1995
The Center received the Governor's Award for Service to the Arts, leading to recognition of its statewide importance and the successful completion of a $6.2-million expansion campaign.

1998
The new, state-of-the-art Yellowstone Art Museum was unveiled.

2000
Monet came to Montana, along with other international artists, through the Masterpieces exhibition on loan from the collection of William I. Koch.

2002
The Museum offered an outstanding array of exhibitions that included An American Anthem: 300 Years of Painting from the Butler Institute of American Art, shown together with The Most Difficult Journey: The Poindexter Collections of Modernist Paintings and Rodin's Obsession: The Gates of Hell. The year finished with a display of Ansel Adams photographs that was one of the best attended of exhibitions in the Museum's history. The Museum was recognized for its outstanding educational programming with a grant from The E.L. Wiegand Foundation.

2003
The Museum began its four-year series commemorating the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial. Our retrospective exhibition of works by preeminent sculptor Deborah Butterfield traveled nationwide. The Museum was host to a collection of Israeli antiquities titled Bethsaida: Life Revealed in the Layers. Education continued to be a bright spot with the receipt of a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services to expand educational outreach.

2004
The Yellowstone Art Museum celebrated its 40th year of bringing historic and regional contemporary art to the people of Montana and tourists from across the country and around the world. This was also the year that Montana became acquainted with the prints of Andy Warhol, courtesy of The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation of Portland, Oregon.

2005
Former Senior Curator Gordon McConnell and former Executive Director Terry Melton were honored with solo exhibitions, and the Museum celebrated the career of Montana artist Kevin Red Star with the retrospective exhibition titled Running Rabbit. The Museum also was pleased to share the accomplishments of its sister institution, the Archie Bray Foundation of Helena, through A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence.