Past Exhibitions
Art, Provenance, and the Nazi Era
Hidden HistoriesHidden Histories: Art, Provenance, and the Nazi Era provides insight into the Hood Museum’s Nazi-era provenance research initiative. While the exhibited artworks span diverse time periods and media, they are united by significant gaps in their ownership histories as well as their connections to dealers who sold looted art. By examining these red flags in provenance, this exhibition draws upon the hidden stories behind each piece to explore the ethical complexities of art acquisition and stewardship.
A Space for Dialogue is a student-curated exhibition program that began in 2001. Hood Museum of Art interns create an installation drawn from the museum's permanent collection by engaging with every aspect of curation, from doing research and selecting objects, to choosing frames and a wall color, to planning a layout and writing labels and a brochure, to giving a public talk. There have been over 100 A Space for Dialogue exhibitions on a wide variety of themes.
Non-Humans in East Asian Art
Attitude of CoexistenceIn East Asian art, non-human subjects such as deities, mythological beings, natural phenomena, animals, and everyday objects have long been represented with agency, coexisting alongside their human counterparts. Featuring objects from the Hood Museum’s East Asian art collection from past to present, Attitude of Coexistence explores how art offers an opportunity to experience this inclusive and collaborative attitude toward non-human subjects.
This exhibition highlights two landscape paintings by Claude Monet, the seminal French painter of the late nineteenth century. Through quick strokes of brightly colored paint, Monet prompted his audiences to take a new look at the French landscape.
Fleeting Moments and Elusive Urbanity
Chasing ModernityChasing Modernity: Fleeting Moments and Elusive Urbanity explores parallels between New York's 20th-century Ashcan School and 19th-century Parisian modernism, movements dedicated to capturing the ephemerality of urban life. Works on view include John Sloan's A Roof in Chelsea, New York, Edward Steichen's The Flatiron, and Leon Levinstein's Pinstriped Suited Man.
A Space for Dialogue is a student-curated exhibition program that began in 2001. Hood Museum of Art interns create an installation drawn from the museum's permanent collection by engaging with every aspect of curation, from doing research and selecting objects, to choosing frames and a wall color, to planning a layout and writing labels and a brochure, to giving a public talk. There have been over 100 A Space for Dialogue exhibitions on a wide variety of themes.
Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)
Cara Romero
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.
In the Space Between
In the Space Between encourages visitors to embrace moments of introspection as a means of making progress. It questions the conventional view of time as a straight line propelling us forward by revealing how our past—marked by our memories and unresolved experiences—shapes our present and future. By suggesting that true progress is rooted in self-reflection, these 20th- and 21st-century paintings and photographs illustrate how personal history is a continuous presence informing an ongoing reflection on who we have been and who we are becoming.
A Space for Dialogue is a student-curated exhibition program that began in 2001. Hood Museum of Art interns create an installation drawn from the museum's permanent collection by engaging with every aspect of curation, from doing research and selecting objects, to choosing frames and a wall color, to planning a layout and writing labels and a brochure, to giving a public talk. There have been over 100 A Space for Dialogue exhibitions on a wide variety of themes.