Exhibitions
Vibrant shows fill our three exhibition spaces and change every Fall, Winter, and Summer. There is always something new to see at the Gardner!
The Gardner Museum offers new special exhibitions each season. Schedules are subject to change.
All press inquiries should be submitted to press@isgm.org
Winter/Spring 2026 Exhibitions
Imagine you could be a different version of yourself. What parts of your identity might you reinvent? This winter/spring, three exhibitions explore the concept of persona and what its creation and depiction may reveal about an artist, their society, and ourselves.
Programs
Patrons
Friends of Fenway Court Patron Preview
February 17, 2026
Patrons enjoy early access to the upcoming Winter/Spring exhibitions before they open to the public.
Members
Member Preview Day
February 18, 2026
Members enjoy early access before the exhibitions open to the public
Members
Member Opening Celebration
February 18, 2026
Celebrate our new exhibitions while enjoying a glass of wine and a welcome from the curator.
Public Program
Persona: An Exploration in Four Parts
February 19, 2025
Join us on the opening night of the new exhibition Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self for a conversation examining “persona” with the curators and three of the exhibiting artists.
Members
Member Exhibitions Insight Tour
February 28, 2026
Tour the special exhibitions in person with a Museum Teacher and a small group of members.
Members
A Virtual Member Moment
March 18, 2026
Join the curators for a virtual conversation about Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self.
Public Program
Self-Reflections: An Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop
March 19, 2026
Experience Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self through ekphrasis, the practice of creating poetry in response to a work of visual art.
Art Making
Studio Workshop: Portraiture with Evoke Tintype
March 22, 2026
Explore historic tintype photography in the exhibition Picturing Isabella and create your own portrait through this historic photography method with Evoke Studios.
Art Making
Studio Workshop: Portraiture with Evoke Tintype
April 16, 2026
Explore historic tintype photography in the exhibtion Picturing Isabella and create your own portrait through this historic photography method with Evoke Studios.
Members
Member Exhibitions Insight Tour
April 18, 2026
Tour the special exhibitions in person with a Museum Teacher and a small group of members.
Members
Member Exhibitions Insight Tour
May 9, 2026
Tour the special exhibitions in person with a Museum Teacher and a small group of members.
Fall 2025 Exhibitions
The crossroads of humanity and holiness meet in the works of lifelong Bostonian Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007), who will at long last be at the center of an exhibition in a major Boston museum. Presented in collaboration with the Boston Athenaeum, Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory will raise questions of whose legacy is preserved and what stories a metropolis reveals—and pay homage to a seminal African American artist whose work celebrated, recorded, and spoke to Boston’s Black community.
Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade
Robert T. Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025
October 23, 2025 – February 10, 2026
Closing February 10, 2026
Past Exhibitions
Take a look back at our past exhibitions.