Exhibitions Archive

Explore our archive of past exhibitions below and discover a trove of artists, materials and diverse creative practices.

Looking for our current and upcoming exhibitions? Find them on our main site here.

2026

Kat Parker: Lament – A memorial of Australian extinction

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Once upon a time…

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Art Wall 2025: Kerrie Poliness | Swamp Drawing

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Mai Nguyễn-Long and Casey Chen

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Web banner featuring text 'JXSH MVIR FOREVER I LIVE' beside a digital artwork in a street-art style depicting a young man in a crown surrounded by roses, palm trees, and pink 'plus' symbols

Josh Muir: Forever I Live

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SAM Open 2025

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Emmet O’Dwyer: Magic Mountains

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Photo of a porcelain sculpture in a museum display case

Vipoo Srivilasa: Flower Bears

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Brett Whiteley: Inside the Studio

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Photo of a display case featuring orange-coloured wallpaper, small glass objects, and a hanging painting

Belinda Fox: More than this

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Dore Stockhausen: echoes of a new eden

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Ayako Rokkaku

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Emerald City

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The Shape of Things to Come

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Carmel Robertson: Wish you were here

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Face in the Frame

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Pink web banner with red and orange tape graphic, featuring the exhibition title text 'Julia Gorman, Reflection on reflection'

Julia Gorman: Reflection on reflection

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SAM Open 2024: Remnants, memories, and objects

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Big Ceramic Energy

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Banner image featuring seven brown ceramic goblets, each with a pair of eyes, positioned upside-down on a grey-gradient surface. Text to the right reads: Ceramics in Focus, Brendan Huntley

Ceramics In Focus: Brendan Huntley

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Ceramics in Focus: Sanné Mestrom

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Art Wall 2024: Kenny Pittock | Can You Peel The Love Tonight

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SAM Fresh 2024

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Banner image featuring John Brack's 'The car' (1955) - a painting of the side-view of car windows with a man and woman in the front seat and a young boy and girl in the back seat; beneath, exhibition title text reads 'The Land is Us: Stories, Place & Connection - Artworks from the NGV Collection'

The Land is Us: Stories, Place & Connection – Artworks from the NGV Collection

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Mud, Water & Fire

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Ryan McGinley: YEARBOOK

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Jen Valender: Field

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(human) in nature

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Ellen Lee: Landscape; of sight, of sound

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Beci Orpin: MUSH/ROOM

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Emma Coulter: spatial deconstruction #30 (social fabric)

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Web banner featuring a cropped photo of a ceramic sculpture of a woman's head with a tall crown of sea corals

Dance me to the end of love: Journeys from birth to death in the SAM Collection

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Web banner featuring a digital drawing of a stylised cattle skull with flesh-colour wires extending from it in the bottom-right corner; exhibition title text to the left reads 'Jess Johnson: we can’t keep going the way we’ve been going but we know no other way to go'

Jess Johnson: we can’t keep going the way we’ve been going but we know no other way to go

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The ARNDT Collection: From One World to Another

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Tuesday Junction: After the Rain

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JamFactory ICON Kunmanara Carroll: Ngaylu Nyanganyi Ngura Winki (I Can See All Those Places)

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Little big, Big little

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web banner image featuring a digital image of an painting showing a bedroom; the bed has the covers pulled back, and small stuffed elephant toys rest on the bed.

SAM Open 2023: HOME

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Surfaced Stories

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Ash Keating: Elevation

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Web banner featuring exhibition title text and a photo of large and small ceramic vessels clustered together to the right.

Adam John Cullen: Three Hares

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Web banner featuring exhibition title text and a close-up detail photo of a ceramic artwork

Adam John Cullen: Three Ears

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Fresh: GV Top Art & Design 2022

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The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: CEREMONY

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Aleisa Miksad: Between Scylla and Charybdis | Amphora

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Jason Phu: Some of the things that have come and gone with the waters

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Meredith Turnbull & Ross Coulter: All Together

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Kaleidoscope

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Image of ceramic Aboriginal "digging sticks" with text below reading "Penny Evans, Dhuvidha dhurraaya (dig deeper)

Penny Evans: Dhuwidha dhurraaya (Dig deeper)

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Ponch Hawkes: 500 Strong

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2022 Indigenous Ceramic Award

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Digital image of an artwork featuring Aboriginal iconography including turtles, spirals, footprints, emu tracks, and fish bones

Kaiela deya, manu nyananan (River here, is home to all of us)

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Hans Wolter von Gruenewaldt: Artworks from Prisoner of War Camp 13 Murchison

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Art Wall: Trent Walter & Lizzie Boon

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Social Ceramics

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Vera Möller: Liquidarium

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A photo of an art installation featuring an archival photo of two Aboriginal boys on the bank of a river; the photo is partly obscured by threads of tangled yellow wool. Text to the left reads 'Nusra Latif Qureshi, The Land I See Is Not Elsewhere'

Nusra Latif Qureshi: The Land I See Is Not Elsewhere

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Exhibition promotional image featuring Dari script and demon-like male figures; text reads 'Art in Conflict'

Art in Conflict

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SAM Open 2022: New Horizons

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Covid Collaborations: A Shared Step on a Long Journey

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A photo of large colourful transluscent acrylic sculptures hang from the ceiling over a building's balustrade; a person is walking to their left.

Anne-Marie May

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SAM operates on the traditional lands of the Yorta Yorta people. The SAM Building, and art museum within it, is located on river country close to the Goulburn River, known as Kaiela to the Yorta Yorta.

SAM recognises the Yorta Yorta as the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands and water of the Country upon which SAM is built, and that sovereignty of this land has never been ceded.