2023

Bending Toward Beauty

Susan Hensel

Dec. 19, 2022–March 13, 2023

John Steffl Gallery

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Our Common Origins: Color Variations + Hybrid Forms

Martin DeWitt

Dec. 20, 2022–Feb. 24, 2023

George Morrison Gallery

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2022

Shared Bodies

Avigail Manneberg

September 19–December 5, 2022

John Steffl Gallery

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Currents

Robert Patrick

October 7–December 11, 2022

George Morrison Gallery

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Home of Memories

Jaafar Alnabi & Ahmed Alshaikhli

September 26–December 31, 2022

Corridor Gallery

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Autumn Reflections

Aaron Kloss

Fall 2022

Depot Performing Arts Wing

Contemporary Visions

Christopher E. Harrison

May 9–September 5, 2022

John Steffl Gallery

Gallery supplement: The Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence

Dislocation

Steven Lemke & Kelsie Ward

June 8–September 22, 2022

George Morrison Gallery

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Salvaged Memories

Wynn Davis

June 8–September 18, 2022

Corridor Gallery

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Gitchi-Gami

Sara Pajunen

Summer 2022

Depot Performing Arts Wing

Embody

Sarah Brokke

March 21–May 8, 2022

John Steffl Gallery

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Irreproachable

Marjorie Fedyszyn

April 14–May 26, 2022

George Morrison Gallery

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Imprint

George Morrison

April 29–June 1, 2022

Corridor Gallery

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The Annual Member Show 2022

DAI Member Artists

May 26–June 26, 2022

Depot Great Hall

Like Me, Like You

Twin Ports APIDA Collective

December 20, 2021–March 11, 2022

John Steffl Gallery

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Don't Like Mondays

Beth Livensperger

January 26–April 3, 2022

George Morrison Gallery

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Refuge

Kristen Kaas

February 17–April 24, 2022

Corridor Gallery

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Cassandra Quinn

January–May 26, 2022

Depot Performing Arts Wing

2021

Clay Artists at the
Duluth Art Institute

Group Exhibition

February 1–May 3

John Steffl Gallery

The Visual Voice of Autism

Harrison Halker Heinks

February 2–May 31, 2021

George Morrison Gallery

Personal

Ann Magnusson

March 16–June 6, 2021

Corridor Gallery

Youth Art Month 

Virtual Exhibition

March 1–March 31

2020

Identity

Blair Treuer
November - December

John Steffl Gallery

Integument

Susanna Gaunt
October - January

George Morrison Gallery

Material
Alyssa Swanson

October 13-March 8
Corridor Gallery

Transitions

Group Exhibition
October 2020 - July 2021
Depot Great Hall

Reveal

Emily Stokes

July - November

John Steffl Gallery

Odysseus and Penelope

Kari Halker-Saathoff

July - October

George Morrison Gallery

Sisterhood

Sue Rauschenfels
July - October
Corridor Gallery

Reflections

October 2020 - February 2021

Kristen Kaas

Depot Performing Arts Wing

Bloodline

Tia Keo
July - October

John Steffl Gallery

Response

Open Call Group Exhibition

May - October

DAI Website

Emerging Photographers

March 9–29, 2020
Saint Louis County Depot Great Hall 

Tignon

Chesley Antoinette
March 2020–September 2021

Smartify

War Paint

Shaun Chosa
January–March, 2020
DAI John Steffl Gallery

Youth Art Month: Take a Journey Through Art

March 1–31, 2020
Whole Foods Co-Op Denfeld

Creepy Crawl

Andy Messerschmidt
February 14–April 12, 2020
DAI Corridor Gallery

Minnesota Black Fine Art Show

May 2020 - June 2021

Smartify

Our Neighbors

Exhibiting Artists from Birkenstein Arts Movement

January–March, 2020

City Hall Rotunda

Annual Member Show

February 6–March 1, 2020
Saint Louis County Depot Great Hall

Sharon Dawson

January–March, 2020

City Hall Mayor's Reception Room

2019

Minnesota Black Fine Arts Show

September 17, 2019–January 2, 2020
John Steffl Gallery

Integrated Vision

Laura Andrews & Paula Gudmundson
December 2019–March 2020
George Morrison Gallery

