Recent Acquisitions 2023
Museums add artwork to their collection in various ways, primarily through purchases made by the institution or gifts donated by private individuals. Displayed here is […]
Museums add artwork to their collection in various ways, primarily through purchases made by the institution or gifts donated by private individuals. Displayed here is […]
The Chazen Museum of Art Explores 15th-Century Printmaker’s Work through an Entrepreneurial Lens Discover parallels between the business of 15th-century printmaking and today’s branding practices […]
The Russell and Paula Panczenko Prize for an Outstanding MFA Candidate The works on view forefront historic and contemporary erasures of various Indigenous identities within […]
The Human Figure in the Chazen Museum of Art’s Contemporary African Art Initiative Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection presents forty-five works […]
Joy Episalla is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video, photography, and installation. Episalla’s work forces the viewer to confront the intimacy of the everyday, […]
From the earliest European encounters with the Americas, artists have been fascinated with representing its plains, rivers, forests, and mountains. This exhibition introduces some of […]
Cultural exchange has been one of the most powerful driving forces in the development of art across time. Echoing Overseas traces Asia-based artistic exchange in […]
Panczenko MFA Prize Exhibition 2022 I Left My Heart… is a love letter to San Francisco. In the exhibition, the relationship unfolds through dozens of photographs […]
For generations, University of Wisconsin–Madison students and staff have been committed to the “fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found,” […]
Amanda McCavour’s thread drawings fill the Elvehjem building’s Paige Court, depicting Wisconsin flora on a monumental scale. The work was commissioned to mark the building’s—and […]