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Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the US

June 14 - September 21, 2025

2025 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 6 - May 4, 2025

painting on wooden board with hanging light bulbs

Pop Art Pop-Up

February 5 - March 9, 2025

Subtleism: Neha Vedpathak with Agnes Martin

October 26, 2024 -March 2, 2025

How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part I

October 26, 2024 -May 4, 2025

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

October 9, 2024 -January 12, 2025

A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Design 

July 11 - September 22, 2024

Cuba Dispersa (Cuba Dispersed)

July 11 - September 1, 2024

Marco Castillo: The Hands of the Collector

July 11 - September 1, 2024

2024 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 7 - May 12, 2024

Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit

October 28, 2023 -March 3, 2024

LeRoy Foster: Solo Show

October 28, 2023 -March 3, 2024

Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions 

October 28, 2023 -February 25, 2024

Ash Arder: Flesh Tones

October 28, 2023 -February 25, 2024

Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other

June 17 - September 24, 2023

2023 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 9 - May 14, 2023

Scott Hocking: Detroit Stories

November 5, 2022 -March 12, 2023

James Benjamin Franklin: Full Circle

November 5, 2022 -March 12, 2023

Bakpak Durden: The Eye of Horus

November 5, 2022 -March 12, 2023

The Healing Memorial

August 1, 2022 -September 24, 2023

Tunde Olaniran: Made a Universe

June 18 - September 26, 2022

Tyrrell Winston: A Tiger’s Stripes

June 18 - September 26, 2022

Whatever Gets You Through the Night: Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection

June 18 - September 26, 2022

2022 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 24 - May 15, 2022

Homebody

January 26 - June 19, 2022

Painted assemblage made from folder material with abstract painting all over the surface. Main colors are blue, black, white, and yellow.

Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn

October 30, 2021 -March 20, 2022

Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock

October 30, 2021 -March 27, 2022

James Haefner: Michigan Modern

October 6, 2021 -January 9, 2022

With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932

June 18 - September 19, 2021

2021 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 17 - May 16, 2021

The Detroit Printing Co-op: The Politics of the Joy of Printing

September 16, 2020 -April 18, 2021

Headspace: Jim Dine’s Glyptotek

September 9 - April 18, 2021

orange square with grid pattern

Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art

July 15 - March 14, 2021

Two women working at looms

In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969

December 14 - March 8, 2020

Christy Matson Textile with blue woven pattern zoomed in

Christy Matson: Crossings

December 14, 2019 -March 15, 2020

Ruth Adler Schnee Wireworks print, teal on white

Ruth Adler Schnee: Modern Designs for Living

December 14, 2019 -March 15, 2020

Dali art exhibit print

For the Record: Artists on Vinyl

July 13 - March 13, 2020

Landlord Colors bead museum building

Landlord Colors: Material Detroit

June 22 - October 6, 2019

Landlord Colors art exhibit full gallery

Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality

June 22 - October 6, 2019

2019 Graduate Degree Exhibition, two men walking

2019 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 13 - May 12, 2019

The Beach, Detroit, children and adults wade through ball pit

The Beach Detroit

March 1 - April 28, 2019

gray basketball modern art sculpture

Daniel Arsham, The Source: A Catalog of Late-20th-Century American Relics

March 1 - June 23, 2019

Ian McDonald circular sculptures in white and gray

In No Particular Order: New Work by Ian McDonald

January 19 - March 10, 2019

Wild Vinyl Designer Art Toys, Sofubi monster figurines

Wild Vinyl: Designer Art Toys

December 1 - June 23, 2019

Annabeth Rosen ceramics, modern art

Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped

November 17 - March 10, 2019

Binion/Saarinen grid with colored border

Binion/Saarinen: A McArthur Binion Project

November 17 - March 10, 2019

portrait of woman in red shirt and black pants, Danielle Dean

Danielle Dean: A Portrait of True Red

November 17 - January 6, 2019

Shepard Fairey print art exhibit

Shepard Fairey: Salad Days, 1989-1999

June 16 - October 7, 2018

punk graphics signs on black walls

Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986

June 16 - October 7, 2018

woman with safety goggles carves metal box

2018 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 22 - May 13, 2018

True to Form art exhibit in gallery

True to Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection

March 10 - January 6, 2019

Stephen Frykholm summer prints along gallery wall

Essence of Summer: Stephen Frykholm’s Picnic Posters for Herman Miller

March 10 - November 18, 2018

Keith Haring poses with his art

Keith Haring: The End of the Line

November 17, 2017 -March 11, 2018

Basquiat in his apartment, 1981

BASQUIAT BEFORE BASQUIAT: East 12th Street, 1979-1980

November 17, 2017 -March 11, 2018

Maya Stovall, three people pose beneath red arch

Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theatre Performance Films

November 17, 2017 -March 11, 2018

Ryan McGinness graffiti wreath

Ryan McGinness: Studio Views and Collection Views

November 17, 2017 -March 18, 2018

Wayfinding signs with skateboarders

Wayfinding

September 30, 2017 -December 31, 2017

Abstraction of the image Old Sun, Alexander Gerard

Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe

June 17 - October 8, 2017

Mark Dineen, Drip Vase with Leather sculpture

Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape

May 12, 2017 -January 14, 2018

two girls in pink yukata listen with headphones

2017 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 23 - May 14, 2017

tapestry with figures in blue dresses

Finland 100: The Cranbrook Connection

March 21, 2017 -January 14, 2018

red chair and ottoman next to white table and large wall art

Cranbrook Time Machine: Twentieth-Century Period Rooms

November 19, 2016 -March 19, 2017

Justin Maconochie art collection, gray walls

From the Vault: Recent Gifts to the Collection

November 19, 2016 -March 12, 2017

vertical image of twenty people looking at camera against white background

The Truth Is I Hear You

November 19, 2016 -March 19, 2017

photo of man in fur coat at writing desk (large)

