Cleveland Museum of Art
Services: exhibition design, environmental graphics, signage, wayfinding, publications
Reopening of the East Wing galleries
When CMA reopened its East Wing galleries, Agnes Studio created large-scale outdoor banners flanking the 1916 building entrance. The banners featured a cloud detail from René Magritte’s The Secret Life (from CMA’s collection) and the word “FREE”—celebrating the Museum’s unique no-fee admission, summer weather, and the reopening of the historic building. We also developed the construction fence “portholes,” featuring a sampling of the Museum’s treasures.
Disembodied exhibition and publication
For this exhibition of portrait miniatures, we created an identity for the gallery entrance walls and an accompanying guidebook. The book is bound as a double gatefold so that text and images can be viewed at the same time.
Rembrandt in America exhibition and branding
Rembrandt in America was the first major exhibition to explore the collecting history of Rembrandt paintings in America. It brought together autographed works, and others thought to be by the artist when they entered American collections. The exhibition surveyed the extensive career of Rembrandt as a painter—including his studio and a broader network of adapters, followers, and copyists, and explored the issues of collecting, authenticity, and connoisseurship.
The Lure of Painted Poetry exhibition and branding
The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art explored how artists in Japan and Korea transformed the cultural influence of China into unique masterpieces.
