The mission of the Fine Arts Program is to collect art and to organize exhibitions. The Program has nonprofit, tax-exempt status under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. Acquisitions of artwork are made possible through cash contributions or donations from private citizens and foundations. Since the founding of the Fine Arts Program in 1975, the collection has grown to include over 400 works of art.

See below for a list of recent past exhibitions, which were organized by the Fine Arts Program at the Federal Reserve Board. These exhibitions highlighted individual artists, art movements, and thematic trends. Artworks for these shows were borrowed from museums, galleries, libraries, artists, private collectors, and central banks from around the world. The Fine Arts Program also collaborated with foreign central banks by featuring exhibitions from their collections, when the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings are held in Washington, D.C.

Views of Paris and Its Festivals: Works from Banque de France and Musée Carnavalet
October 12, 2010 – January 28, 2011

Janet Fish: Color, Light, Pattern
March 22, 2010 – September 10, 2010

Jean-François Rauzier: Hyper-Photo Dreamscapes
January 25, 2010 – July 9, 2010

Dan Namingha: A Painterly Approach to Native American Symbolism
October 13, 2009 – March 5, 2010

Robert Kushner: American Tapestry and Recent Acquisitions
March 30, 2009 – September 14, 2009

Steve Penley's Portraits of Presidents of the United States
January 21, 2009 – May 29, 2009

Joseph Holston: Harmony, Color, and Form
October 6, 2008 – March 6, 2009

Baseball at the Board
June 23, 2008 – October 24, 2008

Light of the Southwest: Paintings by Cynthia Littlefield
February 25, 2008 – September 26, 2008

Selected Paintings from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration
February 25, 2008 – September 26, 2008

Contemporary Turkish Painting from the Art Collection of the Central Bank of Turkey
October 21, 2007 – January 18, 2008

Robert Kushner: Wild Gardens
May 14, 2007 – September 14, 2007

Howard Pyle and Illustrators of the Brandywine School
October 10, 2006 – March 30, 2007

The Face of Contemporary Art in China
April 3, 2006 – August 18, 2006

The Art of Hungary: 1915 Revisited
September 26, 2005 – December 2, 2005

A Collection in Formation, 1975-2005
May 24, 2005 – August 19, 2005

Roger Brown
February 1, 2005 – April 15, 2005

Romanian Artists in Paris, 1880-1910
September 27, 2004 – November 30, 2004

Rodin: In His Own Words
May 3, 2004 – August 22, 2004

The Photography of Arthur Wesley Dow
January 22, 2004 – April 2, 2004

Complexity
September 26, 2003 – November 28, 2003

Synergy: Alfonso Ossorio and Jackson Pollack, 1950-51
May 12, 2003 – August 1, 2003

Images From the Storm: Private Robert Knox Sneden
January 15, 2003 – March 25, 2003

The Emergence of Modern Greek Painting
September 30, 2002 – December 3, 2002