Artists Against the Bomb opens Friday, October 16, 2026.

Past Exhibitions

2019 Exhibitions

Framework Arts Presents The League of Reluctant Bicyclists

June 28–November 2, 2019

Framework Arts presents the League of Reluctant Bicyclists, a participatory art project. The League is born out of the need…

Madison Donnelly: Bath House

August 30–October 26, 2019

Madison Donnelly’s Bath House combines a hot tub and a conversation pit, merging exterior and interior, to produce an object that…

Ryan Lauderdale: Glazed Atrium

June 28–October 26, 2019

Glazed Atrium is an exploration of the theatrical nature employed by late capitalism, especially the architectural grandeur used in retail.…

Anne Fudyma: Synchronistic Space

August 9–October 12, 2019

Fudyma’s series explores moments of synchronicity—a term first coined by Carl Jung as a way to define meaningful coincidences. What…

Andrew Dadson: Roof Gap

May 24–September 7, 2019

Andrew Dadson’s Roof Gap employs the concept of the derive (the drift), a Situationist International based interaction with architecture that…

Deanna & Ed Templeton: Contemporary Suburbium

May 24–September 7, 2019

Photographers Deanna and Ed Templeton’s Contemporary Suburbium examines life in the Southern California suburb of Huntington Beach. Their work offers an…

Andrew Alba: Gas Station Honeydew

June 28–August 24, 2019

As a child of a Mexican-American father and a white mother, Alba’s work balances lines of identity and representation by…

Lenka Konopasek: Mimicry – Instance Failure

June 28–August 3, 2019

Lenka Konopasek’s work is an exploration into themes of natural and human-made disasters. The work raising questions about climate change and longevity…

OUT LOUD: Ostracized and Masked

May 24–July 6, 2019

What does it mean to be ostracized, excluded, marginalized? What does it mean to be masked, cover, or otherwise hide…

Lenka Clayton: Under These Conditions

January 25–June 22, 2019

Lenka Clayton’s work breaks down and reconstructs everyday situations and commonplace objects. In doing so, she helps us to reimagine…

GLOW: 2019 Gala Art Auction

May 24–June 8, 2019

This exhibition features the work of extremely talented and generous artists who donated pieces for UMOCA’s largest fund raiser of…

SEE ME: Primary Children’s Hospital Art Therapy Dept.

March 22–June 1, 2019

  In collaboration with Primary Children’s Hospital Art Therapy Department, See Me seeks to answer the question, “If you could…

Claire Taylor: Transcendence by Observation

March 8–May 25, 2019

In attempting to describe sublime experiences in words, one feels inadequate or pretentious. Perhaps this is why landscape painters have…

Shady Acres

January 25–May 25, 2019

The suburban proliferation in the United States occurred during the years following World War II. Returning soldiers sought affordable housing…

Mike Simi: Gettin’ By

January 25–May 11, 2019

Are you more likely to consider something once you’ve laughed at it? Mike Simi’s tongue in cheek work explores class…

Heidi Jensen: Sit Comfortably in a Darkened Room and Think of Nothing

March 22–May 4, 2019

In Claude Cahun’s monologue “Helen the Rebel”, the narrative of Helen of Troy is reimagined and retold. Rather than existing…

Greg Caldwell: Neighborhood

January 25–March 16, 2019

What if the word Neighborhood was perceived as a title or state of being, like Sainthood, Parenthood, or Knighthood? In…

Jacob Haupt: Ultra Force

January 25–March 2, 2019

Ultra Force is a bootleg Power Rangers/Super Sentai team created by Haupt to explore how superheroes spend their days off…

WHOOP DEE DOO: MMMountain—Matt Roche and Jaimie Warren

October 26, 2018–March 2, 2019

Whoop Dee Doo is a traveling, artist-led project that organizes elaborate site-specific installations and themed live performances as a process…

Rendezvous

November 23, 2018–January 26, 2019

Rendezvous brings together 21 artists who participated in UMOCA’s Artist-in-Residence program over the past five years. The new space at…

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