&Loving: Photography from the Georgetown Collection

January 17 - May 18, 2025 Spagnuolo Main 'Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever.' – Aaron Siskind Photography, in a way that no other medium can, captures fragments of life – intimate, raw, emotionally charged moments that would otherwise pass in an instant. The thirteen... Read more

Hung Liu: Happy and Gay

January 17 - April 13, 2025 de la Cruz Hung Liu: Happy and Gay , curated by Georgetown University Art and Curatorial Studies graduate students in collaboration with Dr. Dorothy Moss, presents a selection of Liu’s works from 2011-2013. In the series, Liu revisits cartoons of her youth that were published in children’s books and primers (known as xiaorenshu... Read more

Working Title

Professor Evan Reed September 27, 2024 - April 9, 2025 Spagnuolo South Working Title is an exhibition of three-dimensional forms made by Evan Reed. The displayed objects range from models to refined pieces. They are developed as side projects, a way to let off creative steam in between the production of more thematically cohesive groups of sculpture. These smaller objects attempt to... Read more

AROUND THE TABLE: SHARED EXPERIENCE | OPEN CONVERSATIONS | COMING TOGETHER

September 27 - December 8, 2024 de la Cruz Around the Table is a group exhibition that engages the theme of food, not as a material or medium, but as a means of social interactions and communal round ups over meals. It features contemporary national and international artists whose works reference food as a metaphor of shared experiences, open... Read more

Alex McQuilkin: That Hand-Touch Sensibility

September 24 - December 7, 2024 Spagnuolo Main By combining conceptualism and craft, Alex McQuilkin (b. 1980, lives New York state) acknowledges the influential legacy of male-defined art movements of the 1960’s whilecritiquing them from a contemporary feminist perspective. She appreciates the absurdity of transcribing LeWitt’s lofty, abstract manifesto with its emphasis on ideas into a handcraft typically... Read more

Confluences: Intersectional Visions of Italy

January 26 - April 7, 2024 de la Cruz, Spagnuolo Main Confluences explores issues of social justice connected to notions of Italy, which is far more complex than the single cultural, political, or social space it is commonly thought to be. The artists represented here counter such familiar fictions through projects, most of them here exhibited for the first time in... Read more

One Voice Can Change a Room

Professor Elyse Kelly September 23, 2023 - August 28, 2024 Spagnuolo South Read more

Kara Walker: Back Of Hand

September 21 - December 3, 2023 de la Cruz A hand, like a sheet of paper, suggests a verso and a recto, a past and a future intimately connected in their reference to one another. This exhibition presents works on paper by the American artist Kara Walker that deal directly in the contradictions of misremembered histories, most pointedly in... Read more

Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies

September 21 - December 3, 2023 Spagnuolo Main This work from 2021 is a 12-minute stop-motion animation where Walker’s cut-paper silhouettes reenact several of the most gruesome and infamous acts of white supremacist violence in the country’s recent history, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh and the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr. Inspired by... Read more

Baseera Khan: Cloak and Dagger

January 19 - April 6, 2023 de la Cruz The Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery at Georgetown University is pleased to present a collaboration with the artist Baseera Khan (American, b. 1980; lives Brooklyn). Khan works across several creative platforms to explore and represent one intersectional Muslim Femme experience. Baseera Khan: Cloak and Dagger continues an... Read more

Elizabeth M. Webb: Cameo Ground (Children of Paradise)

January 19 - May 14, 2023 Spagnuolo Main Elizabeth M. Webb: Cameo Ground (Children of Paradise) uncovers the artist’s family genealogy. The installation evocatively documents a series of interviews that artist and filmmaker Elizabeth M. Webb (American, b. 1989; lives Charlottesville, VA) conducted with a relative. These ceramic pages tell the stories of the 13 children of Paradise,... Read more

Adéla Babanová: Projected Trilogy

September 22 - December 11, 2022 Spagnuolo Main Kalinovska says Babanová’s films “address the current situation of political and moral turmoil. She is not afraid of dealing with complexities, which leads her to look at consequences of disinformation in novel ways.” This Czech-based artist’s immersive and entrancing films Neptune , Where Did the Stewardess Fall From? , and... Read more

Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future

September 22 - December 11, 2022 de la Cruz Georgetown University is pleased to present a special collaboration with one of the world’s most recognized artists, Mary Kelly (American b. 1941, lives Los Angeles, CA). Kelly has influenced conceptual and feminist art practices and shaped the way art is taught for decades. Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future marks... Read more

