16 Sep - 27 Nov 2016 SENSATION: REMBRANDT'S FIRST PAINTINGS The Senses are the earliest surviving works by the most famous of all Dutch artists, Rembrandt (1606–1669). This was the very first time that the four surviving panel paintings were on show together in public.
18 Mar – 15 May 2016 ELIZABETH PRICE: A RESTORATION Elizabeth Price, winner of the 2013 Contemporary Art Society Award, created a new work in response to the collections and archives of the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers museums.
9 Jun – 13 Sep 2015 YOSHIDA HIROSHI: A JAPANESE ARTIST IN INDIA An exhibition highlighting Hiroshi Yoshida’s woodblock prints of India.
3 Mar – 31 May 2015 BENGAL AND MODERNITY: EARLY 20TH CENTURY ART IN INDIA An exhibition exploring themes of nationalism and modernism in early 20th-century India.
4 Dec 2014 – 16 Feb 2015 HIROSHIGE'S JAPAN: FIFTY THREE STATIONS OF THE TAIKODO ROAD Explore works by one of the great masters of the Japanese landscape print, Utagawa Hiroshige.
5 Aug – 30 Nov 2014 A VIEW OF CHINESE GARDENS Explore the 'Four Gentlemen' of Chinese flowers and garden scenes from the Ashmolean collections.
15 Apr – 27 Jul 2014 LURE OF THE EAST: SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRISTOPHER GANDY COLLECTION Lure of the East celebrated the life-long fascination for the Middle East of Christopher Gandy, whose collection was donated to the Ashmolean.
11 Mar – 14 Sep 2014 MICHAEL SULLIVAN: A LIFE OF ART AND FRIENDSHIP This exhibition, which included works by some of the most important artists in 20th century China, celebrated the life of the art historian and collector Michael Sullivan (1916-2013).