Exhibitions
Please click on the name of the gallery to see exhibition dates and information. Note that gallery exhibitions are typically only on display during Wesleyan University academic semesters (spring and fall).
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Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Benjamin Chaffee, Associate Director of Visual Arts
The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery is dedicated to presenting groundbreaking solo and group exhibitions and installations that explore contemporary issues, often through an interdisciplinary lens. Site specific projects that take advantage of the gallery’s unique and majestic space have also been featured. In the 1980s, the gallery worked with artists Jessica Stockholder, Kiki Smith, Franz Erhard Walther, Cindy Sherman, and Daniel Buren. In the 1990s, the gallery worked with Mary Kelly, Astrid Klein, Glenn Ligon, Tony Feher, Fred Sandback, and Beverly Semmes. In recent years, the gallery has worked with Ralph Lemon, Nancy Spero, Alvin Lucier, Clarissa Tossin, Kahlil Robert Irving, and Brendan Fernandes. -
College of East Asian Studies Gallery at Mansfield Freeman Center
The College of East Asian Studies houses and maintains collections of East Asian art and historical archives as educational resources for Wesleyan's East Asian Studies Program. Both collections were established in 1987, the year of the Mansfield Freeman Center's founding, with an initial gift of Chinese works of art and historical documents from Dr. Chih Meng, Founding Director of the China Institute in America, and his wife Huan-shou Meng. The collection includes approximately 300 works of art in various media, from works of painting and calligraphy, prints, and rubbings to rare books, textiles, ceramics, and other miscellaneous media from China, Japan, and Korea. The majority of the works date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The College of East Asian Studies Gallery presents student-curated exhibitions, providing Wesleyan students with the opportunity to plan their own exhibitions, think critically about exhibition-making, and learn about curatorial practices as they work alongside staff from the Center for the Arts. -
Davison Art Collection
Miya Tokumitsu, Donald T. Fallati and Ruth E. Pachman Curator of the Davison Art Collection
The Davison Art Collection holds more than 25,000 works of art on paper, including prints, photographs, and drawings. The print collection is one of the foremost at a college or university in the United States. The collection supports teaching and learning in many ways, and was established at Wesleyan University with the founding gifts of George Willets Davison, class of 1892. The new Pruzan Art Center is located at 238 Church Street in Middletown, between Wesleyan’s Olin Memorial Library (pictured above) and the Frank Center for Public Affairs.