Hunter College Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Hunter College Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas” Exhibition
In the mid-1960s, Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937–80) began embracing joyously transgressive modes of performance, film, and installation that championed marginalized persons and their culture. Created...More »
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C. C. Wang “Lines of Abstraction”
C. C. Wang (1907–2003) is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art. Held twenty years after the...More »
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“Life as Activity: David Lamelas” Exhibition
Curated by Harper Montgomery, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art with Sarah Watson, Chief Curator, and Re’al Christian, Lazarus Graduate Curatorial Fellow, and with MA and MFA students...More »
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Chris Domenick “STAGE”
In conjunction with the project Archipelago, 2019. Archipelago is a project by artist Chris Domenick composed of five kitchen islands occupying various sites around New York City. Throughout the fall...More »
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Robert Morris “Para-architectural projects”
Curated by Sarah Watson In 1971, Robert Morris produced some twenty large, ink-on-paper drawings that as a series reveal an expansive imaginary architectural complex. Many of these drawings were first...More »
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Hans Hofmann “The California Exhibitions, 1931”
Hans Hofmann: The California Exhibitions, 1931 revisits Hofmann’s first exhibitions in the United States, mounted at San Francisco’s Palace of the Legion of Honor and the University of California, Berkeley’s...More »
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“Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971” Exhibition
Organized by Howard Singerman and Sarah Watson with Agnes Gund Curatorial Fellows Clara Chapin, Marie Coneys, Miles Debas, Jazmine Hayes, and Tess Thackara Acts of Art and Rebuttal revisits the 1971...More »
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“Axis Mundo: Queer Networks In Chicano L.A.” Exhibition
Curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is a traveling exhibition that explores the intersections among a network of over fifty artists. This...More »
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“The School of Survival: Learning with Juan Downey” Exhibition
Curated by Javier Rivero Ramos and Sarah Watson The School of Survival: Learning with Juan Downey foregrounds the relationship between Downey’s artistic and pedagogical practices as illustrated in his...More »
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“Framing Community: Magnum Photos, 1947–Present” Exhibition
Framing Community features a selection of seventeen visions and narratives representing communities in a conflicted, dispersed, and racially fractured state. The subjects of this photo exhibition are searching...More »
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Ugo Rondinone “I ♥ John Giorno”
On the evening of the June 21st summer solstice, Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno—the first major U.S. exhibition about the American poet, artist, activist and muse John Giorno—will open simultaneously across...More »
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“Homecoming” Exhibition
The Hunter College Art Galleries presents Homecoming, an exhibition of four Hunter Studio Art MFA alumni: Katherine Behar (MFA 2009), Oliver Herring (MFA 1991), Julia Jacquette (MFA 1992) and Yashua Klos...More »
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Nahum Tevet “Works on Glass, 1972–1975”
Curated by Thierry de Duve, Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art History, Nahum Tevet: Works on Glass, 1972–1975 presents an important and under-recognized series from the artist’s oeuvre. This exhibition...More »
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“Hunter BFA Degree Show”
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2016-05-18 - 2016-06-16
The exhibition features work by nine graduating students: Elise Dahan, Ben Duax, Betty Eastland, Bryan Ellingson, Petra Hjartardòttir, Shani Kossally, Lyora Pissarro, Jihan Saba, and Joy Scanlon. More »
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Olivier Mosset Exhibition
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“Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists’ Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection” Exhibition
Americas Society and the Hunter College Art Galleries announce the opening of Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists’ Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, a selection...More »
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“Because I could not stop for Death—ANTHONY PANZERA, MEMENTO MORI PAINTINGS” Exhibition
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“BFA Thesis Exhibit”
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Robert Motherwell Exhibition
Robert Motherwell recounts that in 1951, Edna Wells Luetz, the newly appointed Chair of Hunter’s Department of Art, reached out to the Museum of Modern Art’s founding curator, Alfred Barr, in search of...More »
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“BFA Degree Exhibition Fall ‘14”
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“Gego and Gerd Leufert: a dialogue” Exibition
Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt, Venezuelan, born Germany, 1912–1994) and Gerd Leufert (Venezuelan, born Lithuania, 1914–1998) are among the most significant artists that worked with the language of abstraction...More »
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Héctor Fuenmayor “Citrus 6906”
Citrus 6906, by Héctor Fuenmayor (born 1949, Caracas, Venezuela), challenges assumptions about how works of art are created and displayed. While it brings to mind monochromatic painting and even the symbolic...More »
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William Kentridge “Six Drawing Lessons”
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“Hunter College BFA Degree” Show Fall 2013
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-12-18 - 2014-01-18
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William Anastasi “Sound Works 1963-2013”
