Past Exhibitions
2022
Christopher Paul Jordan and Arnaldo James. In the Interim: Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive
2021
Boren Banner Series: Sadie Wechsler
Duane Linklater: mymothersside
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
Boren Banner Series: Russna Kaur
Anastacia-Reneé: (Don’t be Absurd) Alice in Parts
2020
Art on the Mind: Ten Years of Creative Aging
Boren Banner Series: Marilyn Montufar
Rebecca Brewer: Natural Horror
Subspontaneous: Francesca Lohmann and Rob Rhee
2019
Recent Acquisitions: Mary Henry
Donald Byrd: The America That Is To Be
Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson
Unsettling Femininity: Selections from the Frye Art Museum Collection
Frame of Mind: Storytelling Through Animation
Recent Acquisitions: Toyin Ojih Odutola
End of Day: American Oil Painting Around 1900
Jane Wong: After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It
Gretchen Frances Bennett: Air, the free or unconfined space above the surface of the earth
The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends From Foes: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
2018
Juventino Aranda: Pocket Full of Posies
Towards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet
Tavares Strachan: Always, Sometimes, Never
2017
Alison (Bremner) Marks: One Gray Hair
Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper
Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light
Storme Webber | Casino: A Palimpsest
ALIVE Flora, Light, and Water in the Seattle Landscape
Between the Frames: The Frye Art Museum Collection After 1952
Jim Woodring: The Pig Went Down to the Harbor at Sunrise and Wept
2016
To: Seattle | Subject: Personal
Chronicles of Solitude: Masterworks by Vilhelm Hammershøi from SMK—The National Gallery of Denmark
Xu Bing: Dragonfly Eyes (Trailer)
Inye Wokoma: This Is Who We Are
Young Blood: Noah Davis, Kahlil Joseph, The Underground Museum
Fechin, Gaspard, and Repin: Russian Painting 1889–1926
Agitation and Propaganda: The Soviet Political Poster 1918–1929
Cris Bruch: Others Who Were Here
2015
Favorites: The Frye Founding Collection
Leo Saul Berk: Structure and Ornament
Andy Warhol: Little Red Book #178
Pan: A Graphic Arts Time Capsule of Europe 1895-1900
1900: Adornment for the Home and Body
Future Ruins: Rodrigo Valenzuela
Pan Gongkai: Withered Lotus Cast in Iron
2014
Your Feast Has Ended: Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep Sidhu
The Unicorn Incorporated: Curtis R. Barnes
Aaron Flint Jamison: Veneer 10 of 18
Mark Tobey and Teng Baiye: Seattle/Shanghai
Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930
2013
2012
Favorites: The Frye Founding Collection
Helmi Juvonen: Dispatches to You (R.S.V.P.)
Liu Ding’s Store: Take Home and Make Real the Priceless in Your Heart
“The Perfection of Good-Nature”: Frye Founding Collection
Ties That Bind: American Artists in Europe
Susie J. Lee: Of Breath and Rain
Li Chen: Eternity and Commoner
Beloved: Pictures at an Exhibition
2011
Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul
2010
Séance: Albert von Keller and the Occult
Implied Violence: Yes and More and Yes and Yes and Why
Northern Latitudes: The Frye and Alaska
Education Wing Exhibition – As One: Twelfth Annual WAEA Student Exhibition
The Seattle Project: The Center School Connection
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History
The Seattle Project: Public Belongings
The Seattle Project: I Wish I Knew Who I Was Before I Was Me
Tim Rollins and K.O.S. in Conversation with the Bronx Museum Teen Council