Elles: SAM 
Singular Works by Seminal Women Artists
October 11, 2012–February 17, 2013
 

Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris 
October 11, 2012–January 13, 2013
 

Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection 
May 31–September 2, 2012
 

Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise 
February 9–April 29, 2012
 

Luminous: The Art of Asia 
October 13, 2011–January 8, 2012
 

Beauty & Bounty 
American Art in an Age of Exploration
June 30–September 11, 2011
 

Reclaimed: Nature and Place Through Contemporary Eyes 
June 30–September 11, 2011
 

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth 
March 10–June 5, 2011
 

Picasso 
Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
October 8, 2010–January 17, 2011
 

love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death — Andy Warhol Media Works 
May 13–September 6, 2010
 

Kurt 
May 13–September 6, 2010
 

Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act 
October 15, 2009–April 11, 2010
 

Seattle as Collector: Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Turns 40 
May 11–October 23, 2011
 

Order and Border 
March 6, 2010–October 21, 2012
 

Jenny Heishman: 2011 Betty Bowen Award Winner 
October 20, 2011–October 1, 2012
 

Get Up, Stand Up 
September 5–September 30, 2012
 

Sarah Rapson 
Eastcliff
August 1–August 31, 2012
 

Here and Now 
New Ceramic Acquisitions
January 21–August 26, 2012
 

American Art in the 1930s and 1940s 
July 30, 2011–August 26, 2012
 

Burden of History 
April 9, 2011–August 26, 2012
 

Picturing The Artist 
March 14, 2011–July 1, 2012
 

Theaster Gates: The Listening Room 
December 9, 2011–July 1, 2012
 

Barbara Bickart 
WHEN: Memphis
May 1–June 30, 2012
 

SAM Next: Mika Tajima 
After the Martini Shot
July 16, 2011–June 17, 2012
 

Adrian Paci: Video Work 
December 5, 2011–February 14, 2012
 

Here and Now 
Location, Location, Location: Tea and Coffee Services by John Marshall
August 20, 2011–January 15, 2012
 

Our National Game 
July 16–November 27, 2011
 

Ellen Lesperance: 2010 Betty Bowen Award Winner 
October 18, 2010–October 3, 2011
 

Save the Indian and Kill the Man: 
New Photographs by Matika Wilbur
January 10–August 14, 2011
 

Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves 
August 14, 2010–August 14, 2011
 

Alden Mason 
November 6, 2010–July 17, 2011
 

SAM Next: Cris Brodahl 
July 3, 2010–July 3, 2011
 

Freeing the Figure 
November 5, 2009–July 3, 2011
 

Rineke Dijkstra: Ruth Drawing Picasso, Tate Liverpool 
November 2, 2010–April 24, 2011
 

Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988–2008 
September 4, 2010–February 27, 2011
 

A Quartet of Suits 
October 7, 2008–February 14, 2011
 

David Wojnarowicz 
A Fire in My Belly
December 21–December 31, 2010
 

Gretchen Bennett 
I Don't Blame You
March 3–October 27, 2010
 

James Ensor and Georg Baselitz: Graphic Works 
April 10–October 24, 2010
 

Everything Under the Sun: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham 
July 11, 2009–August 22, 2010
 

The End of the Ancestors: The Narrative Art of Bruce subiyay Miller 
December 2, 2009–August 1, 2010
 

SAM Next: Heide Hinrichs 
November 7, 2009–June 13, 2010
 

Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints 
April 1–July 4, 2010
 

Where have they been? 
Two overlooked Chinese female artists
June 16–December 30, 2012
 

Many Arrows from Rama's Bow 
Paintings of the Ramayana
September 1–December 2, 2012
 

Women's Paintings from the Land of Sita 
September 1–December 2, 2012
 

Shirin Neshat 
Tooba
September 1–December 2, 2012
 

Colors of the Oasis 
Central Asian Ikats
March 15–August 5, 2012
 

Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura 
October 22, 2011–February 19, 2012
 

Live Long and Prosper: Auspicious Motifs in East Asian Art 
August 20, 2010–February 12, 2012
 

Looking West, Finding East 
August 20, 2010–February 12, 2012
 

Modern Elegance: The Art of Meiji Japan 
April 30–October 9, 2011
 

Wang Huaiqing: A Painter’s Painter in Contemporary China 
November 18, 2010–April 10, 2011
 

Fleeting Beauty (Reprise) 
July 29, 2010–January 16, 2011
 

New Old and New New 
December 12, 2009–October 31, 2010
 

Sarah Bergmann 
Portal to the Pollinator Pathway
June 27–September 16, 2012
 

A Better Promise 
August 28, 2010–March 4, 2012
 

On-Site 
June 5–September 30, 2011
 

Summer Projects 
June 12–October 3, 2010
 

Geoff McFetridge: in The Mind 
March 29, 2008–August 8, 2010