Past Exhibitions

  • January 19, 2023 - April 9, 2023
    Teaching Gallery
    This installation begins with the question, How does color operate? From the purely rational (systematic) to the intuitive and emotional (poetic), color occupies elusive territory. It is a perceptual...   more
  • October 20, 2022 - November 6, 2022
    Ann and Andrew Tisch Park
    Update as of Sunday, November 6: The Lest We Forget portraits have been reinstalled for the day.   On view October 20–November 6 in Ann and Andrew Tisch Park of Washington University, this exhibition...   more
  • September 23, 2022 - January 23, 2023
    Katharina Grosse is internationally celebrated for her large-scale, on-site works that she paints across built and natural environments. To date, less focus has been placed on her studio-based paintings. This...   more
  • September 23, 2022 - January 23, 2023
    Video Gallery
    The renowned contemporary artist Katharina Grosse, whose exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions is on view this fall at the Kemper Art Museum, is known for...   more
  • August 29, 2022 - January 2, 2023
    Teaching Gallery
    This installation prompts the question of how the visual culture of marketing and markets influences our lives. Bringing together modern and contemporary artworks that variously incorporate consumer culture...   more
  • April 9, 2022 - July 25, 2022
    Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery
    Nine Ways from Sunday features thesis projects by the MFA in Visual Art candidates in the 2022 graduating class of the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Art. MFA candidates present artworks in various media...   more
  • March 25, 2022 - August 1, 2022
    Garen Gallery
    View the exhibition trailer >> Known for her evocative videos and multimedia installations, California-based artist and filmmaker Nicole Miller frequently addresses themes such as race,...   more
  • February 18, 2022 - August 1, 2022
    Saligman Family Atrium and Video Gallery
    With an overarching interest in the possibilities of visual narratives, Chitra Ganesh draws on Buddhist and Hindu iconography, science fiction, queer theory, comics, Surrealism, Bollywood posters, and video...   more
  • January 19, 2022 - July 25, 2022
    Teaching Gallery
    As we continue to navigate in the United States both an ongoing health pandemic and an epidemic of racism, public health officials and media outlets are bombarding us with conflicting advice about how to...   more
  • December 13, 2021 - February 13, 2022
    Video Gallery
    The work of avant-garde filmmaker and video artist Harun Farocki (1944–2014) examines the power of images and the politics of their use. Combining text, narration, and found and archival footage, Farocki’s...   more