Past Exhibitions
Wallflowers
February 07 – May 17, 2026
Priscilla Dobler Dzul: Water Carries the Stories of Our Stars
October 18, 2025 – April 19, 2026
Boren Banner Series: Camille Trautman
October 15, 2025 – April 12, 2026
Beau Dick: Insatiable Beings
October 25, 2025 – January 18, 2026
Frye Salon
July 02 – October 19, 2025
Boren Banner Series: Tarrah Krajnak
April 16 – October 05, 2025
Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled
July 12 – October 05, 2025
Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular
June 28 – September 28, 2025
Frye Salon + Dawn Cerny
January 25 – June 22, 2025
Dawn Cerny: Portmeirion
January 25 – June 22, 2025
Alex Katz: Theater and Dance
February 22 – June 08, 2025
Recent Acquisitions
September 28, 2024 – June 08, 2025
Boren Banner Series: Natalie Krick
October 16, 2024 – April 06, 2025
Hayv Kahraman: Look Me in the Eyes
October 05, 2024 – February 02, 2025
Mary Ann Peters: the edge becomes the center
June 15, 2024 – January 05, 2025
Frye Salon
March 28, 2024 – January 05, 2025
Dolls of Gratitude: A Community Art Collaboration
April 24 – December 08, 2024
Boren Banner Series: Samantha Wall
April 10 – October 06, 2024
Twilight Child: Antonia Kuo and Martin Wong
June 15 – September 15, 2024
Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images
June 01 – September 08, 2024
Sky Hopinka: Subterranean Ceremonies
February 17 – May 26, 2024
Jessica Jackson Hutchins: Wrecked and Righteous
January 27 – May 05, 2024
Boren Banner Series: Rafael Soldi
October 07, 2023 – April 07, 2024
Antonio M. Gómez: LINEAJES
November 11, 2023 – March 10, 2024
Into the Light: Works on Paper from the Collection
January 11, 2023 – March 10, 2024
Hanako O’Leary: Izanami
November 11, 2023 – January 28, 2024
Clarissa Tossin: to take root among the stars
October 07, 2023 – January 07, 2024
Rafael Soldi: Soft Boy
October 07, 2023 – January 07, 2024
THE THIRD, MEANING: ESTAR(SER) Installs the Frye Collection
October 15, 2022 – October 15, 2023
In Your Eyes: Experiment Like ESTAR(SER)
September 28, 2022 – October 08, 2023
Boren Banner Series: Laura Hart Newlon
April 22 – October 01, 2023
A Living Legacy: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art
June 03 – September 17, 2023
Kelly Akashi: Formations
June 17 – September 03, 2023
Marsden Hartley: An American Nature
February 11 – May 21, 2023
Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford
February 04 – May 14, 2023
Boren Banner Series: Molly Jae Vaughan
October 22, 2022 – April 16, 2023
Door to the Atmosphere
October 29, 2022 – January 15, 2023
Srijon Chowdhury: Same Old Song
October 08, 2022 – January 15, 2023
Recent Acquisitions: Georgina Reskala
August 03 – December 31, 2022
Boren Banner Series: Stefan Gonzales
April 23 – October 16, 2022
Jeremy Shaw: Liminals
June 25 – October 09, 2022
Romare Bearden: Abstraction
June 25 – September 18, 2022
Human Nature, Animal Culture: Selections from the Frye Art Museum Collection
June 12, 2021 – September 11, 2022
Recent Acquisitions: Jeffry Mitchell
February 02 – July 24, 2022
Christina Quarles
February 12 – June 05, 2022
Christopher Paul Jordan and Arnaldo James. In the Interim: Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive
February 12 – May 15, 2022
Boren Banner Series: Sadie Wechsler
October 23, 2021 – April 17, 2022
Art on the Mind: Ten Years of Creative Aging
November 14, 2020 – April 03, 2022
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art
September 11, 2021 – January 23, 2022
Duane Linklater: mymothersside
September 18, 2021 – January 16, 2022
Boren Banner Series: Russna Kaur
April 17 – October 17, 2021
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
May 22 – August 15, 2021
Unsettling Femininity: Selections from the Frye Art Museum Collection
September 21, 2019 – May 30, 2021
Anastacia-Reneé: (Don’t be Absurd) Alice in Parts
January 30 – April 25, 2021
Boren Banner Series: Marilyn Montufar
