Past Exhibitions
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- January 27, 2012 - April 16, 2012Kemper Art Museum, Garen GalleryHungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny is renowned for his dynamic practice incorporating multiple media, including sculpture, film, performance, and painting. He is perhaps best known for his disquieting and... more
- January 27, 2012 - April 16, 2012Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryThe past decade has seen an explosion of interest in the bearing of cognitive science on the arts. New brain imaging technologies and sophisticated psychological measures have provided insights into the artist... more
- September 9, 2011 - January 9, 2012Kemper Art Museum, Garen GalleryArgentine artist Tomás Saraceno is internationally recognized for his fantastic architectural proposals, pneumatic sculptures, and environmental installations. Tomás Saraceno will showcase newly... more
- September 9, 2011 - January 9, 2012Kemper Art Museum, Ebsworth GalleryThe world today feels increasingly globalized and interconnected, yet also ever more precarious, as old certainties—historical, ideological, and material—give way to pervasive threats of climate change,... more
- August 19, 2011 - January 15, 2012Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryAgainst the notion of a static world of things, the stress of the performative is on process, participant, event, execution, and expressive action. The concept of performativity first emerged in the United... more
- May 13, 2011 - July 18, 2011Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryThe human body—depicted nude, in allegorical form, in portraiture, or as an object mediated by the effects of modernization—is one of the oldest and most important subjects in Western art. This Teaching... more
- May 6, 2011 - August 1, 2011Kemper Art MuseumThe exhibition will feature thesis projects by the 2011 Master of Fine Arts candidates in Washington University's Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. 2011 MFA... more
- May 6, 2011 - August 1, 2011Kemper Art Museum, Garen GalleryConceptual artist Cosima von Bonin’s creative practice is distinguished by an exceptional interweaving of sculpture, installation, video, textiles, music, performance, and her own social network. Extensive... more
- January 28, 2011 - April 18, 2011Kemper Art MuseumAmerican contemporary artist Elizabeth Peyton is celebrated as one of the most important painters of her generation; during the last two decades she has also created numerous monotypes, lithographs, etchings,... more
- January 28, 2011 - April 18, 2011Kemper Art MuseumIsland Press: Three Decades of Printmaking surveys the work of Washington University’s Island Press from its beginnings as a traditional press shop in 1978, producing high quality artist editions in standard... more