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Select a year from the list below to view all of the exhibitions that were featured during that year.

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2023

September 12 – December 10, 2023
George Widener: Things I Have Seen

October 3 – December 31, 2023
Kristine Mays: A Time for Everything

September 21 – December 31, 2023
Local Stories Matter: Rediscovering Our Region with the Athenaeum Press

September 12 – December 10, 2023
Richard Hagerty: The Big UnEasy

June 13 – September 10, 2023
Lifting Black Voices: The Rhodes Collection of African-American Art

June 1 – September 3, 2023
The Stick by Clay Rice

April 27 – June 4, 2023
26th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Art Exhibition

April 16 – May 21, 2023
23rd Annual Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

January 26 – April 16, 2023
The Supper Table

January 19 – April 16, 2023
Jennifer York: Estuary Blues

January 10 – April 16, 2023
Randi Reiss-McCormack: Wonderlust

2022

October 27, 2022 – February 25, 2023
A Quarter Past: Highlights from Our Collection

October 13 – December 31, 2022
Jonathan Green: Embracing Gullah Spirit

October 4 – December 31, 2022
Natalie Daise: The Greens in My Garden

June 18 – September 25, 2022
The World of Frida

April 28 – June 4, 2022
25th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

April 12 – May 21, 2022
22nd Annual Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

January 15 – April 16, 2022
Synchronicity | Alice Ballard + Brian Rutenberg

January 4 – April 2, 2022
Bill Scott | Where I Long to Be

2021

September 16 – December 31, 2021
Reynier Llanes | When There Is No Frontier

September 7 – December 19, 2021
Chellis Baird | Tethered

June 22 – September 4, 2021
Lynne Clibanoff | Inside Out

June 15 – September 4, 2021
Edward Rice | Beyond Depiction

June 8 – September 4, 2021
Joe Karlovec | Private Property

June 1 – August 28, 2021
Leo Twiggs | Resilience

April 29 – May 27, 2021
24th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

April 13 – May 22, 2021
21st Annual Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

February 16 – April 3, 2021
Bishop Collection of Antique Maps + Historical Prints

January 16 – April 17, 2021
18th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists

January 2 – February 6, 2021
10th Annual Collectors’ Event

2020

October 1 – December 19, 2020
Jim Creal | The South Carolina Coastal Lithograph Project

September 24 – December 19, 2020
Maura Kenny | Where the Rivers Flow

September 24 – December 19, 2020
Sara Farrington | Model Home

September 10 – December 5, 2020
Mana Hewitt | Persistence

June 16 – September 19, 2020
Yvette L. Cummings | Everything Will Be Ok

January 23 – April 11, 2020
Joseph Hoffman | A Tribute to Andrew Wyeth

January 19 – September 13, 2020
Voice Lessons | Eli Corbin, Fran Gardner, Lisa Stroud, Beau Wild

January 14 – April 11, 2020
Sara Golish | Birds of Paradise

January 1 – August 30, 2020
The Power of She

2019

October – December 15, 2019
Bordering on Abstraction | Selections from the Permanent Collection

September 26 – December 15, 2019
James Calk | Rhythm & Hues

September 19 – December 15, 2019
Betsy Havens | Congregate

September 10 – December 11, 2019
Collection Connections | A Visual Exploration of Southern Heritage

June 15 – September 8, 2019
Can’t You Sea? | Ocean Plastic ARTifacts

June 4 – September 1, 2019
Emily Esdaile Weston (1810-1886) | The Legacy of a Planter’s Wife

May 9 – May 23, 2019
Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild 22nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition

April 23 – May 23, 2019
Horry-Georgetown County High Schools 20th Annual Juried Exhibition

January 10 – April 28, 2019
Kate Hooray Osmond | Light Shine Down

January 2 – April 28, 2019
Elizabeth Bradford | Time + Terrain

January 2 – April 28, 2019
The Scape of Water

2018

October 4 – December 16, 2018
Sherry Strickland Martin | Roots Run Deep

September 27 – December 16, 2018
The Limited Palette

September 27 – December 16, 2018
Easton Selby | RootWork

June 23 – September 16, 2018
Making Waves | A Drew Brophy Retrospective

May 29 – September 2, 2018
The Water’s Fine

April 22 – May 20, 2018
19th Annual Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