Medium Control

Tommy Kronquist
December 30, 2019–
February 9, 2020
Corridor Gallery

Claudia Faith

October–December 2019
City Hall Mayor's Reception Room

Family

Claudia Faith
September–November 2019
Corridor Gallery

Jean: The Inspiration Behind the Birkenstein Art Movement

September 17–December 3, 2019
George Morrison Gallery

Rituals

Shannon Cousino

October–December 2019
Corridor Gallery

Our Neighbors

Artists from CHOICE Unlimited

October–December 2019
City Hall Rotunda

Strata

Susanna Gaunt, Russell Prather, Natalie Salminen Rude, Juliane Shibata

May 8–August 11, 2019

John Steffl Gallery

I Am What's Wrong With The World

Allen Killian-Moore

May 23–August 11, 2019

George Morrison Gallery

Popular Opinions: A Cultural Discussion

Group Exhibit

May 30 - July 31

DAI Corridor Gallery

Kathy McTavish

July–September 2019

City Hall Rotunda & City Hall Mayor's Reception Room

62nd Arrowhead Regional Biennial

Group Exhibit

January 17 - April 15, 2019
DAI John Steffl Gallery

Akinomaage

Vern Northrup
January 17 - May 5, 2019
DAI George Morrison Gallery

Emerging Photographers

Group Exhibit

March 21–May 5, 2019
Corridor Gallery

Paul LaJeunesse

April - June 2019

City Hall Mayor's Reception Room

Kelly Dupre

April - June 2019

City Hall Rotunda

Jazz Forest

Ray Allard

January 2 - March 5, 2019

DAI Corridor Gallery

Student Member Show

April - May, 2019
Lincoln Park Building

2018

Real-Unreal

Darren Houser
November 8 - December 30, 2018
DAI John Steffl Gallery

Exceptionaly Ordinary

Patrick Luber
November 8 - December 30, 2018
DAI George Morrison Gallery

Nik Nerburn is a Camera

Nik Nerburn
September 13 - December 2, 2018
DAI Corridor Gallery

Patricia Canelake

October - November 2018

City Hall Reception Room

Mesabi Land Portraits

Aaron Squadroni
September 13 - October 28, 2018
DAI John Steffl Gallery

Land/People

Amanda Breitbach

September 13 – October 28, 2018

DAI George Morrison Gallery

20th Anniversay Homegrown Illustration Show

Group Exhibit, DAI & Prove Gallery collaboration
April 27 - May 18, 2018

Prove Gallery, 21 N Lake Ave

Sonic Divide: States

Payton MacDonald, and work by Kenneth D. Johnson
July 12 - September 2, 2018

DAI John Steffl Gallery

Every Spirit Tells a Story

Chholing Taha
July 12 - September 2, 2018
DAI Morrision Gallery

Youth Art Month

Group Exhibit
March 2018
Whole Foods Co-op Denfeld

Querida Presencia

Jonathan Herrera
May 10 - July 1, 2018

DAI John Steffl Gallery

Boreal Ornament

Tara Austin
May 10 - July 1, 2018
DAI Morrison Gallery

Territory: Emerging Photographers 2017

Riley Loew, Haley Pehrson, Wilson Johnson, Chris Wodicka, Joanna Harms, and Krista Mathes
February 22 - April 9, 2018

DAI Corridor Gallery

The Cut Worm Forgives the Plow:

Russell Prather
March 8 - April 29, 2018

DAI John Steffl Gallery

Terraria Gigantica

Dana Fritz
March 8 - April 28, 2018
DAI Morrison Gallery

100 Years

Tia Keoboungpheng
January 11 - February 25, 2018
DAI Corridor Gallery

Art & Craft

Penny Perry
January 11- February 25, 2018
DAI John Steffl Gallery

Type13

David Short
January 11- February 25, 2018
DAI Morrison Gallery

2017

PLAY

Robert Dewitt Adams, Elizabeth LaPensee, & Christopher Selleck
June 29 - Sept. 9, 2017
DAI John Steffl Gallery

Peripheral Vignettes

Jonathan Thunder
June 29 - Sept. 1, 2017
DAI Morrison Gallery

Plein Air Duluth: Paint du Nord 2017

Group exhibition
July 15 - Aug. 27, 2017
Blacklist Artisan Ales

Strongman

Joe Klander
April 20 - June 18, 2017
DAI Steffl Gallery

Lest We Forget

Sandra Brick & Fred Amram
April 20 - June 18, 2017
DAI Morrison Gallery

Homegrown Photo Stupor & Homegrown Music Festival Photography

Group Exhibits
May 1- 25
Red Herring Lounge

Gezielt (Targeted)