Unsettled: The Work of Edward Gorey

September 18, 2016 -March 12, 2017

Jimi Hendrix photograph, Ira Cohen

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

June 18 - October 9, 2016

Plate stoneware, John Glick

John Glick: A Legacy in Clay

June 18, 2016 -March 12, 2017

2016 Graduate Degree Exhibition entrance

2016 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 17 - May 15, 2016

art exhibit 2003 ink drawing of woman's profile

Designs of the Times: 100 Years of Posters at Cranbrook

December 12, 2015 -March 20, 2016

ceramic vase with hook design

Simple Forms, Stunning Glazes: The Gerald W. McNeely Collection of Pewabic Pottery

December 12, 2015 -August 28, 2016

black and white photo of woman looking at wall art

The Cranbrook Salon

November 21, 2015 -March 13, 2016

black and white photo of Lou Reed with guitar

Lou Reed, Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe

November 21, 2015 -March 26, 2016

black and white photo of Empire State Building

Andy Warhol: Empire

November 21, 2015 -March 13, 2016

collection of woven designs on wooden displays

Him, a project by Liz Cohen

November 21, 2015 -March 6, 2016

hands flip through pages of reflective paper

Read Image, See Text

September 18, 2015 -March 20, 2016

illustration of teeth and corncob

Designing Summer: Objects of Escape

June 20 - August 30, 2015

Nick Cave floral headdress

Nick Cave: Here Hear

June 20 - October 11, 2015

black and white photo of people filling plates at buffet

50 Years Strong: The Evolution of HUB at Cranbrook

April 25 - November 29, 2015

Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Degree Exhibition entrance, 2015

2015 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 19 - May 10, 2015

golden metal necklace

Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia

March 14 - November 29, 2015

A real good time print

MR. MDWST – A REAL GOOD TIME by BEVERLY FRE$H

February 7 - March 22, 2015

silhouette of man with light

Theater of the Mind

November 23, 2014 -March 22, 2015

wooden step stool with animal sculptures

The Cranbrook Hall of Wonders: Artworks, Objects, and Natural Curiosities

November 23, 2014 -March 22, 2015

metal standing sculptures with hanging black circles

Iris Eichenberg: Bend

November 23, 2014 -January 25, 2015

gold sculpture of figure standing on one leg

Lauren Kalman: Coveted Objects

September 13 - October 19, 2014

black and white photo of woman lounging on couch in empty room

Modern / Moderna: Amie Siegel and Terence Gower

June 21 - August 31, 2014

cabinet sculpture, Paul Evans

Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism

June 21 - October 12, 2014

collage of vinyl covers, Warhol

Warhol On Vinyl: The Record Covers, 1949-1987+

June 21, 2014 -March 15, 2015

man and woman pose with modern cube furniture

Culture Breakers: The Living Structures of Ken Isaacs

June 21 - October 5, 2014

metal and glass orb sculpture

Cranbrook Goes to the Movies: Films and Their Objects, 1925–1975

June 21, 2014 -March 22, 2015

2014 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art entrance

2014 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 22 - May 11, 2014

glass display cases with assorted prints and description

Ephemera: Fragments from Cranbrook’s Social Life

April 22 - September 28, 2014

black and gray texture drawing with handwriting in pencil

The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

November 16, 2013 -March 30, 2014

man in t-shirt and jeans squats on ground

My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process

November 16, 2013 -March 30, 2014

sculpture of figure swimming with fish

Waylande Gregory: Art Deco Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse

November 16, 2013 -March 23, 2014

gray sculpture of peacock bird

From the Archives: Forging Cranbrook’s Gatescape

October 5, 2013 -March 16, 2014

Michigan Modern Exhibition cover

Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America

June 14 - October 13, 2013

multi-colored painting with diamond pattern

What to Paint and Why: Modern Painters at Cranbrook, 1936 – 1974

June 14, 2013 -March 16, 2014

black and white photo of man posing next to sketch of car (zoom)

A Driving Force: Cranbrook and the Car

June 14, 2013 -March 30, 2014

display of sketches and black and white photography

From the Archives: Teaching and Exhibiting Painting at Cranbrook, 1930-1970

June 14 - September 29, 2013

white ceramic bowl on wooden table

Anders Ruhwald at Saarinen House: The Anatomy of a Home

May 1 - October 31, 2013

2013 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art entrance

2013 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 21 - May 12, 2013

man poses with two small airplane models

From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America

November 17, 2012 -March 30, 2013

white sculpture hanging from ceiling

Soo Sunny Park: Vapor Slide

November 17, 2012 -March 17, 2013

George Nelson exhibition logo

George Nelson: Architect | Writer | Designer | Teacher

June 16 - October 14, 2012

aerial sketch of house and lawn

Vision and Interpretation: Building Cranbrook, 1904–2012

June 16, 2012 -March 24, 2013

CA with lips

2012 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 21 - May 13, 2012

dark metal dishes with geometric designs

Material Workshop Cranbrook for Alessi

March 3 - March 25, 2012

bird, flower, and tree print with legs sculpture

No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection

November 11, 2011 -March 25, 2012

empty exhibit hall with red and yellow swirls on walls

Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings 790A and 790B: Irregular Alternating Color Bands

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