2023
November: Watercolour Diaries from the Green River
September: Seeing People Through Trees
April: Designed to Move
2022
April: Baje Whitethorne Sr.: Náátsʼíilid/Rainbow Light
May: The Great Unknown: Artists at Glen Canyon and Lake Powell
August: MNA Archaeologists in Glen Canyon
November: Vast Lands, Inner Visions: The Art of Joella Jean Mahoney
2021
2020
March: Liberating Landscape
November: Journey to Balance
2019
November: Searching for a Bigger Subject
October: The Force Is With Our People
June: Nine 4 Ninety: Artists for a New Era
April: DesertArt LAB: Ecologies of Resistance
March: In Retrospect: Growing Our Own Artists
October: Pivot: Skateboard Deck Art
2018
November: Transcending Duality: The Santa Fe Studio Style
August: Photographs by George L. Beam and The Making of Arches National Monument
June: Tselani/Terrain: Tapestries of D.Y. Begay
May: Lyrical Lines
April: Voices for the Colorado Plateau
February: Confluence of Color: George Averbeck & Serena Supplee
2017
Winter: Let it Snow
November: Winter Wreath Revelry
November: A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change
September: Out of the Vault: Treasures Old & New
September: 26th Annual Trappings of the American West
August: Grand Canyon Uranium: Unseen/Scene
June: Tony Abeyta: Convergence
When We Were Young: The Legacy of MNA’s Junior Indian Art Show
Images on Stone: Petroglyphs of Wupatki National Monument
March: Four on the Floor: Audubon’s Quadrupeds
2016
Fall: Recent Acquisitions – eleven Navajo textiles
November: Grand Muse: Art Inspired by Grand Canyon
October: 100 Dibujos de 100 Cosas (100 Drawings of 100 Things)
June: Curt Walters: A Retrospective
Happy Flagstaff
September: 25th Annual Trappings of the American West
May: Jr. Indian Art
March: Images on Stone
March: David Christiana: Portraits of Petrichor
2015
Winter: Let it Snow
November: You Are On Indian Land
October: 24th Annual Trappings of the American West
June: Reconstructing the View – The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe
June: Roundball Religion – Photographs by Joe Cornett
January: The Slide Fire Story – A Tribute to Oak Creek Canyon
May: Happy Flagstaff
March: Multiple Markets – Intercultural Influence in Classic and Late Classic Navajo Rugs
March: Echoes and Undercurrents – Works by David Dawangyumptewa and Debra Edgerton
2014
November: Dialogue with Beauty – Scotty Mitchell Landscapes
September: Trappings of the American West
June: Shonto Begay – Map of My Heart
May: Brushstrokes on the Plateau – Highlights from the Museum’s Fine Art Collection
April: Hopi Weavings – Continuing Traditions and Inspiring Generations
February: Ulrike Arnold – Earth Art
2013
November: Nampeyo :: Namingha – Tradition and Translation
October: Tinwork from the Historic Barth Hotel
September: Navajo Textiles from the Colton Collection
June: Tony Foster- Sacred Places: Watercolor Diaries from the American Southwest
2012
November: Arizona’s Pioneering Women Artists
October: Discovery – The Exhibit
October: Good Neighbors – Frances McAllister and the Museum of Northern Arizona
September: Mountain Lion!
June: Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton: Artist and Advocate in Early Arizona
June: Zuni Pottery – We are of this place, we are of the clay
March: Weather in Wool – Weaving the Navajo Storm Pattern
February: Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond
2011
February: A:Shiwi A:wan Ulohnanne: The Zuni World
June: Full Measure: The Artistic Legacy of Bruce Aiken
November: Photographic Journey: Three Visions by Rick Braveheart, Jim Knipe, Prescott Lewis
September: Grand Archaeology – Excavation and Discovery along the Colorado River
August: Warriors – Navajo Codetalkers
August: Images in Wool – Navajo Pictorials
2010
December: A Dazzling Palette – The Introduction of Germantown Yarns into Navajo Weaving
November: Peripheral Vision by David Politzer and Bremner Bendict
September: Dreams : Realizations : Contemplations : Fantasies by Jake Brookins
September: Discovery – The Exhibit
August: Reflections of Place–Navajo Vegetal Dye Weaving Revivals
July: Hopi Footprints of the Ancestors
June: Paintings of the New West by Ed Mell
March: Walking in Harmony: The Life and Work of Lomawywesa by Michael Kabotie
February: Two Gray Hills Style
January: Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau
2009
November: Gunnar Widforss: Painter of the National Parks
October: 20th Annual Trappings
August 2009: Contemporary Navajo Pottery–Ongoing Traditions and Emerging Styles
July: Knowing No Boundaries–Adaptation and Imagination in Navajo Weaving
June: Natural Languages – The Art of Judy Tuwaletstiwa
May: Southwestern Native American Jewelry
January: I am the Grand Canyon–The Story of the Havasupai
2008
December: Painted Journeys on the Colorado Plateau
November: Painted Journeys on the Colorado Plateau by Judy Abbott, K.L. McKenna and Eva van Rijn
October: Express Yourself in Your Environment
October: 19th Annual Trappings
July: Fine Arts Exhibition at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport
July: Our Fathers, Our Grandfathers, Our Heroes–The Navajo Codetalkers of WWII
June: Interior Views of the American West: A Fifty Year Retrospective by Merrill Mahaffey
June: Many Colored Weaves–Navajo Textiles from the Collection of the Museum of Northern Arizona
March: Grand Canyon Grandeur –Early Paintings and Prints from the Abe Hays Collection
March: Grand Archaeology–New Excavations along the Colorado River
2007
October: 18th Annual Trappings
September: Therizinosaur– Mystery of the Sickle-claw Dinosaur
June: Elemental Forms: The Art of Dan and Arlo Namingha;
May: Uniting Native Nations in Northern Arizona
February: Lasting Light: Grand Canyon Photography
2006
December: Art of Science–One Scientist’s Perspective
November: Everett Ruess and the Search for Beauty block prints by Everett Ruess
October: 17th Annual Trappings
June: Timeless Excellence: Honoring MNA’s Fine Arts Collection
March: Land In Light: The West of George Elbert Burr
March: Fragile Antiquities–Commemorating 100 Years of the Antiquities Act
February: Native American Youth Art–NAYA
2005
September: Passionate Vision: Joella Jean Mahoney, a Fifty Year Retrospective
June: Stories in Stone–Rock Art of Northern Arizona and the Colorado Plateau
June: A Sacred Life by Hopi artists
July: Walking in Beauty by Navajo artists
2004
October: Caras y Mascaras–Faces and Masks
September: Arizona–A View from the Mountains
2003
June: Plesiosaur–Terror of the Cretaceous Sea
October: Treasures of MNA–75 Years of Passion For Discovery
2002
September: Space, Silence, Spirit–Maynard Dixon’s West
2001
November: David Paladin: A Spiritual Life in Art
October: Hollywood’s Indians: Stereotypes and Prejudices
In the Shadow of the Volcano: The US 89 Archaeological Project
2000
December: Artful Bounty: New Acquisitions to MNA Collections
November: Weaving Culture: Baskets from MNA Collections
June: Arizona Highways: Celebrating the Tradition