Calendar of Events

Past Exhibitions

Looking back.

A peek into our exhibition archive.

  • Woman kneeling before a painting

    Janet Langsam: Improbable Feminist

    ON VIEW:  April 2 - August 17, 2025

     It was great being featured in The New York Times…but I really didn’t care for the headline. I mean, really… “A Day in the Life of Nonstop Housewife”? Here I was, a leader in the community, exhibiting my artwork, teaching…. That headline framed everything I was doing—everything I was—within the context of being a housewife. I was a housewife, and proud of that part of my life, but it was just one part of my life.

  • A sea of glowing blue shapes with tentacles float within a dark background

    Rosalie D. Gagné: A Contemporary Alchemist

    ON VIEW: September 18—December 22, 2024

    In Rosalie D. Gagné: A Contemporary Alchemist, the first retrospective exhibition of her work, the Neuberger Museum of Art explores the artist’s fascination with opposing worlds—organic and artificial, solid and ethereal, microcosm and macrocosm—and investigates the ensuing tensions. 

  • Silver metallic sculpture on a base with a white background

    Reflection Refraction

    ON VIEW: April 10—August 11, 2024

    Reflection Refraction evokes the mirrors and motion of a dance studio through its assembly of striking, sparkling reflective and kinetic artwork.  

  • Robert Indiana, ART, 1972, polychrome aluminum, 84 x 86 x 42 inches. Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY. Museum p...

    The Making of A Museum: 1974—2024

    ON VIEW:  2024
    South Gallery
    A project in The Making of a Museum: 50 Years exhibition

    1974—2024 tells the story of the years from the time of the formal opening of the Museum to the present. 

  • Cleve Gray, Threnody, 1972-73. polymer acrylic, Duco enamel and oil on canvas. 28 panels, 20 feet x 250 feet. Collection Friends of th...

    Threnody

    ON VIEW: February 21 - August 4, 2024
    Theater Gallery
    A project in The Making of a Museum: 50 Years exhibition

    Threnody is a 250-foot-wide site-specific painting created by American artist Cleve Gray for the opening of the Neuberger Museum of Art.  

  • Milton Avery (1885 –1965). Sunday Riders, 1929. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUN...

    The Promised Gift

    On View: January 24, 2024
    West Gallery
    A project in The Making of a Museum: 50 Years exhibition

    The Promised Gift tells the story of Roy R. Neuberger’s 1969 grand and optimistic philanthropic contribution, a gift of 300 works of art to the State University of New York. 

  • black and white archival image of the construction of the Neuberger Museum

    1969—1974

    ON VIEW: January 24, 2024
    Klein Gallery
    A project in The Making of a Museum: 50 Years exhibition

    1969—1974 explores the role of Roy R. Neuberger as one of the most important collectors of his day, the conceptualization, design, and construction of the Museum, and its use in the early 1970s by the students and faculty of Purchase College prior to the formal opening of the Neuberger Museum of Art in 1974.

  • Orange square with a white border and large numbers 50 with small letters neu overlapping the top of the 5 and the word Years beneath

    The Making of a Museum: 50 Years

    ON VIEW: January 24 - December 22, 2024

    For fifty years, the Neuberger Museum of Art has fostered learning, sparked the creative process, and investigated understandings of the world in which we live through its collections, exhibitions, and education programs. 

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