Exhibitions Archive
Ghanaian photographer Gerald Annan-Forson portrays both political transformation and daily life in the African city during the last decades of the 20th century. This exhibition is only the second time his work has been shown in North America. His photographs tell the visual story of Ghana after it won independence from British imperial rule on March 6, 1957. Annan-Forson documents the changing landscape of Accra, the nation's capital, with its subtle moods and evolving cosmopolitanisms. His compositional style, playful focus, and formal repetitions challenge photographic conventions and disrupt viewer expectations by centering quirky figures and offbeat moments. His commitment to both spectacular occasions and the quiet intimacies of Ghanaian life places his images in dialogue with the previous generation of independence-era African photographers such as Felicia Abban, James Barnor, and Malick Sidibé and anticipates the recent explosion of photographers across the continent who are experimenting with documentary storytelling.
Meditations on Water
A Fragile ForceA Fragile Force: Meditations on Water pairs two video artworks, Electric Sheep by Amy Globus and Jennifer Moller's Seas. These two videos present meditative explorations of water, one focusing on icy waters meeting the shore, the other following an intelligent life form from its depths working through a man-made waterscape.
Indigenous Solidarity Throughout Pasifika and Beyond
Across OceansAcross Oceans: Indigenous Solidarity Throughout Pasifika and Beyond provides a glimpse into a diversity of contemporary Indigenous art based largely in cultures connected to the Pacific Ocean. These works, whose origins range from Australia to Hawaiʻi to the west coast of the United States and Canada, are brought together to reveal possibilities for solidarity and empowerment rooted in community, continuity, and self-determination.
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.
Nick Cave & Jeffrey Gibson
Gather, Move, Resonate
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.
Real and Imagined
Immersive Worlds
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.
Assembling a European Collection
From Altarpiece to Portrait
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.