March 6 – April 22, 2018
Phil La Borie | Apparent Realities

January 16 – April 8, 2018
Collection Connections | A Visual Exploration of Southern Heritage

January 11 – April 22, 2018
Steven Bleicher | The Kings Highway

January 2 – April 22, 2018
William H. Miller | What You See Is What You Get

January 2 – February 25, 2018
Depth | 3D Art from the Museum Collection

2017

September 28 – December 14, 2017
Grand Strand Collects

Jocelyn Châteauvert: it bloomed at night

June 10 – September 17, 2017
Feast Your Eyes | Celebrating the Food of the South

June 10 – September 17, 2017
Feast Local | Photography by Brant Barrett

May 30 – September 10, 2017
Douglas Balentine | Beyond the Horizon

May 5 – June 1, 2017
Winyah Riverkeepers Photography Contest Winners

May 2 – June 1, 2017
20th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Art Exhibition

April 23, 2017 – May 21, 2017
Horry-Georgetown County High Schools’ 18th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

February 11 – April 23, 2017
The Fabric of Our Collection

January 10 – April 16, 2017
Stitchin’ and Pullin’ | Painted Illustrations by Cozbi Cabrera

December 8, 2016 – April 23, 2017
Gee’s Bend | From Quilts to Prints

2016

October 13 – December 30, 2016
Logan Woodle | Blessed Burdens

September 27 – December 30, 2016
Celia Pearson’s Layerings | A Glimpse of Southeast Asia

October 8 – November 27, 2016
39th Annual South Carolina Watermedia Society Juried Exhibition

June 11 – September 11, 2016
The Art of the Brick

May 6 -May 26, 2016
Winyah River Foundation Photo Contest Winners

April 28 – May 26, 2016
Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild 19th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

April 17 – May 22, 2016
17th Annual Horry-Georgetown High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

January 21 – April 21, 2016
Kirkland Smith: Assemblages
Charles Clary: Infect[ious] Installations

January 12 – April 21, 2016
Joe Quinn: Underwater

January 5 – April 7, 2016
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture of the Interior

2015

September 29 – January 7, 2016
Rice and Indigo: Paintings by Jonathan Green and Works in Denim by Jim Arendt
David Shriver Solliday: Remnants of the Rice Culture

September 20 – December 27, 2015
The State Art Collection: Contemporary Conversations II

June 9 – September 20, 2015
Norman Rockwell’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
John Baeder: A Road Well Taken
Sandy Logan: Ironic Abstractions

May 26 – September 29, 2015
Before I Die

May 26 – September 13, 2015
Steve Jameson: Ode to the Grand Strand

May 8 -May 21, 2015
Winyah River Foundation Photo Contest Winners

April 30 – May 31, 2015
Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild 18th Annual Juried Art Exhibition

April 19 – May 17, 2105
16th Annual Horry-Georgetown High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

March 11 – April 12, 2015
The Mapmakers’ Art: The Bishop Collection of Antique Maps: 1606-1863

January 18 – April 23, 2015
Laurie Blum: My Inner Garden

January 15 – April 23, 2015
Voices of the Island: The Cuban Art Collection of Reynier Llanes

January 15 – April 23, 2015
Swim: An Artist’s Journey by Charles Williams

January 8 – April 12, 2015
Kathleen Elliot: Imaginary Botanicals

January 8 – March 8, 2015
Visual Poetry: Metal Leaf Paintings by Joseph Bradley

2014

October 5 – January 4, 2015
Shadow of the Turning: The Art of Binh Pho

September 21 – December 28, 2014
Dixie Dugan: A Retrospective

September 21 – December 28, 2014
Hurricane Hugo Recalled: The Batiks of Leo Twiggs

