Counterpoint: 2025 BFA Thesis Exhibition

The Department of Art and the Katherine E. Nash Gallery are pleased to present an exhibition featuring twenty artists about to complete their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees.
BFA 2025 exhibition postcard

Counterpoint
2025 BFA Thesis Exhibition

On view May 6 – 17, 2025 | Katherine E. Nash Gallery

Public Program & Reception: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Public Program, 6;00 - 7:00 PM, Outdoors (weather permitting)
Reception, 7:00 - 9:00 PM,  Outdoors (weather permitting)
Free and open to the public

When you visit, don't miss the BA Capstone exhibition, Gestalt: the way things have been put together, in the Regis West Gallery. Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm.

The Department of Art and the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota are pleased to present Counterpoint, a group exhibition of twenty artists about to complete their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees. Rooted in music, a counterpoint is a composition of more than one voice, with each voice being equally important. Rather than creating a singular melody, Counterpoint showcases harmonies of convergence and contrast within the works of Briannon Anglum, Kathryn Blommel, Gabby Bowen, Laura Dierks, Grace Dinzeo, Jack Drummond, Kathryn Foley, Franny Haight, Nora Hitchcock, Andrew Huckenpoehler, Kira Knochenmus, Nick Kontz, Denise Lau, Ella Leidy, Ian Mckenna, Jeanette Riemermann, Guanjian She, Murphey Stromberg, Grace Theriot, and Ava Weinreis. 

Briannon Anglum 

Two women, one in a bridal veil and another in adjusting it, sit in a suburban yard among swans and ducks.
Briannon Anglum, American Yard, 2024. Oil on canvas, 36 × 36 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
My painting practice functions as a means of exploring the feminine experience. Aesthetically, I draw inspiration from classic American media to create my own collection of reference images.  My practice intersects with that of a filmmaker as each painting becomes a single frame belonging to a film that only exists in my mind. Through each painting, a greater narrative develops with my mind acting as a coin purse turned inside out. In an effort to understand the work, I shake the purse’s contents onto a shag carpet, where I can better sort the pennies from the dimes, the lint, and the crumpled ticket stubs.

Briannon Anglum is a Minneapolis-based painter with a focus on figurative oil painting. She creates photographs and film stills as a working archive that references classic cinema, explores the American dream, and comments on feminine experience. Her work has been exhibited locally at Squirrel Haus Arts and the Regis Center for Art.  

Kathryn Blommel

A female figure stands in shallow water within a vast landscape. A tree grows through the figure, grounding them in the surroundings.
Kathryn Blommel, Grounded by What’s Holding Me Down, 2024. Charcoal and graphite on paper, 44 × 30 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
I work primarily with charcoal and graphite to create surreal imagery centered on the female form. My expansive, dramatic compositions evoke weight, serving as metaphors for the complexities of feminine identity. Through motifs such as trees and landscapes, I explore connections between internal emotions and external environments. Trees symbolize family lineage and intergenerational trauma, often appearing lifeless as they intertwine with still figures, anchoring them in unpredictable landscapes. I strive to depict women not as passive objects, but as embodiments of the experiences, struggles, and resilience that shape their lives.

Kathryn Blommel’s work has been exhibited locally at venues such as Gamut Gallery, Burl Gallery, Soo Visual Arts Center, and the Regis Center for Art’s Quarter Gallery. Her work has appeared in journals including the Yale Journal of Art and Art History, The Harvard Undergraduate Art Journal and See/Saw at the University of California, Berkeley. Blommel’s work has received support from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, and the National Society of Arts and Letters. This summer of 2025, she will participate in the New York Academy of Art’s Summer Undergraduate Residency on an academic merit scholarship.

Gabby Bowen

An unfinished portrait of an unclothed woman wearing a canine mask baring its fangs, staring at the viewer while sitting next to a large dog.
Gabby Bowen, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (Set Me on Fire) (in progress), 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 45 × 30 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
Identity is fluid, shaped by context, expectation, and necessity. My body of work examines masking and psychological dramaturgy as both survival tactic and erasure—who we are is influenced by who is watching. Animals serve as stand-ins for human identity, materials such as nylon, studs, chains, and fluorescent color suggest artificiality, control, and rebellion, while fragmentation and collage evoke adaptation and uncertainty. Beginning with three-dimensional renderings or digital collages, my work explores the tension between simulation and reality, mirroring the shifting nature of selfhood. What is hidden or revealed depends on the viewer, the moment, and the mask.

Gabby Bowen is a visual artist working across painting, sculpture, and digital mediums. Through fragmented compositions, layered materials, and digital-to-physical processes, her work questions the meaning of authenticity in a world dictated by hierarchies, the shifting nature of identity, and examining how external pressures shape the ways we hide or reveal ourselves. Her work has been exhibited locally at the Regis Center for Art’s West Gallery, F-0-K Studios, and Burl Gallery.

