Historic Landmark Building, second floor
PAFA's contemporary art program features rotating exhibitions by artists from the Philadelphia region and beyond. Contemporary art exhibitions emerged at PAFA in 1978 when the Morris family, in honor of the Academy's first professional director, Harrison Morris (1892-1905), endowed an exhibition program focusing on living Philadelphia artists.
In recent years, the program has been expanded to include artists from outside the Philadelphia area in order to contextualize the local within national trends in contemporary art.
Now on view: Hennessy Youngman & Nathaniel Snerpus Present: The Grand Manner
Exhibited artists have included:
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Judith Schaechter (1998):
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Charles Burns (1999)
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Jeremy Blake (2000)
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Virgil Marti (2001)
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Mary Judge (2001)
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Phil Frost (2002)
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a three-person exhibition with Marcel Dzama, Michael Dumontier, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright (2003)
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Michelle Oosterbaan (2004)
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Eamon Ore-Giron (2005)
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Vik Muniz (2005)
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Nan Goldin (2006)
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Elizabeth Leister (2006)
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Laylah Ali (2007)
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Senga Nengudi (2007)
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Steve Powers (2007-08)
Contemporary works from PAFA's permanent collection can be seen in the Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building Galleries:
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Walter and Leonore Annenberg Gallery
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The Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery
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The School of Fine Arts Gallery: Gift of the Women's Board
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Gallery 128: The Academy’s School Gallery