Carla Hamilton
Feb. 23 - April 9, 2017
DAI Steffl Gallery

Rooted Expression

Elizabeth Kuth
Feb. 16 - April 9, 2017
DAI Morrison Gallery

Emerging Photographers 2017

Group Exhibit
Feb. 23 – April 1, 2017
DAI Corridor Gallery

Youth Art Month Exhibition: Typography Edition

Group Exhibit
March 2 - 30, 2017
Whole Foods Co-op, Denfeld 

The 61st Arrowhead Regional Biennial

Group Exhibit
Nov. 10, 2016 - Feb. 9, 2017
DAI John Steffl Gallery

4North: New Work by Alison Aune, Kirsten Aune, Ann Klefstad, and Arna Rennan

Nov. 10, 2016 - Feb. 2, 2017
DAI George Morrison Gallery

2017 Annual Membership Exhibition

Group Exhibit
Jan. 26 - Feb. 24, 2017
Duluth Depot Great Hall

2016

Rust & Flow

David Asher Everett
Sept. 22 - Nov. 6, 2016
DAI John Steffl Gallery

Fragments/Memory

Adam McCauley
Sept. 22 - Nov. 6, 2016
DAI George Morrison Gallery

My Mind's Eye: Portraits Inspired by Shakespeare's First Folio
Group Show

October 3 - 27, 2016

DAI Corridor Gallery

Duluth Quantum Computing Project: Storytelling in a Digital Age

Kathy McTavish
August 1 - October 1, 2016

3 West Superior Street

In and Out of Context

Tim White
June 16 - September 7, 2016
DAI John Steffl Gallery

From the Basement

Brent Kustermann
Sept. 22 - Nov. 6, 2016
DAI Steffl & Morrison Galleries

Plein Air Duluth: Paint du Nord

Group show
July 15 - September 9, 2016
DAI George Morrison & Corridor Galleries

Duluth Street Photographer

D.R. Martin
Curated by Kip Praslowicz
July 21 - September 6, 2016

Red Herring Lounge

Hat-Trick: A Celebration of Hockey and Art

Group show featuring Tim Cortes
April 14 - June 2, 2016
DAI John Steffl Gallery

Team Spirit

Jen Dietrich and Robb Quisling
April 14 - July 7, 2016
DAI George Morrison Gallery

The St. Louis River: Diverse Connections by Ivy Vainio

April 4 - 10, 2016, Great Hall, Duluth Depot

April 11 - May 22, 2016, DAI Corridor Gallery

Pattern Conspiracy

Naomi Christenson
Performance: May 26, 2016
May 26 – June 23, 2016
DAI Depot Great Hall

Design DLH Pop-Up Shop & Exhibition

Group Show
May 12-14, 2016
Depot Great Hall

Public Domain
Ken Bloom

February 11 - April 2, 2016

DAI George Morrison Gallery

Homegrown Photo Stupor

Group Show
May 11-16, 2016
Red Herring Lounge

Homegrown Photography Show

Group Show
May 2-8, 2016
Red Herring Lounge

Curated by Kip Praslowicz

Land of Wonder

Shawna Gilmore
February 11 - April 2, 2016

DAI John Steffl Gallery

Youth Art Month Exhibition

Group Show
March 3 - 26, 2016
Depot Great Hall

2016 Emerging Photographers 

Group Show
January 21 – March 31, 2016
DAI Corridor Gallery

2016 Annual DAI Membership Exhibition 

Group Show
January 21—February 21, 2016

Depot Great Hall

All About Eve

Group Show
January 15, 2016
Depot Great Hall

2015

Portrait of an Artist & (Self) Portrait of an Artist

Sarah Brokke
October 15, 2015 – January 21, 2016
George Morrison & John Steffl Galleries

Spirit

Karen Savage Blue
September 3 - October 4, 2015
George Morrison Gallery

Sorry Mom I'm so High

Flo Matamoros
October 15, 2015 - January 4, 2016
Corridor Gallery

Life of Beauty

Karen Burmeister
September 10 - October 4, 2015
John Steffl Gallery

Plein Air Duluth: Paint du Nord

Group Show
July 17 - September 6, 2015
John Steffl Gallery & Corridor Gallery

Duluth Sister Cities

Student Show
September 1 – 11, 2015
Corridor Gallery

Poetics of Evolution

Carolyn Halliday
May 14 - July 9, 2015
DAI John Steffl Gallery

MN Comics: Paneled Pages from the Northland

Group show
June 18 - August 27, 2015
DAI George Morrison Gallery

Port City Supply Co.

