The Museum brings together artists, critics, writers, poets, and scholars to address key issues in contemporary art and culture through rigorous and provocative talks, conversations, debates, seminars, screenings, and readings in an informal setting.
Unless otherwise noted all events are free and open to the public.
The University Art Museum and the Performing Arts Center are located on the uptown campus of the University at Albany.
Friday, May 9, 2025, 5 – 7 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot
Join us for a reception to celebrate the 2025 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Light refreshments will be served.
Friday, May 9, 2025, 5 – 7 pm
Gallery 223
Fine Arts Building, second floor
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot
Join the Department of Art and Art History at Gallery 223 on the second floor of the Fine Arts Building, down the hall from the University Art Museum, to celebrate the 2025 M.A. Thesis Exhibition: Spectral Fictions.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 11 am – 4 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
As part of UAlbany’s Showcase Day, the University Art Museum will present the 2025 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. The Department of Art and Art History will also have work on view in the Fine Arts Building. For more information, please visit: albany.edu/ualbany-showcase
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Museum/CSS open 11am-4pm
Exhibition tour 12pm, coffee hour to follow
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Visit the museum on Saturday, March 29, during the final week of our exhibition, History Lessons, and join us at noon for a curator-led tour, followed by coffee and snacks in our lobby. Visit the Collections Study Space to view more work from our Collections.
Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany
Saturday, March 29, 2025
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Campus Center West Auditorium
Free and open to the public. No tickets required.
Director: Luis Gispert, USA | 2024 | 83 min
Film screening and discussion with director Luis Gispert and film editor/producer Ryan Murphy. Moderated by Alejandra Bronfman, Professor, Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Studies.
This event is part of the New York State Writers Institute’s Albany Film Festival 2025 and is cosponsored by the University Art Museum. For a complete listing of events visit: https://www.albanyfilmfestival.org/.
The University Art Museum will be open Saturday, March 29, 11am to 4pm.
Inspired by a true story, this intimate tale follows a Cuban refugee with a murky past who now lives off the grid performing odd jobs for an upper-class family. After an unforeseen event forces him into a chancy situation, his best friend lays out a risky plan to help free him from his dangerous dilemma.
Luis Gispert is the director of CAJITA (2024) and an internationally recognized American visual artist living and working in New York. His work has been exhibited at institutions all over the world including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami; the Royal Academy, London, UK; MoCA Shanghai, China; Palazzo Brocherasio, Turin, Italy; and the Haifa Museum, Israel. Born in New Jersey to Cuban immigrant parents he was raised between New York City and Miami. He attended Miami Dade College, studied film at the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned an MFA in sculpture from Yale University.
Ryan Murphy is the film editor and producer of CAJITA (2024), winner of Best U.S. Narrative Feature at the 2024 New York Latino Film Festival. As editor, he has collaborated with many leading directors, including Errol Morris, Michael Moore, Greg Mottola, Jason Reitman, Ben Stiller, Roger Waters, Tom McCarthy, and Ethan Coen. His work is featured in many notable films including STILLWATER (2021), SYRIANA (2015), THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (2013), and ADVENTURELAND (2009). He also served as the press kit photographer in promotion of the Beastie Boys’ 1998 Grammy award-winning album Hello Nasty.
Image credit: Still from CAJITA, dir. Luis Gispert, 2024, 83min.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 4:30pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Lot
Join us for a talk by interdisciplinary artist-educator and learner Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Rasheed explores themes of language, memory, and the production of Black knowledge through her large-scale text-based installations, videos, sound works, and drawings that interrogate historical narratives and archives.
Rasheed has had solo exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; the Art Institute of Chicago; and Kunstverein Hannover, among other institutions, and her awards include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2022 Creative Capital grant. Additionally, she is the author of five artist books, founder of the consultant business and microgrant organization Orange Tangent Study, and founder of the digital archive Black Orbits.
Rasheed is one of the artists featured in the UAM’s exhibition History Lessons.
Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany
Image credit: Christopher Gregory for The New York Times
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 11am – 4pm
Join us to make contributions to Wikipedia that directly relate to the University at Albany Fine Art Collections and the University Art Museum’s current and past exhibitions.
To participate, please:
1. Register here: https://albany.libcal.com/event/14029750 Walk-ins are welcome, but registration helps us plan seating.
2. Sign up for a Wikipedia editor’s account here: http://bit.ly/4jm1eTb
3. Check out this training video on how to edit Wikipedia entries where you’ll learn the basics for making your first successful contributions: File:ArtAndFeminism-full-training.webm - Wikimedia Commons
Contact: Berly Brown, Education Coordinator, [email protected]
Co-sponsored by the University Libraries Climate Committee.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Museum/CSS open 11am-4pm
Exhibition tour 12pm, coffee hour to follow
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Visit the museum on Saturday, February 1, during the first week of our exhibition, History Lessons, and join us at noon for a curator-led tour, followed by coffee and snacks in our lobby. Visit the Collections Study Space to view more work from our Collections.
Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany
Wednesday, November 13, 4-5pm
Collections Study Space, Fine Arts 121
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot
Join us for an informal reception for LIMINALITIES curated by Jesse Asher Alsdorf, BA ’22, on view in the University Art Museum’s Collections Study Space.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Museum/CSS open 11am-4pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
The UAM will be open and welcomes prospective students, the campus community, and the general public. Visit the Collections Study Space in FA 121 to view our holdings.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 4:30pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot
Artist James Casebere will be in conversation with artist and UAlbany Professor Danny Goodwin discussing their shared interest in constructed photography, as well as themes related to social control, power structures, and institutional mythologies in their respective work. For the last 30 years, James Casebere has been at the forefront of artists working with constructed photography, creating photographs of his table-sized models based on architectural, art historical, and cinematic sources. Goodwin’s work spanning over 20 years has explored the US intelligence community and related issues of surveillance, secrecy, and violence. Goodwin’s photography and videos are currently on view in Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry.
Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany.
Image credit: James Casebere, School, 2024, image courtesy of the artist
Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19, 2024
Museum/CSS open 11am-4pm, exhibition tours at 12pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Join us during Homecoming Weekend to view our current exhibitions: Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry and Sky Hopinka: Dislocation Blues. Attend our exhibition tours led by exhibiting artist Danny Goodwin. Visit the Collections Study Space in FA 121 to view our holdings.
Friday, September 27 and Saturday, September 28, 2024
Museum/CSS open 11am-4pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
The UAM will be open and welcomes students and the general public. Visit the Collections Study Space in FA 121 to view our holdings.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Museum open 11am-4pm, exhibition walkthrough at 2pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the Collins Circle visitor lots
As part of the Albany Book Festival presented by the New York State Writers Institute, the UAM will be open 11am-4pm. Join us for an exhibition walkthrough at 2pm of Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry led by Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild.
Images courtesy Patrick Dodson and Danny Goodwin
Friday, September 13, 2024, 5-7 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in State Quad Student Parking Lot
Join us for a public reception for the exhibitions Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry and Sky Hopinka: Dislocation Blues. Light refreshments will be served.
Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany.
Friday, May 3, 5 – 7 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot
Join us for a reception to celebrate the 2024 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Light refreshments will be served.
Friday, May 3, 5 – 7 pm
Gallery 223
Fine Arts Building, second floor
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot
Join the Department of Art and Art History at Gallery 223 on the second floor of the Fine Arts Building, down the hall from the University Art Museum, to celebrate the 2024 M.A. Thesis Exhibition.
Tuesday, April 30, 11 am – 4 pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
As part of UAlbany’s Showcase Day, the University Art Museum will present the 2024 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. The Department of Art and Art History will also have work on view in the Fine Arts Building. For more information, please visit: albany.edu/ualbany-showcase
Tuesday, March 26, 4-5pm
Collections Study Space, Fine Arts 121
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot
Join us for an informal reception for Introphantasm curated by Bella Burnett, M.F.A. '24, on view in the University Art Museum’s Collections Study Space.
Supported by University Auxiliary Services at Albany.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 2:00pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the State Quad Student Parking Lot
Join us as Glenn Adamson, curator, writer, and historian renowned for his scholarship on contemporary art, design, and craft, speaks on the exhibition Barrow Parke: Systems and Mythologies. Dr. Adamson is the author of Craft: An American History (2021, Bloomsbury), editor of the journal Material Intelligence, and Artistic Director for the Design Doha 2024 Biennial, Qatar. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and Head of Research at the V&A, London.
The event is free and open to the public.
This event will be an exhibition walkthrough. Please contact UAM with questions about accessibility.
Supported by the Coby Foundation and University Auxiliary Services at Albany.
Saturday, March 9, 2024, 2:00pm
University Art Museum
Fine Arts Building
Free parking in the visitor lots off Collins Circle
Join us for an artists-led walkthrough of Barrow Parke: Systems and Mythologies, followed by a reception and a signing of the exhibition’s catalogue.
The event is free and open to the public. The catalogue will be available for purchase.
This event will be an exhibition walkthrough. Please contact UAM with questions about accessibility.
Supported by the Coby Foundation and University Auxiliary Services at Albany.