Sound Works examines the importance of sound in the work of William Anastasi (b. 1933), one of the key figures in the development of Conceptual, Process, and Minimal Art. Since the early 1960s sound has...More »
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"Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978" Exhibition
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Prints - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-02-08 - 2013-05-05
Umberto Eco’s concept of the Open Work—an artwork that could not be completed without the viewer’s participation—was highly useful for Latin American conceptualists from the late 1960s through the late...More »
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"Times Square Show Revisited" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Fashion - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2012-09-14 - 2012-12-08
The Hunter College Art Galleries present Times Square Show Revisited, an in-depth look at the original Times Square Show. Times Square Show Revisited is the first focused assessment of the landmark 1980...More »
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"Hunter BFA Thesis" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-05-17 - 2012-06-16
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"Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography, 1950s-Present" Exhibition
The Hunter College Art Galleries present Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s-Present. This landmark exhibition showcases, for the first time in the United States, the works of major...More »
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Patti Smith "9.11 Babelogue"
The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Patti Smith: 9.11 Babelogue. This exhibition, on view from September 8-December 3, 2011, comprises some twenty-six works on paper by the esteemed...More »
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"Objects of Devotion and Desire Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art" Exhibition
Medieval reliquaries—beautiful containers that seek to glorify religious relics, which might include bits of body, shreds of cloth, or even merely dust—are difficult to assess in terms of standard art...More »
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"Americanana" Exhibition
Americanana brings together work by artists as different as Jasper Johns, H.C. Westermann, and Kara Walker that engages American creative traditions, revealing changing artistic and social attitudes towards...More »
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Abraham Cruzvillegas "Inequality Reexamined. Summer 2010"
The ACE group, an MA and MFA student curatorial collective at Hunter College, is pleased to present the exhibition Inequality Reexamined. Summer 2010. This show features a selection of sculptures by the...More »
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"The Hunter College BFA Degree" Show
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-05-20 - 2010-06-19
The Hunter College BFA Degree Show presents recent work by graduating Hunter College undergraduate art students in the BFA program. The exhibition has been organized by Professor Gabriele Evertz.More »
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"Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida in New York" Exhibition
Hunter College presents Beyond Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida in New York. The collaboration between renowned Brazilian artists Hélio Oitica and Nevielle D’Almeida from the late 1960s...More »
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BFA Degree Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-12-17 - 2010-01-16
Held at the end of each semester, the Hunter College BFA Thesis Exhibition presents the work of graduating Hunter BFA candidates as a partial degree requirement.More »
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"Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices" Exhibition
Hunter College presents Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices, curated by Hunter alumna and guest curator, Amie Scally and featuring the work of artists Markus Amm, Josh Brand, Marco Breuer,...More »
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The Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition
Held at the end of each semester, the Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition presents the work of graduating Hunter MFA candidates as a partial degree requirement. The exhibition offers the public an opportunity...More »
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"Cutters" Exhibition
Using knives, razors, pins, scissors, hole punches, lasers, shredders and even plasma cutters, the artists in this show alter surfaces and entire objects to enhance their visual and symbolic meanings....More »
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"The Hunter College MFA Degree" Exhibition
Held at the end of each semester, the Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition presents the work of graduating Hunter MFA candidates as a partial degree requirement. The exhibition offers the public an opportunity...More »
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"to: Night" Exhibition
to: Night brings together a selection of artworks which explore the theme of night using a variety of approaches. In the context of this exhibition, “night” is taken as a descriptive term which encompasses...More »
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Laurent Grasso "Infinite Light"
A work entitled Infinite Light created by the French artist Laurent Grasso, is intended to span the exterior of the pedestrian bridges that connect the main buildings at Hunter College. More »
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"BFA Degree Show" Exhibition
The Hunter College BFA Degree Show presents recent work by graduating Hunter College undergraduate art students at Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery.More »
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"Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" Exhibition
Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries presents a selection of over forty objects on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This exhibition examines a variety...More »