We look forward to sharing our Fall 2024-Spring 2025 exhibition dates with you soon.
May 16-19, 2024 ONCE MORE | 2024 Division III Showcase Excerpted from six Division III exhibitions this past academic year, Once More features student artists exploring a variety of themes. These artists, in dialogue with one another, consider our shared present moment, contemplating rupture, loss, belonging, and world-building acts. Artists in their final semester at […]
Presenting the fourteenth annual exhibition of capstone work by Five College students on architecture and design. This year twelve students representing all of the Five College institutions present their work, representing an incredibly broad range of approaches to work on and around architecture + design. The exhibition will open on Thursday, May 9, and be […]
Each year, artists in their final semester at Hampshire experiment with form and conceptual propositions in a series of small group exhibitions. In April and May of 2024, the Hampshire College Art Gallery will present a series of five group exhibitions: Friday, April 5—Sunday, April 7 Reception on Friday, April 5, from 5-7 PM Ingrid […]
On view from February 15 through March 22, 2024. Lucia Monge approaches her creative explorations with the rigor of a biochemist and the curiosity, fascination, and imagination of her childhood growing up in Perú. Influenced by her scientist grandfather and the long hours spent in his garden, she developed the foundation of her artistic practice, […]
Entangled Subjects, Entangled Objects | Five College Advanced Studio Art Seminar December 12–14, 2023 The multi-disciplinary art exhibition Entangled Subjects, Entangled Objects showcases the work of students from the Fall 2023 Five College Advanced Studio Art Seminar: Material, Process, and Poetics, taught by visiting professor Noah Greene-Lowe. These artists craft relationships among wide-ranging materials in […]
Vic Ferreira Sardina and Yahui Liu | Fall 2023 Division III Exhibition November 30—December 6, 2023 The Hampshire College Art Gallery is pleased to announce that Vic Ferreira Sardinha and Yahui Liu will present an exhibition of their Division III work in the first week of December. The exhibition, featuring the installations 37.7167° N, 25.4210° W […]
Between Us September 15—November 12, 2023 Works We Share. In our fall exhibition, objects articulate what we hold between us: distance, narrative, and intimacy. The artists presented here outline and duplicate, unfold and accumulate. They position bodies around one another, highlighting not just individuals but the spaces between them. Drawing from the shared resources of […]
The Gallery is pleased to present Hampshire College’s Spring 2023 Division III exhibitions: April 17–19: Kip Culman, Liam Schumm April 22–25: Haley Aronov, Crescent Malavet, Lars Wahlsten April 28–May 1: Caleb Feinstein, Amblashia Harp
The Distance is Getting Closer March 6th – 31st, 2023 | Closing Reception March 30th, 5 – 8pm In The Distance is Getting Closer, artist-in residence Serena Himmelfarb challenges the aims of traditional landscape painting, which sought to capture and harness the divine light of the wilderness, and instead seeks engagement with its multiple histories, […]
Harold F Johnson Library 10/10 – 10/22 Reception 10/14, 6:30 – 7:30 The Scope of Things is an exhibition featuring work from six professors and six alums. Each alum was nominated by a professor that they worked closely with during their time at Hampshire. By pairing the work in conversation with each other, the exhibition […]
Robert Seydel’s A Short History of Portraiture (1994-97) is a collection of some 200 Polaroid transfer montages. Focused on the face as a figure of the double, Seydel’s imagery is idiosyncratic in the best sense of the word: his multi-layered portraits of real and fictional characters are not renderings of the canonical faces we might expect to […]
The multi-disciplinary art exhibition It’s not about space, it’s about s p a c e showcases the work of students from the Fall 2018 Five College Advanced Studio Seminar – Committed to the Idea: Conceptual Cohesion Across Mediums, taught by Professor Miatta Kawinzi at Hampshire College. It considers the concept of space as physical, social, […]
Download the exhibition catalogue for So be it. See to it. Inspired by the urgency of the handwritten affirmation ‘So be it. See to it’ in one of Octavia Butler’s journals at the Huntington Library, artist Candace Hunter responds with a series of intimate collages set in dialogue with Butler’s fiction. Butler’s speculative fiction of the […]
Download the free digital catalogue for The Museum of the Old Colony (single page view, best for reading essays) or double page spread option (better for installation image integrity). Limited print copies are available upon request. The Museum of the Old Colony, a conceptual art installation by Hartford-based artist Pablo Delano, derives its name in part […]
In recent years, engineers have designed body armor based on beetle shells and applied the aerodynamics of kingfisher beaks to bullet trains. Biomimicry is the buzzword, and the principle has served us well, but biomimicry rarely benefits the organisms whose innovations we appropriate. To compensate, experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats has founded the Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative, […]
A selection of high school art from Massachusetts chapters of the National Art Honor Society (NAHS) November 9 – November 17, 2017 Organized by Hampshire College Visiting Professor of Art Education Jana Silver Opening reception: Saturday November 11, 3-5pm This exhibition features the work of high school students from National Art Honor Society chapters across […]
A Faculty Showcase Featuring: Bill Brayton / Naomi Darling / Andrea Dezsö / Naya Gabriel / Thom Haxo / Baba Hillman / Cynthia Madansky / Billie Mandle / Patricia Montoya / Claudio Nolasco / Lauren Pakradooni / Abraham Ravett / Alexis Salas / Daniel Schrade / John Slepian / Kane Stewart October 11 – November 5, 2017 Curated by […]
Jonathon Keats With Amy Halliday (curator) and Megan Dobro (biology professor) Project: September 6, 2017 – March 9, 2018 / Exhibition: February 9 – March 9, 2018 Download the Plasmodium Consortium’s Policy Circular No 1. Hampshire College is proud to announce the founding of the world’s only academic program for non-human species. The first scholars-in-residence (faculty page […]
Three artist-poets chart paths through language and place in multimedia installations. Presented in collaboration with the 5th annual Amherst Poetry Festival.
Featuring the work of artists and activists, inside and outside prison, to explore tensions between exploitative prison labor and the creative and intellectual labor of incarcerated individuals.
December 15, 2016—January 15, 2017
With an emphasis on material—texture, touch, friction, weight, density, light—Álvarez Bravo, Buster Graybill, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Dawit L. Petros, Nandita Raman, and Ani Rivera reconfigure discourses on rural space, indigeneity, and heritage.
June 3—September 30, 2016
Exploring the intersections of pedagogy and practice in the work of Barry Moser from the Vance Studley Collection, in conversation with Hampshire College alumni book artists.