Past Exhibitions

A mixed media artwork featuring colorful circles and splatters representing fruits and vegetables.

Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos) pearly gates

Artist Project Space

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Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos)'s Artist Project Space exhibition pearly gates includes painting installation, video, and woven baskets, and thematically considers access in terms of land, ancestry, resources, and human relationships.

Painting of a woman with dripping paint, surrounded by peaches.

Remember This Hung Liu at Trillium

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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On February 5, 2022, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will open the “Remember This: Hung Liu at Trillium” in the museum’s Barker and Soreng galleries. In this exhibition, renowned contemporary Chinese-American artist Hung Liu explored subjects ranging from portraits to landscapes to still lifes and reflects upon history, memory, tradition, migration, and social justice.

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  • Video
A landscape photo of a rocky desert area with a triangular section replaced by a black textured surface.

Rick Silva Western Fronts

Artist Project Space

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Rick Silva’s Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears is an experimental video that reflects the political and ecological threats that face four U.S. National Monuments. The work combines aerial drone footage and photogrammetry with 3D animation to create a nature documentary that collapses into itself.

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  • Read
Black and white photograph of a rocky cliffside with intricate textures and shadows.

Ron Jude 12 Hz

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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The title of Ron Jude’s most recent project references the limits of human perception—12 Hz marks the lowest threshold of human hearing, suggesting the powerful yet frequently imperceptible forces that shape the physical world, from plate tectonics to glacial erosion to the incomprehensibility of geological time.

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  • Read

World of Work Student Exhibition

Education Corridor

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The summer 2021 program was conducted almost completely virtually due COVID-19. As a result, the interns had the opportunity to design their own exhibition about their experience. In this show, you will see what the students curated as part of their internship, including artifacts created during the program and descriptions of their process written in their own words.

Vibrant painting of a large, colorful butterfly with intricate patterns on its wings, set against a textured blue and green background.

Art Heals

Education Corridor

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The work on display is a sample of art created as part of the JSMA’s Art Heals program. The Art Heals program is a collaboration between the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Good Samaritan Health Services, and Stahlbush Island Farms; the artwork on display is the result of our dynamic partnership working with patients and healthcare providers across the region.

A black and white sketch of two figures in an emotional embrace. The detailed lines and shading convey a sense of intimacy and sorrow.

Max Pollak In the Barrack Camp at Nikolsburg

Morris Graves Gallery

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Painter and printmaker Max Pollak (American, born Czechoslovakia, 1886-1970) was raised in Vienna and appointed official artist of the Austrian Army during World War I. his exhibition was made possible through the generosity of Michael C. Powanda and Elizabeth D. Moyer.

A digital artwork featuring a stylized Hebrew letter Aleph superimposed over a landscape of rocks and sky.

Aleph Earth

Artist Project Space

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Aleph Earth is a groundbreaking collaboration between the UO’s Artificial Intelligence Creative Practice Research Group (AICP) and Grammy Award-nominated vocal quartet New York Polyphony that merges art, music, and technology.

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  • Read
Black and white striped image with texture similar to a crayon rubbing of tree bark or a rough wooden surface

2021-22 Common Seeing Meeting Points

Focus Gallery

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Every year, the University of Oregon’s Common Reading program encourages campus-wide engagement with a shared book and related resources. JSMA’s corresponding Common Seeing expands this conversation through the visual. This year’s Common Seeing brings works by nine contemporary Native artists that speak to these issues and each’s experiences as individuals and members of their communities.

Includes:
  • Virtual Tour
Silver Arts & Crafts coffee pot

A New Woman Clara Barck Welles, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver

John and Ethel MacKinnon Gallery

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In the fall of 2021, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon will open A New Woman — Clara Barck Welles, Influence and Inspiration in Arts & Crafts Silver, focusing on the artistic work, career, and feminist social activism of one of the nation’s most noteworthy early 20th century artisans and entrepreneurs.

Includes:
  • Virtual Tour
A detailed comic strip explaining the concept of comics journalism, with panels depicting various historical and contemporary examples.

The Art of the News Comics Journalism

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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The Art of the News: Comics Journalism brings together a number of contemporary works for the first major retrospective of the genre. Comics journalism is a humanistic practice with special relevance to the University of Oregon. It was at UO that the founder of contemporary comics journalism, Joe Sacco, obtained his degree in journalism.

Includes:
  • Virtual Tour
A whimsical illustration of a yellow ship with white sails sailing on a blue ocean with a large whale diving nearby.

Salvador Dalí illustrator, printmaker, storyteller

John and Ethel MacKinnon Gallery

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Salvador Dalí remains a fabled central figure of the Surrealist movement, which blossomed in Paris in the early 1930s as a collaborative vision amongst painters and poets. 2019-21 curatorial extern Emily Shinn curated this selection of works from Dalí’s series The Divine Comedy (1963) and The Twelve Tribes of Israel (1972-73).

Topless medium-skinned person with a Mesoamerican-style drawing or tattoo on their back looking out a hole in a rock formation at a green field in the distance

Tiempo suspendido | Suspended Time Myrna Báez and Norma Vila Rivero

Focus Gallery

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The work of Myrna Báez (Puerto Rican, 1931-2018) and Norma Vila Rivero (Puerto Rican, born 1982) is a poetic meditation on the relationship between figure and landscape in Puerto Rico, a place where identity and nature are closely connected. Silkscreen and woodcut prints by Báez and new photographs by Vila Rivero present dramatic vistas charged with presence, absence, and memory.

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  • Virtual Tour

Fit to Print The Dawn of Journalism in Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Lavenberg and Michels Collections

Fay Boyer Preble and Virginia Cooke Murphy Wing

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This exhibition explores Meiji-period news and reportage in the context of both its Japanese precursors and contemporaneous journalism in other print media. Co-curated by Art History Professor Akiko Walley, East Asian Languages and Literatures Professor Glynne Walley, and Chief Curator Anne Rose Kitagawa.

Includes:
  • Virtual Tour
A mixed-media artwork featuring the text "NOTHING SOLID IS ITS SOLID SELF" with dripping paint and three-dimensional lemons, creating a visually complex and textured piece.

Libby Wadsworth Always InFormation

Artist Project Space

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Libby Wadsworth's practice spans multiple media, including letterpress printmaking, painting, and photography, she teases open written language with her thoughtfully composed visual arrangements. Always InFormation presents new work created almost entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic that demonstrates Wadsworth’s evolving interest in blurring the distinctions between text and images.

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  • Exhibition Catalogue