Exhibitions
Transformer presents six, 5-6 week long exhibitions per year, within our exhibition space, at cultural institutions throughout DC and beyond, and via online formats.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
A Good Recluse is Hard to Find
Steve Dore
April 6 - May 18, 2024
Past Exhibitions
2024
MK Bailey: BUCOLIA
February 3 - March 16, 2024
2023
Transformer’s Annual FlatFile Storefront Exhibition: APRICITY
December 16, 2023 – January 13, 2024
The Invincible Visible
November 4 - 18, 2023
Felipe Pereira Gonçalves: BAY SICK: AN EXCURSION OF PERVERSION
September 23 - October 28, 2023
AM I THE PAST, AM I THE FUTURE
JULY 8 - AUGUST 19, 2023
Beth Yashnyk & Fanni Somogyi: STICKY ENTANGLEMENTS
May 6 - June 17, 2023
ANTHONY LE: GOLDEN LOOKING HOUR
March 11 - April 15, 2023
Holly Bass & Maps Glover: Double Rainbow: future archives
January 21, 2023 – February 25, 2023
2022
TRANSFORMER20 RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
NOVEMBER 11 – DECEMBER 10, 2022
Artise Fletcher: Commemorative Strands
September 17 – October 22, 2022
JORDANA RUBENSTEIN-EDBERG: DEEPER ROOTS REALTY (COMMUNITY LED DESIGN)
AUGUST 24 – SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
Adele Kenworthy: to carry within us an orchard
AUGUST 10 – 20, 2022
Vonne Napper: Choose Your Gender
JULY 27 – AUGUST 6, 2022
Chris Combs: The Algorithm Will See You Now
JULY 9 – JULY 23, 2022
THE NOMADIC HOUSE PROJECT
JUNE 4 – JUNE 30, 2022
VERY SAD LAB: THE INCUBATOR
FEB 05 – MAR 19, 2022
AZIKIWE MOHAMMED: SHARED WORDS, SPLIT CATFISH AND SWEET TEA: AN OPEN PLATFORM FOR DISCUSSION
APRIL 09 – MAY 21, 2022
2021
IRIDESCENCE
DEC 4, 2021 – JAN 15, 2022
ENVISIONING
NOV 6 - NOV 21, 2021
OTRO TIEMPO: MICHAELANGELO RODRIGUEZ
SEPT 18 - OCT 23, 2021
E18: PERFORMANCE ART
JUL 17 — AUG 14, 2021
Looking In/Looking Out
MAR 20 - JUL 10, 2021
Evoking the Senses
DEC 12 – FEB 20, 2021
2020
Queer Threads: Curious Spaces
SEPT 26 – NOV 14, 2020
Mapping the Future World
AUG 17 – SEPT 12, 2020
E17: Zines
AUG 1—SEP 5, 2020
Which Yesterday Is Tomorrow
MAR 14 - JUL 18, 2020
PRESENT TENSE: DC PUNK AND DIY, RIGHT NOW
JAN 18 —FEB 29, 2020
2019
Collect and Gather
DEC 7 - 28, 2019
NORMCORE
SEP 7 - OCT 10, 2019
The Revolution Will Be Televised
JUL 20 - AUG 24, 2019
Transceiver Radio
MAY 03 - JUN 08, 2019
where we came from & where we are going
MAR 09 - APR 20 2019
David R. Ibata: I See A Darkness
JAN 12 - FEB 23 2019
2018
Break Time Contemplations: Aristeidis Lappas
OCT 29 – DEC 10, 2018
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND: IN THE NAME OF ART
SEPT 15 – OCT 20, 2018
E15: A Body to Follow
JUL 14 – AUG18, 2018
The Environmental Performance Agency (EPA): Department of Weedy Affairs
MAY 5 - JUN16, 2018
Queer Tropics, Organized by Pelican Bomb
MAR 10 – APR 21, 2018
Adrienne Gaither: HOW I GOT OVER
Transformer’s 15th Annual DC Artist Solo Exhibition
JAN 13 - FEB 24, 2018
2017
Aloud: Rose Eken & Camilla Reyman
Transformer’s 7th Annual Storefront Exhibition
OCT 21 - DEC 2, 2017
Nevermind, Azizam
SEP 9 - OCT 14, 2017
homegrown
JUL 12 – AUG 23, 2017
Bloodlines
Curated by Martina Dodd
MAY 20 - JUN 24, 2017
MERIDIANS LAB: Experiments In Art, Change & Praxis,
Jess Solomon & Co.
