| Title | Date | Catalogue | Images |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jesse Burke: Wild & Precious | 2016 Jan 22-Sep 25 | Yes | |
| Drawing Conclusions | 2016 Jan 22-Sep 25 | ||
| Swagged and Poufed: The Upholstered Body in the Late 19th Century and Today | 2016 Jan 22-Jul 3 | ||
| Dorner Prize: Conversation Pieces | 2016 Feb 18-Jun 5 | ||
| Projections, Film & Video: Spring, 2016 | 2016 Mar 10-May 12 | ||
| All of Everything: Todd Oldham Fashion | 2016 Apr 8-Sep 11 | ||
| Julien Previeux: What Shall We Do Next and Patterns of Life | 2016 May 27-Nov 20 | ||
| Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egúngún Masquerade Ensembles of Yorùbá | 2016 Jul 15-2017 Jan 8 | ||
| Inventing Impressionism | 2016 Oct 21-2017 Jun 11 | ||
| Intermission | 2016 Dec 16-2017 Jun 30 | ||
| DiMoDA 2.0: Morphe Presence | 2017 Jan 6-2017 May 14 | ||
| Luminous Lace | 2017 Jan 27-Jul 30 | ||
| Dorner Prize | 2017 Feb 16-Jun 4 | ||
| A Changing Reflection Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th-21st Centuries | 2017 Apr 21-2023 Sep 30 | ||
| Altered States: Etching in Late 19th Century Paris | 2017 Jun 30-Dec 3 | digital | |
| Stranger Than Paradise | 2017 Jul 14-2018 Feb 25 | ||
| Ariel Jackson: The Origin of the Blues | 2017 July 21-2018 Feb 25 | ||
| Designing Traditions Biennial V: Student Exploration in the Asian Textile Collection | 2017 Aug 11-2018 Jan 14 | ||
| Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now From the British Museum | 2017 Oct 6-2018 Jan 7 | Yes | |
| Un/Settled | 2017 Dec 22-2018 Jul 8 | ||
| Justin Kimball: Elegy | 2017 Dec 22-2018 Jul 8 | ||
| From the Loom of a Goddess: Reverberations of Guatemalan Mayan Weaving | 2018 Feb 23-Aug 19 | ||
| RISD Faculty Exhibition and Forum | 2018 Feb 23-Mar 25 | ||
| Theresa Ganz: Storm Diptych | 2018 Mar 23-Oct 14 | ||
| United Histories | 2018 Mar 23-Aug 12 | ||
| The Phantom of Liberty: Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection | 2018 May 4-Dec 30 | ||
| Former Glory | 2018 Jul 27-2019 Jan 20 | ||
| Collective Recollection | 2018 Jul 27-2019 Jan 20 | ||
| Repair and Design Futures | 2018 Oct 5-2019 Jun 30 | ||
| Bona Drag: An Incomplete History of Drag and Cross-Gender Performance in Film and Video (Part 1) | 2018 Nov 2-2019 Mar 3 | ||
| Visions and Revisions | 2019 Feb 15-Aug 4 | ||
| Bona Drag: An Incomplete History of Drag and Cross-Gender Performance in Film and Video (Part 2) | 2019 Mar 5-Jul 7 | ||
| Dorner Prize | 2019 Mar 25-Jun 2 | ||
| Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970 | 2019 May 3-Dec 1 | Yes | |
| David Hartt | 2019 Jul 19-Nov 3 | ||
| Raid the Ice Box Now | 2019 Sep 13-Nov 1 | digital | |
| Raid the Ice Box with Sebastian Ruth: Witnessing | 2019 Sep 13-2020 Nov 29 | ||
| Raid the Ice Box with Paul Scott: New American Scenery | 2019 Sep 13-2021 Jul 11 | ||
| Raid the Ice Box with Pablo Bronstein: Historical Rhode Island Decor | 2019 Sep 20-2021 Jul 11 | ||
| The Art and Design of Spider Silk | 2019 Sep 27-2020 Apr 19 | ||
| Raid the Ice Box with Simone Leigh: Loam | 2019 Oct 18-2020 Dec 13 | ||
| Raid the Ice Box with Nicole Eisenman: Tonight We are Going Out and We are All Getting Hammered | 2019 Nov 1-2021 Feb 28 | ||
| Raid the Ice Box with Beth Katleman: Games of Chance | 2019 Nov 8-2021 Jul 4 | ||
| Raid the Ice Box with Triple Canopy: Can I Leave You? | 2019 Nov 22-2020 Oct 25 | ||
| Raid the Ice Box with Adam Pendleton: The Heart of the Matter | 2020 Jan 24-Jul 19 | ||
| Raid the Ice Box with Pablo Helguera: Inventarios / Inventories | 2020 Feb 7-2021 Jan 3 | ||
| Text, Paratext, and Images | 2020 Sep 1-2021 Feb 28 | ||
| Shazia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities | 2020 Oct 2-2021 Jan 24 | ||
| It Comes in many Forms: Islamic Art from the Collection | 2020 Oct 23-2021 Jun 6 | ||
| Dorner Prize | 2020 Oct 30-2020 Dec 31 | ||
| Black Flyyy | 2020 Nov 13-2021 May 2 | ||
| Defying the Shadow | 2020 Oct 20-2021 Jun 6 |