October 10, 2020 – April 11, 2021
Subspontaneous: Francesca Lohmann and Rob Rhee
January 25, 2020 – January 04, 2021
Agnieszka Polska: Love Bite
February 15, 2020 – January 03, 2021
Recent Acquisitions: Mary Henry
December 17, 2019 – June 07, 2020
Rebecca Brewer: Natural Horror
January 25 – April 19, 2020
Donald Byrd: The America That Is To Be
October 12, 2019 – January 26, 2020
Pierre Leguillon: Arbus Bonus
September 21, 2019 – January 05, 2020
Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson
September 21, 2019 – January 05, 2020
Recent Acquisitions: Toyin Ojih Odutola
June 15 – December 08, 2019
Frame of Mind: Storytelling Through Animation
June 22 – December 08, 2019
End of Day: American Oil Painting Around 1900
June 15 – September 29, 2019
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It
June 01 – September 01, 2019
Jane Wong: After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly
June 01 – September 01, 2019
Gretchen Frances Bennett: Air, the free or unconfined space above the surface of the earth
February 16 – June 02, 2019
The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends From Foes: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
January 26 – April 28, 2019
Tschabalala Self
January 26 – April 28, 2019
Cherdonna Shinatra: DITCH
January 26 – April 28, 2019
Quenton Baker: Ballast
October 06, 2018 – February 03, 2019
Group Therapy
September 15, 2018 – January 06, 2019
Bench Mark
June 16 – December 09, 2018
Juventino Aranda: Pocket Full of Posies
June 16 – September 23, 2018
Frye Salon
May 01 – September 22, 2018
Towards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet
May 12 – August 05, 2018
Ko Kirk Yamahira
February 17 – June 03, 2018
Frye Salon
January 21, 2017 – April 30, 2018
Tavares Strachan: Always, Sometimes, Never
January 27 – April 15, 2018
Alison (Bremner) Marks: One Gray Hair
November 11, 2017 – February 04, 2018
Mike Kelley: Day Is Done
September 23 – December 31, 2017
Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light
September 23 – December 31, 2017
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
September 23 – December 21, 2017
Storme Webber | Casino: A Palimpsest
August 05 – October 29, 2017
ALIVE Flora, Light, and Water in the Seattle Landscape
July 03 – September 10, 2017
Amie Siegel: Interiors
May 20 – September 03, 2017
Between the Frames: The Frye Art Museum Collection After 1952
April 29 – July 23, 2017
Archipenko: A Modern Legacy
January 28 – April 30, 2017
Jim Woodring: The Pig Went Down to the Harbor at Sunrise and Wept
January 21 – April 16, 2017
Those Without Voice
December 10, 2016 – April 02, 2017
To: Seattle Subject: Personal
October 01, 2016 – January 08, 2017
Chronicles of Solitude: Masterworks by Vilhelm Hammershøi from SMK—The National Gallery of Denmark
July 16 – September 25, 2016
Frye Salon
February 02 – September 04, 2016
Inye Wokoma: This Is Who We Are
July 09 – September 04, 2016
Xu Bing: Dragonfly Eyes (Trailer)
July 09 – September 04, 2016
Young Blood: Noah Davis, Kahlil Joseph, The Underground Museum
April 16 – June 19, 2016
Agitation and Propaganda: The Soviet Political Poster 1918–1929
February 06 – April 03, 2016
Fechin, Gaspard, and Repin: Russian Painting 1889–1926
February 06 – April 03, 2016
Cris Bruch: Others Who Were Here
January 30 – March 27, 2016
Favorites: The Frye Founding Collection
September 04, 2015 – January 21, 2016
Genius / 21 Century / Seattle
September 26, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Andy Warhol: Little Red Book #178
May 16 – September 13, 2015
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Andy Warhol: 12 Screen Tests
May 30 – September 13, 2015
Leo Saul Berk: Structure and Ornament
May 30 – September 06, 2015
American Portraits 1880–1915
May 14 – August 30, 2015
Frye Salon
May 21 – August 30, 2015
1900: Adornment for the Home and Body
February 21 – May 03, 2015
Pan: A Graphic Arts Time Capsule of Europe 1895-1900
