Exhibitions

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University.

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera

For her series Facing the Camera (2008–18), Favell photographed Indigenous members of arts communities in North America and Australia, producing 500 photographs.

For One and All: Prints from The Block’s Collection

For One and All: Prints from The Block’s Collection celebrates prints and printmaking by bringing together a diverse range of artwork from the permanent collection. The exhibition will consider print production through various lenses layering complex histories of reproduction, circulation, collecting, and social activism.

Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology

Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology is a traveling exhibition that considers kinship, healing, and restorative interventions as artistic practices and strategies to foster a deeper consciousness of our interconnectedness with the earth.

Federico Solmi: The Great Farce

Federico Solmi’s multiscreen, monumental work The Great Farce (2017) conflates and distorts past and present, history and amusement, and reality and spectacle. The digital animation, featuring a cast of time-traveling world leaders with a feverish madness for power, presents a sprawling send-up of empire building as an enterprise and a...