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BNG EXHIBITIONS

A year by year listing of all the exhibitions staged by the BNG since it opened in 1992.

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1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000

2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008

1992

March

  • Some of What We Have: Selections from Local Collections

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

April

  • Some of What We Have II

  • The First Drawings and Watercolours of Bermuda

  • Alfred Birdsey: A Tribute

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

June

  • 18th, 19th and 20th Century Marine Paintings

  • Sam Morse Brown: A Tribute

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

September

  • Visual Poetry (curated by David Mitchell)

  • Sharon Wilson: A Retrospective

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

December

  • Icons and Stained Glass

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

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1993

March-June

  • Richard Saunders Photographs

  • Visual Poetry II

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

June-September

  • Shaping a Capital: Hamilton’s First Century

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

October-December

  • Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and Reveals (traveling exhibition from the Museum for African Art, NY, curated by Dr. Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts)

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1994

January

  • The Little Green Door: The Tucker Sisters

  • Charles Lloyd Tucker: Influence & Inspiration (Organised by The Masterworks Foundation)

  • Modern Art: 20th Century International art loaned from private collections

  • The Watlington Collection

March

  • Bill Ming: The Home Comin’

May

  • The Fine Art of Bermuda Maps: 1511-1861

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Ladies Choice: Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

June

  • Celebration of Excellence: First Juried Bermuda Biennial

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

October

  • Bermuda Respite: Georgia O’Keeffe in Bermuda (Organised by The Masterworks Foundation)

  • Pop Goes the Easel: Pop & Op Art

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

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1995

January-March

  • Portrait of a Legacy: Hereward Trott Watlington Retrospective

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

March-April

  • Desmond Fountain: A Retrospective

  • Abstraction: A Survey

  • John Kaufmann: A Retrospective

May

  • Carib Art: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean (traveling exhibition organised by UNESCO)

June-September

  • Charles Zuill: A Summer Series

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

  • A Mystery Revealed: Gaspard LeMarchant Tupper

September

  • Into Print: The Techniques of Printmaking

  • The Watlington Collection

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

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1996

February-April

  • Portrait of an Era: Portraiture pre-1900

  • The Power and the Glory: Masks of Black Africa

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

April–August

  • Through British Eyes: Images of Bermuda 1815 - 1860 (BNG Organised Traveling Exhibition, opened at Pierpont Morgan Library, New York April 18, 1996; Opened at BNG January 31, 1997, curated by John Adams)

May –September

  • Second Bermuda Biennial Exhibition

  • Selections from The Masterworks Bermudiana Collection

  • The Watlington Collection

June

  • Quenching Thirst: Vintage Photography from the private collection of Tom Butterfield

  • The Art of Restoration: The Watlington Collection

September

  • Celebration: The African Collection (opening of BNG permanent African Collection curated by Dr. Mary Nooter Roberts)

October

  • Bostelmann Paints for Beebe (in cooperation with BAMZ)

  • Return of the Arkangels: selections from the Masterworks Collection

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1997

January-April

  • Through British Eyes: Images of Bermuda 1815 -1860

April –June

  • King Remembered: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Photographs by Flip Schulke

July–September

  • The Next Decade: Highlights of the Masterworks Collection

September – January 1998:

  • Light Air and Colour: American Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (organised by the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for the BNG)

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1998

January–April

  • The Rebel Princess: Watercolours by HRH The Princess Louise

May–September

  • 1998 Bacardi Limited Biennial (Juried by Daniel Rosenfeld of PAFA and Dr. Lizetta LeFalle-Collins

  • Celebration II: The African Collection

  • Ogden Pleissner: Bermuda Inside Out (Organised by The Masterworks Foundation)

  • The Watlington Collection

September–January, 1999

  • Nancy Graves: Excavations in Print and Sculpture (traveling exhibition from American Federation of Arts)

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1999

January–May

  • The Art of Collecting Art

  • Masterworks A to Z (Organised by The Masterworks Foundation)

June –September

  • Chesley Trott: Sculptor and Mentor (curated by Marlee Robinson)

September– February 2000

  • A Window on the Azores: 20th Century Art from the Azores.(Organised in consultation with The Carlos Machado Museum in San Miguel, Azores)

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2000

March–August

  • 2000 Bacardi Limited Biennial (Juried by David de la Torre of Honolulu Academy of Arts & Susan Masuoka of Tufts University Gallery