June 3 – September 21, 2014
Classic Images: Photography by Ansel Adams

June 3 – September 14, 2014
Claire Farrell: A is for Art

May 9 – May 22, 2014
Winyah River Keepers Foundation Photo Contest Winners

May 1 – May 23, 2014
Waccamaw Arts & Craft Guild 17th Annual Juried Exhibition

April 27 – September 14, 2014
Track of the Rainbow Serpent: Australian Aboriginal Paintings of the Wolfe Creek Crater

March 23 – April 19, 2014
15th Annual Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

March 12 – April 19, 2014
I, the Writer: A Collection of Mickey Spillane Memorabilia

January 19 – April 24, 2014
State of the Art: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection

January 19 – April 24, 2014
Fiberart International 2013

January 5 – March 16, 2014
Julyan Davis: Appalachian Ballads

2013

October 3 – January 5, 2014
The Opulent Object—In Wood, Metal and Fiber: Jon Riis, Richard Mafong and Mike Harrison

October 1 – December 29, 2013
Celia Pearson: Glass Transformed

September 22 – December 29, 2013
Passionate Collectors & 25 Years of Jonathan Green

June 6 – September 22, 2013
Animation B.C. (Before Computers): A History of Art in Motion

April 28 – July 31, 2013
FORE: Images of Golf in Art

May 10 – May 23, 2013
Winyah River Keepers Foundation Photo Contest Winners

May 2 – May 23, 2013
Waccamaw Arts & Craft Guild 16th Annual Juried Exhibition

March 24 – April 21, 2013
14th Annual Horry-Georgetown High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

January 13 – April 25, 2013
Mullen: 2009-2012

January 13 – April 25, 2013
Room with a View: Images from our Permanent Collection

January 2 – March 17, 2013
Icons & Idols: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Arts, 1960-1995

2012

October 4 – January 6, 2013
An Artist’s Eye: A Journey through Modern and Contemporary Art with Sigmund Abeles
Figuratively Speaking: The Art of Sigmund Abeles

September 25 – December 30, 2012
Jonathan Green Posters

 June 8 – September 25, 2012
Kimono: Art, Fashion and Society

June 7 – September 25, 2012
Andrea Baldeck: Sea Treasures

May 11 – May 24, 2012
Winyah River Keepers Foundation Photograph Contest Winners

May 3 – May 24, 2012
Waccamaw Arts & Craft Guild 15th Annual Juried Exhibition

April 28 – September 16, 2012
At First Light: The Katagami Sculpture of Jennifer Falck Linssen

March 25 – April 22, 2012
13th Annual Horry-Georgetown High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

March 13 – April 22, 2012
I Can Make a Difference: Illustrations by Barry Moser from the book by Marian Wright Edelman

March 13 – April 22, 2012
Photographs of Afghanistan by Fardin Waezi

March 4 – March 18, 2012
Marching to the Art Beat: Celebrating Children’s Art

January 15 – April 26, 2012
From Tree to Treasure: An International Exhibition of Turned or Sculpted Wood

January 15 – April 26, 2012
William Jameson: Woodland Textures

January 14 – February 26, 2012
Wish You Were Here: A Photographic Documentary by Farnell and Powell

January 8 – February 29, 2012
Bishop Map and Prints Collection

2011

October 8 – December 30, 2011
The Lonely Shadow: Silhouette Art by Clay Rice

October 8 – December 30, 2011
Story, Song and Image: A Collaborative Project of Paintings and Music by Glen Miller and Jon Fowler

September 16 – January 3, 2012
Brimming Tide: Paintings and Drawings by Brian Rutenberg

June 7 – September 4, 2011
Babar’s World Tour: Original Paintings and Sketches by Laurent de Brunhoff

April 30 – October 2, 2011
The Collectors’ Vision: Southern Folk Art from the Collection of Ann and Ted Oliver

May 5 – May 25, 2011
Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild 14th Annual Exhibition 

March 27 – April 23, 2011
12th Annual Horry-Georgetown High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

February 23 – April 23, 2011
Preserving a Cultural Heritage: The Coffee Paintings of Reynier Llanes

January 16 – April 28
Robert Courtright: Collages, Collage Constructions and Masks

