Performing for the Camera presents 50 photographs by artists who use performance as a central part of their process. With elaborate costumes and masquerades, large groups of people, theatrical settings, serial images and cinematic framing, the artists create photographs that are often ambiguous, dreamlike, uncanny or campy. These works blur fact and fiction by staging […]
Collecting contemporary ceramics has an illustrious five-decades-long history at the ASU Art Museum, and we are excited to be celebrating the Ceramics Research Center's 10th anniversary in its current facility. Our reputation and commitment to this medium is unparalleled in the United States. In honor of this milestone, we asked ceramic collectors and artists nationwide […]
Science and technology are changing our lives. They are transforming our minds, our possessions and the landscapes we inhabit. In which directions are they heading? What kinds of societies, cities, homes – even people – will they lead to? Are these the futures that we want? On March 1–3, 2012, Arizona State University hosted Emerge, […]
Collecting Arizona is the ASU Art Museum's tribute to the state in honor of its Centennial, featuring artists from the region and a wide range of artwork about Arizona, including photography, painting and sculpture. The summer exhibition also feaatures free Family Fun Day – Saturday, July 14, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. – when […]
This show of selections from the Museum's permanent collection introduces two new acquisitions -- de Guantanamera y Playero Giron, El Mito (of Guantanamera and Bay of Pigs, El Mythos), a painting by Claudio Dicochea, and Bad Manners, a ceramic installation piece by Marilyn Lysohir -- and presents a behind-the-scenes look at how museum registrars accession […]
The ASU Art Museum presents the Ant Farm Media Van v.08 , 2008, by Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb. (Lord and Schreier were partners in the legendary art and technology cooperative Ant Farm, active from 1968-1978.) The Media Van is a repurposed 1972 Chevy with interior modifications including vintage Ant Farm videos, a […]
Visiting artist Miguel Palma (Portugal) has developed a “Desert Initiative Remote Shuttle” that investigates ways in which meaning of place, particularly in remote desert environments, is created and communicated. Palma's work in this exhibition engages issues through the lens of exploration: military history in Arizona and the Southwest, the military's role in desert preservation, the […]
Beautiful and expansive landscapes, immense clouded skies, strange cacti and fowl, and the inhabitants and workers of the land inspired Walter E. Bohl, Edwin Borein and George Elbert Burr. Each of the artists worked in different professions before they began to make prints. They lived in different states until health and their art brought them […]
The ASU Art Museum in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new site-specific artwork by Italian artist Matteo Rubbi in the new downtown Phoenix venue Project Space. A small New York City skyline magically appears in the desert. A copper casting of a […]
The ASU Art Museum was the first arts institution in the state to exhibit and collect new media art. This selection from the Museum's permanent collection highlights contemporary artists working with or commenting on technology since the 1970s. Nam June Paik, one of the earliest video artists, is represented by a classic piece from 1989, […]
In the paintings, drawings and prints in the exhibition You Are Here, drawn from the ASU Art Museum's permanent collection, artists explore the ways that we map, mark or claim the land. Anchored by a historic Dutch engraving of a walled city, most of the works begin in the late 1970s and reflect the strength […]
In conjunction with the 2012 International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), held on ASU's Tempe campus, the ASU Art Museum is showing Ross Birrell's film Duet: Lift Me Up For I Am Dying. A Palestinian violist and an Israeli violist perform Ross Birrell's musical composition “Lift Me Up For I Am Dying,” in the Spiegelsaal of […]
