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Rick Lowe, Fire #4: This Time Athens, 2023, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © Rick Lowe Studio

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Revolutions
Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

March 22, 2024–April 20, 2025
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
hirshhorn.si.edu

Revolutions is a major survey of 270 artworks by 126 artists from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s permanent collection. Celebrating the museum’s fiftieth anniversary, the exhibition aims to capture the shifting cultural landscapes of a century defined by new currents in science and philosophy and ever-increasing mechanization. Shown alongside these historic works are contributions from nineteen contemporary artists whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas from a hundred years ago remain critical today. Work by Francis Bacon, Amoako Boafo, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Helen FrankenthalerRick LoweSally Mann, Man Ray, Henry MoorePablo PicassoNathaniel Mary Quinn, and Cy Twombly is included.

Rick Lowe, Fire #4: This Time Athens, 2023, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © Rick Lowe Studio

Sally Mann, Jessie #25, 2004 © Sally Mann

On View

Sally Mann in
Love Languages

Open from September 2, 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
www.mfah.org

Love Languages considers how the making of art is a type of love language all of its own. The installation attempts to address the question “How do we prioritize tenderness against debilitating social conditions?” The works on view engage with the necessity of intimacy in interpersonal and collective relationships. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Jessie #25, 2004 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Deep South, Untitled (Emmett Till River Bank), 1998 © Sally Mann

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New Symphony of Time

Opened September 7, 2019
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
www.msmuseumart.org

New Symphony of Time expands the boundaries of Mississippi’s identity, casting light on a shared past to help reflect an expansive, more inclusive future. The exhibition aims to explore personal and collective memory, history and the connection to place, and the roles artists play in pursuit of civil rights and racial equity through ancestry. Themes include migration, movement, and home; shared humanity; environment; and liberty. Work by Titus Kaphar and Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Deep South, Untitled (Emmett Till River Bank), 1998 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Three Generations, 1991 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Real Families: Stories of Change

October 6, 2023–January 7, 2024
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, England
fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Real Families: Stories of Change brings together more than 120 artworks spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and film. The exhibition asks viewers to question what makes a family today and to consider the impact our families have on us, through the eyes of contemporary artists. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Three Generations, 1991 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Naptime, 1989 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965

June 24–November 5, 2023
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
www.bowdoin.edu

This exhibition explores the phenomenon of people-watching as a recreational activity, an act of surveillance, a type of harassment, a sign of empathy, and a documentary form of expression. It brings together more than 120 photographs that investigate the myriad ways in which artists have represented individuals encountered on the street, at home, at work, in the studio, and on documentary or journalistic assignments. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Naptime, 1989 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Semaphore, 2003 © Sally Mann

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Love Songs
Photography and Intimacy

June 1–September 11, 2023
International Center of Photography, New York
www.icp.org

Love Songs features photographic projects about love and intimacy from sixteen contemporary photographers, including Nan Goldin and Sally Mann. Through the myriad lens of intimate relationships, the exhibition brings together series dating from 1952 to 2022 that explore love, desire, and intimacy in complex and contradictory ways.

Sally Mann, Semaphore, 2003 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Leah and her Father, 1983–85 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Drawn to the Light: 50 Years of Photography at Maine Media Workshops + College

June 16–September 10, 2023
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
www.portlandmuseum.org

Maine Media Workshops + College has drawn photographers to Rockport, Maine, for half a century. Instructors and students formed a community around their passion for the art form and its capacity for personal expression and visual storytelling. With around a hundred works made through an array of photographic practices, this exhibition demonstrates the incredible vitality of the artists that have passed through Maine and the wide influence of the workshops on photography more broadly. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Leah and her Father, 1983–85 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Door and Painting), 1999–2000 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
I’ll be your mirror. . .

