New exhibition and performances explore issues currently defining the US through the lens of empathy. Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, a group exhibition exploring the cultural and sociopolitical issues currently defining the ... Read more →

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts announces Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota), a visual artist and independent curator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as its 2020 Bemis Alumni Award winner as part of its formal Alumni Program. White Hawk was a 2017–18 Bemis exhibiting artist in Monarchs: Brown and Native ... Read more →

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts invites the public to the virtual opening of three new solo exhibitions by artists Maria Antelman, Joey Fauerso, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya on Thursday, December 10 from 8 to 9pm on Twitch and Facebook. Bemis Chief Curator and Director of ... Read more →

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is pleased to present two new exhibitions that update modernism's legacies, Liv Schulman: The Gobernment and Claudia Wieser: Generations, on view through June 13, 2020. Liv Schulman: The Gobernment Liv Schulman: The Gobernment (2019) is a multi-episode video ... Read more →

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents two new exhibitions that imagine near-future worlds with depth and playfulness, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens: Look, it’s daybreak, dear, time to sing and Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE, on view through February 15, 2020. Richard Ibghy ... Read more →

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is pleased to present Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium. Opening July 11, the exhibition explores sound as an artistic medium beyond the aural and assembles works by 18 multidisciplinary artists providing a variation on the theme. A reference to ... Read more →

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is proud to announce that the evolving exhibition of work by Jarrod Beck, a recent Bemis Center resident, will enter its final phase with Beck’s Art Talk on August 15 ... Read more →

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is proud to announce an exhibition of new works and projects by Mel Ziegler. The exhibition brings together multiple recent works that occupy a continuum of cultural hierarchies and connect ... Read more →

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is proud to present an exhibition of newly commissioned works by San Francisco-based video artist/sculptor Nate Boyce. The sculptures and video works in this exhibition represent Boyce’s first major solo ... Read more →

Michael Jones McKean’s The Rainbow: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms creates a simple but phenomenal visual event—a rainbow in the sky. The public artwork will produce temporary rainbows above the Bemis Center using ... Read more →

Leslie Shows’s expansive and cryptic paintings connect geologic time scales with urgent and intense imagery. In her new work, sculptures of cast sulfur and visually rich, abstracted images of pyrite suggest ruptures of language, meaning, and ... Read more →