Intra-Action celebrates 36 international women artists working from the mid-20th century to the present, including the groundbreaking, radical collective called The Guerrilla Girls. More than 70 works reveal how these women have transformed the course of art by introducing new forms, materials and processes including performance, film and art in the...
Poetic and Political explores two realms of perception often considered oppositional but more likely to work in tandem to make a rich, provocative and compelling visual impact. The exhibition juxtaposes the work of Josef Albers, a single artist focused on the psychic and emotive qualities of color, with African and African...
Insistence by Andrea Geyer traces the history of women’s work on the development of the Modern Project in New York City and beyond during the 1920s and 1930s. Following individuals and their relationships with each other, as business partners, lovers, comrades, allies, supporters the voice over narrative opens up the undeniable...
Artists in this exhibition contest history and the definition of art itself. They push boundaries and claim new terrain, testing the parameters of aesthetic experience while creating new models of visual meaning. Resisting the idea of aesthetic purity, they deny the separation between the realm of the artwork and the...
This exhibition celebrates contributions to the Harn Museum collection from Dr. Robert (Bob) and Nancy Magoon and honors the legacy of Bob Magoon, who passed away in January 2018. Their commitment to collecting art by young artists enabled them to curate a collection of works by many of today’s most...
ReMaking History: Art in Time explores the relationship of art to history, memory, and time. Twenty-three artists, from Europe, Africa and the Americas, investigate how the past is constructed as history and how art can conceptualize and critique historical representation. Artists reveal the uncanny ways that images and experiences from the...
Accumulate, Classify, Preserve, Display features the innovative work of the late Venezuelan artist Roberto Obregón (1946–2003) who was a key figure of global conceptualism. Conceptual art emerged as a movement in the 1960s and was based on the premise that the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than...
Global Perspectives: Highlights from the Contemporary Collection is a celebration of global interconnectedness. The Harn’s curators worked together to find shared themes and create conversations from a variety of mediums and perspectives covering Asia, Africa, Europe, and North, Central and South America. Contemporary Dulce Román, Chief Curator and Curator of Modern...
