Oil painting of a landscape, wiht qa pale blue sky and a mound of dirt floating in the center

Assembly: Syracuse University Voices on Art and Ecology

January 25 – May 12, 2024
Joe and Emily Lowe Galleries

Assembly features artworks made by Syracuse University faculty and recent alumni that contribute to emergent forms of ecological understanding. By placing these works in dialogue with objects from the Museum’s collection, the installation considers a broad cultural evolution from an environmentalism of the sublime to an ecology of intimacy.

Learn more about the exhibition here!

oil painting of a male with a polka dot shirt,

After Pop: Word and Image in British Art, circa 1970

March 19 – May 12, 2024
James F. White Gallery

Curated by undergraduate art history majors, this exhibition highlights the Museum’s strong collection of postwar British art by focusing on the twilight years of Pop art in 1960s Britain. It examines artists central and peripheral to British Pop as they sought a way beyond the alternatives of optimism and cynicism at the end of the decade.

Painting of a interior room with dark red walls, on the left is a hanging metal heart from a chain that loops through to the right side.

Scriptorium con Safos: Syracuse

January 25 – May 12, 2024
Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery and Collection Galleries 

Artist and art historian Josh T Franco stages a highly personal intervention in the Museum’s permanent collection galleries by developing the exhibition checklist and staging performances to activate the space. He takes on the fundamental method of compare and contrast, as championed by the nineteenth-century Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, in order to consider his place within the discipline. In doing so, he invites museum visitors, especially Syracuse University students, to consider their relationships to their fields of study.

Art for Social Change: Mithila Paintings from the Syracuse University Art Museum 

Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery, NYC
February 5 – June 6, 2024

The exhibition highlights the Museum’s great strengths in Mithila paintings, a collection that is one of the largest held by a university art museum in the United States. Made primarily by indigenous women artists living in the Bihar region of northeastern India, the included paintings trace not only an evolution in style but also shift in social engagement from the 1960s to the present.

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

Art on Campus

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.