National Portrait GalleryPenn Quarter / Chinatown

Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees

Now showing12 December 2025 – 17 October 2027Free

New portraits of the 2025 award winners — Jamie Dimon, Temple Grandin, Joy Harjo and Steven Spielberg — including commissions by David Lenz and Kate Capshaw.

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On now All of October 2026

Steven Spielberg smiles out of a black background, painted by his wife, Kate Capshaw, from a photograph of him in their breakfast nook. She said she wasn't going to put a camera in the portrait. The camera turns up anyway: the work includes a projection of films he shot on 8mm, 16mm and 35mm as a teenager, among them scenes from his 1964 debut, Firelight, never shown in public before.

The show hangs portraits of the four 2025 Portrait of a Nation award winners, each in a different medium. You also get Temple Grandin in oil, standing with cattle at the Wisconsin farm that built the first facility to her humane handling designs; poet laureate Joy Harjo in charcoal, graphite and ink, holding a saxophone; and Jamie Dimon in a photograph taken just after a Bloomberg Television interview.

Four works on the first floor make it a short stop. It's free with no timed tickets, open daily 11:30am to 7pm, through 17 October 2027.

Look for

Capshaw's The Picture Maker
Look for Spielberg smiling against black in oil on linen, paired with a projection of his teenage 8mm, 16mm and 35mm films, including scenes from 1964's Firelight.
The glory behind Temple Grandin
Look for the ring of coloured light around a shadow in the background, a brocken spectre and glory, behind Grandin standing among cattle at Waseda Farms in Wisconsin.
Joy Harjo with her saxophone
In charcoal, graphite and ink, Harjo wears a traditional Native skirt and holds a saxophone, a nod to her Mvskoke (Creek) heritage; the drawing had never been shown publicly before.