Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Garden School of Art

Organized by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz

Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948–1960
Colby College Museum of Art
February 11–June 6, 2021

Organized by Elizabeth Finch and Marshall N. Price

by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
July 20, 2022–February 12, 2023

Organized by Karen Moss

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

Organized by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz

Gilded, Carved, and Embossed: Latin American Art (1500–1800)
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
February 22 – July 23, 2023

Organized by Victoria Sancho Lobis

“This exhibition emphasizes the inventive flair and visual sensibilities that Latin American artists brought to their work... These often glittering examples of skill and creativity also reflect the dynamics of political power. The forced spread of Catholicism in the Americas created a need for visual tools of conversion; the American artists employed to render these subjects imbued them with local significance, thereby fashioning a separate chapter of art history that we now celebrate.”

Photography by Jeff McLane
Text excerpted from the Benton Museum of Art

Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
September 3, 2019 – May 17, 2020

Organized by Rebecca McGrew

Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris activates the Pomona College Museum of Art’s largest gallery throughout the 2019/2020 academic year and consists of a site-specific wall drawing and an evolving selection of photographs from Gray’s ongoing artistic examination of the legacies of colonialism in Africa and Europe. A series of monthly programs, Longing on a Large Scale, and a publication accompany the exhibition.

Photography by Ian Byers-Gamber

Prometheus 2017: Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
August 29 – December 16, 2017

Organized by Rebecca McGrew

Prometheus 2017: Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco showcases José Clemente Orozco’s mural Prometheus (1930) on the Pomona College campus and examines the multiple ways Orozco’s vision resonates with four artists working in Mexico today. Isa Carrillo, Adela Goldbard, Rita Ponce de León, and Naomi Rincón-Gallardo share Orozco’s interest in the relationships among history, justice, power, social protest, and storytelling, yet approach these topics from their own twenty-first-century sensibilities. These artists activate Orozco’s mural by reinvigorating Prometheus for a contemporary audience. Prometheus 2017 is supported by grants from the Getty Foundation as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an initiative led by the Getty. The design for the exhibition is an extension of the aesthetic language of the publication.

Photography by Fredrik Nilsen

Hillary Mushkin: Incendiary Traces
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
January 17 – May 14. 2017

Organized by Rebecca McGrew

Incendiary Traces complements the first museum exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Hillary Mushkin. A unique collective project that interrogates landscape through drawing, the experimental initiative sharing the name of this publication was generated through on-site public “draw-in” events, ongoing research, and the publication of related materials.

Photography by Ian Byers-Gamber

R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
January 20–May 17, 2015

Organized by Frances K. Pohl

R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona celebrates the milestone of 50 Project Series exhibitions by connecting the extraordinary artists who have been part of the program with a new generation of artists based in the Los Angeles area. The exhibition features seven artists—Justin Cole, Michael Decker, Naotaka Hiro, Wakana Kimura, Aydinaneth Ortiz, Michael Parker and Nikki Pressley—and is unified by a unique curatorial process. With these artists, the exhibition captures the dynamism of the Southern California art scene, while further extending the Project Series’ impact on the arts community. All artists will engage with students and elements of the curriculum in a variety of ways during the exhibition. The design for the exhibition is an extension of the aesthetic language of the publication.

Photography by Robert Wedemeyer

Pages: Mirella Bentivoglio, Selected Works 1966–2012
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
January 20–May 17, 2015

Organized by Frances K. Pohl

Mirella Bentivoglio (1922–2017) was an Italian artist, poet, art critic, art historian, and curator. Recognized internationally as one of the key figures in the Concrete and Visual Poetry movements in Italy, she explores the relationship between language and image through works on paper, installations, sculpture, and performance. Bentivoglio’s work is marked by a critique, sometimes playful, sometimes somber, of the failures of Western societies—the obsession with material consumption, the pollution of the environment, the celebration of power over compassion, and the constant belittling and oppression of women. The design for the exhibition is an extension of the aesthetic language of the publication.

Photography by Robert Wedemeyer