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 […]
Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection
May 6–Aug 14, 2016
This survey of Japanese printmaking includes more than a hundred of the most famous works in the museum’s collection, including early prints that are so […]
Close Reading: Sewn Works by Katherine Kuehn
Aug 19–Sep 16, 2016
Printer Katherine Kuehn explores words with fabric as matrix and thread as ink in this selection of sewn works by the Portland, Oregon–based artist. Her […]
FACADES: Photographs by Markus Brunetti
Sep 2–Dec 31, 2016
Exhibition Overview After two decades of experience working with digital imaging, Markus Brunetti along with his partner Betty Schoener built a mobile studio and set […]
Presenting Shakespeare: Posters from Around the World
Oct 14–Dec 11, 2016
In compiling the first-ever curated collection of international Shakespearean theatrical posters, Mirko Ilic and Steven Heller assembled around 1,500 examples. Their 2015 book, Presenting Shakespeare, includes 1,100 “historically significant, aesthetically desirable, […]
First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare
Nov 3–Dec 11, 2016
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has been selected as the host site for the state of Wisconsin for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, a […]