The Chazen has long presented a rotating schedule of temporary exhibitions alongside displays drawn from its permanent collection. In celebration of the Chazen’s newly reinstalled collection galleries, which you can visit on the third floor, Recollection: Exhibiting the Collection explores the lively, ongoing conversation between the museum’s collection and its exhibition program.

The collection serves as a vital and generative resource for curators by sparking new exhibition ideas and forming the foundation of many temporary exhibitions. Some shows have been inspired by, or drawn entirely from, the museum’s holdings. In other cases, artworks lent by artists or private collectors for temporary exhibitions proved so compelling that they later joined the collection as purchases or gifts.

In its first two sections, Recollection: Exhibiting the Collection spotlights artworks acquired directly from past exhibitions, and works already in the collection that played pivotal roles in the conception of them. The final section recreates two influential exhibitions from the museum’s past that have left a lasting imprint on the Chazen’s collection and identity.

Above: Xinping Su (Chinese, b. Mongolia 1960), Busy People No. 1, 2010, oil on linen, 98 7/16 x 98 7/16 in., Colonel Rex W. and Maxine Schuster Radsch Endowment fund purchase, 2015.8

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Curated by Kathryn Koca Polite, organized by the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Sponsored in part by Illinois’ College of Fine and Applied Arts, the International Fine Print Dealers Association, and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.

Support at the Chazen provided in part by the Anonymous Fund.

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