Joiri Minaya: Seeing the Tropics at the Museum Link
Emily and Joe Lowe Galleries
January 21-May 10, 2025
Joiri Minaya: Seeing the Tropics at the Museum brings together artwork by the acclaimed New York City-based Dominican artist and objects from the collection to examine how Minaya critiques Western ideas of tropicality, which are rooted in otherness and exoticism. Through these comparisons, the exhibition explores how nature, landscape, culture, and race have been historically constructed and deployed as tropes in visual culture.
This exhibition is curated by Cristina E. Pardo Porto, assistant professor of Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
Surrealism and Photography: “Where I Dream, It is Awake” Link
James F. White Gallery
January 21-May 10, 2025
This exhibition examines the role of Surrealism in modern photography, tracking the movement’s love of chance, fragmentation, and uncanny dream imagery from its origins in Paris to Britain, Mexico, and Japan over the course of the 20th century. Curated by graduate students in the Department of Art & Music Histories under the direction of Sam Johnson (associate professor and director of graduate studies in Art History), the exhibition features photographs from collections of the SU Art Museum alongside Surrealist books and periodicals from the Special Collections Research Center of the Syracuse University Libraries.