Past Exhibitions
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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 -
February 5, 2010 - May 17, 2010Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryAmerican Indian Art and Iconography brings together over twenty-five art objects and artifacts made by the indigenous peoples of North America. This Teaching Gallery exhibition, drawn from the Museum's... more -
September 18, 2009 - January 4, 2010Kemper Art MuseumDripping or flinging paint across a canvas; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition; flipping coins to compose musical scores--these are some of the processes used to... more -
September 18, 2009 - January 4, 2010Kemper Art Museum, College of Art GalleryImaginative and visionary while conceptually rigorous and complex, the projects in Metabolic City feature fanciful names--Bubble City, Floating City, Instant City, and Marine City--for proposed systems... more -
September 18, 2009 - January 4, 2010Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryDrawing from an array of popular media, documentary photography, and personal artworks, this exhibition explores the various visual representations of Japanese Americans during the 1940s. Within months after... more -
May 8, 2009 - July 27, 2009Kemper Art MuseumThe exhibition features thesis projects by twenty-seven master of fine arts candidates in Washington University's Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. MFA Candidates... more -
May 8, 2009 - July 27, 2009Kemper Art MuseumRirkrit Tiravanija interviews twelve international artists of his generation who rose to prominence in the 1990s in this installation featuring the film CHEW THE FAT (A documentary portrait by Rirkrit... more - May 8, 2009 - July 27, 2009Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryOrganized in conjunction with the Diversity Arts Youth Program to be held at Washington University in St. Louis this summer, this Teaching Gallery installation brings together works from the Kemper Art Museum'... more