Past Exhibitions

Black and white papercut artwork depicting two figures on either side of a central tree, surrounded by faces and intricate patterns.

Voces de Mis Antepasados/Voices of My Ancestors The Papercuts of Catalina Delgado Trunk

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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Drawing on the rich tradition of cut paper crafts (or papel picado) in Mexico, Catalina Delgado Trunk creates intricate works that tell the stories of pre-contact indigenous cultures as well as treating more contemporary subjects. Voces de Mis Antepasados examines her pieces with pre-Columbian themes.

Print on yellowed paper of a woman in a robe and leaning on a crutch holdig the arm of a child-size skeleton. Words frame the image and there are various paint spatters on the print.

Enrique Chagoya Adventures of Modernist Cannibals

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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Painter and printmaker Enrique Chagoya describes his work as a “conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities” and employs what he calls “reverse anthropology.” His provocative works incorporate diverse symbolic elements from pre-Columbian mythology, Western religious iconography, and American popular culture.

Three women with haggard expressions and wearing headscarves look intently at a crescent moon face in a dark, cloudy sky. The scene has a mystical and eerie atmosphere.

Contemplation & Confrontation The Satirical Print in Europe, 1750–1850

Focus Gallery

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The political and societal changes in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries motivated artists to contemplate the implications of those transformations through their works. This exhibition features prints by five European satirists who did just that: British artists James Gillray and William Hogarth, Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and French artists Honoré Daumier and Paul Gavarni.

An elderly Chinese man and woman in white robes sit on stools while a younger man sits on the floor in front of them

Benevolence & Loyalty Filial Piety in Chinese Art

Betty and John Soreng Gallery

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Co-curated with Professor Ina Asim in support of her Chinese and Asian history courses, this selection of paintings and objects represents ideals of benevolence and loyalty, Confucian values that exerted strong ethical and political influence in China, Korea, and Japan for more than 2,500 years.

Korean folding screen with painted mountains on blue backing material.

“True” Korean Landscapes & Virtuous Scholars

Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art

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This exhibition, co-curated by Anne Rose Kitagawa, chief curator and curator of Asian art, and Gina Kim (MA, art history, 2014) Korea Foundation Global Museum Intern, features a number of distinctive Korean landscape paintings, maps, and travel attire.

Brightly colored embroidered animals, birds, and flowers

Birds & Beasts Animal Imagery in the Permanent Collection

Artist Project Space

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Prompted by a generous gift of Mexican folk art by collector Robert Bradley, this exhibition features images of domestic and wild animals from around the world. Among the works featured in the exhibition are an Otomi embroidered textile and coconut masks from the Mezcala region of Guerrero State, as well as prints, photographs, paintings, and sculptures highlighting all manner of birds and beasts.

Stylized stencil artwork depicting two girls sitting across from each other, engaged in a conversation, set against a plain background.

Amanda Marie and X-O The Many Places We Are

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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This two-artist exhibition explores the concept of emotional travel. When we travel, especially when we travel in intimate proximity to our travel partners, not only do we move through physical space, but we move through emotional place. During extensive travel, emotional bonds develop that are nearly guaranteed to make intense and complex waves in the lives of these travelers.

Black and white photograph of a foggy forest with a silhouetted tree in the foreground, branches visible against the misty background.

Brett Weston in Oregon

Morris Graves Gallery

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A recent gift of works from the Brett Weston Archive features images from the noted American photographer’s time in Oregon.

Two expressionistic bodies in bright colors. One has a red body with three legs and a white bird head. The other is mostly orange, blue, and white, with yellow outlining and no face.

Rick Bartow Things You Know But Cannot Explain

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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Representing more than forty years of work, Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain features a broad selection of sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from public and private collections, including the artist’s studio, that affirm this extraordinary artist’s regional, national, and international impact. The exhibition culminates in outstanding examples of his most recent work.

A diptych showing an old black and white photo of a woman by a door in 1966 and the same door in color in 2012.

Gustavo Germano Ausencias

Focus Gallery

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Argentine photographer Gustavo Germano restages snapshots of Brazilian and Argentine families whose loved ones are among the “disappeared,” people who were tortured and murdered by dictatorial regimes in South America from the 1960s to 1980s. The two images—the original photo and the recreated photo, with one or more people missing—are displayed together.

Three grainy color film frames of Andy Warhol, a light-skinned man with unkempt white hair, holding a gold statue. He is wearing black and standing in front of trees and a lake.

Frozen Film Frames Portraits of Filmmakers by Jonas Mekas

Artist Project Space

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Jonas Mekas is considered by many to be the “godfather of American avant-garde film.” The exhibition, which features twenty-two photographic portraits, is co-curated by Richard Herskowitz, director of the Cinema Pacific film festival, and Deborah Colton, owner and director of the Deborah Colton Gallery in Houston.

Photograph of two smiling youth sitting outside. One is dark skinned with their black hair in a straight-ironed bun, wearing a black, pink, and blue shirt hanging off one shoulder. The other is medium-dark skinned with dark, curly, chin-length natural hair, wearing a blue shirt and yellow bottoms.

Reconoci.do Dominicans of Haitian Descent

Upper Hallway Galleries

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This exhibition presents photographs by members of Reconoci.do, an organization of Dominican youth of Haitian descent that is struggling to reinstate their rights as nationals. The Spanish word “reconocido” translates to “recognized” or “acknowledged” in English.

Etching of people digging graves, carrying coffins, and a gravestone in the center lower images

Gifts from the Judith and Jan Zach Estate Gifts from the Judith and Jan Zach Estate

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Sculptures and works on paper from the artist’s estate show the breadth of former A&AA professor Jan Zach’s talents. Trained as a painter in his native Czechoslovakia, Zach was an internationally recognized artist when he joined the UO faculty in 1958. This exhibition includes three-dimensional works alongside paintings and drawings from his time in Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

An abstract drawing with a large pair of red lips exhaling a stream of colorful, patterned shapes and feathers. The background features circular mandala designs in black and white, set against a teal backdrop.

NewArt Northwest Kids Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream

Education Corridor

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For the past eight years, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has organized and presented NewArt Northwest Kids, an annual K-12 juried student exhibition. This year’s theme, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, was inspired by our fall 2014 exhibition Ryo Toyonaga: Awakening.