January 9 – March 20, 2011
Serendipity: Raku by Steven Forbes-deSoule

2010

October 12, 2010 – January 9, 2011
alex powers: inquiries

October 2 – December 30, 2010
Treelee MacAnn: Looking Out, Looking In

June 8 – October 3, 2010
A Survey of Gee’s Bend Quilts

April 29 – May 27, 2010
13th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

April 25 – September 26, 2010
A Sense of Time; A Sense of Place
Selections from the Art Museum’s Permanent Collections

March 25 – April 21, 2010
11th Annual Horry-Georgetown High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

January 17 – April 25, 2010
Milestones: Celebrating 70 and Beyond 

January 9 – March 19, 2010
Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections

2009

September 5, 2009 – January 3, 2010
25 Years of Jonathan Green – From the Barbara Burgess and John Dinkelspiel Collection of Southern Art

September 5, 2009 – January 3, 2010
Faces and Stories: A Portrait of Southern Writers
Platinum Print Photographs

October 11, 2009 – January 8, 2010
Soul’s Journey: Inside the Creative Process

October 15 , 2009 – January 8, 2010
Bassmi Ibrahim: The Isness of Being

June 4 – October 4, 2009
Benny Andrews: The John Lewis Series

June 4 – October 4, 2009
E.B. Lewis: Story Painter

April 30 – August 30, 2009
Jack Thompson: The Wonder Years
Myrtle Beach Photographs from the ’50s and ’60s

April 30 – May 22, 2009
12th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

April 7 – April 26, 2009
Passionate Collectors and Other Great Gifts

March 27 – April 22, 2009
10th Annual Horry-Georgetown High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

February 3 – March 29, 2009
Jonathan Green: Seeking

January 4 – March 20, 2009
The Mapmakers’ Art: The Bishop Collection of Antique Maps – 1608-1863

January 15 – March 29, 2009
Tools in Motion: Works from the Hechinger Collection

2008

October 21-December 31, 2008
Uncommon Folk: Traditional Folk Art from the South Carolina State Museum

October 25 – December 31, 2008
South Carolina Watermedia Society 31st Annual Exhibition

June 5 – October 19, 2008
Jonathan Green – The Artist & The Collector
Jonathan Green’s Roots and Wings

May 8 – October 5, 2008
People Reading: Selections from the Collection of Donald and Patricia Oresman

May 1 – May 25, 2008
11th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

April 11 – May 4, 2008
9th Annual Horry-Georgetown High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

February 21 – March 30, 2008
Kaleidoscope of Nature: Fabric Sculptures by Priscilla Sage and Paintings by BrianTaylor

January 13 – April 17, 2008
The Smiths: A Lowcountry Family of Artists
Michael McDunn: Works in Wood

January 10 – February 17, 2008
Pete the Cat: Acrylic Paintings by James Dean

2007

October 28, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Springmaid Water Media Masters II
USC Ceramics: Past and Present 1992-2007

September 11, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Mapping the Dark: A Museum of Ambient Disorders
Mixed Media by Rosamond Casey

October 9 – October 14, 2007
The Mystical Arts of Tibet: Mandala Sand Painting – The Architecture of Enlightenment

September 11 – October 21, 2007
Bhutan, the Cloud Kingdom: Photographs and Artifacts Organized by The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida

September 11 – October 21, 2007
The Art of Stephen Chesley: Twilight, Slight Rain
Poetic Realist Paintings

May 3 – September 2, 2007
From Whence I’ve Come: Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by Sigmund Abeles

June 5 – September 2, 2007
Jasper Johns: 41 Years of Prints
From the John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation

April 26 – May 23, 2007
10th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

April 1 – April 27, 2007
8th Annual Horry-Georgetown High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

January 14 – April 22, 2007
Then and Now: Selected Artists from the Permanent Collection
Sixteen Artists and Various Media

January 14 – March 25, 2007
The Fabric of Jazz: A Tribute to the Genius of American Music
Lauren Camp, Fiber Artist

2006

Novermber 30 – January 29, 2007
USC Ceramics: The University of South Carolina, Ceramics Department

