Exposiciones actuales | National Portrait Gallery

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return

October 18, 2024 - July 6, 2025

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art will present “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return,” an exhibition focused on the artist’s deep engagement with portraiture and the construction of identity, as well as how history is told and inherited.
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance

July 12, 2024 - April 20, 2025

James Baldwin, who considered himself “a witness, about literature, about his works, about America and about history,” often spoke out against injustice. At a time when he and his queer contemporaries had to keep their sexuality at least partly hidden, they could fight openly for civil rights.
Presidentes en foco: Daguerrotipos y ambrotipos de la colección de la National Portrait Gallery

May 31, 2024 - June 8, 2025

To mark the 2024 presidential election year, this exhibition features some of the earliest photographic images of eleven men who attained the nation’s highest office.
Poder estelar: Fotografías de la época dorada de Hollywood por George Hurrell

March 1, 2024 - January 4, 2026

During the 1930s and early 1940s, George Hurrell (1904–1992) reigned as Hollywood’s preeminent portrait photographer.
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass

December 8, 2023 - December 6, 2026

The moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of 19th-century activist, writer, orator and philosopher Frederick Douglass.
Recent Acquisitions, 2023

November 3, 2023 - October 19, 2025

From the studio to the synagogue, the darkroom to the courtroom, the people represented by these portraits have transformed the way we see, hear, feel, and understand the world.
Abraham Lincoln by W.F.K. Travers

February 10, 2023 - December 31, 2027

The National Portrait Gallery is proud to announce the installation of a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln by artist W.F.K. Travers.
Asociaciones poderosas: Parejas de la época de la Guerra Civil

July 1, 2022 - May 18, 2025

Mucho antes de que el término "pareja poderosa" se abriera paso en el léxico inglés, los dúos dinámicos habían dejado su huella en la historia de los Estados Unidos.

Exposiciones Permanentes

From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years

June 20, 2025 - June 7, 2026

Drawing on the National Portrait Gallery’s extensive early photography collection, this exhibition traces the evolution of the grand-scale, whole-plate format from the high-end daguerreotype to the mid-range ambrotype to the more affordable tintype.
IDENTIFY

June 25, 2022

This performance art series strives to make visible the invisible. Each artist selected critiques American portraiture and institutional history by making visible a body or bodies that historically have been forgotten.
Estados Unidos del siglo XX

Tercer piso

Cuatro galerías fuera del magnífico Gran Hall del tercer piso del museo, muestran los principales rasgos culturales y políticos de los siglos XX y XXI.
Presidentes de Estados Unidos reabre

Segunda planta

Después de 18 meses de cuidadosa conservación y análisis, el retrato "George Lansdowne" de Gilbert Stuart de George Washington volverá a verse en la recientemente renovada galería "Presidentes de los Estados Unidos".
De muchos, uno: Retratos de 1600 a 1900

"Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900" includes portraits of Indigenous Americans, European colonists, clergymen, soldiers, writers, performers, scientists, and others who helped shape the country.
Perspectivas

Como parte de la reinstalación de las galerías de la colección permanente del museo, la Galería de retratos y la revista The Atlantic , destacan una selección de las voces fundadoras del país en literatura, política, filosofía y cultura con textos interpretativos escritos por algunos de los escritores contemporáneos de The Atlantic . y editores.
Retratos presidenciales presentados e instalados, 12 de febrero de 2018

Los retratos oficiales del museo del presidente Barack Obama y la Sra. Michelle Obama estarán fuera de la vista a partir de mayo de 2021 y se incluirán en el Obama Portraits Tour.
The Four Justices

Ian y Annette Cummings encargaron este retrato para reconocer los logros de los cuatro jueces.
La lucha por la justicia

Segunda planta

“La lucha por la justicia” muestra a individuos decididos, desde figuras históricas clave del siglo XIX hasta líderes contemporáneos, que lucharon por lograr los derechos civiles de los grupos marginados o marginados.