June 8–September 1, 2023
Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg
artscenter.vt.edu

I’ll be your mirror. . . features painting, sculpture, photography, and performance that explore the hidden relationships between the self, community, and land. The exhibition encourages viewers to consider their impact on the world and embrace a more sustainable and equitable future. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Door and Painting), 1999–2000 © Sally Mann

Installation view, Sally Mann and Cy Twombly: Remembered Light, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 23, 2022–May 7, 2023. Artwork, front to back: © Cy Twombly Foundation, © Sally Mann. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Sally Mann and Cy Twombly
Remembered Light

November 23, 2022–May 7, 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
www.mfa.org

This exhibition brings together three sculptures by Cy Twombly, on loan from the Cy Twombly Foundation, and thirteen photographs by Sally Mann from her Remembered Light series (1999–2012). Twombly and Mann were both born and raised in the southeastern state of Virginia. Mann photographed Twombly’s Lexington home and studio over several years, from 1999 until after his passing in 2011. Through her lens, she sought to capture aspects of his life, his inner world, and his appreciation for the past. Appearing alongside Twombly’s sculptures, the photographs—pervaded by the same themes of life, mortality, and remembrance present in Mann’s other work—form a poetic dialogue between these two friends and their powerful artistic visions.

Installation view, Sally Mann and Cy Twombly: Remembered Light, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 23, 2022–May 7, 2023. Artwork, front to back: © Cy Twombly Foundation, © Sally Mann. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Sally Mann, Candy Cigarette, 1989 © Sally Mann 

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No Place Like Home

January 31–April 28, 2023
Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Illinois
aurora.edu

No Place Like Home features artworks by more than thirty artists who address the concept of home from multiple perspectives. The exhibition features photography, sculpture, video, paintings, textiles, and printmaking and explores the many facets of home as a place of joy and sorrow, rest and labor, refuge and danger. Work by Theaster Gates and Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Candy Cigarette, 1989 © Sally Mann 

Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1989 © Sally Mann

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Presence
The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

September 30, 2022–January 15, 2023
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
www.portlandmuseum.org

Presence aims to capture the full spectrum of the human experience, from the anonymous to the celebrity and from the everyday to era-defining events such as the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the civil rights movement. With approximately 140 photographs by seventy artists, the exhibition is drawn entirely from the collection of Judy Glickman Lauder. Work by Richard Avedon and Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1989 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, The Bath, 1989 © Sally Mann

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Monochrome Multitudes

September 22, 2022–January 8, 2023
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu

Revisiting classic modernist ideas about flatness, idealized form, and colors, this exhibition opens up the seemingly reductive format of the monochrome to reveal its global resonance and creative possibilities while working toward a more expansive narrative of twentieth and twenty-first century art. Work by Alexander Calder, Walter De Maria, Helen Frankenthaler, Theaster Gates, Frank Gehry, Sally Mann, and Richard Serra is included.

Sally Mann, The Bath, 1989 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Candy Cigarette, 1989 © Sally Mann

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Beyond the Frame

July 8–October 30, 2022
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
www.mocp.org

Beyond the Frame explores highlights from the museum’s permanent collection of more than 16,500 works. Each gallery focuses on a recurring topic in photography, such as portraiture and the human subject, landscape and place, and staged and constructed images. Work by Deana Lawson and  Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Candy Cigarette, 1989 © Sally Mann

Mary Weatherford, Engine, 2014, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © Mary Weatherford. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio

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America. Entre rêves et réalités
La collection du Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

June 9–September 11, 2022
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada
www.mnbaq.org

Featuring more than a hundred paintings, photographs, sculptures, and video works drawn from the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, this exhibition, whose title translates to America. Between Dreams and Realities, offers a broad overview of modern and contemporary American art. Organized thematically, it looks carefully and critically at the notion of the American dream and uncovers how artists have variously grappled with questions of identity, the challenges of globalization, the realities of everyday life in America, and the complexities of its technological and political revolutions. Work by Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Brice Marden, Nam June Paik, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Mary Weatherford is included.

Mary Weatherford, Engine, 2014, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © Mary Weatherford. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio

Sally Mann, Leah and her Father, 1983–85 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Women’s Work: A Survey of Female Photographers

April 16–September 11, 2022
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Florida
mfastpete.org

Women’s Work aims to emphasize the contributions women have made in the making and advancement of photography. This exhibition from the museum’s collection explores the rich visual testimony of women as a driving force in modern photography from its emergence to contemporary times. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Leah and her Father, 1983–85 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Was Ever Love, 2009 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Love Songs: Photographies de l’intime

March 30–August 21, 2022
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
www.mep-fr.org

This exhibition, whose subtitle translates to Photography and Intimacy, aims to propose a new vision of the history of photography through the prism of intimate relationships between lovers. Bringing together fourteen series by some of the most important photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the show takes the viewer through many different stories and scenarios photographed between couples. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Was Ever Love, 2009 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Battlefields, Antietam (Last Light), 2001 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Past Is Prologue: History in Contemporary Art

