Represent
Great Women Artists at MAG
September 1, 2023–April 14, 2024
Forman Gallery
Represent: Great Women Artists at MAG highlights exceptional artists in the museum’s permanent collection, from recent acquisitions to long-held treasures.
Crystal Z Campbell
Lines of Sight
February 8, 2023–January 7, 2024
Media Arts Watch Gallery
Crystal Z Campbell’s multidisciplinary art practice centers on “public secrets”—stories known by many but rarely told. Lines of Sight illuminates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, offering an alternative narrative revealing Black communities that thrived despite the massacre.
Beyond Beauty
A Selection of Work from MAG’s Permanent Collection
June 9–November 26, 2023
Lockhart Gallery
Beyond Beauty features artwork from MAG’s permanent collection in which artists have purposefully chosen subjects and styles that go beyond traditional associations between art and beauty to express their vision, communicate powerful messages, and evoke a response in the viewer.
Joan Lyons
February 25–August 13, 2023
Forman Gallery and Installations through the American galleries
From the start of her career in the 1960s, Joan Lyons has been a fearless innovator, extending the limits of photography, printmaking, and artists’ books. She works in a wide range of image-making processes, including pinhole photography, Haloid-Xerox drawing, offset and silkscreen printing, photo-quilt making, and digital photography.
68th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition
April 23–August 6, 2023
Docent Gallery
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (RFLX), a long-running showcase for artists from western and central New York, returns to the Memorial Art Gallery for its 68th installment during the spring of 2023. This year’s exhibition is juried by Molly Donovan, curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
SALUT
Dawgs
August 15, 2021–July 9, 2023
Hurlbut Gallery
SALUT’s arresting bright pastels and amorphous shapes capture the humor and absurdity of everyday life through the lens of an optimistic young child.
In Praise of Trees
Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara
December 9, 2022–May 28, 2023
Lockhart Gallery
This exhibition showcases the work of the contemporary Japanese-Canadian print artist Naoko Matsubara (b. 1937). The exhibition presents 39 woodcuts from her portfolio In Praise of Trees; each print represents a single tree or a quality associated with trees, such as hardness, strength, stability, and vitality.
Striking Power
Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt
November 20, 2022–March 5, 2023
Docent Gallery
Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues? This exhibition examines the patterns of damage inflicted on works of art for political, religious, and criminal reasons—the results of organized campaigns of destruction.
Kota Ezawa
National Anthem
November 26, 2021–February 5, 2023
Forman Gallery
The Forman Gallery hosts works from Japanese-German American artist Kota Ezawa’s critically acclaimed “National Anthem” series about NFL athletes who engaged in peaceful protests abgainst police brutality.
Sky Hopinka
Memories of Movement
February 9, 2022–January 8, 2023
Media Arts Watch Gallery
A member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, Sky Hopinka is an internationally recognized multimedia artist who investigates the layered structure of Indigenous identity. Friendship, family, and travel are, in his films, opportunities to reflect on colonialism and what it means to be an Indigenous person in North America.