Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection
Sep 5–Dec 23, 2023
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 […]
Message from Our Planet
Feb 19–Jun 2, 2024
Message from Our Planet is curated around the idea that media technologies―from vintage devices to cutting-edge digital algorithms―offer distinct ways for artists to communicate with […]
(De)constructing the Everyday: Art History 506, Curatorial Studies Exhibition Practice
Sep 2–Dec 23, 2022
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, […]
Resource & Ruin: Wisconsin’s Enduring Landscape
Dec 19, 2022–Mar 26, 2023
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 […]
Echoing Overseas: Asian Artistic Exchange
Aug 8–Nov 28, 2022
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 […]
I Left My Heart…
Apr 25–Jul 17, 2022
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 […]
Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance
Sep 12–Dec 23, 2022
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,” […]
Suspended Landscapes: Thread Drawings by Amanda McCavour
Mar 11–Sep 11, 2022
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 […]
Pressing Innovation: Printing Fine Art in the Upper Midwest
Feb 14–May 15, 2022
Pressing Innovation explores the history and work of fine-art printing presses in the Upper Midwest, focusing on each press’s distinct mission and contribution to printmaking […]
Seeing Audubon: Robert Havell, Jr. and The Birds of America
Dec 20, 2021–Apr 3, 2022
John James Audubon’s The Birds of America has been analyzed by scholars of art history, ornithology, and history of science and mythologized within American frontier […]