April 16–July 31, 2022
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
addison.andover.edu

The artists assembled in Past Is Prologue mine the past, using American history and the history of Western art to explore issues of gender, identity, memory, race, and truth. Drawn from the Addison Gallery’s permanent collection, the paintings, prints, sculptures, and photographs on view illuminate previously obscured narratives to reveal personal and shared connections between the country’s complex past and its cultural and political present. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Battlefields, Antietam (Last Light), 2001 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Blackwater 9, 2008–12 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Prix Pictet 2021: Fire

June 9–July 24, 2022
EPFL Pavilions, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
epfl-pavilions.ch

Fire was the theme of the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet, which aims to harness the power of photography to draw global attention to issues of sustainability, particularly concerning the environment. This exhibition showcases the work of the thirteen shortlisted photographers, including Sally Mann, who ultimately won the prize with her Blackwater series (2008–12), a multifaceted exploration of the Great Dismal Swamp, which spans the border of Virginia and North Carolina. This exhibition originated at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 

Sally Mann, Blackwater 9, 2008–12 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Black Eye, 1991 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Unbeatable Women: Power and Innovation in the Work of Women Photographers

February 26–June 19, 2022
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
www.lymanallyn.org

Examining women’s rich contributions to modern and contemporary photography, this exhibition presents compelling photographs that address female innovation, power, and identity, showcasing the Lyman Allyn’s growing photography collection. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Black Eye, 1991 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Untitled, 2001 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Canova tra innocenza e peccato

December 17, 2021–April 18, 2022
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
www.mart.tn.it

This exhibition, whose title translates to Canova: Innocence and Sin, marks the second centenary of the sculptor Antonio Canova’s death (1757–1822). Through 150 works, including photography and sculpture, the show aims to explore the modern relevance of Canova’s practice among contemporary artists, highlighting links, dialogues, continuity, and juxtapositions. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Untitled, 2001 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Georgia, Untitled (Beaver Log), 1996 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Picturing the South: 25 Years

November 5, 2021–February 6, 2022
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
high.org

In 1996, the High Museum of Art began commissioning photographers from around the world to engage with and explore the rich social and geographic landscape of the American South for its Picturing the South initiative. Organized on the occasion of the project’s twenty-fifth anniversary, this exhibition brings together all of the commissions for the first time. Taken as a whole, the photographs amount to a complex and layered archive of the region that addresses broad themes, including racial justice, the legacy of slavery, the social implications of the evolving landscape, and the distinct and diverse character of the region’s people. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Georgia, Untitled (Beaver Log), 1996 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Blackwater 18, 2008–12 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Prix Pictet 2021: Fire

December 16, 2021–January 9, 2022
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
www.vam.ac.uk

Fire was the theme of the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet, which aims to harness the power of photography to draw global attention to issues of sustainability, particularly concerning the environment. This exhibition showcases the work of the thirteen shortlisted photographers, including Sally Mann, who ultimately won the prize with her Blackwater series (2008–12), a multifaceted exploration of the Great Dismal Swamp, which spans the border of Virginia and North Carolina.

Sally Mann, Blackwater 18, 2008–12 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Georgia, Untitled (Allee), 1996 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
American Landscapes

September 9–November 19, 2021
David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park
driskellcenter.umd.edu

American Landscapes presents a comprehensive narrative of the contribution of African American artists to the field of landscape art and the canon of American art. It is the first major exhibition in the Driskell Center’s physical space since the passing of Professor David C. Driskell in April 2020. The featured works date from circa 1850 to 2020 with over half selected from the Driskell Center collection. Additionally, thirty landscape works by Driskell, known for his love and depiction of pine trees, gardens, and landscapes, will be exhibited. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Georgia, Untitled (Allee), 1996 © Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Holding Virginia, 1989 © Sally Mann

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Sally Mann in
Wilde Kindheit

May 12–September 5, 2021
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
www.lentos.at

This exhibition, whose title translates to Real Wild Child, presents works by 170 international artists from 1900 to the present day. Strong on critical acumen, empathy, irony, and humor, the artists document children’s happiness as well as their frustrations. Work by Sally Mann is included.

Sally Mann, Holding Virginia, 1989 © Sally Mann