February 21 – May 03, 2015
Future Ruins: Rodrigo Valenzuela
January 31 – April 26, 2015
Jessika Kenney: Anchor Zero
January 10 – February 01, 2015
Pan Gongkai: Withered Lotus Cast in Iron
October 04, 2014 – January 18, 2015
#SocialMedium
October 04, 2014 – January 04, 2015
The Unicorn Incorporated: Curtis R. Barnes
June 14 – September 21, 2014
Frye Salon
September 21, 2013 – September 14, 2014
Your Feast Has Ended: Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep Sidhu
June 14 – September 14, 2014
Aaron Flint Jamison: Veneer 10 of 18
May 15 – June 15, 2014
Mark Tobey and Teng Baiye: Seattle/Shanghai
February 22 – May 25, 2014
Andy Graydon: The Findings
January 23 – March 02, 2014
Franz von Stuck
November 02, 2013 – February 02, 2014
Jason Hirata: Optium LH-3m
November 22, 2013 – January 05, 2014
Joshua Kohl
September 21 – October 20, 2013
Mark Mitchell: Burial
September 21 – October 20, 2013
BUSTER SIMPSON // SURVEYOR
June 15 – October 13, 2013
The Hudson Flows West
June 15 – October 13, 2013
Horizon
June 15 – September 01, 2013
Nicolai Fechin
February 09 – May 19, 2013
36 Chambers
February 09 – May 05, 2013
Chamber Music
February 09 – May 05, 2013
Helmi Juvonen: Dispatches to You (R.S.V.P.)
September 22, 2012 – January 27, 2013
Mw [Moment Magnitude]
October 13, 2012 – January 20, 2013
Favorites: The Frye Founding Collection
September 25, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Ties That Bind: American Artists in Europe
July 14 – September 23, 2012
“The Perfection of Good-Nature”: Frye Founding Collection
July 14 – September 23, 2012
Liu Ding’s Store: Take Home and Make Real the Priceless in Your Heart
July 14 – September 09, 2012
Beloved: Pictures at an Exhibition
February 04 – April 15, 2012
Li Chen: Eternity and Commoner
February 18 – April 15, 2012
Susie J. Lee: Of Breath and Rain
February 18 – April 15, 2012
Isaac Layman—Paradise
November 19, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Tête-à-tête
February 05, 2010 – January 08, 2012
Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul
July 09 – October 30, 2011
Degenerate Art Ensemble
March 19 – June 19, 2011
Picturing a Passion
January 15 – March 06, 2011
Ming Wong: LIFE OF IMITATION
January 22 – February 27, 2011
Implied Violence: Yes and More and Yes and Yes and Why
October 09, 2010 – January 02, 2011
Séance: Albert von Keller and the Occult
October 09, 2010 – January 02, 2011
Northern Latitudes: The Frye and Alaska
June 19 – September 19, 2010
Ida Kay Greathouse: A Tribute
June 19 – September 19, 2010
A Day in Skaguay
June 12 – September 06, 2010
Frye-Bruhn and Alaska
June 12 – September 06, 2010
On Arctic Ice: Fred Machetanz
June 12 – September 06, 2010
As One: Twelfth Annual WAEA Student Exhibition
February 13 – June 06, 2010
Tim Rollins and K.O.S. in Conversation with the Bronx Museum Teen Council
January 23 – May 31, 2010
The Seattle Project: I Wish I Knew Who I Was Before I Was Me
January 23 – May 31, 2010
The Seattle Project: Public Belongings
January 23 – May 31, 2010
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History
January 23 – May 31, 2010
The Seattle Project: The Center School Connection
January 23 – May 31, 2010
Soft Glowing Light: Viewing Art in the Home of Charles and Emma Frye
June 13, 2009 – February 07, 2010
Living Legacy
September 05, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Open Roads and Bedside Tables: American Modernism in the Frye Collection
September 26, 2009 – January 10, 2010
The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art
October 03, 2009 – January 03, 2010
Over Julia’s Dead Body: Gabriel von Max’s Mystics and Martyrs
May 02 – September 13, 2009
The Puppet Show
May 16 – September 13, 2009
Bringing Munich Home: Selections from the Frye Founding Collection
May 02 – August 31, 2009
Shades of Grey: WAEA Student Exhibition
February 21 – June 07, 2009
Nathalie Djurberg
January 24 – April 27, 2009
Transatlantic: American Artists in Germany