Cody Paulson
April 9 - June 20, 2015
Corridor Gallery

A Retrospective Response

Lake Superior Watercolor Society
February 19 - May 1, 2015
DAI John Steffl Gallery

Found Horizons

Karen Owsley Nease
April 30 - June e4, 2015
DAI George Morrison Gallery

Youth Art Month

March 5 - 25, 2015
Depot Great Hall

60th Arrowhead Regional Biennial & From the Collection

November 13 - February 15, 2015
John Steffl Gallery & North Shore Bank of Commerce

Natural Contract

Ryuta Nakajima & Aya Kawaguchi
February 19—April 19, 2015
DAI George Morrison Gallery 

2015 Annual Membership Show

January 23 - February 15, 2015
Depot Great Hall

2014

Ark of the Anthropocene

Sean Connaughty
September 11 – November 2, 2014
Steffl Gallery

Drawing at the Horizon

Meaning of Home

Jo Wood

Native Skywatchers

Annette Lee, William Wilson, Carl Gawboy
May 8 - August 31, 2014
Morrison & Steffl Galleries

Signs & Wonders

Jim Klueg & Fatih Benzer
September 11 - November 2, 2014
Morrison Gallery

Earl Austin: Retrospective

September 2 - October 19, 2014
Corridor Gallery

The Garden Before the Fall

Lizzie Wortham

Presented by Duluth Art Institute & Zeitgeist Arts

September 7 - September 30, 2014

Zeitgeist Arts Atrium

Women In Black: We are Still on the Streets

Vesna Pavlovic
April 21 - 24, 2014
Steffl Gallery

The Space Around You

Kristen Pless
February 6 - April 20, 2014
Morrison Gallery

(Un)Ordinary

Emi Lyman
April 3 - August 28, 2014
Corridor Gallery

Hero/Villain/Savior/Scoundrel: 
Images of Jim Carlson & Don Ness

Presented by Duluth Art Institute & Zeitgeist Arts
April 5 - May 3, 2014
Zeitgeist Arts Atrium

First Spark

K-12 Youth Art Show
February 20 - April 20, 2014
Steffl Gallery

Broken Threads. Lost Causes.

Emerging Photographers

featuring Work by UMD's Photography Department
January 23 - March 27, 2014
Corridor Gallery

Annual Membership Show 2014

January 23 - February 20, 2014
Depot Great Hall

Any Day

Kip Praslowicz
December 5, 2013 – February 10, 2014
Steffl Gallery

2013

Forgotten Tales

New Work by Robin Murphy
September 19 - November 24, 2013
Steffl Gallery

Possession

National Juried Ceramics Show
Morrison Gallery
September 5 – November 2, 2013

Start Seeing Duluth

Plein Air Paintings of the Zenith City by Matt Kania
October 17 – December 31, 2013

Corridor Gallery

Revisiting Twain's Mississippi

New Photographs by Chris Faust
Steffl Gallery
July 1 – September 8, 2013

Water Works

Celebrating our most precious resource and the artists who share in the primitive pull towards H2O
Morrison Gallery

June 20 – August 25

Canvas of Flesh

New Work by Amanda Brunner
Corridor Gallery
August 29 – October 6, 2013

Boats Will Float and Bumble Bees Will Sting

Jerry Allen Gilmore
Steffl Gallery

June 6 - June 24, 2013

Layered Narratives
Wendy Rouse and Kate Whittaker
Morrison Gallery

March 28 – May 26, 2013

A Strong Experience of Nature

David Moreira

Steffl & Corridor Galleries
April 18 – June 2

Confluence/Confluencia

Morrison Gallery

January 16 – March 12, 2013

Emerging Photographers

Corridor Gallery
Jan 17 – April 7, 2013

'Scapes: A Celebration of Youth Art Month

Depot Great Hall

March 7 - March 20, 2013

From The Nest

Brent Erickson & Nora Sandstrom
John Steffl Gallery

February 21 - April 7, 2013

Membership Show

Depot Great Hall
January 16 – February 13

2012

2012 Arrowhead Regional Biennial

In Cahoots

Eric Dubnicka and Jeremy Schock
Morrison Gallery
October 11 – December 29, 2012

Working View

Instant Love

Polaroid, Land Cameras, and the Impossible Project
Steffl Gallery
October 11 – November 23

