Exhibitions Archive

This exhibition features two visually striking textile-based sculptures by acclaimed artists Nick Cave and Jeffrey Gibson. These life-sized works invite viewers to grapple with our shared humanity through generosity, play, movement, and sound. Both Cave’s Soundsuit and Gibson’s WHAT DO YOU WANT? WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? feature reclaimed, familiar, and unexpected materials, contributing to a sense of wonder and curiosity for audiences of all ages.

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Drawn from the Hood Museum's permanent collection, Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined features artworks created after 1950 using a range of artistic processes, including assemblage, printmaking, painting, and ceramic and wood sculpture. The exhibition invites personal, immersive exploration through a creative writing space, an opt-in scent station, and original poems by local poets commissioned specifically for this exhibition.

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This installation features highlights of the museum's European holdings in a range of media and genres. Often created to valorize, moralize, or inspire, the works originally appeared in a range of venues, from public institutions to private homes to religious buildings.

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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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[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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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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