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Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions - Fall 2023

September 20-December 3, 2023

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.

September 20 - December 3, 2023Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera

Blackburn

September 20-December 3, 2023

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.

September 20 - December 3, 2023For One and All: Prints from The Block’s Collection

September 20-December 3, 2023

The Block Collects 2023

Every year The Block brings new works of art into the collection to support Northwestern University’s teaching and learning mission.

September 20 - December 3, 2023The Block Collects 2023

Future Projects

January 26-July 7, 2024

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.

January 26 - July 7, 2024Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology

January 26-April 21, 2024

Looking 101

Class is in session. Learn to look through art.

January 26 - April 21, 2024Looking 101

September 24-December 8, 2024

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...

September 24 - December 8, 2024Federico Solmi: The Great Farce

Lake at sunrise

Lake at sunrise

January 24-July 13, 2025

Woven Being: Indigenous Art Histories of Chicagoland (working title)

We are forming the exhibition Woven Being through Indigenous curatorial methodologies that prioritize collaboration, reciprocity, and sustained dialogue with an expanding, intergenerational community of Indigenous knowledge sharers and non-Indigenous allies

January 24 - July 13, 2025Woven Being: Indigenous Art Histories of Chicagoland (working title)

September 24-December 7, 2025

Ja’Tovia Gary: The Giverny Suite

With The Giverny Suite, Gary presents a complicated and nuanced portrait of the diversity and complexity of Black women’s relationship to physical and emotional security.

September 24 - December 7, 2025Ja’Tovia Gary: The Giverny Suite

Past Exhibitions

Exhibitions from past years