Chris Monroe

George Morrison Gallery
July 12, 2012 - September 30, 2012

A Brief Encounter with New Orleans

Jason Huntzinger
Corridor Gallery
September 13 – October 28, 2012

Tasha Tudor: Around the Year

John Steffl Gallery
June 28, 2012 - September 9, 2012

Brian Barber

George Morrison Gallery
April 19, 2012 - May 5, 2012

Spirit of the Ojibwe: Images of Lac Courte Oreilles Elders by Sara Balbin

Corridor Gallery
June 28 – September 9, 2012

Art Illustrated

John Steffl Gallery
April 19, 2012 - June 14, 2012

Kathy McTavish: Birdland

George Morrison Gallery
January 18, 2012 - April 8, 2012

Homegrown Music Festival: Visual Arts Edition

Corridor Gallery
April 19, 2012 - May 5, 2012

Youth Art Month

John Steffl Gallery
March 1, 2012 - March 25, 2012

Steve Read: (un)natural reactions

John Steffl Gallery
January 18, 2012 - February 19, 2012

Emerging Photographers

Corridor Gallery
January 18, 2012 - March 31, 2012

DAI Annual Membership Exhibition

Great Hall Gallery
January 18, 2012 - March 1, 2012

2011

Ochre Ghost: Ab Initio

Martin DeWitt

George Morrison Gallery
Nov 10, 2011 – Jan 8, 2012

Mad Women

John Steffl Gallery
May 5 – July 31, 2011

Esther Bubley: On Assignment

George Morrison Gallery
May 12 – August 7, 2011

Emerging Photographers Exhibitions

January 19 – March 28, 2011

Totally Warped: New Work from Members of the Duluth Fiber Handscrafters Guild

John Steffl Gallery
February 17 – April 24, 2011

Reality: A Dialogue

Sasa Kolosnjaj
George Morrison Gallery
March 10 – May 1, 2011

DAI Annual Membership Exhibition

Great Hall Gallery
January 19 – March 13, 2011

2010

2010 Arrowhead Biennial Exhibition

John Steffl Gallery
November 4, 2010 – February 6, 2011

Sean Elmquist

Bits and Pieces: A Visual Journey

August 12 – October 24, 2010

Smithsonian Institution

George Morrison Gallery
Steffl Gallery
May 20 – July 18, 2010

Borrowed Essence: The Ceramic Work of Elizabeth James

George Morrison Gallery
September 30 – December 5, 2010

Ripple Effect:
The Art of Creative Influence
March 18 – May 14, 2010

Full Circle: Contemporary Native American Beadwork

Fesler Gallery
August 5 – October 24, 2010

Fresh, New, and True:
Work by Emerging Artists
George Morrison Gallery
March 18 – May 14, 2010

Wing Young Huie: Retrospective

George Morrison Gallery
July 29 – September 19, 2010

Oulu Glass

Fesler Gallery
March 18 – May 30, 2010

DAI Annual Membership Exhibition

Great Hall Gallery
January 20 – March 14, 2010

2009

2008

Encased Memories: Textile Sculptures
Eun-Kyung Suh
George Morrison Gallery
December 11, 2008 – March 1, 2009

Arrowhead Biennial Exhibition 2008
John Steffl Gallery
November 13, 2008 – February 1, 2009

Visible Means: Observations of Queer Experience
George Morrison Gallery
August 28 – November 16, 2008

Effigies of Peace and Protest: The Art of Activism
John Steffl Gallery
August 14 – November 4, 2008

Luonnollisesti Suomalainen: Naturally Finnish
Co-Sponsored by FinnFest 2008
George Morrison Gallery
June 19 – August 24, 2008

Kind: New Work by Kristina Estell
May 8 – August 31, 2008

May Day Art Attack
DAI Lincoln Center
May 1, 2008

From Out of the Flames
George Morrison Gallery
April 10 – June 8, 2008

New Work: Rob Quisling
George Morrison Gallery
March 12 – May 31, 2008

Emerging Photographers Exhibitions
Corridor Gallery
March 6 – June 24, 2008

The Red Line: Carla Stetson
John Steffl Gallery
February 7 – April 29, 2008

Annual Members Exhibition 2008
Sponsored by Charter Communications
Great Hall Gallery
January 23 – March 9, 2008

2007