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Day of Remembrance

From February 6 to 23, 2025
Star Series installed at Cranbrook, near a window with a view of autumn trees
offsite: Bloomfield Hills, MI

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

From October 9, 2024 to January 12, 2025
30.9.2017 Pavello Mies Van Der Rohe Folding Cosmos Foto Anna Mas

Miwako Kurashima: * folding cosmos

From October 16 to November 17, 2024
Toshiko Takaezu

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

From March 20 to July 28, 2024
Architectural model Noguchi + Pratt 2024

Noguchi + Pratt 2024

From May 9 to 26, 2024
Abstract film still, interlocking sculpture by Isamu Noguchi in a halo of flickering light

A Glorious Bewilderment: Marie Menken’s ‘Visual Variations on Noguchi’

From September 27, 2023 to February 4, 2024
Isamu Noguchi, Fishbone

Noguchi Subscapes

From June 15, 2022 to September 3, 2023
Noguchi + Pratt 2023
offsite: Virtual

Noguchi + Pratt 2023

From May 11 to August 31, 2023
Isamu Noguchi with study for Luminous Plastic Sculpture, 1943
offsite: Lille, France

Isamu Noguchi: Sculpting the World

From March 15 to July 2, 2023
Isamu Noguchi, Lessons of Musokokushi, with flip-flop, 1962. Bronze, Dimensions variable.
offsite: London

This Earth, This Passage

From May 26 to July 1, 2023
Collage of works by 2023 Loewe Craft Prize finalists
offsite: New York

LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2023

From May 17 to June 18, 2023
Large format black and white photograph looking up through the Queensborough Bridge with dramatic...

A Living Mechanism:
The Noguchi Museum Staff Exhibition

From June 2 to 15, 2023
Five Japanese saws of various shapes and sizes
offsite: Kobe, Japan

Isamu Noguchi TOOLS

From March 4 to May 7, 2023
A full-scale replica of Mathias Goeritz’s La Serpiente de El Eco (El Eco Serpent), 1953 (exhibition...

In Praise of Caves:
Organic Architecture Projects from Mexico by Carlos Lazo, Mathias Goeritz, Juan O’Gorman, and Javier Senosiain

From October 19, 2022 to February 26, 2023
An illuminated small form in magnesite, suspended within a metal frame
offsite: Bern, Switzerland

Isamu Noguchi

From September 23, 2022 to January 8, 2023
Isamu Noguchi with Skyviewing Sculpture model
offsite: Bellingham, WA

Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi

From July 26 to November 26, 2022
Film still of Aus-Höhlen. Looking out at a framed bit of landscape from within a monastery cave...

Veronika Spierenburg, Aus-Höhlen

From June 15 to October 2, 2022
Installation view
offsite: Luxembourg

Isamu Noguchi / Danh Vo:
a cloud and flowers

From December 11, 2021 to September 4, 2022
Dweck Barbara Noguchi

Noguchi + Pratt 2022

From June 8 to August 31, 2022
Portrait bust of R. Buckminster Fuller
offsite: Köln

Isamu Noguchi

From March 26 to July 31, 2022
Memorial to the Dead, Hiroshima
offsite: New York

Zero Nukes

From May 18 to 22, 2022
Isamu Noguchi working on Small Practices, small sculpture of two Aji granite stones

Salvaged Time

From February 23 to May 15, 2022
Isamu Noguchi, Monument to Heroes. A vertical cardboard tube, painted black, is punctuated with...

No Monument:
In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration

From March 16 to May 15, 2022
Isamu Noguchi Riverside- Playground Play Terrace Study, 1961

Noguchi: Useless Architecture

From May 19, 2021 to May 8, 2022
Chair from Contested Histories exhibition

Contested Histories:
Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection

From April 8 to 10, 2022
Isamu Noguchi working on the template for an interlocking sculpture in the courtyard of his MacDougal...
offsite: London

Isamu Noguchi:
A New Nature

From February 4 to April 3, 2022
Acrylic Tube Light with mirrored metal base installed in Area 1 of the Noguchi Museum. Sunlight...

Objects of Common Interest:
Hard, Soft, and All Lit Up with Nowhere to Go

From September 15, 2021 to February 13, 2022
Akari light sculpture in the Barbican Conservatory
offsite: London

Noguchi

From September 30, 2021 to January 23, 2022
Installation view, Christian Boltanski, Animitas

Christian Boltanski, Animitas

From May 5 to September 5, 2021
Outdoor view of the stone circle at Noguchi’s Mure, Japan studio. Rust-colored basalt stones, some...
offsite: Tokyo

Isamu Noguchi: Ways of Discovery

From April 24 to August 29, 2021
Noguchi and Pratt

Noguchi + Pratt 2021

From June 25 to August 29, 2021
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Noguchi’s Memorials to the Atomic Dead

From June 2 to August 15, 2021
Painting in black sumi-e ink on crumpled off-white paper. Diagonal slash of ink on the left side...

Koho Yamamoto: Under a Dark Moon

From March 10 to May 23, 2021
A cloud of hanging Akari fills a showroom at Bloomingdales, with guests in suits mingling below...
offsite: Houston, TX

Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting

From February 21 to May 16, 2021
Cover photograph for Junior Bazaar by Gene Fenn, October 1944. Picture of blond girl with object...

Noguchi: Body-Space Devices

From May 15, 2019 to May 2, 2021
FUTURA2000 holds his hand-painted Akari UF4-L6, partially folded. The surface of the tall vertical...

Futura Akari

From November 11, 2020 to April 25, 2021
Installation view of Mosaic is Light, showing the table by Jeanne Reynal and Isamu Noguchi. The...
offsite: New York

Mosaic is Light: Work by Jeanne Reynal, 1940–1970

From January 28 to April 10, 2021
Granite monolithic sculpture
offsite: New York

Between the Earth and Sky

From January 21 to February 27, 2021
Photocollage of nine biomorphic ashtray designs in white plaster

The Sculptor and the Ashtray

From February 12, 2020 to January 31, 2021
Plaster model with tall column element, short bird-like element, and human figure for scale

Composition for Idlewild Airport

From February 12, 2020 to January 31, 2021
Maquette for a S-curved slide
offsite: Sun Valley, ID

Free Play

From March 10 to June 30, 2020
Collage with Isamu Noguchi, maquette for slide mantra, and rectangular frames superimposed

Noguchi + Pratt

From May 29 to June 30, 2020
Unfolding Noguchi CAM
offsite: Wilmington, NC

Unfolding Noguchi

From November 22, 2019 to May 24, 2020
Installation view, Cutting Edge: Noguchi’s Aluminum Monolith Sesshu, 1958
offsite: Hartford, CT

Cutting Edge: Noguchi’s Aluminum Monolith Sesshu, 1958

From January 22 to March 15, 2020
Brendan Fernandes: Contract and Release dancers performing.

Brendan Fernandes: Contract and Release

From September 11, 2019 to March 8, 2020
Model for Contoured Playground, with original equipment attachments, 1941. Plaster and steel. Photo:...

In Search of Contoured Playground

From August 21, 2019 to February 2, 2020
Isamu Noguchi, Model for Memorial to Buddha on the 2500th Anniversary of Buddha’s Paranamnirvana,...

Models for Spaces

From August 21, 2019 to February 2, 2020
Biomorphic wall sculpture made of white magnesite with fishing weight and other delicate small...
offsite: New Brunswick, NJ

Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein

From September 3, 2019 to January 4, 2020
Nodate (outdoor) tea ceremony in Nara with a group including Saburo Hasegawa, Michio Noguchi, and...
offsite: San Francisco

Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan

From September 27 to December 8, 2019
Installation view, Gabriel Orozco: Rotating Objects

Gabriel Orozco: Rotating Objects

From April 17 to August 11, 2019
Saburo Hasegawa and Isamu Noguchi at Shisen-do Temple, Kyoto, 1950. Photograph by Michio Noguchi....

Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan

From May 1 to July 14, 2019
Paper maquettes for sculpture by Isamu Noguchi
offsite: London

Isamu Noguchi: 2D to 3D

From May 17 to 19, 2019
Installation view, Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint
offsite: Hong Kong

Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint

From November 16, 2018 to April 22, 2019
Installation view, Akari: Sculpture by Other Means.

Akari: Sculpture by Other Means

From February 28, 2018 to April 14, 2019
Light sculpture Belle de Nuit by Oceane Delain / YMER&MALTA

Akari Unfolded: A Collection by YMER&MALTA

From February 28, 2018 to April 14, 2019
Granite sculpture Garden Elements on display in the atrium of Yokohama Art Museum
offsite: Yokohama

Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan

From January 12 to March 24, 2019
Installation view, Jorge Palacios at The Noguchi Museum

Jorge Palacios at The Noguchi Museum

From September 26, 2018 to January 20, 2019
Installation view, Isamu Noguchi: Inside and Out
offsite: San Francisco

Isamu Noguchi: Inside and Out

From April 14, 2018 to January 6, 2019
Installation view, Beyond the Pedestal at Portland Museum of Art
offsite: Portland, ME

Beyond the Pedestal: Isamu Noguchi and the Borders of Sculpture

From October 5, 2018 to January 6, 2019
Jorge Palacios’s Link in front of Flatiron Building, New York City
offsite: New York

Jorge Palacios: Link

From August 16 to November 6, 2018
Portrait of Isamu Noguchi
offsite: Tokyo, Japan

Isamu Noguchi: From Sculpture to Body and Garden

From July 14 to September 24, 2018
Installation view, Miya Ando: Haku-Un (White Cloud) 3.3.1, 2017. Etched glass.

Miya Ando: Clouds

From April 25 to August 19, 2018
Installation view, Isamu Noguchi: From Sculpture to Body and Garden
offsite: Takamatsu, Japan

Isamu Noguchi: From Sculpture to Body and Garden

From April 7 to June 3, 2018
Installation view, The Sculpture of Gonzalo Fonseca

The Sculpture of Gonzalo Fonseca

From October 25, 2017 to March 11, 2018
Installation view, Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center

Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center

From January 18, 2017 to January 28, 2018
Installation view, Isamu Noguchi: From Sculpture to Body and Garden
offsite: Oita, Japan

Isamu Noguchi: From Sculpture to Body and Garden

From November 17, 2017 to January 21, 2018
Installation view, Noguchi’s Playscapes at SFMOMA
offsite: San Francisco

Noguchi’s Playscapes

From July 15 to November 26, 2017
Installation view, Robert Stadler: Solid Doubts

Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum

From April 26 to September 10, 2017
Installation view, Waiting Room: Noguchi/Stadler at Collective Design Fair
offsite: New York

Waiting Room: Noguchi/Stadler at Collective Design Fair 2017

From May 3 to 7, 2017
View of sculpture at the exhibition Birth and Death

Birth and Death

From January 18 to April 10, 2017
Installation view with title wall, Isamu Noguchi: Archaic Modern
offsite: Washington, D.C.

Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern

From November 11, 2016 to March 19, 2017
Installation view, Noguchi’s tools in Kasmin Gallery
offsite: New York

Impasse Ronsin

From October 28, 2016 to January 14, 2017
Installation view, Design Into Art

Highlights from the Collection: Design Into Art

From January 27, 2016 to January 8, 2017
Installation view. Photo: Nicholas Knight. ©INFGM / ARS

Tina Barney and Stephen Shore: A Portrait of The Noguchi Museum

From January 27, 2016 to January 8, 2017
Installation view, Another Land: After Noguchi

Another Land: After Noguchi | A Project by Leah Raintree

From August 10, 2016 to January 8, 2017
Noguchi’s Playscapes at Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
offsite: Mexico City

Noguchi's Playscapes (Los Parques de Noguchi)

From May 11 to October 9, 2016
Installation view, Functional Ceramics

Isamu Noguchi: Functional Ceramics

From January 27 to July 24, 2016
Installation Views, Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony

Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony

From March 23 to July 24, 2016
Sarah Cahill performs at an upright piano in the Noguchi Museum galleries

Sarah Cahill Performs Mamoru Fujieda’s Patterns of Plants

From February 24 to 28, 2016
Installation view, Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York.
offsite: Washington, DC

Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York

From October 29, 2015 to February 15, 2016
Installation view, Museum of Stones

Museum of Stones

From October 7, 2015 to January 10, 2016
Isamu Noguchi's free-standing sculpture Strange Bird on turtle island in the Japanese Hill and...
offsite: Brooklyn, NY

Isamu Noguchi at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

From September 8 to December 13, 2015
Shodo Flowing and Lessons of Musokokushi in original museum installation

Editing Area 5: A Re-installation and Progressive De-installation of Noguchi's Bronze Gallery

From June 3 to September 20, 2015
Installation view, Iconic Display, with Akari BB3-33S and wood wall

Highlights from the Collection: Iconic Display

From February 4 to September 13, 2015
Installation view, Pratt Interior Design students' work in Noguchi Museum education studio

Noguchi + Pratt: An Exhibition

From May 27 to June 28, 2015
Photograph of Jaipur Observatory by Isamu Noguchi

Noguchi as Photographer: The Jantar Mantars of Northern India

From January 8 to May 31, 2015
Isamu Noguchi, Lessons of Musokokushi, with flip-flop, 1962. Bronze, Dimensions variable.
offsite: New York, NY

Secret Garden: The Noguchi Museum at Collective Design Fair 2015

From May 13 to 17, 2015
Installation view, Isamu Noguchi: Variations at Pace Gallery
offsite: New York, NY

Isamu Noguchi: Variations at Pace Gallery

From February 20 to March 21, 2015
Installation view, Highlights from the Collection

Highlights from the Collection: Noguchi Archaic / Noguchi Modern

From March 5, 2014 to January 11, 2015
Overhead view of Monument to the Plow model

Isamu Noguchi, Patent Holder: Designing the World of Tomorrow

From June 4, 2014 to January 4, 2015
Maria Blaisse performing inside the bamboo Breathing Sphere

Artists at Noguchi: Maria Blaisse's Breathing Sphere

From December 3, 2014 to January 4, 2015
Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstraction, 1928

Noguchi’s Early Drawings: 1927-1932

From February 5 to May 25, 2014
Installation view, Noguchi+Pratt Fashion: What Inspires

Noguchi - Pratt Fashion: What Inspires

From January 22 to February 23, 2014
Installation view, Highlights from the Collection Reworked

Highlights from the Collection: Reworked

From June 5, 2013 to February 9, 2014
Installation view, Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930

Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930

From September 25, 2013 to January 26, 2014
Installation view, Space, Choreographed: Noguchi and Ruth Page

Space, Choreographed: Noguchi and Ruth Page

From September 25, 2013 to January 26, 2014
Atsumi-san (Washboard figure), 1952

Highlights from the Collection: Recent Acquisitions

From June 5 to September 1, 2013
Image: Worksheet for sculpture, c. 1945-47

Area 5: Cut and Fold

From June 5 to August 27, 2013
White horizontal marble sculpture on pine wood base
offsite: Portland

Isamu Noguchi: We are the Landscape of All We Know

From May 3 to July 21, 2013
Isamu Noguchi working on stone sculptures in Mure

Hammer, Chisel, Drill: Noguchi’s Studio Practice

From October 3, 2012 to May 12, 2013
Driftwood sculptures from the 1940s with Bird's Nest (Nesting)

Highlights from the Collection

From June 6 to September 9, 2012
Isamu Noguchi with model for Skyviewing Sculpture

Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City

From October 13, 2011 to April 22, 2012
Isamu Noguchi, Bollingen Drawing, ca. 1949 - 1950

Tracks: Animal Drawings from Noguchi’s Travels

From May 25 to September 18, 2011
Isamu Noguchi, Jack in the Box, 1984. Hot-dipped galvanized steel sculpture.

Highlights from the Collection

From May 25 to September 18, 2011
Origin
offsite: Philadelphia

Isamu Noguchi at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

From September 7, 2010 to June 1, 2011
Installation view, On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and his Contemporaries, 1922-1960

On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and his Contemporaries, 1922-1960

From November 17, 2010 to April 24, 2011
Installation view, California Scenario: Courage of Imagination

California Scenario: The Courage of Imagination

From May 19 to October 24, 2010
Exhibition view Isamu Noguchi, Between East and West at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros,...
offsite: Andros, Greece

Isamu Noguchi, Between East and West

From June 27 to September 26, 2010
Installation view, What is Sculpture? Akari from the 1986 Venice Biennale at The Noguchi Museum

What is Sculpture? Akari from the 1986 Venice Biennale

From February 18 to May 31, 2009
Sculpture Undine (Nadja), 1926

The Full Figure and Portraiture 1926-1941

From February 13, 2008 to May 15, 2009
Stone sculpture 'Indian Dancer' at the The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom
offsite: Wakefield, United Kingdom

Isamu Noguchi at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

From July 17, 2008 to May 4, 2009
Installation view, Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi

Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi

From September 20, 2007 to May 25, 2008
View of Shin Banraisha

Shin Banraisha: A Cultural Memory

From November 1, 2006 to April 15, 2007
Installation view, Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi

Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi

From May 19 to October 15, 2006
Installation view, The Imagery of Chess Revisited

The Imagery of Chess Revisited

From October 21, 2005 to April 16, 2006
Exhibition view at Noguchi and Graham: Selected Works for Dance

Noguchi and Graham: Selected Works for Dance

From December 2, 2004 to May 1, 2005
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