Events and exhibitions
We invite you to be an active part of our vibrant creative community.
Explore our events and exhibitions
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
Invisible Palettes
Feb 2 to 19 | Harry Wood Gallery
Exhibition lecture | Feb 18 | 6 pm. | Neeb Hall
Closing reception | Feb 18 | following lecture | Harry Wood Gallery
“Invisible Palettes” is a collaborative art/science project, combining a series of paintings by Penny Cagney, which were inspired by and in collaboration with Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek, Professor Nathan Newman, the ASU SciHub team and their device, the Hylighter, which has ten programmable monochromatic lights.
Before the reception, Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek will give a lecture on color perception on February 18 at 6 p.m. in Neeb Hall, 920 S Forest Mall, adjacent to the Art Building. Doors open at 5:30. A reception and refreshments to follow in the lobby of the Art Building.
Gallery Hours
Monday – Thursday | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fridays | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed on weekends and university holidays
Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection
Feb 6 to 28 | Northlight Gallery
Opening reception | Feb 6 | 6 to 9 pm.
We are delighted to invite you to “Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection” at Northlight Gallery. An exhibition that explores the transformation of traditional documentary and pastoral photography to conceptual, “ordinary” and experimental photography in the 1970s.
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays of the month | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
Image: Roger Buchanan.
CYBOTAGE: Infrastructural Flesh
Feb 6 to 28 | Step Gallery
Opening reception | Feb 6 | 6 to 9 p.m.
“CYBOTAGE” is a solo exhibition where art, biology, global security and social science converge. Named after its central body of work, this series of animated digital colossi probes the ethical dilemmas of human enhancement technologies—sparking dialogue on their impact on society and the environment. Inspired by the colossal guardian statues of Ancient Egypt’s Abu Simbel, these figures, constructed from MRI-like scans overlaid with mapping systems, stand as “guardians” of cyberspace, projected onto landmark facades, skyscrapers or displayed indoors.
Drawing from the legacy of Ancient Egyptian colossi, “CYBOTAGE” underscores our evolving reliance on technology––from “stone’s” materiality in temple construction, to digital “pixels” as building blocks for cyberspace visualization. “CYBOTAGE” presents a contemporary colossus as a "deity" of the Internet age—emphasizing our dependence on cyberspace as a permanent temple and the “guardianship” required to protect our digital lives.
Image: Zeina Barakeh, “CYBOTAGE,” 2025, installation shot of animation projection, Catharine Clark Gallery, dimensions and duration variable.
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
Yonia Fain’s Map of Refugee Modernism | A project with artist Yevgeniy Fiks
Feb 23 to March 19 | Harry Wood Gallery
Artist lecture | March 18 | 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Closing reception | March 18 | 5 to 7 p.m.
Starting in the nineteenth century, millions of Jews left Eastern Europe. Whether they escaped pogroms or sought new economic and educational opportunities abroad, the generation of Jewish artists who grew out of this migration lived simultaneously in the world of Yiddish culture and the emerging world of modernism. Later, in the twentieth century, the careers of Eastern European artists deeply connected to Yiddish culture were cut short by the Holocaust; many of those who survived became refugees.
“Yonia Fain’s Map of Refugee Modernism” explores one chapter in the peripatetic biography of modernist painter and Yiddish writer Yonia Fain (1913–2013). During the Second World War, Fain fled Eastern Europe to Asia to escape Nazi persecution, but was forced to live in Shanghai for the duration of the war. Fain moved to Mexico City, where he was befriended by luminaries in the Mexican art world, represented the country abroad and exhibited his work in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Fain’s time in Mexico City is chronicled in this exhibition, including his since destroyed mural for the Memorial Chapel in the Panteón Israelita at the Cementerio Ashkenazi, which has been reimagined for this exhibition by Phoenix-based painter Rachel Kornovich.
The exhibition includes archival materials related to Fain’s life in Mexico City—including exhibition catalogues, newspaper articles, and photographs borrowed from the Hofstra University Art Museum—as well as Fiks’ conceptual interventions in this history from original maps and audio guides to letters and poems. Also included in the exhibition are copies of books of Yiddish poetry written and illustrated by Fain from the Yiddish Book Center alongside “Yonia Fain: With Pen and Paintbrush,” a Yiddish-language documentary film featuring interviews between Fain and Sheva Zucker, directed by Josh Waletzky and produced by the League for Yiddish. “Yonia Fain’s Map of Refugee Modernism” is an exhibition that moves between past and present, art and document, making the argument that history writing is an active process and that contemporary art making can both reframe how we understand art history and open horizons to new artistic and political imaginaries.
Part of a series on art histories of Yiddishland developed by Yevgeniy Fiks, "Yonia Fain’s Map of Refugee Modernism” intervenes in national art-historical narratives. Yiddishland is not a state and may be something more or less than a nation: even as these artists possess profound connections to Yiddish literature and culture, their national, ethnic and cultural identities remain unresolved (as in the hyphenated description of Fain as Lithuanian-Jewish-Mexican-American, and so on). Rooted in Yiddish-ness, working and living in at least two languages and traversing several countries and even continents, these artists radically expand our understanding of modernism.
This exhibition is accompanied by “Reflections on Refugee Modernisms,” a publication of new scholarship by students in the Fall 2025 Art History seminar on the same topic, who explore how paths of forced migration have shaped modern and contemporary art globally. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with "Art Workshop: Crossing Borders: Jewish Art, Literature and Migration in the Americas” and the “Books from Yiddishland(s): The History of Yiddish as a Migrant Language, Culture, and Art” featured collection at the Hayden Library.
“Yonia Fain’s of Refugee Modernism” is curated by Dr. Chelsea Haines with curatorial assistance by Mehrdad Mirzaie and Ninabah Winton. This project is supported by a HIDA subvention grant and Jewish Studies at ASU.
Gallery Hours
Monday – Thursday | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fridays | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed on weekends and university holidays
