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Currently The Art Gallery and John Young Museum of Art at UHM are open to the campus community and closed to the general public.

Exhibitions in the Commons Gallery will be on view through the windows of the gallery only. We believe that this is the best decision in order to protect the health and safety of our staff and visitors and to support local, national, and international efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19.

We will announce our re-opening to the general public and look forward to your visit. Please check this link for the latest on visiting the campus during the pandemic.

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Schedule of events

Due to COVID-19, there will be no in-person events associated with our exhibitions for Spring 2021. Events on Zoom are free and open to the public with no registration necessary.

January 28, 12:00-1:15 pm: Talk between Stephanie Syjuco and Maika Pollack, curator of Out of the Camera: Beyond Photography (Zoom link, Meeting ID: 641 863 5286; Passcode: Manoa2021). This talk is made possible by the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Fund. View a video of the talk.

March 25, 12:00-1:15 pm: Talk between Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Maika Pollack, curator of Out of the Camera: Beyond Photography (Zoom link, Meeting ID: 641 863 5286; Passcode: Manoa2021). This talk is made possible by the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Fund.

April 1 12:00-1:15 pm: Talk with Carissa Rodriguez, artist, on her exhibition Carissa Rodriguez: The Maid (Zoom link, Meeting ID: 641 863 5286; Passcode: Manoa2021). This talk is co-presented by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where Rodriguez is the Spring 2021 Henry Wolf Chair in photography. It is made possible by the Student Activity and Program Fee Board and the John Young Museum.

April 29 12:00-1:15 pm: Talk between UHM MFA candidates Ava Fedorov, Nanea Lum and Jenna Macy, on the occasion of their exhibitions in the Commons Gallery (Zoom link, Meeting ID: 641 863 5286; Passcode: Manoa2021).

2021 MASTER OF FINE ARTS DEGREE CANDIDATE EXHIBITIONS AVA FEDOROV, NANEA LUM & JENNA MACY

Graphic of the featured artists names: Ava Fedorov, Nanea Lum, Jenna Macy

The Commons Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), is very proud to present three exhibitions of new work in an exhibition series of current UHM MFA 2021 recipients on view April 13 – May 23, 2021. Please see the posting for individual exhibition dates.

OUT OF THE CAMERA: BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY CHAPTER FOUR: SARA GREENBERGER RAFFERTY

Image of work by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 2021

The Commons Gallery, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM), is pleased to present a new work by Sara Greenberger Rafferty on view March 7 through April 11, 2021 as part of the year-long exhibition series Out of the Camera: Beyond Photography.

Dorothea Lange: The War Relocation Authority Assignment

Image by Dorothea Lange, Waiting for Registration, 1942

February 7 – May 14, 2021. The John Young Museum of Art, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, is proud to present for the first time in Hawai’i the exhibition Dorothea Lange: The War Relocation Authority Assignment.

OUT OF THE CAMERA: BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY Chapter Three: Stephanie Syjuco

January 17 – February 28, 2021. The Commons Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), is pleased to present a new series by Stephanie Syjuco in a solo presentation as part of the year-long exhibition series Out of the Camera: Beyond Photography.

CARISSA RODRIGUEZ: THE MAID

September 27, 2020 – May 6, 2021: Carissa Rodriguez examines the material and social conditions in which art is produced and reveals how the canonical figure of the artist is reflected in—and reproduced by—the products of her labor…

NETWORKS, COLLABORATION AND RESISTANCE IN/BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL, 1962-1982 Works from the Arquivo Fernando Aguiar and the Coleção Moraes-Barbosa

October 26, 2020 – January 28, 2021: This exhibition features major works of Brazilian Concrete and Process poetry and related ephemera, c. 1962-1982, drawn from the Arquivo Fernando Aguiar and the Coleção Moraes-Barbosa and shown in Hawai’i for the first time.

Out of the Camera: Beyond Photography CHAPTER TWO: HADI FALLAHPISHEH

November 9 – December 10 , 2020: Hadi Fallahpisheh’s photographic drawings record performances made in the darkroom on large-scale light-sensitive color paper.

OUT OF THE CAMERA: BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY CHAPTER ONE: LUCAS BLALOCK

September 21 – October 29 , 2020: In this new work made for the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Le Déjeuner / Mollusks on the Grass (2020), Blalock’s investigation of two sunbathing bodies riffs on Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1862) while creating a portrait of leisure for our times.

YUTAKA MATSUZAWA: TOWARDS QUANTUM ART

January 26 – May 7, 2020: The first solo exhibition in Hawai’i of Japanese Conceptual artist Yutaka Matsuzawa. Curated by Reiko Tomii and Alan Longino.

INUNDATION : ART AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC

January 19 – February 28, 2020: Inundation refers to both the watery disasters of climate change and the overwhelming emotions they evoke. This exhibition, curated by Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Associate Professor at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, features work by Mary Babcock, Kaili Chun, DAKOgamay, James Jack, Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, Charles Lim, and Angela Tiatia…

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Dorothea Lange: The War Relocation Authority Assignment

DOROTHEA LANGE

KEN OKIISHI: A MODEL CHILDHOOD

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