Poster House
Past exhibitions (27)
Just Frame It: How Nike Turned Sports Stars into Superheroes
Nike's iconic posters turn athletes into cultural heroes.
No Escape: The Legacy of Attica Lives!
Poster art tracing Attica's legacy of justice and reform
Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters
Vintage travel posters capture NYC's golden age of allure.
The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie
A focused look at the craft behind movie poster design through the career of Dawn Baillie, on view at Poster House in 2024.
Creating Community: Event Posters for AIGA NY
AIGA NY event posters celebrating design community
Advertising India's Sandalwood Film Industry
Decades of Sandalwood film posters and ephemera
Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde
Where modernist ambition met the marketplace
We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020
Five decades of environmental crisis posters in one show.
Advertising Type: Women in Digital Design
Pioneering women who defined digital advertising design
The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Typefaces from Emigre & FUSE
Landmark typefaces from Emigre & FUSE on show in NYC
Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party's visual identity as a tool of resistance.
Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art
A century of Japanese poster design at Poster House.
With My Little Eye: Warnings For The Homefront
Wartime propaganda posters and their power over civilians
Schoolgirls at War: French Propaganda Posters from World War I
French WWI propaganda posters starring the schoolgirl figure.
Masked Vigilantes On Silent Motorbikes
Vigilante iconography in poster art and graphic design
Air-India's Maharaja: Advertising Gone Rogue
Air India's Maharaja mascot: from ad icon to cultural legend.
Experimental Marriage: Women in Early Hollywood
Pioneering women who shaped early Hollywood cinema
Tokyo Olympiad: A Global Film
Global poster art for Ichikawa's 1964 Tokyo Olympics film.
Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property
Bold Art Nouveau posters by a trailblazing 1890s artist.
The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s
Bold Soviet film posters where art met revolution
Peter Max: Cosmic Advertising
Peter Max's cosmic art meets advertising at Poster House.
The Push Pin Legacy
The witty, eclectic vision that remade American design
You Won't Bleed Me: How Blaxploitation Posters Defined Cool & Delivered Profits
Iconic Blaxploitation movie posters: bold, Black, and revolutionary.
What's The Score? The Posters of LeRoy Neiman
LeRoy Neiman's vivid posters of sport and spectacle
Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age
Bold geometric posters by a Viennese graphic pioneer.
Freak Power
Posters as tools of counterculture and radical change.
Vera List & The Posters Of Lincoln Center
How one patron defined Lincoln Center's iconic poster art