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The University of Oregon MFA Art Exhibition 2025 culminates three
years of independent research and experimentation by a cohort of
five artists whose various practices engage a broad range of inquiry.
This year, the MFA exhibition returns to the JSMA, making the work
accessible to the UO and Eugene community, while celebrating
the MFA graduates’ efforts in the professional standard of the
museum setting. The 2025 cohort is Adam DeSorbo, Xinyu Liu, Kate
Montgomery, Jens Pettersen, and Gracie Rothering. The five artists
showcased in this exhibition represent a diverse range of media and
practices, spanning ecology and personal/cultural memory, to the
bridge between death and the living world, symbolic institutional
gateways, and ideas about abstraction through the materiality of
painting.
Exploring the concept of technologies of memory, this exhibition examines artworks that question the myriad ways memory works and the tools that incite remembrance, reflection, and dialogue. The artists in the exhibition adopt and share their own tools to enhance memory, interrogate it, and contest the ways we remember and experience our memories. Their work employs mixed media such as collage, dried leaves, string, coffee, paper, and photography.
In 2017 painter Michael Brophy visited the decommissioned nuclear production complex at Hanford, Washington. He observed its B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale plutonium-producing reactor, the former townsites and remnants of the area closed off when Hanford’s facilities were established by the U.S. Government in 1943, and a landscape forever changed. In a reference to the site’s nine nuclear reactors, now offline and cocooned in concrete, Brophy made nine paintings to document and process his experience and bring this history to light.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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This installation presents a series of 24 large-scale digital prints created by the artist Qiu Zhijie (born 1969) and explores critical questions about temporality from multiple perspective as well as the effect of time on individuals, politics, and social change.
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the ancient world? Some recall the architecture of Athens and Rome, others classical nude sculpture or the vivid red-figure Greek pottery. More will first think of the scores of gods, heroes, and monsters that star in ancient myth and epic such as Zeus and Hades, Achilles and Odysseus, Icarus and Oedipus, or modern-day interpretations like Disney’s Hercules or Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. Centuries later, the legacy and influence of ancient antiquity continues to endure.
Presented as part of artist Steve Prince’s multi-visit residency with his partner and collaborator Leah Glenn, Kitchen Table Talk presents a selection of drawings, prints, and installation that reflect on the conversations that occur around the kitchen table.
This exhibition features the renowned Tattoo series created by Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie (born 1969), one of the most prolific and influential artists, critics, curators and educators in China today. Qiu Zhijie began the Tattoo series in 1994. He, himself, is the bare-chested, expressionless figure in all the photographs. In the article “The Limit of Freedom”, Qiu remarked:
Drawing upon the comprehensive Calvin and Hobbes collection held by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at Ohio State University, the JSMA is proud to present the first exhibition of original Calvin and Hobbes art displayed outside of the Billy Ireland Museum itself.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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This exhibition examines artistic responses to violence instigated by state regimes across the Americas to disclose censored narratives, argue for the importance of artmaking as an act of memory and witnessing, advocate research, and seek justice.
Emilio Sánchez (b. 1921 Camagüey, Cuba – 1999 New York) and Paloma Vianey (b. Ciudad Juárez, México) investigate line, color, light, and space in their formal studies, reflecting an interest and passion for architectural motifs. Adopting the visual vocabulary of photography and painting, their cropped views reveal fragmented narratives balanced by vibrant warm colors and brightly lit vistas.
Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art
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This exhibition features a broad scope of artworks that visually and conceptually depict nature and the world incorporating methods, aesthetics, and ideas derived from Korea and other cultures from the eighteenth century through the present.
Born and raised in Portland, Toedtemeier was a fixture in the Oregon
cultural community until his untimely passing in 2008 at the age of 61. The
exhibition highlights the range of Toedtemeier’s photographic work.
The University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art celebrates 16 years of NewArt Northwest Kids, our annual K–12 juried student exhibition. This year’s theme, inspired by Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, asked students to think creatively about the fragility of earth and human relationships. Students were invited to use their imagination and problem-solving skills to represent solutions for improving our world, including addressing climate-based challenges in our present and future.
Artists, Constellations and Connections: Feminist Futures has been
organized by the JSMA and seven members of the UO Department of Art as part
of the 50th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Placing current work by studio art faculty alongside and in conversation
with works they have selected from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s
permanent collection, the exhibition ex, plores critical questions about
artmaking, history, the future, and feminist models of intersectional
inquiry in the current moment of great social, political, and environmental
change.
