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National Portrait Gallery Announces Winners of the Seventh Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and Opening of “The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture"

Kameron Neal Receives $25,000 and New Commission as First-Prize Winner of the National Triennial

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National Portrait Gallery Premieres Season Six of PORTRAITS Podcast

Hosted by the museum’s director, Kim Sajet, PORTRAITS explores art, biography, history and identity.

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National Portrait Gallery Announces Winner of the 2024 Director’s Essay Prize for Scholars in the Field of Portraiture

Laura Katzman Receives $3,000 and Will Present Lecture Oct. 15

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National Portrait Gallery Announces Jurors and Call for Entries for Next Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

Selected Artworks Will Be Exhibited in Major Exhibition and Tour

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Silhouette Sleuthing

How a curator unlocked the secrets in an arsenic-laced portrait album

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Celebrate Women's History Month with "Women of a Certain Age"

A digital exhibition on Google Arts & Culture

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National Portrait Gallery Announces Michael Hussey as Its New Director of History

Restorative History and Research

Peter Cooper and Family, unidentified daguerreotypist, three-quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied color, c. 1850. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

“Family Ties: Daguerreotype Portraits” and “Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples”

Two Exhibitions of Early American Photography on View in July

Septima Poinsette Clark by Brian Lanker, gelatin silver print, 1987. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Partial gift of Lynda Lanker, and museum purchase with the support of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Agnes Gund, Kate Kelly and George Schweitzer, Lyndon J. Barrois and Janine Sherman Barrois, and Mark and Cindy Aron. Copyright Brian Lanker Archive.

“I Dream a World: Selections From Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women”

An exhibition of portraits by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker.

National Portrait Gallery Announces Season Four of Its PORTRAITS Podcast

PORTRAITS creates a space for listeners to explore the layers of the human experience—both within and outside of the museum’s walls.

“Birthright” (still) by Maren Hassinger, 2005. Single-channel video (color, sound), 12:12 mins. Edition of 5 plus 2 artist’s proofs. Courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.

National Portrait Gallery Announces Premiere of “Birthright” by Artist Maren Hassinger

Long-Awaited Performance Is a Commission of the Portrait Gallery’s “IDENTIFY” series

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Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company to Debut Two New Performances

“El Muro/The Wall” premieres May 17, 18 and 19 followed by the debut of “A Tribute to Maya Lin” Oct. 16, 23 and 30

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National Portrait Gallery Extends 'The Obama Portraits Tour' to San Francisco and Boston

Multi-City Tour Featuring Artworks by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald Extended Through October

Triennial Teen Portrait Competition

National Portrait Gallery Announces National Teen Portrait Competition

Teen competition to coincide with "The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today" featuring the latest in contemporary portraiture from across the U.S.

Portraits from finalists of the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Courtesy Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery Accepting Entries for Sixth Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is seeking submissions now through Jan. 29, 2021, to its sixth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery and host of PORTRAITS

Museum's "PORTRAITS" podcast examines the stories beyond the canvas

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the second season of its PORTRAITS podcast, which explores the real stories of extraordinary people.

Frances Arnold by Katy Grannan. A commission of the National Portrait Gallery. Credit: “Frances Arnold” by Katy Grannan, pigment print, 2018. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © Katy Grannan.

A Host of Contemporary Luminaries Join the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection

The National Portrait Gallery announces new commissions and first look at the portraits of 2019's Portrait of a Nation honorees.

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