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Three women standing together in the same white dress, with hands on it, carrying handbags

Michel Kameni: Portraits of an Independent Africa

August 29, 2025–January 4, 2026

This exhibition features portraits by the Cameroonian studio photographer Michel Kameni (c.1935–2020) made at Studio KM in Yaoundé. The 55 prints featured were made during the 1960s and 1970s in the years following Cameroon’s independence.

Realistic painting of a young girl with a lamb on the front yard of an older house. Behind the girl is a man and a woman sitting in chairs

Worlds in Process: Art from the SCMA Collection

Ongoing

This project, called Worlds in Process: Art from the SCMA Collection, pilots new strategies for displaying the collection. 

The installation includes artworks from a range of time periods, cultures, materials, and perspectives alongside places to gather and reflect. When a group of museum staff set out to reimagine this floor, we wanted to try some new approaches, which included deepening our understanding of what visitors (especially Smith College students) find most meaningful and welcoming. 

Carved white jade figure sitting cross legged

Figuration and Abstraction: Asian Art at SCMA

July 28, 2023–October 5, 2025
Drawing from the SCMA's holdings of Asian art collected over more than a century, this exhibition features paintings, sculptures, prints, and religious and decorative arts that engage with the discourse of figuration versus abstraction.
Photo of the Ancient Gallery Installation

The Ancient World Gallery

Ongoing
In 2019, the display of SCMA’s ancient art collection was reimagined to provide a more global view of the ancient world. Previously, this gallery’s scope had been limited to Egyptian, Greek and Roman art. The gallery now includes ancient objects from China, Japan, Korea, Persia and the Americas. Arranged in thematic groupings, these artworks span several millennia and encompass a wide range of media.
Figure in a car on the phone behind gold streamers

Garrett Bradley: AKA (2019)

September 12, 2025–February 1, 2026

On view for the first time at SCMA, the video installation AKA by artist and Smith College alumna Garrett Bradley addresses how colorism and upward mobility affect the relationships between mothers and daughters.

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