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• Exhibition of Contemporary Hawaiian Art
• February 9 - June 29, 1997
• The first exhibit of contemporary native Hawaiian art to visit Canada, Maui: Turning Back the Sky features 50 works in media ranging from paintings and photography to sculpture to fiber art. The pieces evoke Hawaiian history, family geneologies, astonomy and the navigational technology of the Polynesian people.

• October 13, 2003 - October 31, 2004.
• MOA Curator of Ethnology Pam Brown (Heiltsuk), guest curator Tanya Bob (Tahltan), and members of the Tahltan community create the first ever museum exhibit of Tahltan First Nations art and culture. The Tahltan live in the villages of Iskut and Dease Lake on the Stewart-Cassiar Highway, and Telegraph Creek, below the Grand Canyon of the Stikine River. This exhibit has been developed collaboratively to highlight the profound and continuing links between the Tahltan and their land, culture, and heritage.

• 1963

• March 28 - June 10, 2006 (Gallery 10)
• In partnership with the UBC Dept of Latin American Studies, UBC School of Social Work and Family Studies, the Liu Institute for Global Issues, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and Vida y Paz, MOA is pleased to present a series of photographs by Colombian photo-journalist Jesús Abad Colorado. The photographs document contemporary effects of war and displacement within Colombia, and the ways in which those affected express their resiliency. The exhibit will precede the World Peace Forum at UBC (June 23-28, 2006), and is intended to spark critical thinking about issues of global significance.

• July 10, 2007 - April 28, 2008
• Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas mixes it up at MOA with three site-specific installations inspired by the Museum’s current Renewal Project. Michael’s works incorporate media as diverse as car hoods and copper leaf (“Coppers from the Hood”), argillite dust and an entire canoe-bearing Pontiac Firefly (“Pedal to the Meddle”), and archaeology storage trays and Haida manga (“Bone Box”). In the process, he brings his own brand of humour, narrative, and social commentary to jumpstart new debates in the Museum’s changing spaces. Installations curated by Karen Duffek, Curator, Contemporary Visual Arts. Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts for their support of this project.

Use for: One Mind, One Heart

• December 18, 2012 - April 21, 2013 (Multiversity Galleries)
• One Mind, One Heart is the response of the Heiltsuk Nation to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and to oil tanker traffic in their territories. The exhibit features the ancestral guardian ’Yágis swallowing an oil tanker trespassing in Heiltsuk waters. ’Yágis, the mask was created by ’Nusí, Heiltsuk artist and embodies the ancient teachings of the Heiltsuk to protect their land and seas against such perils as pipelines and oil tanker traffic in their waters. It also includes an iPad kiosk featuring films, photos of Heiltsuk territory, and community members protesting during the Joint Review Panel’s visit to Bella Bella. About the piece ’Nusí comments: “I created ’Yágis for One Mind, One Heart, an installation at the Museum of Anthropology to show my support in opposing the Enbridge Pipeline Project. He hunts down oil tankers and protects our territories and coast.”
• The installation was curated by Pam Brown, MOA curator in collaboration with the Heiltsuk Nation and ’Nusí, Ian Reid, Heiltsuk artist and activist.

Use for: Museum of Anthropology building

Use for: Great Hall

• December 14, 1993 - May 22, 1994 (Gallery 5)
• Guest Curator Robert Houle, Salteaux, presents artworks created as multiples, or works in series, by seven First Nations artists from Canada and the United States: Mary Anne Barkhouse (Kwakwaka’wakw), Dempsey Bob (Tahltan/Tlingit), Fay HeavyShield (Blood), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Flathead), Arthur Renwick (Haisla), Greg Staats (Mohawk), and Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee).