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Edra Soto: the place of dwelling Free
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | All Day | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Edra Soto (b. 1971, Puerto Rico) alters and recontextualizes common functional objects—wrought-iron screens, plastic lawn furniture, and electric fans, ubiquitous in her native Puerto Rico—to create objects and environments that celebrate the voices of working-class communities. Soto’s installation, the place…
The Unseen
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | All Day | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
The Unseen is the result of the first Nerman Museum undergraduate curatorial practicum developed throughout the summer of 2026. Each student surveyed and researched the museum's permanent collection and collectively curated this installation. Selecting Terran Last Gun's Another Human Being…
Judy Chicago: Big Blue Pink
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | All Day | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Contained by a grid, the colors of Big Blue Pink gradually fade to white within each section. What appears at first to be a simple design of misty colors is a thoughtful feminist statement. Chicago’s male contemporaries produced precise paintings…
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | All Day | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures is a built environment installation that takes on the familiar shape of a living room. It acts at once as a library, a gallery, a cabinet of curiosity, a third space, a common…
Betsabeé Romero: A Field with Roots (Un campo con raíces)
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | All Day | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Betsabeé Romero, a Mexican visual artist known for her installations, will have three site-specific works installed in the Nerman Museum lobby, coming together to create A Field with Roots (Un campo con raíces).A Field with Roots is comprised of three…
Carlos Rolón: ALL WE HAVE IS RIGHT NOW
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | All Day | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Carlos Rolón’s works operate as memory capsules and as acts of preservation. The works also serve as a meditation on impermanence, survival, and the fragile beauty of the present moment. Rolón explores how histories of migration, colonialism, environmental devastation, and…
Norman Akers Navigates the Space Between
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | All Day | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Norman Akers has been mapping the world. His large canvases are filled with an interlayered web of cartographic iconography drawn from road maps, Osage philosophy, and his own visual vernacular. Through these maps, his images have become records documenting an…
Sport and Spectator
Next Up: Friday, October 2 | All Day | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Sport and Spectator celebrates the dynamic intersection of the visual arts and sports culture, presenting an array of works that transform sports imagery and equipment such as basketballs, helmets, and jerseys into artworks. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how…