Exhibitions

Current exhibitions

• Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media

  3 Mar - 14 May 2023

  Ticketed
• The Nature of Culture

  Until 16 April 2023

  Free entry
• Rethinking Australian Art

  Ongoing

  Free entry
• Elder Wing of Australian Art

  Ongoing

  Free entry
• Donald Judd: Untitled

  Ongoing

  Free entry
• Bewilderness: Recent acquisitions

  26 Nov 2022 - 16 Apr 2023

  Free entry
• Sera Waters: Future Traditions

  26 Nov 2022 - 16 Apr 2023

  Free entry
• Interwoven Journeys: The Michael Abbott collection of Asian art

  3 Dec 2022 – 2 Jul 2023

  Free entry

Upcoming exhibitions

• Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution

  24 Jun – 17 Sep 2023

  Ticketed
• Milton Moon: Crafting modernism

  6 May – 6 Aug 2023

  Free entry
• Ramsay Art Prize 2023

  27 May - 27 Aug 2023

  Free entry
• Misty Mountain, Shining Moon: Japanese landscape envisioned

  29 Jul – 12 Nov 2023

  Free entry
• Liam Fleming: Light and colour

  1 Sep – 3 Dec 2023

  Free entry
• Tarnanthi at AGSA

  20 Oct 2023 – 21 Jan 2024

  Free entry

Touring exhibitions

• Naomi Hobson: Adolescent Wonderland

  11 Dec 2021 - Jan 2024

  Touring Regional South Australia
• Tarnanthi on Tour: Kulata Tjuta

  16 Oct 2020 - 25 Aug 2023

  Touring Europe
• Tarnanthi on Tour USA: Kulata Tjuta

  21 Aug 2021- Nov 2023

  Touring internationally
• Tarnanthi on Tour: Kungka Kuṉpu

  22 Oct 2022 - 16 Jun 2024

  Touring Nationally
• Vincent Namatjira: Australia in colour

  20 Oct 2023 – 21 Jul 2024

  Touring Nationally
• Surrender & Catch: The Art of Brent Harris

  25 Nov 2023 - 23 Oct 2024

  Touring nationally

Past exhibitions

• Australian Experimental Art Foundation Book Archive

  Ongoing

  Free entry
• Nalini Malani: Gamepieces

  5 Nov 2022 - 22 Jan 2023

  Free entry
• WAVE

  19 Oct 2022 - 8 Jan 2023

  Free entry
• Pure Form: Japanese sculptural ceramics

  21 May - 6 Nov 2022

  Free entry
• Richard Bell – Embassy

  21, 22 & 23 Oct 2022

  Free entry
• Robert Wilson: Moving portraits

  9 Jul – 3 Oct 2022

  Ticketed
• Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize

  9 Jul – 3 Oct 2022

  Ticketed
• Facing the Collection

  24 Jun - 3 Oct

  Free entry
• SALA: Mark Valenzuela

  From 1 Aug 2022

  Free entry
• SALA: Impressive and Vibrant Fantasy Buffet

  From 30 July 2022

  Free entry
• Going Out Bush by Vincent Namatjira

  6-11pm, 15-31 Jul 2022

  Free entry
• 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State

  4 Mar - 5 Jun 2022

  Free entry
• A Vast Emporium: Artistic exchange and innovation in a global age

  1 May 2021 - 18 Apr 2022

  Free entry
• Tarnanthi at AGSA

  15 Oct 2021 – 30 Jan 2022

  Free entry
• True Self

  From 21 Oct 2021

  Free entry
• Dark Matter, Bright Light

  From 12 Dec 2020

  Free entry
• Roy Ananda: Further Annotations

  31 Jul – 19 Sep 2021

  Free entry
• Olga Sankey

  16 Jun - 12 Sept 2021

  Free entry
• Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at sea

  19 Jun – 12 Sep 2021

  Free entry
• Close Contact

  From 8 May 2021

  Free entry
• Ramsay Art Prize 2021

  22 May - 22 Aug 2021

  Free entry
• Clarice Beckett: The present moment

  27 February - 23 May 2021

  Ticketed
• Lindy Lee: The Life of Stars

  Ongoing

  Free entry
• Converging Currents: Bark painting from Arnhem Land

  4 Sep 2020 - 26 Apr 2021

  Free entry
• Antarctica: Five responses

  5 Dec 2020 - 26 Apr 2021

  Free entry
• Chromatopia

  Until 18 Apr 2021

  Free entry
• Robyn Stacey: Ray of light

  2018-2021

  Free entry
• John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new

  2021

  Free entry
• Samurai

  24 Jul 2020 - 28 Mar 2021

  Free entry
• Tarnanthi: Open Hands

  16 Oct 2020 - 31 Jan 2021

  Free entry
• Troy-Anthony Baylis: Nomenclatures

  8 Aug 2020 - 31 Jan 2021

  Free entry
• Tom Moore: Selects

  1 Aug 2020 - 31 Jan 2021

  Free entry
• Margaret Dodd: New acquisitions

  From 1 Aug 2020

  Free entry
• LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

  4 September - 15 November 2020

  Free entry
• Kirsten Coelho: In focus

  From 1 Aug 2020

  Free entry
• Seeing Through Darkness

  From 4 Sep - 1 Nov 2020

  Free entry
• 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres

  Various displays extended until 16 Aug 2020

  Free entry
• The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

  Extended until 16 Aug 2020

  Free entry
• Adelaide Cool: The abstract art of David and John Dallwitz

  Ongoing

  Free entry
• No god but God: The art of Islam

  Until 21 Jun 2020

  Free entry
• Quilty

  2 Mar 2019 - 2 Feb 2020

  Free entry
• Tarnanthi at AGSA

