Exhibitions Archive | Hunter Museum of American Art

City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection

by Savannah Smith | Jun 1, 2023 | Uncategorized

When Martin Wong (1946-1999) began collecting art in the 1970s, graffiti was still considered an illicit and underground movement. While working at Pearl Paint, an art supply store on Canal Street in Manhattan, he befriended New York City graffiti writers, many of...

Art Deco Glass from the David Huchthausen Collection

by Savannah Smith | Jun 1, 2023 | Uncategorized

Drawn from a private collection, this exhibition will include early 20th century glass by iconic European and American Art Deco studios such as René Lalique, Daum Frères, Charles Schneider, Muller Frères, Steuben Glass Works, and many others. Characterized by smooth...

Networked Nature from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation

by Savannah Smith | Jun 1, 2023 | Uncategorized

This exhibition of digital and new media artworks from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation feature artists’ pioneering approaches to artificial intelligence, machine learning, real-time software, custom algorithms, and virtual environments and how these reflect...

Paul Caponigro

by Hannah Brawley | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized

A master photographer, Paul Caponigro has been at the forefront of American photography for the better part of seventy years. Caponigro is renowned for his breathtaking, ethereal images that have often been described as intuitively spiritual, with subjects that range...

Tennessee Triennial

by Hannah Brawley | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized

In honor of the Tennessee Triennial, we are reinstalling the Hunter’s contemporary gallery with artworks that speak to repairing, and examine ideas of identity, of healing fractured bodies, of community and relationship. Artists include Nick Cave, Deborah Luster,...