Past Exhibitions
Exhibitions
August 28 - October 24, 2025
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Lee Sipe – Precious Vessels, Asian Spirit
Sipe is a two-time winner of the Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, Best in Show, at the S.C. State Fair. She has also been awarded Best in Shows in Carolina’s Got Art, Charlotte, N.C. and Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, S.C. She was the winner of the Basketry Division, NICHE…
August 28 - October 24, 2025
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Chase Lanier – Within the Margin of Err/or
Chase Lanier began producing art to make sense of the physical world around him and his experience of it. He paid close attention to how everything was organized and trained his hand to replicate what he observed. Soon he was assigning personal meaning to shapes and colors while simultaneously using…
June 13, 2025
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Horizons: The Mary Hinson Flower Show featuring the art of Brian Rutenberg
The Sumter County Gallery of Art presented "Horizons – the Mary Hinson Flower Show," an exhibition and flower show featuring the vibrant coastal landscapes of artist Brian Rutenberg. The show runs from April 17 to June 13, 2025, with a ticketed preview party on April 17, showcasing floral designs…
August 29 - November 1, 2024
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Michelle Lisa Polissaint: Embodied Memories
Polissaint, a Haitian-American artist based in Miami, uses textiles, photography, and community engagement to explore personal and collective memory, identity, and human connection. Her work often reflects her experiences as a queer Haitian-American woman and emphasizes fleeting moments of everyday…
August 29 - November 1, 2024
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Kevin Cole: Where Do We Go from Here? Gerrymandering and Voting
This exhibition addresses the painful history of voter suppression and gerrymandering, especially targeting African American communities. Cole explores the ongoing struggle for voting rights through powerful works that incorporate symbolic elements like neckties, referencing lynchings and voting…
February 23 - February 24, 2023
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Sumter Collects III - SCGA 20th Anniversary Exhibition
The Sumter County Gallery of Art celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Sumter County Cultural Center. The gallery moved from a small house on North Main to its current modern space in 2003, thanks to the efforts of Roger Ackerman and Katie Levi. Its inaugural exhibition in the new location was…
January 1 - January 12, 2023
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All That We Carry: The Epic Stitchers and Friends, Curated by Cookie Washington
This large-scale earth-based art exhibition featured quilts, indigo textiles, sweetgrass baskets, ceramics, and more. It highlights the artistic expressions of Black artists, particularly focusing on themes of personal and collective journeys, emotions, and cultural history. Inspired by Tiya…
September 3 - December 3, 2021
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Norman Rockwell: American Chronicles
The Sumter County Gallery of Art (SCGA) hosted "Norman Rockwell: American Chronicles," organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, from September 3 to December 3, 2021. The exhibition features 15 original paintings, 19 prints, magazine tearsheets, and posters, showcasing Rockwell’s portrayal of…
Exhibition Archive
Details about the exhibitions listed here are available upon request. Please email: Curator@SumterGallery.com.
- Sumter Artists; Guild Winner's Exhibition & Pathfinders Art Show 2025
- Roni Henderson - Solace & Bob Warner - Out Of This World
- Esther Bynum Sharp - For The Birds & Amanda Yoder - At Home: Reflections on Time & Material
- Sumter Artists' Guild Show 2024
- Jerry Siegel – Rooted In Place: Images From The Black Belt
- Pathfinders Art Show 2024 & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show 2024
- Charles Basham – Bathed in Light & Mildred and Elizabeth
- Christopher Lane – “Circle of Life” & the Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Exhibition
- In Kyoung Chun – Glass Houses & Emma Knight – Twisted Eden
- Sumter Artists’ Guild Exhibition 2023
- Clarence Heyward – About a Dream & Gabrielle Torres – the Paradox
- Wilfred Spoon – Quiet Ground & Micah Green – Hands On, The South
- Jordan Sheridan – Spellbound & Thomas The Younger – “Be One Traveler”
- Dogon Krigga – Omphalos: The Converging Of Antique Futures & Jeremy R Brooks – Looking Back/Being Forward
- Diane Kilgore Condon – “Wild Kingdom” & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Exhibition
- Ecos – Resonances Of Sc Latino Stories & Susan Harbage Page – Between The River And The Wall
- Beverly Y. Smith – Ancestral Threads & Darien Arikoski-johnson – Fractured Fictions
- Susan Lenz – Last Words & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Exhibition
- The Supper Table & Maria Britton – Dream Bodies
- Craig Crawford – “In The Wake” & Chotsani Elaine Dean – “Trading Post: Huys De Hope” & Antonio Modesto Milian – “Indestructible”
- Stephen Chesley – Field, Trees, Sky
- Carolita Cantrell – Spirited Vision
- Andrew Blanchard – Saturday Night, Sunday Morning & Cedric Umoja – That Old Black Gospel & Dogon Krigga – Afroglyph
- Shanequa Gay – I Come As Us & Lorna Ruth Galloway – Halftone Half-Lives
- Saba Taj – Muslims Are Awesome! & William Paul Thomas – Loved Ones
- Deane Ackerman – Radiant Expressions & Terrell Clark – Eyes Of Havana
- Gil Ngolé – The Midnight Walks & Sheena Rose – This Strange Land
- Michelle Van Parys/john Hathaway/joshua Flint
- Willie Cole & Michaela Pilar Brown
- Sumter Artists’ Guild Show
- Esteban Del Valle & Antoine Williams
- Uncommon Folk – Selections From The Sc State Museum
- The Sc Watermedia Society & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show & Carl Bell
- Michael Lavine: Precious 023 & Mary Bentz Gilkerson: Minervaville & Clay Burnette Aldwyth
- Sumter Artists’ Guild Show
- Tarleton Blackwell
- The Paternal Suit: Heirlooms From The F. Scott Hess Family Foundation
- The Sc Watermedia Society & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show
- Christopher Sims & Lori Larusso
- Question Bridge: Black Males & Stacy Lynn Waddell
- Sumter Artists’ Guild Show
- Jim Arendt: Selvage & Elizabeth Brim
- Sumter Collects Ii
- The Sc Watermedia Society & Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show
- Aldwyth – Ebb And Flow
- Diana Farfán – The Dream Life Of Broken Toys & Jody Servon And Lorene Delany-Ullman – Saved
- Candice Ivy – Black Tide & Linda Fantuzzo – The Space Between
- André Leon Gray – “…until Victory Is Won” & Sheila Pree Bright – Young Americans
- Benny Andrews – The John Lewis Series
- Sarah Hobbs – Modern Angst
- Shaun Cassidy & Tom Stanley – Collaboration Of Fragments
- Phillip Millen - 1994-2008
- Ronald Gonzalez: Objects as Figures, Figures as Objects & David Voros: The Myth in the Mirror
- Susan Harbage Page: Postcards From Home
- Sumter Artist’s Guild Show
- Chris Clamp: Back to the Future & Brian Rust: Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Force of Nature: Site Installations by Ten Japanese Artists
- Eileen Blyth: Reimagining Purpose
- Bruce Chandler: Lush Life
- NBSC Oil Painter's Open Invitational & Cara-Lin Getty: Explorations
- The South Carolina Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibit & the Sumter Artist’s Guild Winners Show
- Selections from the South Carolina Arts Commission Collection
- NBSC Oil Painter’s Open Invitational & The Art of Minnie Deschamps
- The South Carolina Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibit & the Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show
- “Juan Logan: Close Inspection”
- The Sumter Artists Guild Show
- “Full Circle: A Retrospective” The Art of Zernie Smith & “Outlook: Charleston” Photographs by Laura Moses