Past Exhibitions

Photographic Memory: Civil War Photographs Selected from UMBC’s Photography Collections
April 9 - May 31, 2012 The American Civil War coincided with the early years of photography, and the images
Passage on the Underground Railroad
January 29 - March 22, 2012 The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Passage on the Underground Railroad, artwork by Stephen
A Legacy of Love: Italian Memorial Sculpture
August 31 - December 21, 2011 Dramatic social, political and artistic changes swept across Italy in the 19th and early 20th
Sleeping Beauties: Memorial Photographs from the Burns Collection
April 13 – May 31, 2011 Since the invention of photography, people have taken and used photographs of the deceased
The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965-67
August 31 - December 12, 2010 These photographs, taken by Stephen Shore between 1965 and 1967, depict the scene at
The Art of Persuasion: Poster Design from 1896 through 2008
August 25 - December 13, 2009 The Art of Persuasion​ surveys a century of development in the visual language of
Photographs of James L. Amos: Geographic, Illustrative, and Personal
January 28 - March 23, 2009 The photographs of James L. Amos are a celebration of art, life, geography and
The Creative Photograph in Archaeology
September 10 – December 10, 2008 The Creative Photograph in Archaeology is an exhibition that brings together for the first
Paradoxes of Modernism: Selections from the Photography Collections of UMBC
April 14 – June 29, 2008 Dramatic political, social, economic, and technological changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth