Winter, 2024
- The Native American Newspaper Collection at Connecticut College
Fall, 2023
- Labors of Love: Work, Family and Play in American Folk Photograph
- Fifty Years of Unity House
- The Art of Barry Moser
Spring, 2023
- Expanding the Herd: The Impact of Coeducation at CC
- Bamboo: Paintings from the Chu-Griffis Collection of Asian Art
- The Palmer Library at Connecticut College, 1923-2023
Winter, 2022
- Boundless: Unusual Structures in Artists' Books
Fall, 2022
- Susanne K. Langer: A Kaleidoscope of Ideas
- Autumn: Painitings from the Chu-Griffis Collection of Asian Art
- The Cuala Press Collection at Connecticut College
- The Art of Leonard Baskin
Spring, 2022
- Allow me to Illustrate: An exhibition celebrating 18th-21st century children’s book artists drawn from the Lear Center Rare Book Collections and Shain Library
- Understanding Our Obligation to the Community: The Honor Code at Conn
- The Chinese Ink Art of Marian Bingham
Fall 2021
- Consequently We Insist: Student Protest for Inclusion and Respect
- Looking Good: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Invisible
Selections from the Nicholas Osborn Collection of American Vernacular Photography - Continuity and Constant Change: Student Life at Connecticut College in Turbulent Times
- What Does Chinese Art Tell Us?
Spring 2021
- The Nature Photography of Michael A. Smith
- The Smart Set: American Women’s History Collection
- Consequently We Insist: Student Protest for Inclusion and Respect
Fall 2020
- Celebrating the Centenary of the 19th Amendment
- Treasures from the Delft Pottery Collection
Winter 2020
- From Silk Road to Hudson River
- The Continuing Enchantment of Oz: The World of Oz after L. Frank Baum
Fall 2019
- The Art of Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- Superior in its Basic Learning Constitution: Making Conn Coed
- The First Year Experience at Connecticut College
Spring 2019
- William Meredith (Poet and Teacher (Shain Library)
- 400 Miles of the Connecticut River: Celebrating the Centenary of Charles Chu (Chu Room)
- Humor and Illusion in the History of Photography
- True Pioneers: The Class of 1919 (Shain Library)
- New London Time Capsule (Shain Library and Lear Center)
Winter 2019
- Cheap Libraries, or, Series Fiction and American Youth Reading Culture (Shain Library)
- Cui Fei: Counter-Monument (Chu Room)
Fall 2018
- 1968 (Shain Library)
- Rockwell Kent, 1882-1973: An American Vision (Shain Library)
- Encountering Nature: Exploring the Natural World in Children’s Literature (Lear Center)
- The Hurricane of 1938 (Lear Center)
- Between Two Worlds: 20th Century Japanese Prints (Chu Room)
- 400 Miles of the Connecticut River: Celebrating the Centenary of Charles Chu (Chu Room)
Spring 2018
- Deep Roots: Botany at Connecticut College, 1918-2018 (Shain Library)
- Evolution of the Process (Shain Library)
- New Worlds: Chinese Landscape Painting since 1949 (Chu Room)
- Reconnecting with History: Chinese Studio Photography, 1950-1980 (Chu Room)
- Fine Press Printing Between the Wars, February 5-June 20 (Lear Center)
Winter 2018
- In Dialogue with the Amazon: The Printmaking of Bob Nugent (Shain Library)
Fall 2017
- Open Books: A New Dialogue (Chu Room, Shain Library, and Lear Center)
- Secrecy, Voyeurism, Surveillance: Selections from the Robert E. Jackson Collection of American Vernacular Photography (Shain Library)
- World War I in Popular Music and Culture (Lear Center)
- Service to All: Connecticut College in World War I, 1917-1918 (Shain Library)
Spring 2017
- 21st Editions: The Art of the Book, 1998–2016 (Shain Library)
- Broad Visions: Connecticut College and the Development of the Liberal Arts (Shain Library)
- The Passion for Fantasy Animals in Victorian Children's Literature and Beyond (Shain Library and Lear Center)
- Supermodels at the End of Time: New Photographs by Miles Ladin (Lear Center)
- "These Years of Complexity and Ferment": Rosemary Park and the Post War Decade (Lear Center)
- Space of Emptiness: Mao Xiaojian and His Art (Chu Room)
- Art in Exile: Chinese Artists in America, 1949–2000 (Chu Room)
Fall 2016
- "And No Birds Sing": DDT and the Emergent Environmental Activism (Shain Library)
- "Otherly Lingual": Works by Amy Hannum '12 (Shain Library and Lear Center)
- Remembering the Old South: Watercolors of Midge White (Lear Center)
- Emperors, Scholars, and Laborers: Figure Painting in Chinese Art (Chu Room)
- Cai Dongdong: Off the Target (Chu Room)
Spring 2016
- Bad Art: Kitsch and Humor in Folk Photography (Shain Library)
- The New Student, 1955-1975: Two Decades that Changed the Face of Connecticut College (Shain Library)
- Exhibiting Visual Art in the Digital Age: An Exhibit Curated by the Students of Art History 455 (Lear Center)
- Shakespeare at Connecticut College in Print and Performance: Marking the 400th Anniversary of the Bard's Death (Lear Center)
- The Art of Tom Slaughter '77 (Lear Center)
- Live in Landscape: The Paintings of Huang Dewei (Chu Room)
- Master Paintings of Twentieth Century China (Chu Room)
Fall 2015
- Rainy Days and Starry Nights: Evoking Mood in the Japanese Landscapes (Chu Room)
- Pieces from the Shinbach Delft Pottery Collection (Lear Center)
- "A Sense of High Adventure": Connecticut College's 1915 Founding Class (Shain Library)
Spring 2015
- "A Sight Once Seen Can Never Be Forgotten": Connecticut Soldiers in the Civil War (Shain Library)
- "For the Intellectual and Spiritual Life of All": The Development of Connecticut College's Library (Shain Library)
Spring 2014
- Highlights of the Civil War Collection of Thomas La Lancette (Lear Center)
- Strong Foundations: Celebrating 100 Years of Connecticut College Presidents (Shain Library)
- Gesture and Beyond: The Art of Ink in America (Chu Room)
Winter 2014
- Underexposed: Photographs from Connecticut College's Photography Journal (Shain Library)
- Dreaming Landscape: Paintings of Liu Qingling (Chu Room)
Fall 2013
- Art of Latin America: Identity and Culture. An Exhibition of International Art from the Permanent Collection of the Latin Network for the Visual Arts (Shain Library)
- Recent Additions to the Artists' Books Collection (Lear Center)
- To the Wheat Light of June (Shain Library)
Spring 2013
- A Tribute to Our Mascot: Selections from the McLean Camel Collection (Shain Library)
- Moments of Freedom: Revolutionary Art from China, South Africa, and Tunisia (Chu Room and Shain Library)
- 20th Century Chinese Painting (Chu Room)
- To the Wheat Light of June (Shain)
Winter 2013
- Animals in Chinese Art (Chu Room)
- Underexposed: Photographs from Connecticut College's Photography Journal (Shain Library)
- Upholding the Tradition: Paintings of Mi Defang (Chu Room)
Fall 2012
- Rumblings of an Avalanche: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Public Response
- Illustrations of Birds
- The Art of Edward Ardizzone
Spring 2012
- Agents of Change: Connecticut College Influences the World
- My Heart is Red: Paintings by Guo Zhen
- Understanding Chinese Visual Culture
- Is That Supposed to be a Book? Artists Reimagining the Book
Winter 2012
- Contemporary Chinese Art and Design: Graphic Design Works from the School of Art, LZJT University
- Contemporary Art from the Latin World: An Exhibition of International Art from the Permanent Collection of the Latin Network for the Visual Arts (LNVA)
Fall 2011
- Engagement, Demonstration, Protest: A Century of Activism at Connecticut College
Spring 2011
- Equal Education, Equal Opportunity: The Growth and Development of Connecticut College in its First Half Century
- Women's History Collections at Connecticut College
- Celebration: 100 Years of Art and History and Chinese painting from the Chu-Griffis Collection
- From Academy Girls to College Women: The Path to 1911
- The Palmer Collection: Connecticut College's First Special Collection
- Harbingers of Summer: Floral Paintings from the Chu-Griffis Collection
Winter 2011
- Building a New Library: The First Books at Connecticut College
- Landscapes, Traditional and Contemporary
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
Winter 2009
- Another China
- Lives of Women in Pre-Modern Japan
- Leonard Baskin and the Gehenna Press
- Sex! Violence! Perversion!: Selections from the ALA's List of Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books