The University of Colorado Art Museum provides a forum for exchanging ideas, inspiring collaboration and fueling imagination through art. 

The museum’s growing collection and diverse exhibitions and public programs promote, inspire and generate interdisciplinary scholarship and cultural expression.

The museum mobilizes our strengths to support and enrich the academic and social missions of CU Boulder and to serve our communities in Boulder, statewide and beyond.

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Installation view of Ana Maria Hernando: We Have Flowers, in the CU Art Museum, on view June 24 - October 22, 2016, Photo: Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado

Installation view of the exhibition Keeping it Real: Korean Artists in the Age of Multimedia Representation, in the CU Art Museum, on view February 3 – May 12, 2012, Photo: Jeff Wells, © CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese (1797 – 1858) and Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese (1786 – 1865), Suma, 1853, from the series Furyū Genji [The Fashionable Genji], woodcut on paper, 14 x 9 ¾ inches, Gift of Helen Baker Jones, in memory of her father, James H. Baker, former President of CU (1892-1914), CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 67.333.18, Photo: Jeff Wells, © CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder

 

 

ON VIEW

Art Elements: Materials, Motive and Meaning presents an in-depth look at materials and techniques used to create artworks. Inspired by the research of faculty and curators at CU, the exhibition is organized into four case studies that show how primary, material research leads to a deeper understanding of artistic traditions. On view September 5—December 21, 2019 at the CU Art Museum.

ON VIEW

Body Language: Picturing People considers how the pose, the gesture and the body in motion are used by artists to convey meaning. Figural artworks from the CU Art Museum’s collection are brought into conversation across cultural geographies and historical eras. On view at the CU Art Museum July 18, 2019 —June 2020.

CLOSING SOON

Featuring artist Jasmine Baetz. On view November 16—December 12, 2019 at the CU Art Museum.

UPCOMING

Mary Mattingly: Last Library  
In her artwork, Mattingly combines Earth sciences, ecology and utopian ideas to communicate information about the Earth’s changing climate and human response to our physical environment. Her installation, Last Library: Reading Rooms, Bridges and Tools for Integrating Ecological Ethics into Practice, stems from her belief that art and ecotopian thought can cultivate social change. On view February 6–July 18, 2020 at the CU Art Museum.

UPCOMING

In Persuasive Prints, prints from the CU Art Museum’s collection demonstrate how artists and printmakers combine image, text and technique to persuade viewers. Curated by graduate students in CU’s museum practicum seminar, this exhibition brings together engravings, etchings, lithographs and woodcuts created from the 1500s to today. On view February 6–March 21, 2019 at the CU Art Museum.