PAFA's special exhibitions feature masterpieces from around the world and work by today's emerging artists.
Currently On View
Robert Ryman: Philadelphia Prototype, 2002
Ongoing
Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building, second floor west gallery
An installation of ten panels by the foremost Minimalist painter that creates unique surfaces using paint as a method of attachment.
Gallery 128
Ongoing
Rotating exhibitions of student, faculty and alumni work
Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building, Gallery 128
Upcoming Exhibitions
Moe Brooker: The Evidence of Things Not Seen
February 10 - April 15, 2012
Historic Landmark Building, Alumni Sales Gallery
Cynthia Norton: Freedom Rings Placed Within
March 3 - May 27, 2012
Historic Landmark Building
PAFA and Dr. Barnes
April 7 - July 8, 2012
Historic Landmark Building, Gallery 7
Of, To, and From: Ray Yoshida
April 7 - July 8, 2012
Historic Landmark Building, Gallery 6
111th Annual Student Exhibition
May 11 - June 3, 2012
Galleries of the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
A New Look: Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre
August 2012 - April 2013
Historic Landmark Building, Gallery 13
"A Mine of Beauty": Landscapes by William Trost Richards
September 29 - December 30, 2012
Historic Landmark Building, Galleries 10 and 11
Frank Furness Centenary Celebration
September 29 – December 30, 2012
Historic Landmark Building
The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women
November 17, 2012 - April 14, 2013
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis
June 29, 2013 - September 22, 2013
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Fisher Brooks Gallery
David Lynch
November 16, 2013 - April 13, 2014
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Fisher Brooks Gallery
Silence Means Approval: The Art of Sue Coe
June - September 2014
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building: Annenberg Gallery
World War I and American Art
November 2014 - April 2015
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Fisher Brooks Gallery
PAFA's special exhibitions in 2011-12 are supported by generous contributions from Max N. Berry, Esq, Donald R. Caldwell, Jonathan L. Cohen, and Lori Levine Ordover and Janusz Ordover.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ public programs are funded in part by a major grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency).
