Current Exhibitions

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Abstract print with a soft yellow background and a streak of green in the lower left corner. A large organic shape floats in the middle of the image, printed in burgundy. Two thin streaks intersect and run horizontally within the organic shape, printed in green and red. Another thin streak runs horizontally below and to the left of the shape, printed in orange-yellow.

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem

August 26-December 9, 2025
Emily and Joe Lowe Galleries

“What If I Try This?” explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

This project is generously supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. It celebrates the 10 prints and 1 set of process proofs that the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation gifted Syracuse University in the second round of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative.

Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art

August 26, 2025 - Ongoing
Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery and permanent collection galleries

Drawing on the museum’s extensive collection that encompasses almost 45,000 historic and contemporary artworks made around the globe, this exhibition explores how humans have interacted with and shaped the environment in which they live. Thematic sections focus on plants, home, population centers, and human figures.

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne

August 26, 2025 - December 9, 2025
James F. White Gallery

A Sense of Arrival brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne’s exhibition combines photographs, sculpture and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being and rhetorical expression.

Bhen Alan: Why Does My Adobo Taste Different?

August 26, 2025-May 9, 2026
Art Wall Project

The fifth iteration of the Art Wall Project features textiles made by the Filipino-American artist Bhen Alan. Through the creation of a monumental banig, or a traditional Filipino handwoven mat made from plant fibers, Alan grapples with the traumas of immigration and explores how diasporic communities work to recover a lost idea of home.

Abstract painting of featuring a Butterly above a field of grass.

Depicting the Everyday: A Legacy of Fine Arts Education at the Art Students League

Louise and Bernard Palitz Art Gallery
Lubin House, New York City
September 22, 2025 - February 9, 2026

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Arts Student League founded in the same year Syracuse University conferred the first Bachelors Degree in Painting, this exhibition explores the range of subject matters treated by artists who taught there throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. These artists honed their skills by turning to their everyday surroundings, depicting scenes they saw in the studio, making portraits of their friends and family, capturing the energy of the urban centers, and luxuriating in the tranquility of nature. In doing so, this installation highlights the enduring importance of both studying one’s environs and the role creativity and the fine arts play in education.

Bronze sulpture of a nude woman wiht her arm raised in the air with a archery bow, and a small dog at her feet

Public Art @ SU

Ongoing

Explore the public art that is installed on the Syracuse University grounds and buildings through our online collection or via this GoogleMap that will allow you to take a self-guided tour.