CMA galleries are temporarily closed for a lighting update project. We are still open for events and rentals, and will begin reopening galleries on May 24 with Sam Gilliam: Printmaker. Learn more about the project here.
August 23, 2023 - August 31, 2025
The Our Story Matters Gallery is a partnership between The Columbia Museum of Art, the USC Center for Civil Rights History and Research, and Columbia SC 63: Our Story Matters. It features preeminent exhibitions on African American life and culture in Columbia from Reconstruction through the student activism of the 1960s and 1970s.
May 24, 2025 - August 31, 2025
This exhibition features 37 of Gilliam's finest prints created between 1972 and 2009, from the Michael K. and Marian E. Butler Collection of Miami, Florida.
September 27, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Keith Haring (1958–1990) emerged as a shooting star of the New York art scene in the 1980s. His simply drawn figures turned Haring into one of the best-known artists of his generation. Radiant Vision is a collection that features over 250 original works including drawings on paper, lithographs, silkscreens, posters, and other items that illustrate the entire span of Haring’s short but prolific career.