Inhabit brings together works from the Daum collection that explore the layered relationships between people and the landscapes they occupy. Spanning sculpture, painting, photography, and printmaking, the exhibition considers inhabitation not simply as dwelling in a place, but as an ongoing exchange between body and environment. Across media bodies emerge from, dissolve into, or confront ...
During the week of April 20-23, visiting artist Leticia R. Bajuyo will be installing a large, floating art piece in the halls of the Stauffacher building. Through her large-scale works, Leticia Bajuyo engages audiences and connects with communities through her site-specific installations that involve community collections of media and memories. By incorporating recognizable materials and ...
Seeing is not a neutral act. Our understanding of the visual world is shaped by our experiences, cultural conditioning, and surrounding environment. Meaning does not reside solely within an object; it arises from a participatory, constructed process. As the author Anaïs Nin reminds us, “We don’t see things as they are. We see things as ...
Drawn from the collection of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Under Pressure considers abstraction as a site of tension between order and disruption. Rather than offering escape, abstraction here operates as a point of collision, where systems intended to stabilize and contain begin to reveal their own instability. Across the works presented, a sense ...
The American West occupies a complex space in the cultural imagination, shaped by frontier narratives, industry, land use, migration, resilience, and mythmaking. Contemporary Visions of the West seeks work that reclaims or reimagines Western identities and landscapes beyond nostalgia or stereotype. Artists are encouraged to consider how ideas of the West intersect with issues of ...
Presented at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Cross-Pollination brings together works from the museum's permanent collection with significant loans by invited contemporary artists to explore the interconnected relationships that shape the natural world. Across generations, media, and artistic perspectives, the exhibition considers nature not as a static subject, but as a dynamic network of exchange in ...
The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art presents Bede Clarke: King's Highway, on view September 18, 2026, through February 28, 2027. Bringing together ceramics and works on paper, the exhibition examines Clarke's enduring exploration of the vessel, drawing, and the expressive potential of the handmade mark. For more than four decades, Clarke has investigated the relationship ...