February 5 - August 28, 2016 - Matthew Schreiber’s immersive laser light exhibition Crossbow is named after a roller coaster in New Jersey. But that isn’t the artist’s only nod to popular culture. Reminiscent of optical devices found in novelty stores and 1970s sci-fi films, Schreiber’s environment reaches back to a not-so-distant past in which technology seemed to pro...

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April 16 - July 24, 2016 - This exhibiton opens with Meiji-era photographs and nineteenth-century cartes de visite to explore the way that photographs can distill and preserve identity and serve as placeholders for people, places, eras, and cultures. The exhibition also investigates a modern network of cultural connections. There are links between individuals within the same social circle and lin...

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June 9 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition presents a varied and compelling selection of paintings by nine prominent Indigenous artists from Australia’s Western desert.  The innovative artists produce works of beauty and subtlety that express ancestral truths, kinships, and views about the natural world, record personal histories, and challenge assumptions about abstraction in the art o...

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June 25 - December 18, 2016 - This exhibition will explore how American collectors in Japan impacted the Johnson’s collection.  American tourism in Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912) spurred the collecting of Japanese art and design. Another upsurge at the end of World War II spawned a new generation of collectors, whose enthusiasm for Japanese art and culture impacted Amer...

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August 13 - December 18, 2016 - More than a decade before the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, all things Japanese were being embraced in Europe. In conjunction with JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876–1970, this exhibition will follow this enthusiasm into the mid-twentieth century and examine its long-term impact.

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August 27 - December 18, 2016 - In conjunction with JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876–1970, works now in the Johnson’s collection that were included in international expositions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be on view.

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August 27 - December 18, 2016 - This exhibition will be focusing on Japan’s place in major international expositions held in the Americas from 1876 onward, and finishing with a look at Japan’s first world’s fair held in Osaka in 1970, JapanAmerica will explore the roles of art, design, and display in Japanese-American relations through a carefully selected group of objects, ...

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September 10 - December 18, 2016 - As an extension of the exhibition at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Kroch Library (through October 14), Signal to Code at the Johnson will explore five decades of electronic and digital artwork held in the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media, with a special focus on Central New York’s important role in the development of media art.

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