Traveling Exhibitions

The following National Portrait Gallery exhibitions are available to travel:

  • Oragami paper silhouettes on a white background

    Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now

    May 31, 2018 - March 10, 2019

    With both historical and contemporary explorations into the silhouette, Black Out reveals new pathways between our past and present.

    Tour Schedule:
    Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS / April 27 to August 25, 2019
    Birmingham Museum of Art, AL / September 28, 2019 to January 12, 2020

  • Black and white photo of Charlie Parker playing the saxophone

    In the Groove: Jazz Portraits by Herman Leonard

    August 5, 2016 - February 20, 2017
    First floor

    This exhibition featured Herman Leonard’s iconic images of jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk and Sarah Vaughan.

    This exhibition is available for booking.

  • Balck and white portrait of a man in a blond wig with a paintbrush at his face.

    Yousuf Karsh: American Portraits

    May 2, 2014 - November 2, 2014

    During a career that spanned six decades, photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002) created iconic portraits of many of the twentieth century’s most influential men and women—from fields as diverse as business, medicine, entertainment, politics, and the arts.