Past
Exhibitions
Past exhibitions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and its predecessor, the A. D. White Museum of Art at Cornell University.
Past exhibitions from 2024
ENDED ON Jun 23, 2024
Claudia Joskowicz: Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte—After Ruscha
A two-channel video by the Bolivian artist explores how cataclysmic historical events continue to reverberate in the present and that points toward protest and violence as constant possibilities in Bolivian society.
ENDED ON Jun 9, 2024
Guadalupe Maravilla: Armonía de la Esfera
Armonía de la Esfera (Harmony of the Sphere) presents recent work by Guadalupe Maravilla and works selected by the artist drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection.
ENDED ON May 19, 2024
THRIVANCE
THRIVANCE is a student-led curatorial intervention and the capstone project from the Fall 2023 curatorial practicum, “Curatorial Practice as Entanglements” (ARTH 4110/ARTH 6010).
ENDED ON May 12, 2024
Cornell Art Faculty 2024
Faculty in Cornell’s Department of Art exhibit work the Johnson every few years, providing an opportunity for both the university community and the broader public to reflect on the relationship between education and practice.
ENDED ON Mar 10, 2024
Fifty Years: An Anniversary Celebration with the Collection
In celebration of the Johnson Museum’s fiftieth anniversary, an ongoing installation on the first floor features artworks from the mid 1960s through the 1970s and a display of Museum ephemera.
ENDED ON Jan 7, 2024
Nydia Blas: Love, You Came from Greatness
A new series by Nydia Blas shown alongside photograph albums from the collection of Cornell University Library created by Black American families from the 1860s to 1980s.
ENDED ON Jan 7, 2024
Coco Fusco: Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word
Coco Fusco’s single-channel video from 2021 contemplates the disjunction between private loss and public statistics during the Covid-19 pandemic.
ENDED ON Jan 7, 2024
The Poetic World of Persian Art
Poetry, paintings, and calligraphy that highlight epics of powerful Persian kings and heroes and their romantic love stories.