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In the foreground of the photograph is a large gallery with light blue walls, wood floors, and a cathedral ceiling. On the walls hang framed photographs, many of them large-scale. More galleries are visible receding into the background.
Visual Kinship
August 30 – November 29, 2025
Visual Kinship explores how photography defines, challenges, and reimagines the concept of family. Across diverse historical and contemporary works, the exhibition examines how images reflect and disrupt family structures shaped by colonialism, migration, transnational adoption, and queer intimacies. Photography plays a pivotal role in bridging the personal and political, offering a lens through which kinship can be recognized, claimed, and contested. The exhibition also considers how visual culture fosters alternative networks of belonging and care, expanding the notion of family beyond biological or traditional frameworks.

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A museum gallery lit with colored lights in the center and in which ears of heirloom corn hang from the ceiling. On the back wall of the gallery, in the center of the photograph, is a larger than life size photograph of a man in a spacesuit in space.

Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)

Cara Romero
January 18 – August 9, 2025
Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) explores the narrative artistic practice of Chemehuevi photographer Cara Romero. Spanning the past decade of her work, this exhibition presents a thematic examination of Romero’s complex and layered images, which celebrate the multiplicity, beauty, and resilience of Native American and Indigenous experiences. Accompanied by a catalogue of the same title and debuting at the Hood Museum in January 2025, this is Romero’s first major solo exhibition.

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Liquidity: Art, Commodities, and Water installed in Sack and Rush Galleries. Photo by Rob Strong.

Art, Commodities, and Water

Liquidity
July 29, 2023 – December 1, 2024
Playing upon the dual definitions of liquidity—liquid assets bought and sold, as well as liquid substances—this exhibition mines the historical connections between art, water, and commodities. Highlights from the Hood Museum’s American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts collection explore histories of global trade across water; linkages between water and tourism; liquids as artistic materials; and how nineteenth-century water pollution and historical access to clean water remain relevant to local and national discussions in our present moment.

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An instillation image of "From The Field" The room is painted yellow and has art on the walls.

Tracing Foodways through Art

From the Field
June 8 – November 3, 2024
From the Field: Tracing Foodways through Art explores the idea of food as not only nourishment but also an expression of our lived and shared experiences. This exhibition invites audiences to reflect on their relationships to foodways, which encompass our attitudes, practices, and rituals around food. Artworks across different time periods, mediums, and cultures illustrate points of connection, disconnection, and reconnection to our foodways.

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An instillation image of "[Un]Mapping" The room is painted purple and has art on the walls.

Decolonial Cartographies of Place

[Un]Mapping
June 8 – November 3, 2024
[Un]Mapping examines the legacies of mapmaking and invites viewers to think about alternatives for visualizing our relationships to place. This show focuses on the work of artists whose practices critique colonial legacies of cartography and employ decolonial and Indigenous ways of knowing. It considers how maps can be used not in the interests of surveillance or dispossession but as a means of placemaking.

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An instillation image of "An Instant Out of Time." The room is painted green and has art on the walls.

Shaping a Collection

An Instant Out of Time
April 20 – July 21, 2024
An Instant Out of Time: Shaping a Collection looks at how the Hood Museum’s photography holdings are being developed to best respond to the institution’s teaching mission. It celebrates the collection’s four areas of strength—social documentary, contemporary, portraiture, and landscape photography—and considers future directions for this important campus asset.

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