel Painting in America

Sep 12, 2012 to Jan 13, 2013

Ooh, Shiny!

Sep 12, 2012 to Jan 13, 2013

Jubilation | Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined

Jan 17, 2012 to Sep 22, 2012

Super Stars: Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum

Nov 15, 2010 to Dec 31, 2011

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