Past Exhibitions
Alex Webb Bombay, India, 1981 © Alex Webb/Magnum Photos |
Alex Webb: The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of PhotographsDecember 14, 2012 – May 4, 2013 The exhibition will feature 45 large pigment prints from the 30-year of Magnum photographer Alex Webb. |
Elzbieta Jablonska, House Games, 2002, (Washing, Cooking, Laundry) Edition 3/6, C-Print on Sentra faced with UV Plexiglas, 2002 |
We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters and Heroes in Contemporary ArtDecember 7, 2012 to April 6, 2013 Come explore the meaning of Heroes and Monsters through the lens of Contemporary Art. |
Approach the Truth—Astro Boy, 2006
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e.g.: Shin KiwounOctober 30, 2012 to March 16, 2013 The videos of Korean artist Shin Kiwoun (b. 1976) investigate the concepts of time, existence, reality, and illusion. By using familiar scenes against a backdrop of distorted passages of time wrought with controlled violence, he challenges us to re-evaluate the ways in which we perceive our world. |
William Lamson, Emerge, 2007, HD Video, 2:10 minute video loop, Courtesy of the artist. |
e.g. William LamsonJune 1, 2012 – October 6, 2012 Experience how William Lamson visualizes relationships between serenity and chaos through the art of balancing. The “e.g.” is a gallery that exhibits electronic art of our time. |
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Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic CultureFebruary 24, 2012 – September 29, 2012 Examine more than 250 objects from the 7th century to the present day that unveil how calligraphy, figures and figurines, and pattern have been used in the arts of Islamic culture. |
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European Prints from the Mahonri M. Young EstateThis small exhibition is a selection of prints acquired by the BYU Museum of Art in 1959 from Mahonri Young’s estate, including prints collected by Young, his father-in-law J. Alden Weir, and other members of the Weir family. |
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The Weir Family, 1820-1920: Expanding the Traditions of American ArtNovember 18, 2011 – May 19, 2012 This is the first major exhibition to collectively examine paintings by Robert Walter Weir, John Ferguson Weir, and Julian Alden Weir. The exhibition explores how the transatlantic encounters of the Weir family of artists helped to shape American art for nearly a century. |
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e.g. The ButterflyNovmeber 16, 2011 – May 2012 Seoungho Cho’s video artwork blends West and East by overlaying the pulsing drum solo from Iron Butterfly’s famous 1960s rock song “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” with a Buddhist drumming ritual. |
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Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)December 16, 2011 – April 7, 2012 Fleeting Impressions exhibition highlights Whistler’s accomplishments as an etcher and lithographer and features images inspired by travel in France and Germany, the working-class neighborhood of Chelsea in London, and the landmarks of Venice. |
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Wide Open Spaces: Capturing the Grandeur of the American SouthwestSeptember 17, 2010 – March 17, 2012 Wide-Open Spaces: Capturing the Grandeur of the American Southwest explores how artists developed new approaches in composition, color, and technique to capture the grandeur of the region. |
Selections from the Anthony Pritzker and Pritzker Family Trusts Collection of Contemporary Art
April 21, 2011 – October 7, 2011
Encounters from everyday experience are vibrantly transformed and playfully examined in the artwork collected by Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker. The Museum of Art displayed selections from the Pritzkers’ notable collection of contemporary art. Works by such artists as Jenny Holzer, David Zink Yi, Marc Swanson, Sylvie Fleury investigate how traditional forms can be reinvented to explore the duality of everyday experience.
At War! The Changing Face of American War Illustration
February 4, 2011 – August 3, 2011
At War! The Changing Face of American War Illustration examined the similarities and differences of both the medium and message of American war imagery from 1913 to 2003. It also explored three themes that have remained constant in wartime illustrations throughout the 20th century: fear, duty and nostalgia.
Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns
January 21, 2011 – April 31, 2011
Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns featured 21 of Lange’s photographs acquired by the museum. The exhibition also drew from collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, and the collection of John and Lolita Dixon. The 62 vintage prints in the exhibition, accompanied by excerpts from Dixon’s original text, examine Lange’s lasting interest in the people of southern Utah and their relationship with the land, their heritage and the transformation of the West in post-war America.
Visit moaweb.byu.edu/lange for more information.
Carl Bloch: The Master’s Hand
Friday November 12, 2010 – Saturday, May 7, 2011
Carl Bloch: The Master’s Hand featured five large altar paintings from churches in Denmark and Sweden. Four of these paintings were taken out of their altar settings for the first time since they were originally installed in the late 1800s. The other altar painting, Christ Healing the Sick at Bethesda has become the museum’s signature piece since it was acquired in September 2001. Additional religious paintings and etchings along with genre, history, portrait and landscape paintings from Danish museums also were included in the exhibition.
Visit carlbloch.byu.edu for more information.
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