January 24 – April 26, 2009
The Munich Secession and America
January 24 – April 12, 2009
Happiness Mapped on Their Faces, Curiosity the Twinkling Eye’s Course
October 04, 2008 – February 15, 2009
Gaze: Vision, Desire, and Difference in the Frye Collections
August 20, 2008 – January 04, 2009
Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt
August 30, 2008 – January 04, 2009
Empire
September 20, 2008 – January 04, 2009
Blip the Blorp
June 07 – September 28, 2008
Repeat—The Sampling and Storytelling Remix
June 07 – September 28, 2008
Dario Robleto: Alloy of Love
May 17 – September 01, 2008
Heaven is Being a Memory to Others
April 26 – August 10, 2008
Oliver Herring | Task
June 28 – June 28, 2008
Changing Relationships
February 25 – June 01, 2008
Clicks and Cuts: Sound Retooled
February 25 – June 01, 2008
R. Crumb’s Underground
January 26 – April 27, 2008
Fluxfilm Anthology, 1962-1970
February 25 – April 27, 2008
Dreaming the Emerald City: The Collections of Charles and Emma Frye and Horace C. Henry
November 03, 2007 – April 06, 2008
Somewhere Better Than This Place | Nowhere Better Than This Place
December 08, 2007 – February 24, 2008
Yvonne Twining Humber: Modern Painter
September 08, 2007 – January 06, 2008
Hug: Recent Work by Patricia Piccinini
September 22, 2007 – January 06, 2008
Metaphorically Speaking
September 01 – December 02, 2007
David C. Kane: Fiat Mambo
June 23 – October 21, 2007
Frye Future
March 17 – October 14, 2007
Sin
March 17 – October 14, 2007
Anxious Objects: Willie Cole’s Favorite Brands
June 23 – September 03, 2007
The Art of Poetry: In A Word, Sin
April 28 – August 26, 2007
Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection
February 17 – June 03, 2007
My Place
February 24 – April 22, 2007
Spectatorship & Desire: Love
July 01, 2006 – March 04, 2007
Pieces of Clothing
December 08, 2006 – February 18, 2007
Little Women, Little Men: Folk Art Portraits of Children from the Fenimore Art Museum
September 22, 2006 – February 04, 2007
I Love My Time, I Don’t Like My Time: Recent Work by Erwin Wurm
November 18, 2006 – January 28, 2007
Trimpin: Klompen
July 14, 2006 – January 21, 2007
Visual Diaries: Imagined Landscapes
September 30 – December 03, 2006
Henry Darger: Highlights from the American Folk Art Museum
August 19 – October 29, 2006
Ginnungagap: Recent Work by Sigrid Sandström
May 25 – September 10, 2006
Robert Yoder: Sluice Gate
May 25 – September 10, 2006
Robyn O’Neil
April 29 – July 30, 2006
Amy Helfand: Modern Nature
April 29 – July 30, 2006
The Walser Greathouse Legacy
November 05, 2005 – June 18, 2006
Swallow Harder: Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection
February 24 – May 14, 2006
Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence
January 12 – April 16, 2006
Spectatorship & Desire: Lust
June 25, 2005 – February 26, 2006
Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
September 23, 2005 – February 12, 2006
Tracy + The Plastics 101
November 11, 2005 – February 12, 2006
Frye Modern
July 08, 2005 – January 29, 2006
William Cumming: The Image of Consequence
August 20 – December 31, 2005
Celebrity Soul: Lenbach’s Portraits
March 19 – October 30, 2005
Oliver Herring: Taking and Making
June 04 – September 18, 2005
The RetroFuturistic Universe of NSK
April 16 – July 31, 2005
joseph park | moon beam caress
February 18 – May 22, 2005
Alan Magee: Paintings, Sculptures, Graphics
January 29 – April 03, 2005
An Economy of Specific Bodies and Particular Objects: Philip Pearlstein Drawings
January 07 – March 27, 2005
Exhibition Archive 2000–2004
January 01, 2000 – December 31, 2004
Exhibition Archive 1990–1999
January 01, 1990 – December 31, 1999
Exhibition Archive 1980–1989
January 01, 1980 – December 31, 1989
Exhibition Archive 1970–1979
January 01, 1970 – December 31, 1979
Exhibition Archive 1960–1969
January 01, 1960 – December 31, 1969
Exhibition Archive 1952–1959
February 08, 1952 – December 31, 1959