Events

All programs are free and open to the public and are held at the Museum unless otherwise indicated.

2020
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go to Thank You Saturday page

People standing in a gallery looking at art on the walls and video screens embedded in the wooden floor

Member Event

Thank You Saturday

April 6, 2024

go to Thank You Saturday page

A group of people surrounding a freestanding, knee-high, black bas-relief

Member Event

Thank You Saturday

March 2, 2024
11 am–5 pm

go to Member and WashU Preview: Spring Exhibitions page

A crowd of people standing and talking in small groups

Member Event

Member and WashU Preview: Spring Exhibitions

February 23, 2024
4:30 pm–5:30 pm

go to Thank You Saturday page

Three people observe a row of three framed black-and-white compositions on a wall.

Member Event

Thank You Saturday

February 3, 2024

go to Thank You Saturday page

An adult and a child stand with their backs to us, viewing five artworks hanging on a wall

Member Event

Thank You Saturday

January 6, 2024

go to Thank You Saturday page

Member Event

Thank You Saturday

December 2, 2023

go to Member and WashU Preview: African Modernism in America page

Member Event

Member and WashU Preview: African Modernism in America

March 10, 2023
4:30 pm

go to Member & Faculty Preview: Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings page

Member Event

Member & Faculty Preview: Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings

September 23, 2022
4:30 pm

go to Kemper Circle Tour of Multiplied page

Member Event

Kemper Circle Tour of Multiplied

March 2, 2020
4 pm

go to Kemper Circle Conservation Tour page

Member Event

Kemper Circle Conservation Tour

February 25, 2020
10 am

go to Kemper Circle Tour of Multiplied page

Member Event

Kemper Circle Tour of Multiplied

Kemper Art Museum

February 12, 2020
10 am

go to Kemper Circle Tour of Multiplied page

Member Event

Kemper Circle Tour of Multiplied

February 10, 2020
4 pm

go to Member and WashU Community Reopening Preview page

Member Event

Member and WashU Community Reopening Preview

September 27, 2019
5 pm

go to Transformative Visions Reception & Campus History Tour page

Member Event

Transformative Visions Reception & Campus History Tour

Kemper Art Museum; Danforth Campus

May 12, 2018
10:30 am

go to Women and the Kemper: Island Press Demonstration and Tour page

Member Event

Women and the Kemper: Island Press Demonstration and Tour

Kemper Art Museum; Bixby 200

February 8, 2018
5 pm

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go to Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present page

Installation view of a wooden platform with a ramp, with various sculptures placed throughout

Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present

February 23–July 29, 2024

go to Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air page

Four square, gray canvases on a wall, getting progressively darker from left to right

Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air

February 23–July 29, 2024

go to Space Mapping: Video Art Series page

Tony Cokes, still from The Book of Love, 1992. Color video with sound, 59:37 min. Courtesy of the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles; Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna; and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.

Space Mapping: Video Art Series

February 23–July 29, 2024

go to Tragic Depictions: Negative Emotions in the Visual Arts page

Gilles Peress (French, b. 1946), Bosnian Muslim refugees from Banja Luca arriving at a dispatching center, Travnik, Bosnia, 1993, from the book Farewell to Bosnia. Gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 in. Gift of Joanne Herrmann Milch and Douglas Adam Milch, 1998.

Tragic Depictions: Negative Emotions in the Visual Arts

January 17–July 22, 2024

go to Slingshot: 2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition page

"Slingshot" written in white, dotted text on a blue sky

Slingshot: 2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition

May 3–July 29, 2024

go to Artists in Exile: European Surrealists in the US during and after World War II page

Artists in Exile: European Surrealists in the US during and after World War II

September 1, 2023–ongoing

go to Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s page

St. Louis riverfront after demolition of warehouses, c. 1942. Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Archives, V106-4838. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic license.

Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s

September 13, 2024–January 6, 2025

go to New Acquisitions in Contemporary Art page

New Acquisitions in Contemporary Art

July 19, 2023–ongoing

go to Martín Chambi and Edward Sheriff Curtis page

Martín Chambi and Edward Sheriff Curtis

November 11, 2022–ongoing

go to 19th- and 20th-Century Travel Photography page

Attributed to Sebah & Joaillier (Ottoman studio, active 1888–1908), Untitled (Interior of Hagia Sophia), c. 1880s–c. 1890s. Albumen silver print. Gift of Laurie Wilson, Robert Frerck, and family, 2015.

19th- and 20th-Century Travel Photography

November 11, 2022–ongoing