Events

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

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go to Public Celebration: 2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition page

A crowd of people standing in an art gallery talking and looking at art

Opening

Public Celebration: 2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition

May 11, 2024
5 pm–6:30 pm

go to Public Celebration: Spring Exhibitions page

Exterior view of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at night with people visible through the windows

Opening

Public Celebration: Spring Exhibitions

February 23, 2024
6:30 pm–8 pm

go to Member and WashU Preview: Adam Pendleton: To Divide By page

Opening

Member and WashU Preview: Adam Pendleton: To Divide By

September 22, 2023
4:30 pm

go to Public Celebration: Adam Pendleton: To Divide By page

Opening

Public Celebration: Adam Pendleton: To Divide By

September 22, 2023
6:30 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