current, upcoming & past
The third floor galleries are closed for renovations and upgrades. Visitors can enjoy the new, reimagined space starting in early 2024. Learn more!

Sum of Its Parts: Multi-Panel Works on Paper from the Collection
September 1, 2023–January 7, 2024
This installation includes multi-panel photographs, prints, and collages from the SCMA collection made between the 17th and 21st centuries. This selection highlights the long history and many approaches to making modular works of art.

Figuration and Abstraction: Asian Art at SCMA
July 28, 2023 through May 2024
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.

Multiplying Power: Image as Protest in Prints and Photographs
March 24, 2023–January 2024
This installation displays a range of prints and photographs from the SCMA collection whose circulation documents and sparks social change.

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.

Beyond the Museum: Art on Smith's Campus
Ongoing
Smith College is home to more than a dozen publicly accessible, mostly outdoor artworks that you can visit anytime you are on campus. Discover them all!

Deborah Jack: the water between us remembers, so we carry this history on our skins, long for a sea-bath and hope that the salt will heal what ails us (2018)
June 30, 2023–February 4, 2024
How do memory, place, nature, and the afterlives of slavery and colonialism connect? What possibilities do video (as a medium) and beauty (as an aesthetic approach) offer artists interested in these connections?