First Happiness
(First and Second Floor)
Selected Works from the Pierogi Flatfiles
(West Gallery)
September 28 - November 14, 2004

Home Extension
Features works by ten international artists who respond to the theme of 'home' as a place of refuge, memory, support, occasional conflict, love, and connection.
January 21 - April 10, 2004

A Moving Picture Show A Video Installation by Allen Yates
September 16 – November 1, 2003 (West Gallery)

The 2003 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region
July 8 - November 1, 2003

State Street Stories: 350 Years of Albany's Heritage
September 13 - November 10, 2002

Nat Friedman: Form, Space, and Light
September 13 - November 10, 2002

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition /
Master of Arts Exhibition
An exhibition of all studio art graduate degree candidates.
May 2 - 19, 2002

Passionately Cuban: Nine Artists From Habana
Isolated and removed from the ongoing critical discourse of Western art centers and without easy access to materials for successful art making, the artists of Cuba are producing some of the most innovative, expressive, contemporary art found worldwide. Curated by Marijo Dougherty, Director, University Art Museum. Catalog essays by Holly Block, Executive Director, Art In General (NYC) and Antonio Fernandez (Tonel), writer and artist. A catalog with several essays and color illustrations accompanies the exhibition.
October 13 - November 18, 2001

The People's Choice
What is art? Who defines art? Russian-born American conceptual artists Komar & Melamid address these two questions with a perversely literal yet profoundly revealing analysis. Organized by Independent Curators International, New York, NY.
June 27 - August 3, 2001

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition /
Master of Arts Exhibition
An exhibition of all studio art graduate degree candidates.
May 4 - May 20, 2001

Fresh Talent: Selected Works by Art Students at SUNY Community Colleges
Work by students from 35 SUNY Community College campuses. Selections made by individual Art Department faculty members from each community college.
March 13 - April 6, 2001

Work
Established and emerging artists interrogate not only the process and means by which work is realized, but some of the cultural definitions and dimensions of the phenomenon of work. Work is curated by University of Albany Fine Art Professor Danny Goodwin and museum exhibition designer Zheng Hu with catalog essay by Corinna Ripps.A catalog with several essays and color illustrations accompanies the exhibition.
January 24 - February 18, 2001

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition /
Master of Arts Exhibition
An exhibition of all studio art graduate degree candidates.
December 6 - December 20, 2000

Searching the Criminal Body: Art/Science/Prejudice
Using both historical artifacts and the work of ten contemporary artists, this exhibit explores how our current ideas about criminal behavior are influenced by 200 years of visual information on the subject. Susan Erony is the principle curator, and Nicole Rafter, the essayist and consultant. Dr. Rafter is a graduate of the University at Albany School of Criminal Justice. A catalog with several essays and color illustrations accompanies the exhibition
September 23 - November 5, 2000

2000 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region Juried Exhibition
This exhibition is open to artists residing within a 100-mile radius of the Capital Region area, and is sponsored jointly by the University Art Museum, the Albany Institute of History & Art, and the Schenectady Museum.
This year's juror, Xu Bing, is a 1999 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a past exhibiting artist in the University at Albany Museum. Xu Bing : A Book from the Sky.
June 30 - August 6, 2000

Persuasive Images: Selections from the Art Collections at the University at Albany
Works by Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Marilyn Bridges, Willem de Kooning, Larry Clark, Richard Diebenkorn, Ralph Gibson, Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Mary Ellen Mark, Judy Pfaff, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, among others, will be featured. Curated by Corinna Ripps of the museum staff. A catalog with several essays and color illustrations accompanies the exhibition.
January 25 - March 3, 2000

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition /
Master of Arts Exhibition
An exhibition of all studio art graduate degree candidates.
December 3 - December 19, 1999

Thom O'Connor: Recent Work
This exhibition features over 30 recent prints by master printmaker Thom O'Connor. The occasion of this exhibition is bittersweet; it marks the close of O'Connor’s 37-year career as a teacher at the University. O'Connor, the head of printmaking in the University of Albany's Art department, has helped launch the careers of many of America's best printmakers. His new prints are rich and dark, yet shot with a magical luminosity that can only be achieved through the crystalline vision of a mature artist.
March 16 - April 16, 1999

-I Could Read the Sky: Photographs by Steve Pyke
In I Could Read the Sky, British photographer Steve Pyke collaborates with writer Timothy O'Grady to tell the story of a fictional man coming of age in the 20th century. Pyke's unflinching perspective revealed through his black and white photographs convey the haunted world of a west Ireland youth spent mostly in exile. The faces, factories, potato fields, building sites, and blighted landscapes distill a memory of Irish immigration.
March 16 - April 16, 1999

Second Skin
Featuring work of 11 alumni artists working in a variety of contemporary mediums, Second Skin explores how artists at the end of the 20th century mediate internal and external authorities, and, in turn, how these experiences are used to protect, the inner-self. Curated by Corinna Ripps 1984. A catalog with several essays and color illustrations accompanies the exhibition.
June 24 - July 31, 1998

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition / Master of Arts Exhibition
An exhibition of all studio art graduate degree candidates.
Recent Acquisitions and Donations to the University at Albany Art Collections. Curated by Wren Panzella, University of Albany collections Manager.
May 5 - May 20, 1998

Tim Rollins: 15 Years of Art and Teaching
An exhibition of past work by renowned art collaborative Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) was accompanied by an installation based on a A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the tradition of Tim Rollins and K.O.S. the installation based on A Midsummer Night's Dream was created on site by 15 regional high school students under the direction of Tim Rollins and the Center for Arts in Education. The installation process was open to the public March 24-27.
March 28 - April 19, 1998

Witness & Legacy: Contemporary Art about the Holocaust
Curated by Stephen C. Feinstein, Acting Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, and organized by the Minnesota Museum of American Art, this exhibit presents recent paintings, photography, sculpture, video, and installations by 22 artists from around the United States who explore the visual legacy of the Holocaust in their work. Mauricio Lasansky, Jerome Witkin, Mindy Weisel, Arnold Trachtman, Joyce Lyon, Gabrielle Rossmer, Edith Altman, Art Spiegelman, among others.
January 25 - March 8, 1998

Memory and Mourning: Shared Cultural Experience
The shared cultural experience of death as a sober fact of human life and how differing social and artistic expressions observe, celebrate and memorialize this passage of the life cycle will be presented. The project is a collaboration between the museum and the departments of Art, Music, Anthropology, Humanistic Studies and the school of Social Welfare. Curated by Marijo Dougherty, University Art Museum. A catalog with several essays and color illustrations accompanies the exhibition. A Day of the Dead installation by the famed Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell will be part of the project.
September 20 - November 9, 1997

Visions of New York State: The Historical Paintings of L.F. Tantillo
Works by the artist Leonard Tantillo which re-create the history of the Capital City of Albany, New York and other upstate New York historical sites. An exhibition catalog of the same title is published by Shawangunk Press in conjunction with the exhibition with essays by Warren Roberts, Charles Gehring, Shirley Dunn and others.
September 7 - November 3, 1996

Artists in the Kitchen
Organized by the University Art Museum, this exhibition will feature the work of over 60 alumni/ae artists and will explore the relationship between making art and the celebratory task of preparing food. The exhibit will include artists working in all types of media including video, installation, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography. An exhibition catalog/cookbook containing recipes and drawings and the participating artists.
June 5 - July 14, 1996