In The American Tradition

Professor John Morrell August 25, 2022 - July 2, 2023 Spagnuolo South Read more

One Nation Underground: Punk And Visual Culture

February 3 - May 1, 2022 Spagnuolo Main Forty years ago, Georgetown was at the center of a cultural explosion called punk rock. The University’s radio station, WGTB, broadcast underground rock’n’roll across the city, and amplified progressive causes. In 1979, its license was sold by the administration for $1 to the University of the District of Columbia. The... Read more

Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)

January 20 - April 3, 2022 de la Cruz Fani-Kayode escaped the Nigerian Civil War as a child and later attended Georgetown University. Influenced by his Yoruba upbringing and Mapplethorpe, he developed a body of stylized photographic portraits of Black men that explore the tension between sexuality, race, religion and culture before he died prematurely, at the height of... Read more

Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth

October 21 - December 12, 2021 de la Cruz MacArthur Foundation genius Teresita Fernández (American b. 1968, lives Brooklyn) is known for her luminous works that poetically evoke the landscape while also referencing the sociopolitical and historical colonial violence embedded in our ideas of place. Dark Earth features an immersive, panoramic charcoal wall drawing that encompasses golden, reflective panels... Read more

Joseph Grigley: Songs, With And Without Words

October 21 - December 12, 2021 Spagnuolo Main Deaf since the age of 10, the Chicago-based artist Joseph Grigely (American b. 1956) is interested in how language, both spoken and written, materializes in our lives. Grigely has been exhibiting his work in sculpture, installation, video, sound, and works on paper—here, a selection of digital prints—since the early 1990s.... Read more

Carnivalesque

Professor Toni-Lee Sangastiano August 25, 2021 - May 23, 2022 Spagnuolo South Sideshows, freak shows, circuses, and the beach boardwalks, from Coney Island to the Jersey shore, inspire Georgetown Professor Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano. The works in this exhibition historically document, celebrate, and make visible both the people and varied gathering spaces in all of their wonder, glitter, grit, genius, and eccentricity. Read more

Object Object

Curated by Professor Evan Reed January 30 - April 8, 2020 Spagnuolo South Object Object features the work of students enrolled in the fall 2019 courses Sculpture I and The Art of Furniture. These courses provide students with skills to express their creative ideas with tangible forms. Sculpture I invites students to investigate aesthetic and conceptual types of spatial art where the purpose... Read more

Chemi Rosado-Seijo: Comunidades En Movimiento

January 29 - April 8, 2020 de la Cruz, Spagnuolo Main This was the first solo exhibition on the mainland of Rosado-Seijo (American b. 1973, lives San Juan), a celebrated voice in the field of social practice. Known for orchestrating lasting interventions and creative collaborations in his native Puerto Rico and around the world, Rosado-Seijo is equal parts artist and community... Read more

Design Transfigured: Waste Reimagined

October 2 - December 15, 2019 de la Cruz, Spagnuolo Main Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined is the first exhibition to recognize a fresh approach to addressing the current state of our depleted and polluted environment; an extreme and inventive kind of upcycling. In a religious context, transfiguration is “a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state.”... Read more

Glenn Ligon: To Be A Negro In This Country Is Really Never To Be Looked At

January 24 - April 7, 2019 de la Cruz Ligon (American b. 1960; lives New York City) is one of the most prominent voices in contemporary art. This exhibition features works from some of his best-known series, accompanied by labels written by the artist himself. Ligon’s engagement with language, examination of the African American experience, and the influence of... Read more

Georgie Friedman: Vortex

January 24 - April 7, 2019 Spagnuolo Main Interdisciplinary artist Friedman (American b. 1974, lives Boston) explores the relationship between the sublime power of natural phenomena and human fragility in her immersive video installations. Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Friedman began examining atmospheric and oceanic conditions in her work, grappling with humankind’s simultaneous defenselessness and... Read more

Metro Rail

Professor Roberto Bocci January 24 - April 7, 2019 Spagnuolo South Metro Rail is a multidisciplinary project that includes a series of horizontal and vertical panoramas and an experimental films that seeks to portray urban environments shot within and around the Washington DC Metro Rail transportation system. As an artist, I am particularly interested in the representation of interior and exterior... Read more

Jeffrey Gibson: Don’t Make Me Over

September 27 - November 18, 2018 de la Cruz Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw/Cherokee b. 1972. Lives and works in New York State) has come to embrace his multiple selves: informed by tradition, but focused on the future, Gibson is equally at home at a gay disco or an intertribal powwow ̶ his work reflects this complexity. This exhibition featured 10... Read more

Hybrids

Professor Scott Hutchison September 27 - November 18, 2018 Spagnuolo South Read more