PAST EXHIBITIONS
2024-2025
We Have All the Time in the World The third and final installation of the Ucross Art Gallery 40th Anniversary series was We Have All the Time in the World, an interdisciplinary exhibition with a focus on auditory art. Guest curator and Ucross alumnus Josh Kun selected 15 fellow Ucross alumni for this special exhibition. The exhibition filled the Ucross Art Gallery with sound, photographs, video, and more, then traveled to the interdisciplinary Ucross Chapel. July 26, 2024 to January 9, 2025 at the Ucross Art Gallery Wyoming Women to Watch In partnership with the Wyoming Committee of National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., Ucross Art Gallery presented the five Wyoming artists who were shortlisted for New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024. Wyoming Women to Watch showcased the work of Sarah Ortegon HighWalking alongside the ephemeral land art of Jennifer Rife (Cheyenne), the undulating ceramic installation of Ucross alumna Bronwyn Minton (Jackson), the miniature anthropomorphized insects of Leah Hardy, and the attention to overlooked moments of Katy Ann Fox (Jackson). June 1, 2024 to July 10, 2024 at the Ucross Art Gallery Celebrating Complexities Celebrating Complexities featured the recipients of the Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists in 2022 and 2023 and was guest curated by Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation), a recipient of the Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists in 2018, the first year of the program. The exhibition showcased the work of four talented artists who work across many different mediums, including photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, beading, quillwork, and basketmaking. Hailing from diverse backgrounds, geographies, and tribal affiliations, they are at different stages in their careers. Each artist explores and celebrates complex ideas in their work, looking at the specific to elucidate the universal. They emphasize their connections to their families, their ancestors, and their communities, presenting an Indigenous worldview that encompasses the past, the present, and the future. They are reclaiming materials and techniques, narratives and identities, and their work tells rich contemporary stories about people and cultures that are vital and thriving. February 12 to May 17, 2024, at the Ucross Art Gallery; traveled to the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana 2023-2024 The Shape of Time: 16 Photographers and Their Creative Paths The Shape of Time, guest curated by Ucross alumnus Keith F. Davis, featured photographs by 16 Ucross alumni. The exhibition explored the nature of the creative process: where ideas are born and how — and why — an artist’s vision evolves. Each artist was represented by two works — one early, one more recent — and a statement on the journey in between. Years of work and thought are represented in the gap between the selected works, revealing so much about each artist’s approach. Click brochure image to view. August 20, 2023 to January 26, 2024 at the Ucross Art Gallery Field Guide: Teresa Baker + Anthony Hudson + Jessica Mehta + Eliza Naranjo Morse Field Guide featured the work of recipients of the 2020 and 2021 Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, including Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa), Anthony Hudson (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians), Jessica Doe (Mehta) (Cherokee Nation), and Eliza Naranjo Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo). The exhibition was curated by Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo). Click brochure image to view. May 5 to July 30, 2023 at the Ucross Art Gallery; traveled to the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana 2022-2023 TIME, MARK, MEMORY: UCROSS AT 40 Time, Mark, Memory: Ucross at 40 featured the work of 15 contemporary visual artists from Ucross’s impressive roster of visual arts alumni and is curated by Ucross Fellow and arts writer Leah Ollman. The exhibiting artists include Michael Berman of Silver City, New Mexico; Arminée Chahbazian of Calistoga, California; Jennifer Garza-Cuen of Corpus Christi, Texas; Munson Hunt of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Shanti Grumbine of New Paltz, New York; Sharon Harper of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Lisa Hochstein of Santa Cruz, California; Elizabeth Hohimer of Marfa, Texas; Bill Morrison of New York, New York; Jenene Nagy of Riverside, California; Sarah McKenzie of Boulder, Colorado; Stephen Vitiello of Richmond, Virginia; Sarah Walker of New York, New York; Anne Wilson of Chicago, Illinois; and Katarina Wong of Santa Fe, New Mexico, New York, New York, and Havana, Cuba. Purchase the exhibition catalogue here. November 4, 2022, to January 20, 2023 at the Ucross Art Gallery 2021 AMERICAN MEMORY: INSIDE OUT: Monica J. Brown, Brittney Denham-Whisonant, and Bill Will Featuring three Ucross fellows, the 31 works in the exhibition explored the idea of collective memory and its intersection with the complexities of our humanity. Together, the works offered a cross-section of Americana through a variety of expression, including Will’s sculptural work, Denham-Whisonant’s quilted textiles, and Brown’s photo-collage and mixed media. May 14 to August 27, 2021 at the Ucross Art Gallery MARKING TIME: Heidi Brandow + Luzene Hill, 2019 Ucross Native American Fellows A multidisciplinary exhibition presenting 25 works of art by the 2019 winners of the Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, Heidi Brandow (Diné/Kanaka Mãoli) and Luzene Hill (Eastern Band of Cherokee). January 11 - March 26, 2021 at the Ucross Art Gallery April 8 - June 27, 2021 at the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT Click brochure image to view. 2020
ENTWINED: Jennifer Reifsneider + Martha Tuttle Featuring the work of two Ucross fellows, Entwined showcases 24 contemporary multidisciplinary works that incorporate various elements including fabric, sculpture, paint, and fiber techniques such as weaving, spinning, crocheting, and knitting. February 14 - May 15, 2020 Click brochure image to view. |
2019
METAMORPHOSES: AN ACT OF POETIC IMAGINATION An exhibition featuring 40 photographs by Ucross alumna Martirene Alcántara, an acclaimed Mexican-born abstract visual artist, stage designer, and photographer who specializes in architecture. October 11 to December 6, 2019 Click brochure image to view. INTRICATE FORM: BRENDA MALLORY + SYDNEY PURSEL 2018 UCROSS NATIVE AMERICAN FELLOWS The inaugural exhibition presenting artwork by winners of the newly established Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists. The multidisciplinary exhibition includes works on paper, video, installation, and sculpture by the first two recipients of the Native American Fellowship, Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation) and Sydney Jane Brooke Campbell Maybrier Pursel (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska). Mallory and Pursel were both in residence at Ucross in 2018. June 3 to September 28, 2019 Click brochure image to view. RESPONSE TO PLACE: COLOR Phoebe Adams + Teresa Booth Brown Response to Place: Color is an exhibition of abstract paintings and collages that explores color and changing light in landscape by Ucross alumni artists, Phoebe Adams and Teresa Booth Brown. February 15 to May 17, 2019 Click brochure image to view. |
2018
LINEAGE AND LEGACY: THE IMAGINED HORSE
This multidisciplinary equine exhibition, spearheaded by Mark Ritchie, Professor of Art in Printmaking at the University of Wyoming, featured thirty works from ten different artists (five international artists). The project was inspired by Ritchie’s participation in the Horse and Art Research Project (HARP), a unique equine-focused residency program in Hungary.
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2017
THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF BIRDS
This exhibition featured paintings by Ucross alumni artist and avid birder Christina Baal. The show also included art submitted by members of the immediate community, the greater Wyoming community, and Ucross alumni from across the country.
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2016
POWER OF PLAY: CROSS POLLINATION OF ART & SCIENCE
This interactive exhibition presented collaborations of dance, music from artists and scientists at the University of Wyoming.
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2015
A PORTRAIT IN PLACE
This special exhibition of land art featured work by Charlie Bettigole, Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, Bill Gilbert, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Yoshimi Hayashi, Joseph Mougel, and Cedra Wood.
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