2020 Exhibitions

Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame

Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame

August 11 – February 27, 2021

O’Shaughnessy Galleries

The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame is home to a noteworthy collection of photographs, perhaps the finest academic collection in the Midwest. Although the 19th century collection is renowned, the 20th century collection is equally significant but lesser known. This exhibition of one hundred carefully selected American...

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Chao Shao-an: Moments between Worlds

Chao Shao-an: Moments between Worlds

Tuesday, February 4 – Saturday, June 20, 2020

Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery

Chao Shao-an (Chinese, 1905-1998) lived a momentous life vividly expressed through brush and ink over a nearly eighty-year career.  This intimate exhibition of seventeen works are drawn from the collection of his family and feature detailed yet poetic images of the natural world for which the artist developed an international reputation.  These...

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Divine Illusions: Statue Paintings from Colonial South America

Divine Illusions: Statue Paintings from Colonial South America

January 18 – May 16, 2020

O’Shaughnessy (East) Galleries

In eighteenth-century Spanish America, sculpted images of the Virgin Mary were frequent subjects of paintings. Some of these "statue paintings" depicted sculptures famed for miraculous intercession in medieval Spain. Others captured the likenesses of statues originating in the Americas and were similarly celebrated for their divine intervention. Like the statues...

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2020 MFA Candidates Thesis Exhibition Online

2020 MFA Candidates Thesis Exhibition Online

Cancelled: April 17 – May 16, 2020

West O'Shaughnessy Galleries

Due to the mid-March 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and resulting closure of campus, the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition highlighting the work of the six May 2020 graduates of the Department of Art, Art History & Design is only available online at https://nd-art-design.com/graduate/ The six May 2020 MFA graduates are: Michael Scott Davis, MFA Sculpture Carly Higgins, MFA Industrial Design Sana...

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