Legendary curator and museum director Paul J. Smith has spent his career creating exhibitions and supporting the careers of artists who have come to define the contemporary studio craft movement. This exhibition pairs a portfolio of 20 of Smith's portraits with works from the ASU Art Museum's unparalleled collection of contemporary ceramics. Smith will present […]
Taking the form of an experimental laboratory or studio, “Superfake/The Parley” features new images, video and sculptural works by the Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX. The commissioned project takes a painting in the ASU Art Museum collection attributed to Frederic Remington as a starting point to examine issues of authenticity, reproduction and value, including the emotional […]
Since the early 1990s, Spencer Tunick has traveled the globe creating staged images of multiple nude figures in urban and rural public settings. And since 2000, collector Stephane Janssen has been a participant in photographs that range from a handful of figures in an art museum to thousands of volunteers in the Dead Sea. “Participant” […]
Since the early 1980s, Tony Labat has been animportant participant in the California performance and video scene. Apioneer of video installations, he makes work that often identifies with the“outsider,” whether as the artist or immigrant. Born in Cuba, Labatfrequently comments on displacement and marginalization. A selection of hisinfluential video work will be on display in […]
Cuban artist Sandra Ramos has exhibited her work internationally since the late 1980s. This exhibition revolves around eight recent, short video animations that explore the complex historic and current relationship between Cuba and the U.S. Her witty figures and settings draw from literature, popular media and the island of Cuba, and combine in narratives that […]
Come experience a few of the great acquisitions the museum received in 2015. "Blow Up," an interactive piece by Scott Snibbe, incorporates breath, fans, technology and sound. There are also more traditional works – paintings – but with very non-traditional content. Given by long-term supporters to the museum are works by Stefani Gutheil, Sandow Birk […]
"Love Me Two Times" presents two recent projects by Bay Area-based, Cuban-born artist Tony Labat exploring issues of labor, migration, and displacement. The first, premiered at the Havana Biennial in 2012, is a participatory installation based around a hand-made billiards table in the shape of the island of Cuba. The second installation features six months […]
The ASU Art Museum presented this exhibition of works on paper by artists from the American Southwest at universities in Sichuan, Nanjing, Shanghai and Xi'an. Working with ASU's Center for American Culture and the American Centers for Cultural Exchange (ACCEX) network in China, the project shared the richness and diversity of the American experience with […]
“Breach: Log 16” showcases the work of Courtney Michele Leonard, an artist and filmmaker from the Shinnecock Nation of Long Island, New York. Leonard's work explores the evolution of language, image and culture through mixed media pieces of video, audio and tangible objects. This exhibition is an exploration of historical ties to water and whale; […]
Join ASU Art Museum the third Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. for a behind-the-scenes exhibition tour with one of our curators. Get the inside scoop on the making of the exhibition and hear the stories behind the art. In April, ASU Art Museum director Gordon Knox will lead a tour of "BLOW UP: […]
It's no accident that the ASU Art Museum has one of the leading collections of contemporary craft in the nation; founding director Rudy Turk's interest in contemporary and conceptual craft was well-known and is now carried on by a group of collectors in the Valley. "Crafting the Collection" showcases more than 30 new donations by […]
In the fall of 2015, the ASU Art Museum was invited to visit the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia to select a “satellite collection” of prints from their archive. The 59 chosen artworks are culturally diverse, social, political, spiritual and abstract with vibrant colors, energy and narrative. "The Brandywine Workshop Collection" is an exhibition of 18 […]
