The Pennsylvania Academy's contemporary art program features rotating exhibitions by artists from the Philadelphia region and beyond. Contemporary art exhibitions emerged at the Academy 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. Exhibited artists have included Judith Schaechter (1998), Charles Burns (1999), Jeremy Blake (2000), Virgil Marti (2001), Mary Judge (2001), Phil Frost (2002), a three-person exhibition with Marcel Dzama, Michael Dumontier and Andrew Jeffrey Wright (2003), Michelle Oosterbaan (2004), Eamon Ore-Giron (2005), Vik Muniz (2005), Nan Goldin (2006) and Elizabeth Leister (2006). Exhibitions take place in the Academy's Morris Gallery, located on the ground floor of the historic landmark building.

Additionally, contemporary works from the Academy's permanent collection can be seen in the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Gallery, the Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery, School of Fine Arts Gallery: Gift of the Women's Board, and the School Gallery in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building.

Through June 8, 2008

Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building