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 […]
re:mancipation
Feb 6–Jun 25, 2023
re:mancipation is a collaborative project that has undertaken a two-year study of Emancipation Group and its complex history, while cultivating a more nuanced understanding of […]
City of Nature
Sep 7, 2021–Sep 1, 2022
Kota Ezawa’s animated “video collage” City of Nature (2010) will be on view for the entire 2021-2022 academic year in the Chazen’s Mayer Gallery in […]
Companion Species
Oct 18–Dec 30, 2021
Marie Watt (Seneca) embraces community and connectedness in her monumental textile, Companion Species (Speech Bubble). The uniquely stitched words reflect the hands of the […]