September–January, 2001

  • Made in Bermuda: Bermudian Silver, furniture, art & design           

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2001

January

  • From Mickey to the Grinch: Art of the Animated Film (curated by John Vanco, Erie Art Museum)

May

  • The BNG Permanent Collections [European, African, Photography, Bermudian and Contempary]

September

  • Man of Mystery: The Artwork of Edward James, 1861- 1877

  • Focus on Colour

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2002

February–April

  • ART: New Genre, New Directions

  • In a New York Frame of Mind (In collaboration with The Masterworks Foundation)

  • Bermuda Sightings: Phil Bergerson photographs

May–September

  • 2002 Bacardi Limited Biennial (Juried by Dr. David Boxer, Jamaica National Gallery & Dr. Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian Museum of American Art

  • Five Centuries of Women (selections from the Permanent Collection)

September–January, 2003

  • Once Upon a Time: the art of Illustrated Children’s Literature

  • Stories in Art (selections from the permanent collection)

  • The Story of Art in Bermuda

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2003

Winter Exhibitions:

  • The Fine Art of Japanese Prints

  • The Ideal Collection – 350 years of Bermudian Art

  • Coash and Jones: Photographs

  • The European Collection

Summer Exhibitions

  • Lee Miller

  • Prayers in the Wind (Public Art Installation in Portico of City Hall – by Kendra Ezekiel)

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

  • The European Collection

  • The Education Centre

Autumn Exhibitions

  • Inside & Out: House & Home

  • Winslow Homer in Bermuda (Organised by The Masterworks Foundation)

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

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2004

Winter Exhibitions

  • Landscape: A Poetic Vision

  • A Tribute to Georgine Hill

  • A Tribute to deForest Trimingham

  • The Bermuda Collection

Summer Exhibitions

  • Bacardi Limited Biennial 2004 (Juried by Kendal Henry & Bruce Katsiff)

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

Autumn Exhibitions

  • Painting Bermuda: 200 years of Changing Tradition

  • Peter Woolcock: The Early Days Of…

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

  • European Collection: 1500 - 1950

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2005

Winter Exhibitions

  • Yoshitoshi: The Last Japanese Woodblock Print Artist

  • Tribute to Charles Lloyd Tucker

  • Tribute to Robert Barritt

  • European Collection: 1500 - 1950

  • African Collection

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

Summer Exhibitions

  • Sharon Wilson: Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Art

  • Hale Woodruff: Linocuts 1931-46

  • Sir Frank Brangwyn, RA: Selected Works

  • European Collection: 1500 - 1950

  • African Collection: Celebrating the Diversity of African Heritage

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

Autumn Exhibitions

  • The Photography of John Athill Frith

  • Bill Ming: From Ship To Shore

  • The European Collection: 1500 – 1900

  • The African Collection: celebrating the Diversity of African Heritage

Winter Exhibitions

  • Charles Zuill Retrospective: The Science of Art

  • The European Collection: 1500 – 1900

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

  • The African Collection: celebrating the Diversity of African Heritage

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2006

Summer Exhibitions

  • The Bacardi Limited Biennial, 2006

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

Autumn Exhibitions

  • The Young Collection: An Enduring Legacy

  • Rembrandt Etchings: Impressions of Genius (1606-2006 Celebrating 400 years)

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

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2007

Winter 2007 Exhibitions

  • New Acquisitions: Recent Gifts to the Bermuda National Gallery

  • The Art of Drama: Kabuki Theatre through Woodblock Prints

  • European Collection: 1500 - 1900

  • African Collection

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

Summer Exhibitions

  • John Kaufmann: A Retrospective – Essential Elements: 1947 – 2007

  • Hair in African Art

  • European Collection: 1500 - 1900

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

Autumn Exhibitions

  • Living with Art: Modern & Contempory African American Art from the Collection of Alitash Kebede

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

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2008

Winter Exhibitions

  • Cultural Reflections: Inuit Art from the Collection of the Dennos Museum Center and The Judith Varney Burch Collection

  • African Affinities

  • Tribute to Byllee Lang

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

Summer Exhibitions

  • The Bacardi Limited Biennial 2008 Exhibition of Bermuda Contemporary Art.

  • The Bermuda Collection: 350 Years of Art in Bermuda

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