Past
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
