Past Exhibitions
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January 28, 2011 - May 9, 2011Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryThe devastation wrought by World War I led to virulent critiques of reason, progress, and a kind of nationalism that had used technology to mostly destructive ends. International Dada movements during the War... more -
November 3, 2010 - January 3, 2011Kemper Art Museum, Saligman Family AtriumJoe Deal was among the most influential American landscape photographers of the latter 20th century, known for austere, almost abstract images that balanced depictions of the natural and man-made worlds. Joe... more -
October 8, 2010 - January 10, 2011Kemper Art Museum, Ebsworth and College of Art GalleriesBrazilian conceptual artist Rivane Neuenschwander creates playful, ephemeral and often participatory artworks that blur distinctions between author and viewer, object and memory, permanence and temporality.... more -
August 20, 2010 - September 23, 2010Kemper Art Museum, College of Art GalleryThis exhibition showcases works of large-scale postwar abstraction from the Kemper Art Museum's permanent collection. The selection presents a cross-section of proliferating strategies and approaches to... more -
August 20, 2010 - January 10, 2011Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryStudying the Art Object: Materials and Methods brings together a diverse but select group of paintings and sculpture from the Kemper Art Museum’s permanent collection that pose a variety of questions relating... more -
May 21, 2010 - July 18, 2010Kemper Art Musuem, Teaching GalleryOver the last three centuries, artists have adopted comic strategies as a vital mode of political, social, and institutional critique. They have employed a range of expressive forms, including caricature, the... more -
May 7, 2010 - July 26, 2010Kemper Art Museum, Ebsworth GalleryThe Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has acquired some exceptional new photographs over the last few years through generous gifts and purchases, which we are pleased to celebrate in the current exhibition Focus... more -
May 7, 2010 - July 26, 2010Kemper Art MuseumThe exhibition features thesis projects by the 2010 Master of Fine Arts candidates in Washington University's Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The opening... more -
February 5, 2010 - April 19, 2010Kemper Art MuseumSharon Lockhart is well known for her formally strict and conceptually precise films and photographs that often explore social subject matter. As much as her photographs reveal cinematic qualities of staging... more -
February 5, 2010 - April 19, 2010Kemper Art Museum, College of Art GalleryAllison Smith is known for creating large-scale installations that critically engage popular forms of historical reenactment, along with crafts and other traditional cultural conventions, to redo, restage, and... more