Past Exhibitions
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- May 9, 2014 - August 24, 2014Garen GalleryA lampshade unfurled and dangling from the ceiling, a palimpsest of posters ripped and torn, a map eaten away by rain—spanning half a century, the artworks in this exhibition explore aesthetic engagement with... more
- May 9, 2014 - August 3, 2014Barney A. Ebsworth GalleryThis exhibition will feature thesis projects by 26 Master of Fine Arts students in Washington University’s Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The 2014 MFA... more
- January 31, 2014 - April 20, 2014Ebsworth GalleryThe history of the 20th and early 21st centuries is one that is scarred by incomprehensibly violent events with far-reaching effects. It is an era of world wars, totalitarian mass terror, social and ethnic... more
- January 31, 2014 - April 20, 2014Garen GalleryOn the Thresholds of Space-Making surveys the work of Shinohara Kazuo (1925–2006), one of Japan’s most influential architects of the postwar generation. A mathematician turned architect, Shinohara achieved... more
- January 31, 2014 - April 14, 2014Teaching GalleryMythic, idealized, religious, sexualized, romantic, misogynist, even feminist—images of women are inevitably laden with the freight of cultural and visual conventions surrounding the feminine, some as ancient... more
- September 20, 2013 - January 6, 2014Ebsworth GalleryRashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks is the first major solo museum exhibition to survey the career of this Chicago-born, New York-based artist. Using photography, painting, sculpture, and video, Johnson... more
- September 20, 2013 - January 6, 2014Garen GalleryAmerican Places explores the breadth of practices and responses to place in significant nineteenth-century American landscape painting in the Kemper Art Museum and St. Louis area collections. From New England... more
- June 5, 2013 - August 4, 2013Teaching GalleryFor many people, the history of Western art exists as an imagined litany of beautiful artworks, a chronology of idealized figures and finished objects. Featuring a selection of paintings, prints, photographs,... more
- May 3, 2013 - September 7, 2013Garen GalleryOne of the characteristics of St. Louis art collections, private as well as public, is an extraordinary wealth of modern and contemporary artworks that were made in Germany. Recently the Mildred Lane Kemper... more