APR 8 – MAY 6, 2017
LUMINIFEROUS AETHER — Chandi Kelley and Marissa Long
FEB 04 - MAR 25, 2017
Johab Silva: I Want Order
DEC 10 - JAN 21, 2017
2016
Martha Wilson & Franklin Furnace
NOV 12 - DEC 18 2016
Andrea Polichetti: smug guy and a lady, pump it up, all around.
NOV 02 - NOV 30 2016
Defy/Define
SEP 17 - OCT 22 2016
Exile Books @ Transformer
JUL 07 - AUG 20 2016
NoMuNoMu: Gift Shop
MAY 14 - JUN 18 2016
Southern Constellations
APR 02 - MAY 29 2016
No Sharps, No Flats
MAR 17 - APR 30 2016
Nao Bustamante & Marcus Kuiland-Nazario: Prim@s
FEB 04 - MAR 05 2016
Hannah Spector: We Lost Our Teeth For A Second Time
DEC 12, 2015 - JAN 23, 2016
2015
Hélène Garcia: Let’s Drink a Dozen Roses
NOV 7 - 29, 2015
Temporary Art Repair Shop
OCT 03 - OCT 31, 2015
Exploring Social Practice
SEP 24 - OCT 22, 2015
E12: Social Practice
AUG 22 - SEP 12, 2015
Interspatial
MAY 09 - JUN 13, 2015
Before the Law
MAR 14 - APR 25, 2015
Locally Sourced
JAN 24 - MAR 15, 2015
2014
Jameson Magrogan: Oil, Then Acrylic
DEC 13 - FEB 14, 2015
Hej!
NOV 01 - 30, 2014
Tamar Ettun: My Hands Are the Shape of My Height
SEP 20, 2014 - OCT 25, 2014
Promised Land
AUG 01 - SEP 07, 2014
E11: Coda
JUL 23 - AUG 10, 2014
FlatFile Summer Socials
JUL 09 - AUG 09, 2014
Float
MAY 17 - JUN 21, 2014
Atmosphere
MAR 30 - MAY 04, 2014
Homo Cats: Fight the Power
FEB 08 - MAR 15, 2014
2013
Jessica Cebra: Cave
DEC 14, 2013 - JAN 25, 2014
Chris Rackley: Protosystems
NOV 2 - 30, 2013
A Modest Occupation
SEP 14 - OCT 26, 2013
E10: Conceptual Art
JUL 11 - AUG 17, 2013
Terminators
MAY 11 - JUN 22, 2013
Expansions
MAR 17 - APR 21, 2013
Forest Z. Allread: Cabinets of Curiosity
JAN 19 - FEB 23, 2013
2012
felipe pereira goncalves: MAGIC
NOV 17 - DEC 08, 2012
My Barbarian: Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale
SEP 22 - NOV 10, 2012
ReMixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words
JUL 24 - AUG 04, 2012
E9: Design - Mass Fad Discharge
JUL 13 - AUG 18, 2012
Sean Lynch: Bandits in the Ruins
JUN 09 - JUL 07, 2012
Bread and Butter
APR 07 - MAY 19, 2012
2:46 and Thereafter
FEB 16 - MAR 25, 2012
2011
Lily deSaussure: Double Dare Ya
DEC 10, 2011 - JAN 28, 2012
Storefront Video
OCT 29 - DEC 04, 2011
transformers
SEP 17 - OCT 22, 2011
E8: Sculpture
JUL 7 - AUG 13, 2011
This is Hawai'i
MAY 21 - JUN 25, 2011
Sketch
APR 02 - MAY 07, 2011
Lauren Rice: Heirlooms
FEB 05 - MAR 12, 2011
2010
ALPTRAUM!
DEC 11, 2010 - JAN 15, 2011
Tang: Freedom & Its Owner
OCT 30 - DEC 04, 2010
Rebecca Key: Archetype
SEP 10 - OCT 15, 2010
E7: Tetrad
JUN 25 - AUG 14, 2010
Nancy Bannon: Cornfield
MAY 13 - MAY 29, 2010
Sustainability Lab
MAY 01 - JUN 12, 2010
Mia Feuer: Suspended Landscape
MAR 05 - APR 17, 2010
Snow Globe
JAN 16 - FEB 20, 2010
2009
Geoffrey Aldridge: Hole in the Wall
NOV 21 - DEC 26, 2009
Give & Take / Da y Toma
JUL 30 - AUG 20, 2009
No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents
JUN 24 - JUN 28, 200
Brain Storm
OCT 15, 2009 - JAN 03, 2010
E6: In Situ
JULY 11 - AUG 15, 2009
Fabrication of Blindness / Fabricating Rain
MAR 21 - APR 25, 2009
Ink Storm
SEPT 18 - OCT 31, 2009
Domesticated
MAY 16 - JUN 20, 2009
Summer Camp
FEB 07 - MAR 07, 2009
2008
Paper Trail
DEC 12, 2008 - JAN 24, 2009
If You Didn't Know What This Was...
NOV 01 - DEC 06, 2008
ID-entity
SEP 12 - OCT 18, 2008
E5: RANGEFINDER
JUN 28 - AUG 02, 2008
Here & Now
MAY 10 - JUN 14, 2008
HATNIM LEE PHOTOGRAPHS September 2006 - December 2007
MAR 22 - APR 26, 2008
absence presence
FEB 02 - MAR 08, 2008
2007
wall/paper
DEC 15, 2007 - JAN 19, 2008
Sink Sank Sunk
OCT 27 - DEC 01, 2007
SASS
SEP 15 - OCT 20, 2007
E4: Station to Station
JUL 11 - AUG 4, 2007
Not only A, but also B
MAY 13 - JUN 16, 2007
Natural (dis)Order
MAR 24 - APR 28, 2007
Seen
FEB 03 - MAR 10, 2007
2006
Drawn to It
DEC 16, 2006 - JAN 20, 2007
Gentle Reader
OCT 28 - DEC 02, 2006
Appropriately Yours
SEP 09 - OCT 14, 2006
E3: Painters
JUL 01- AUG 05, 2006
Comfort Potential
MAY 13 - JUN 17, 2006
Long Distance Relationship
MAY 05 - JUN 03, 2006
dis/connected
APR 28 - MAY 06, 2006
Itsy Bitsy Bollocks
MAR 18 - APR 22, 2006
The Relationship Show
JAN 28 - MAR 04, 2006
2005
Little Creatures
DEC 10, 2005 - JAN 14 ,2006
Past/Perfect
OCT 22 - NOV 26, 2005
Jason Zimmerman: Fair Game
SEP 10 - OCT 15, 2005
E2: Carving a Path
JUL 9- AUG 6, 2005
We Could Be Heroes
MAY 21 - JUN 25, 2005
Cynthia Connolly Photgs.
APR 02 - MAY 07, 2005
Touch & Go
FEB 05 - MAR 19, 2005
2004
Rejoice
DEC 11, 2004 - JAN 22, 2005
Cryptic Communications
NOV 06 - DEC 04, 2004
sub-TEXT
SEP 18 - OCT 16, 2004
E1: Contemplating Process
JUL 17 - AUG 14, 2004
Transformers
MAY 15 - JUN 26, 2004
Daytrippers
MAR 20 - APR 24, 2004
Gleaming the Screen
FEB 07 - MAR 06, 2004
2003
The Out-of-Towners
DEC 13, 2003 - JAN 17, 2004
(stud)wall
NOV 08 - NOV 29, 2003
The Peep Show
SEP 13 - OCT 18, 2003
Super!
MAY 30 - JUL 06, 2003
Captain 20's Children (C20C)
MAR 01 - APR 12, 2003
Reflexance
JAN 11 - FEB 08, 2003
2002
Big Mind
NOV 23 - DEC 28, 2002
BOOK
SEP 14 - OCT 19, 2002
Mica and Misaki
JUN 08 - JUL 13, 2002