2016 Exhibitions

Fall 2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition December 2 - 17, 2016 Artists featured: K.C. Gillaspie, Darla Pienciak, Parker D. Rush.

Narrative Im[press]ions: 200 Years of Printed Illustrations November 14, 2016 - June 24, 2017 This exhibition was curated by students in the University of Colorado’s English course "Introduction to Media Theory in the Humanities". Over the course of the semester, students selected and researched prints from CU Art Museum’s collection,...

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition November 5 - 17, 2016 Artists featured: Ariana Kolins, Emily Quinn, Roberta Restaino, Kim Shively. Ariana Kolins’ socially-engaged practice examines community exchange, emotional labor, and representation. Through collecting mundane objects and enacting repetitive gestures, she records her experiences and questions the function of the...

Pioneers: Women Artists in Boulder, 1898-1950 September 16, 2016 - February 4, 2017 This exhibition celebrates the little-studied artistic contributions of women, who were the drivers of cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century within Colorado, and provides as an important case study into the ways in...

​Mysterium Tremendum: collecting curiosity. A collaborative installation by Matt Barton and Scott Johnson. August 9 - December 17, 2016 Mysterium Tremendum: collecting curiosity is inspired by the arrival of Shakespeare’s First Folio at CU-Boulder. The installation celebrates the important roles curiosity and wonder play in the pursuit of knowledge. Mysterium...

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare August 9-31, 2016 First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare , on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, will be open to the public at the CU Art Museum August 9-31, 2016. The First Folio is the first complete collected edition...

ARTH 4919: Can You See Me Now? July 25 - October 15, 2016 By challenging stereotypes and confronting colonial histories the artists in this exhibition invite us to see the historical and contemporary experiences of Indigenous peoples. In the works on view, they bring past events into the present, disrupting...

Ana Maria Hernando: We Have Flowers June 24 - October 22, 2016 This exhibition features new works in which Ana Maria Hernando contemplates the duality of the nocturnal life of flowers and their daytime existence. The exhibition expands upon Hernando’s repeated use of flower and circle imagery in her performances,...

Gluten Free April 23 - May 7, 2016 Artists featured: Jessica Akselrad, Emily Brent Bankston, Joy Bergeron, David Clay Bridges, Zoe Goldsmith, Anthony A. Kascak, Puttichai Kupadakvinij, Hanna Le, Katharine Lee Robbins, Daniel Louis Stolberg.

Spring 2016 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition April 1 - 14, 2016 "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism."—Walter Benjamin Terry Campbell, Catherine Cartwright, Kellye Eisworth, Megan Gafford, Nicole Krou, Zak Loyd and Eric Stewart explore the rationale and...

Close Looking: details from our collection Presented in the Theatre Gallery, Liniger Building at CU South Denver April 5 - October 2, 2016 Presented as part of BMoCA at Macky January 11 - February 29, 2016 What makes a museum? For us at the CU Art Museum an important pillar...

Be Here Now is the second exhibition in a series subtitled Conversations Between Objects, which provokes a dialogue between artworks that span different time periods and geographic locations.

Janelle Iglesias is the CU Art Museum’s inaugural artist-in-residence—a program in which artists are invited to mine CU Boulder’s creative and intellectual resources and collaborate with faculty and students to produce new artwork.

Life and Afterlife: Selections of Ancient Chinese Art From the King Collection February 12–June 25, 2016 From elegant porcelain vessels enjoyed by the living to charming pottery statuettes created to serve the dead, this exhibition showcases artifacts dating to China’s prehistoric beginnings through its classic imperial dynasties. Gain insight into...

Shikioriori: Living Through the Seasons in Edo Japan On view February 12 - June 28, 2016 During the Edo period (1603–1868), the rhythm of the year included activities and events tied to the changing seasons. The Japanese expression shikioriori, or “season by season,” describes these delicate changes in nature. This...