  18 Oct 2019 – 27 Jan 2020

  Free entry
• Sonic Blossom

  1 Nov - 1 Dec 2019, 11am–3pm

  Free entry
• Living Rocks: A fragment of the universe

  8 May - 24 Nov 2019, Venice

  Free entry
• Honor Freeman: Ghost objects

  27 Jul - 27 Oct 2019

  Free entry
• William Kentridge: That which we do not remember

  6 Jul – 8 Sep 2019

  Free entry
• Femmage

  25 Apr - 1 Sep 2019

  Free entry
• Ramsay Art Prize 2019

  25 May - 25 Aug 2019

  Free entry
• Love From Damascus: The art of devotion in Islam

  9 Nov 2018 - 21 Jul 2019

  Free entry
• The Enchanted Forest: Nature and devotion in Indian art

  26 Jan – 21 Jul 2019

  Free entry
• Export Empire: Japan and the modern world

  26 Jan - 21 Jul 2019

  Free entry
• Mortimer Menpes: Impressions of Brittany

  21 Dec 2018 - 3 July 2019

  Free entry
• Quilty

  2 Mar - 2 Jun 2019

  Free entry
• Tarryn Gill: Guardians

  23 Mar – 5 May 2019

  Free entry
• Ways of Seeing: Recent acquisitions from the collection

  23 Feb – 22 Apr 2019

  Free entry
• Desert Colour

  1 Aug 2018 - 17 Apr 2019

  Free entry
• To Have and to Hold: The Daalder Collection of Contemporary Jewellery

  1 Aug 2018 - 17 Mar 2019

  Free entry
• Picasso: The Vollard Suite

  10 Nov 2018 - 3 Feb 2019

  Free entry
• John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new

  26 Oct 2018 - 28 Jan 2019

  Free entry
• In Good Company: The drawings of Geoff Wilson

  6 Jul 2018 - 13 Jan 2019

  Free entry
• Isle of the Gods: The art of Bali

  7 Jul 2018 - 13 Jan 2019

  Free entry
• Chiharu Shiota: Embodied & Internal

  24 Aug 2018 - 28 Oct 2019

  Free entry
• Diane Arbus: American Portraits

  14 Jul - 1 Oct 2018

  Free entry
• Tracey Moffatt: Body Remembers

  14 July to 1 October 2018

  Free entry
• Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

  29 Mar to 29 Jul 2018

  Ticketed
• 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds

  3 Mar-3 Jun 2018

  Free entry
• Tarnanthi at AGSA

  13 Oct 2017 – 28 Jan 2018

  Free entry
• Paolo Sebastian: X

  7 Oct - 10 Dec 2017

  Free entry
• 'Ilm: Art and knowledge in Islam

  1 Jul - 29 Oct 2017

  Free entry
• Linda Jackson and Utopia

  17 Apr - 29 Oct 2017

  Free entry
• Sally Smart: The choreography of cutting

  28 Jul - 4 Oct 2017

  Free entry
• Christopher Orchard: Avatar

  28 Jul - 4 Oct 2017

  Free entry
• Awakening: Art of Buddhism

  2 Dec 2016 - 1 Oct 2017

  Free entry
• Ramsay Art Prize 2017

  27 May - 27 Aug 2017

  Free entry
• Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time

  4 Mar - 16 Jul 2017

  Ticketed
• Sappers & Shrapnel: Contemporary art and the art of the trenches

  11 Nov 2016 - 29 Jan 2017

  Free entry
• Ever blossoming

  Sep 17 2016 - Jan 15 2017

  Free entry
• Robert Hannaford

  2 Jul - 9 Oct 2016

  Free entry
• Sue Kneebone: SALA exhibition 2016

  10 Jun - 04 Sep 2016

  Free entry
• Fiona Hall: All the King's men

  29 Jul - 4 Sep 2016

  Free entry
• Catherine Truman: SALA 2016

  11 Jun - 04 Sep 2016

  Free entry
• Public Image, Private Lives

  5 Feb - 3 Jul 2016

  Free entry
• 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object

  27 Feb-15 May 2016

  Free entry
• Crossing Time: Highlights from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection

  11 Jul 2015 – 31 Jan 2016

  Free entry
• Tarnanthi 2015

  8 Oct 2015-17 Jan 2016

  Free entry
• Tarnanthi at AGSA

  8 Oct 2015 – 17 Jan 2016

  Free entry
• Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie

  8 Oct 2015 - 10 Jan 2016

  Free entry
• Treasure Ships: Art in the age of the spices

  13 Jun - 30 Aug 2016

  Free entry
• Trent Parke: The black rose

  14 Mar - 10 May 2015

  Free entry
• Bill Viola: Selected works

  28 Feb - 29 Mar 2015

  Free entry
• Lace: The art of adornment

  10 May 2014 - 29 Mar 2015

  Free entry
• Fashion Icons: Masterpieces from the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

  25 Oct 2014 - 15 Feb 2015

  Free entry
• The Extreme Climate of Nicholas Folland

  19 Jul 2014 - 26 Jan 2015

  Free entry
• Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces

  13 Jun - 7 Sep 2014

  Free entry
• The World of Mortimer Menpes

  13 Jun - 7 Sep 2014

  Free entry
• 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart

  1 Mar-11 May 2014

  Free entry
• Realms of Wonder: Jain, Hindu and Islamic art of India

  19 Oct 2013 - 27 Jan 2014

  Free entry
• Lidia Groblicka: Black + White

  2 Aug 2012 - 10 Feb 2013

  Free entry
• Anna Platten: the devil is in the detail

  3 Aug - 18 Nov 2012

  Free entry
• Bounty: Nineteenth-century South Australian Gold and Silver

  12 Nov 2020, 10 a.m. - 5 Aug 2012, 5 p.m.

  Free entry