This season at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, our galleries contain an assortment of themes that delve into the intersectionality of art, culture, and history. Don’t miss our related events, offered several times a month and free for all. For a complete list, visit amam.oberlin.edu/events.

Spring 2024 Exhibitions

The Body, the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity

Artists in this exhibition explore not only the topics of HIV/AIDS and Christianity, but also their important overlaps: queer Christian artists whose religious backgrounds and exposure to the ravages of AIDS provided a unique set of tools to express loss as well as resilience.

Echoes of the Pandemic

Works by contemporary Asian and Asian American artists responding to or allowing reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic.

A New Kind of Painter for China, 1960s–1980s

This exhibition highlights three recent acquisitions by the Huxian Peasant Painters, a group that formed as a result of the Chinese government’s attempts to cultivate artists from rural backgrounds.

Digital Reimaginings: Printing Towards Accessibility

Digital Reimaginings takes a multimodal approach to museum learning and accessibility through 3D prints of AMAM artworks along with their scans, audio descriptions, braille, and large-text labels.

Counting in Art and Math with Sol LeWitt

Bringing together 2D and 3D works by Sol LeWitt and models created by Oberlin College mathematicians, this installation invites you to experience different processes of discovering and counting variations.

Femme ’n isms, Part II: Flashpoints in Photography

This is the second installment of the multi-year series Femme ’n isms, which highlights women-identified artists in the Allen’s collection and expands art-historical notions of the feminine through the intersections of gender, race, and class. Spanning 160 years, this loosely chronological presentation encompasses key practitioners and moments in the history of photography.

A Passion for Prints: Works from the Elesh Collection

This exhibition brings together nineteen prints donated to the Allen by James Elesh (OC 1964) and his wife Pam, alongside prints that were central to Elesh’s education at Oberlin under Wolfgang Stechow.

Raghav Kaneria: Community and Creativity / Photographs of Rural India, 1970s–1980s

Capturing the vibrant and dynamic visual world of rural Indian folk arts and crafts, Kaneria’s photography provides a crucial record of artistic traditions that have been overlooked and underappreciated.

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EVENTS:

A Passion for Prints: Works from the Elesh Collection; Raghav Kaneria: Community and Creativity / Photographs of Rural India, 1970s–1980s; Digital Reimaginings: Printing Towards Accessibility; Counting in Art and Math with Sol LeWitt, through May 26

The Body, the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity, through December 15

A New Kind of Painter for China, 1960s–1980s, through December 22

Femme ’n isms, Part II: Flashpoints in Photography, through January 18, 2025

Echoes of the Pandemic, through May 31, 2025