Events and exhibitions
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An education in art goes beyond building knowledge and technical skills, it’s about finding one’s voice, igniting curiosity, connecting with others, making meaning of the present and discovering a place in the world. It is important to celebrate successes together because the experiences and relationships one creates here will inform the rest of their life.
ASU Events
Exhibitions
Photo-Role-Playing
Aug 28–Sept 26 | Northlight and Step Gallery
Opening reception | Aug 28 | 6–9 p.m.
An Exhibition on the Relationship Between Photography and Performance
Participating Artists: Tom Barrow, Andi Benge, Camila Bianchi, Bentley Brown, Roger Buchanan, Liz Cohen, Judy Dater, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, David Entrican, Erphaneh Sadeghzadeh, Mikey Foster Estes, Lucia Farrow, Nathan Garcia, C. E. Fitzgerald, Denis Gillingwater, Erika Hanson, Hilary Harp, KJ Herb, Celina Hernandez, Meredith Hoy, Ana Victoria Jiménez, MaRiane Vincent Kooistra, Rennan Kooistra, Hedieh Lotfi, Clarita Luic, María Evelia Marmolejo, Muriel Magenta, Julia Martin, Sara Meghdari, Bucky Miller, Mehrdad Mirzaie, Camille Misty, Zahra Motallebi, Hasti Najafi, Tony Nellsen, Ann Noggle, Nicole L. Olson, Myungsik Park, Grace Piontek, Rembrandt Quiballo, Saba Raissian, Barbara Jo Revelle, Gregory Sale, Patricia Sannit, Betsy Schneider, Herman Seidel, Athena Rhys Solan, Robert Stuart, Alfred Stieglitz, Liza Stout, Meshkat Talebi, Dean Terasaki, Janet Toro, Sierra Vannelli, Alixandria Vengoechea, Julia Vidrio, Michelle Villarreal Pina, Karima Walker, Jack Welpott, William Wegman, Ruth Weisberg, Pat York, Mary Zettlemoyer.
Image Credit: Janet Toro, Afectos fallidos, 2020.
Landscape And...
Sept 8–30 | Gallery 100
Opening reception | Sept 8 | 5–7 p.m.
"Landscape And…" features a semester's journey into the landscape and into the self. The exhibition showcases work from the Spring 2026 Landscape Painting class, including a rich collection of plein air paintings created at various locations around the valley.
The semester culminated in final projects, where each student chose a landscape that spoke to them emotionally and completed the phrase "Landscape And..." with a word or words of their own (for example, Landscape and Memory). Students carried forward the skills developed through plein air painting in the first half of the semester and applied them to these final pieces.
Alongside rich color, light, and each student's personal style, the exhibition captures a wide range of subject matter, from history to navigating grief and feelings of nostalgia.
Gallery Hours
Tues–Thur | Noon–5 p.m.
Mon and Fr | By appointment only
New Graduate Exhibition 2026
Sept 15–Oct 8 | Harry Wood Gallery
Opening reception | Sept 15 | 5–7 p.m.
Harry Wood Gallery is pleased to present the 2026 New Graduate Exhibition. This annual exhibition features work by incoming graduate students within the School of Art. The selection of work represents the multiple areas of focus present within the school: animation, ceramics, craft and sculptural practices, expanded arts, painting, drawing, printmaking and photography.
Following the reception, please join us at 7–9 p.m. in ART 220 (second floor of the Art Building) for the New Grad Slide Slam. New students in the art, art education and art history graduate programs will introduce their research to the community through a rapid-fire 6 slides in 3 minutes.
The Fold: Episode I, II, III
Oct 2–10 | Step Gallery
Opening reception | Oct 2 | 6–8 p.m.
"The Fold: Episodes I, II, III" explores a world where bodies, machines and virtual beings encounter one another across shifting physical and digital boundaries. Through animation, robotics, extended reality, autonomous characters emerge, transform and respond to their surroundings. The exhibition invites viewers into an evolving space where technology becomes performer, object becomes agent and familiar distinctions between human, machine, reality and simulation begin to fold into one another.
Image: The Fold: Episode III, multimedia installation involving robots, VR-headset, stop-motion puppets, image provided by the artist.
Anatomy of a Swarm
Oct 14–Nov 5 | Harry Wood Gallery
Opening reception | Oct 14 | 5–7 p.m.
Bugs and bodies, few subjects offer as strange and fertile a connection to human sexuality as the insect world does. Coming to Harry Wood Gallery, “The Anatomy of a Swarm” explores preconceived notions about sexuality, gender and embodiment through the lens of the insect world. By decentering the human perspective and embracing arthropods, creatures known for their alien anatomies, social structures and reproduction, the show reframes taboo topics like STIs, queerness, sexual trauma and asexuality within symbolic and scientific frameworks. This approach allows artists to explore the sexual experience through perspectives that merge biology, identity, humor and trauma. Participating artists engaged with fields such as entomology, gender theory, disability studies and new media to develop work that is both academically rigorous and emotionally resonant.
Participating artists: Rozano Rivolta, Juno Pfieff, Daniel Decamps, V Stolarski, Avery Collins, Claire Chilton, Sonora Grace Wright, Grace Balzer, Kieren Lund, Mick Burrage