November 2 – 26, 2006
Gerard Tempest: Abstract Spiritualism – A Retrospective Exhibit From 1947 to 1991

November 2 – 26, 2006
South Carolina Watercolor Society

August 17 – October 29, 2006
The Color of Money: Acrylics by John W. Jones

August 24 – October 29, 2006
Sequences and Events: Mixed Media Paintings, Short Documentaries and Artists
Books by Kristy Higby and Mark Flowers

June 8 – August 17, 2006
John James Audubon: American Artist and Naturalist

May 11 – August 13, 2006
Attic Habitat: Conceptual Art Installation by Janet Orselli

April 27 – May 26, 2006
9th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

April 2 – April 30, 2006
7th Annual Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

March 2 – April 23, 2006
Jacob Kainen: Works on Paper from the Collection of William Strydesky and Sharon Willick
Sally Bowen Prange: Exploring the Vessel
JoAnne Anderson: Letting the Painting Lead

January 5 – February 26, 2006
Myrtle Beach Collects: Portraits
Keeper of the Gate: Designs in Wrought Iron by Philip Simmons, Master Blacksmith, with Photographs by Claire Y. Greene

2005

September 22, 2005 – January 1, 2006
A Crystalline Place: Southeastern Artists at Littleton Studios
The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau

June 9 – September 11, 2005
From Goodnight Moon to Art Dog: The World of Clement, Edith and Thatcher Hurd

April 21 – May 29, 2005
The Adorning Arts: Art to Wear

April 21 – May 29, 2005
Water Media: Ray Kass

April 3 – May 8, 2005
6th Annual Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

March 3 – April 17, 2005
An Everlasting Piece: Quilts from the McKissick Museum
8th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

January 6 – February 27, 2005
Myrtle Beach Collects

2004

October 14 – December 29, 2004
Hurricane Hazel: Transforming the Grand Strand 1954-2004

November 4, 2004 – December 29, 2004
Preserving Memories: The Artistry of Genevieve Willcox Chandler
South Carolina Birds

July 16 – October 31, 2004
Ansel Adams: Masterworks

July 3 – 29, 2004
South Carolina Watercolor Society
27th Annual Awards Exhibition

April 22 – July 11, 2004
Linda Fantuzzo: Painted Landscapes and Still Lifes
Scotty Peek: general/specific – a site-specific installation

March 28 – May 2, 2004
5th Annual Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

March 4 – April 18, 2004
Seven Studios from Seagrove: Legacy Takes a Detour
7th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

January 8 – February 29, 2004
Inspired by Nature: Art Quilts by Dottie Moore
In the Spirit of Sankofa: Art Quilts by Marlene O’Bryant-Seabrook
In Praise of Our Mothers: Carved & Painted Gourds by Michele Tejuola Turner

2003

October 3 – January 4, 2004
Lynne Clibanoff: Boxed Constructions and Works on Paper
Chris Wilson: Oils, Watercolors and Acrylics

June 12 – October 26, 2003
Southern Images of Faith, Family and Friends: The Art of Jonathan Green

April 3 – June 8, 2003
From the Garden…
Alice Ballard Munn: Earthenware Ceramics
Anna Ferri: Fabric Tapestries
Aaron Pierce: Metal Garden Sculptures

April 3 – May 4, 2003
4th Annual Horry-Georgetown County High Schools Juried Art Exhibition

March 1 – 30, 2003
6th Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition

January 4 – February 23, 2003
Rose Metz: Pentimento
Lee Sipe: East Meets West—Innovations from Nature
Deane Ackerman & Sylvester Hickmon: Pencil, Pen and Paint

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Myrtle Beach’s Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum strives to be one of the finest visual arts museums in the Carolinas. With 11 galleries that change throughout the year, Myrtle Beach’s only art museum offers exhibitions featuring paintings, textiles, sculpture, photography, video, ceramics, assemblage, collage and more. A visit to the Art Museum’s exhibitions can be enhanced by its lively programming, including artist receptions, tours, lectures, workshops and classes for both adults and children.