Kill the Idiot, Save the Fan
Apr 25–Jun 7, 2015
Working in glass and neon, Rory Erler Wakemup draws on his Native American culture, his own experience in the Lakota Sun Dance ceremony, pop culture […]
Print Tsunami: Japonisme and Paris
Jul 3–Aug 23, 2015
Exhibition Overview With the opening of Japan in the 1850s, Japanese art became more readily available to Europeans, and in France it sparked Japonisme. For […]
Squad: The Calling of the Common Hero, Photography by Faisal Abdu’Allah
Jul 24–Sep 27, 2015
Exhibition Overview Squad: The Calling of the Common Hero, Photography by Faisal Abdu’Allah conceived by Faisal Abdu’Allah, Associate Professor, Art Department, and developed collaboratively with […]
Roger Ballen Photography
Sep 4–Nov 1, 2015
Exhibition Overview Roger Ballen is one of the most original image makers of the twenty-first century. This exhibition features recent black-and-white photographs from Asylum of the […]
Xu Bing, Background Story: A New Approach to Landscape Painting
Oct 16, 2015–Jan 10, 2016
In 1991, Xu Bing held his first exhibition in the United States, at the Elvehjem (now the Chazen) Museum of Art. Since that time, Xu […]
Richard Haas: The Madison Projects
Nov 13, 2015–Jan 10, 2016
Spring Green, Wisconsin, native Richard Haas first made his name in the 1970s in New York. His murals covered blank urban walls with appealing trompe […]
Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016
Jan 29–Apr 17, 2016
Works of painting, printmaking, graphic design, sculpture, ceramics, metalsmithing, glass, furniture making, papermaking, photography, digital media, video, and performance will fill the temporary galleries of […]
Bought & Sold: Voices Of Human Trafficking
Apr 4–25, 2016
Exhibition Overview Bought & Sold: Voices of Human Trafficking is an outdoor photographic installation that speaks to the experiences and suffering of the hundreds of thousands of […]
Hoodwinked: An Installation by Jay Katelansky
Apr 15–May 29, 2016
Jay Katelansky is the winner of the Chazen Museum Prize for an Outstanding MFA Student. Katelansky is a third-year MFA student in the UW–Madison Art […]
The Generosity of Richard Brock: Prints, Drawings and Paintings
Apr 29–Aug 7, 2016
April 29 through August 7, 2016 For twenty-five years, Richard Brock’s generosity has enriched the Chazen Museum of Art’s permanent collection. His gifts to the […]