Exhibitions
Turn, Turn, Turn: Picturing Time
Can time be held, seen, reimagined?
Turn, Turn, Turn invites viewers to consider how artists capture, challenge, and reshape our understandings of time. Through depictions of specific hours of the day, seasonal shifts, and historical moments, many artworks anchor the intangible in the material. Prints by William Hogarth and Andō Hiroshige, for example, offer glimpses into daily life across different eras and geographies.
Yet, the concept of time is much more challenging to render. Resisting linear and progress-driven notions of time, the works in this exhibition open pathways to alternate timelines that reclaim suppressed histories and imagine futures beyond Western colonial imposition. While Enrique Chagoya, Gade, and Patrick Nagatani propose alternate histories that prioritize cultural hybridity, others meditate on time’s fleeting nature through the trope of the memento mori.
Together, these works reveal time not as a fixed reality, but a notion shaped by perception, culture, and power.
On view August 5, 2025–July 2026.
Shaping Time: CU Ceramics Alumni 2000–2020
The CU Boulder ceramics program is celebrating its history with faculty Scott Chamberlin, Kim Dickey, and Jeanne Quinn. To honor the achievements of artists who graduated from this program, faculty curators are partnering with the CU Art Museum to present a retrospective exhibition.
Shaping Time: CU Ceramics Alumni 2000–2020 features artwork by 30 alumni, who offer an expansive, intermedial perspective of contemporary ceramics. Themes include landscape and the environment, domesticity and rituals of home, and material connections and plasticity. On view September 5–December 19, 2025.
Biogenic Futures: Women Shaping Material Ecologies
As the climate crisis challenges the viability of conventional material systems, Biogenic Futures: Women Shaping Material Ecologies highlights the transformative potential of biomaterials and their capacity to reshape our built environment through care, resilience, and innovation.
This exhibition proposes a reorientation of design culture toward stewardship and co-creation—fostering collaboration across disciplines and institutions. By bridging the gap between research and application, artists in this exhibition catalyze new partnerships, advance open-source experimentation, and celebrate the underrecognized leadership of women in this vital field. On view September 5–December 19, 2025.