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Black Marat and the Aesthetics of Liberation brings together works by artists who challenge art historical discourse and institutionalized racism through diverse strategies of resistance that include dance, music, photography and prints.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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In February 2026 the JSMA will present Gateway to Himalayan Art, a special exhibition featuring sublime religious art created from the 13th through the 21st centuries in Tibet, Nepal, China, and Mongolia, drawn from the permanent collection of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, which organized the exhibition.
Landscape painting has an extensive history in the Euro-American tradition, widely popularized and established as an independent genre via the Dutch painters of the 16th century. In subsequent centuries, it has been constantly reinvented throughout art history. Abstract Realms presents five works from the JSMA’s permanent collection that embody increasingly abstract or expressive approaches to landscape painting predominantly from the mid-20th century.
Love, Desire, and Sorrow: Artworks from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation examines the notions of house, home, and the body to explore the factors and social entities that define them.
Photographer Diane Arbus (American, 1923–1971) is recognized for her singular way of seeing—honest, direct, and often disquieting. The works on view span her career, from early 35 mm street photographs to the later square-format portraits that became her hallmark and include both personal projects and editorial assignments.
This traveling exhibition is a retrospective of work by cartoonist Oliver “Ollie” W. Harrington. It was organized by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in collaboration with Dr. and Mrs. Walter O. Evans. Curated by Dr. Kay Clopton and Jenny Robb.
Art Heals is an interdisciplinary program developed by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon. Rooted in the belief that creative expression and engagement with art support mental, emotional, and physical well-being, Art Heals brings together museum education, health humanities, and arts-based practices to offer inclusive, accessible experiences that foster reflection, connection, and healing. Through thoughtfully facilitated workshops, participants engage in close looking, mindful discussion, and hands-on creative exploration.
This presentation of works from the museum’s Chinese collection explores the issues of power and performance in four sections: politics, textile, religion, and funeral art, along with a recently acquired Twenty-Four Seasons scroll by renowned contemporary artist Qiu Zhijie (born 1969) that draws connections across cultural and historical boundaries.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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James Lavadour: Land of Origin presents the most comprehensive survey to date of works by painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla). Spanning five decades of work, this national retrospective celebrates Lavadour’s deep connection to the eastern Oregon landscape, particularly the Umatilla Indian Reservation and surrounding Blue Mountains region where the artist has spent most of his life, and recognizes his esteemed place in contemporary American painting.
Gathering: A Photographer’s Collection presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from the personal collection of Portland, Oregon based photographer and curator, Christopher Rauschenberg.
Ed Drew grew up in Brooklyn, New York City and joined the military two days after his 18th birthday and completion of high school. He served six years of active duty in the Air Force as a C-130 jet engine mechanic assigned to an airbase near Tokyo and it was while in Japan he discovered his nascent passion for other cultures and began his journey as an artist.
Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art
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The aim of the exhibition is to reenvision Korean art history since the turn of the 20th century (which is often addressed in a linear fashion with a series of divided timeframes) as a continuous multifaceted story comprised of rich cultural heritages and influences and their modern interpretations.
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.
A wide-ranging body of work completed by David McCosh (1903-81) in his Eugene studio, typically in the evenings, came to be known as his “Night Drawings.” These exercises on paper were more than simple ink or oil drawings of the specific landscape situations that McCosh keenly observed. Rather, they were opportunities for the artist to challenge his own process of seeing and knowing a familiar subject. He worked freely and intuitively, creating a large number of these works throughout the 1950s and 60s. Imagery ranged from elegant line drawings suggesting branches to energetic tangles of trees and forest floors. Each demonstrates McCosh’s superb command of his materials and the statement by French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne, an artist whom McCosh frequently referenced in his own philosophy of painting, that “art is a harmony parallel with nature.” Featured works are drawn from the JSMA’s permanent collection and from the McCosh Memorial Collection.
