Past Exhibitions

Cuba Dispersa (Cuba Dispersed)
A Modernist Regime: The Contemporary Cuban Lens

July 11 – September 1, 2024

Marco Castillo: The Hands of the Collector
A Modernist Regime: The Contemporary Cuban Lens

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

The Healing Memorial
Huntington Place, Detroit

August 1, 2022 – September 24, 2023

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

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

Homebody

January 26 – June 19, 2022

2022 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 24 – May 15, 2022

Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock

October 30, 2021 – March 27, 2022

Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn

October 30, 2021 – March 20, 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

Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art

July 15 – March 14, 2021

Christy Matson: Crossings

December 14, 2019 – March 15, 2020

Ruth Adler Schnee: Modern Designs for Living

December 14, 2019 – March 15, 2020

For the Record: Artists on Vinyl

July 13 – March 13, 2020

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

December 14 – March 8, 2020

Landlord Colors: Material Detroit

June 22 – October 6, 2019

Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality

June 22 – October 6, 2019

Wild Vinyl: Designer Art Toys

December 1 – June 23, 2019

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

March 1 – June 23, 2019

2019 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 13 – May 12, 2019

The Beach Detroit

March 1 – April 28, 2019

Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped

November 17 – March 10, 2019

Binion/Saarinen: A McArthur Binion Project

November 17 – March 10, 2019

In No Particular Order: New Work by Ian McDonald

January 19 – March 10, 2019

True to Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection

March 10 – January 6, 2019

Danielle Dean: A Portrait of True Red

November 17 – January 6, 2019

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

March 10 – November 18, 2018

Shepard Fairey: Salad Days, 1989-1999

June 16 – October 7, 2018

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

June 16 – October 7, 2018

2018 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 22 – May 13, 2018

Ryan McGinness: Studio Views and Collection Views

November 17, 2017 – March 18, 2018

Keith Haring: The End of the Line

November 17, 2017 – March 11, 2018

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

November 17, 2017 – March 11, 2018

Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theatre Performance Films

November 17, 2017 – March 11, 2018

Finland 100
The Cranbrook Connection

March 21, 2017 – January 14, 2018

Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape

May 12, 2017 – January 14, 2018

Wayfinding: An Art Installation + Skate Park by Ryan McGinness and Tony Hawk

September 30, 2017 – December 31, 2017

Alexander Girard
A Designer’s Universe

June 17 – October 8, 2017

2017 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 23 – May 14, 2017

Cranbrook Time Machine
Twentieth-Century Period Rooms

November 19, 2016 – March 19, 2017

The Truth Is I Hear You
A Project by The Cause Collective

November 19, 2016 – March 19, 2017

Unsettled
The Work of Edward Gorey

September 18, 2016 – March 12, 2017

John Glick
A Legacy in Clay

June 18, 2016 – March 12, 2017

From the Vault
Recent Gifts to the Collection

November 19, 2016 – March 12, 2017

Hippie Modernism
The Struggle for Utopia

June 18 – October 9, 2016

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

December 12, 2015 – August 28, 2016

2016 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 17 – May 15, 2016

Lou Reed, Metal Machine Trio
The Creation of the Universe

November 21, 2015 – March 26, 2016

Read Image, See Text

September 18, 2015 – March 20, 2016

Designs of the Times
100 Years of Posters at Cranbrook

December 12, 2015 – March 20, 2016

The Cranbrook Salon

November 21, 2015 – March 13, 2016

Andy Warhol
Empire

November 21, 2015 – March 13, 2016

Him
a project by Liz Cohen

November 21, 2015 – March 6, 2016

Bent, Cast & Forged
The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia

March 14 – November 29, 2015

50 Years Strong
The Evolution of HUB at Cranbrook

April 25 – November 29, 2015

Nick Cave
Here Hear

June 20 – October 11, 2015

Designing Summer
Objects of Escape

June 20 – August 30, 2015

2015 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 19 – May 10, 2015

Theater of the Mind

November 23, 2014 – March 22, 2015

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

November 23, 2014 – March 22, 2015

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

February 7 – March 22, 2015

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

June 21, 2014 – March 22, 2015

Warhol On Vinyl
The Record Covers, 1949-1987+

June 21, 2014 – March 15, 2015

Iris Eichenberg
Bend

November 23, 2014 – January 25, 2015

Lauren Kalman
Coveted Objects

September 13 – October 19, 2014

Paul Evans
Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism

June 21 – October 12, 2014

Culture Breakers
The Living Structures of Ken Isaacs

June 21 – October 5, 2014

Ephemera
Fragments from Cranbrook’s Social Life

April 22 – September 28, 2014

Modern / Moderna
Amie Siegel and Terence Gower

June 21 – August 31, 2014

2014 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 22 – May 11, 2014

A Driving Force
Cranbrook and the Car

June 14, 2013 – March 30, 2014

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

November 16, 2013 – March 30, 2014

My Brain Is in My Inkstand
Drawing as Thinking and Process

November 16, 2013 – March 30, 2014

Waylande Gregory
Art Deco Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse

November 16, 2013 – March 23, 2014

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

June 14, 2013 – March 16, 2014

From the Archives
Forging Cranbrook’s Gatescape

October 5, 2013 – March 16, 2014

Anders Ruhwald at Saarinen House
The Anatomy of a Home

May 1 – October 31, 2013

Michigan Modern
Design that Shaped America

June 14 – October 13, 2013

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

June 14 – September 29, 2013

2013 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 21 – May 12, 2013

From Here to There
Alec Soth’s America

November 17, 2012 – March 30, 2013

Vision and Interpretation
Building Cranbrook, 1904–2012

June 16, 2012 – March 24, 2013

Soo Sunny Park
Vapor Slide

November 17, 2012 – March 17, 2013

George Nelson
Architect | Writer | Designer | Teacher

June 16 – October 14, 2012

2012 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

April 21 – May 13, 2012

No Object is an Island
New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection

November 11, 2011 – March 25, 2012

Material Workshop Cranbrook for Alessi

March 3 – March 25, 2012

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

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Building Cranbrook: Saarinen in Michigan

OngoingJanuary 1 –

Constellations & Affinities: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection

OngoingSeptember 7 –