Laura Dierks

A realistic life sized human body broken down into seven main pieces, small pieces laid around the outside. The body is laid on top of a cream colored lace tablecloth on the ground.
Laura Dierks, What Remains, 2024. Ceramic, red iron oxide, 48 × 72 × 6 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
I make figurative sculptural work using ceramic and plaster materials. My work is always related to the human body, whether it references the figure itself or the organs within it. My plaster forms are made by creating an armature that is then coated in plaster, while my ceramics are slab built. They are then refined, shaped, and in some cases draped. Once a plaster or ceramic form is built, I then physically break it into pieces. This process of making and unmaking is key to my practice and revolves around my own experiences of expressing emotion through the figure.

Laura Dierks is an artist working in ceramics and multimedia sculpture. They grew up in a small town in Minnesota, where in 2019 they received the Best In Show and various Gold Key Awards from the Minnesota Scholastic Art Awards. Their work has been exhibited locally at the Regis Center for Art’s West Gallery and the Normandale Fine Arts Gallery. Outside of art, Dierks spends their free time outdoors skiing and camping, or indoors playing games with friends and family. 

Grace Collette Dinzeo

An installation of natural materials, positioned with artificial materials, in conversation with ceramic sculptural elements.
Grace Collette Dinzeo, Untitled (installation detail), 2024. Found objects with woven textiles, beads, ceramic, and wire.


Artist Statement & Biography
My artistic practice is how I learn to understand the world around me and the world within me. The art I create is a reflection of myself—a vessel for remembering. My process quiets my mind and leads me into a flow state where time collapses. I enter a dream-state where the subconscious communicates with language that moves beyond words and into the realm of symbols. Through my work, I tap into a collective memory through the thread of interconnection that runs through all that is living. 

Grace Collette Dinzeo is an interdisciplinary artist and perpetual learner, born and raised in Minnesota. She is graduating from the University of Minnesota with a BFA in studio art and a minor in psychology. The central focus of her practice is ceramics and sculpture, with a shift to photography during Covid-19 and her semester abroad in Florence, Italy. At the heart of her practice resides the budding girl enamored by the magic she found in arts and crafts, who couldn’t help but play in the mud. 

Jack Drummond

A photoreal painting of the side yard behind a gas station at night.
Jack Drummond, Side yard, 2024. Acrylic on canvas over panel, 30 × 48 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
Through the lens of dashcam footage, I capture images of America’s landscapes and its roadways as a means of investigating the reality of traversing the world in my everyday existence. The act of painting these images then becomes a process of translation, reworking and reorganizing them. My aim in recontextualizing these images via painting is to investigate how we as viewers encounter images.

Jack Drummond is an artist originally from Reading, England. His paintings, sourced from personally captured surveillance footage, aim to question the ontology of images and the reality of American landscapes in a contemporary world. His work has been shown in local group exhibitions at Nightclub Gallery and Landmark Gallery, both in Saint Paul, MN, and nationally at Sacrament in New York, NY.

Kathryn Foley 

Painting of feminine figure facing away with arms grasping her head and shoulder. This figure is partially maimed and is surrounded by abstracted gore and hazy background.
Kathryn Foley, Mama Never Warned Me, 2025. Oil on panel, 18 × 12 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
I am an interdisciplinary artist, drawing inspiration from the delicate yet visceral struggles of the feminine figure, through realism and abstraction. My current practice explores themes of personal trauma and social struggle with a particular focus on the impacts of restriction, identity, and narratives surrounding sexual expression and violence. Through a blend of anthropomorphism, folklore, and symbolism, I aim to shed light on the ways in which these societal issues intersect with the feminine experience at a personal and collective level. 

Kathryn Foley is a Twin Cities-based multidisciplinary figurative artist working in oil painting, copper plate intaglio, and sculpture. She uses these techniques as a basis for experimentation of expression. Her work centers around the complexities of femininity, personal and folk storytelling, and deep emotional articulation through the use of motif. Her most recent works have been exploring feminine expression through the visuals of body horror. 

Franny Haight

Four ceramic cubes are stacked on top of each other. A pink cube at the bottom, then green, white, and blue. A hand is reaching in toward the top cube.
Franny Haight, Cubes (detail), 2025. Ceramic, 1 × 1 × 1 in. each.


Artist Statement & Biography
Throughout my practice, I invite the audience to play. The pieces featured in this installation encourage viewers to approach the work with their own creativity, learning to develop a relationship with the pieces free from pressure. They may wish to imagine a narrative from the various found objects or physically engage with the tactile ceramic toys. The ambiguous forms, colors, and textures of my pieces create a playground for the viewer to explore. My work reflects on how something so small and simple can inspire such joy and imagination.

Franny Haight is an artist working primarily in sculpture and conceptual ceramics. She is currently involved with ArtStart’s ArtScraps, a secondhand,sustainable art supply store, and has led several workshops offered there over the past year. In 2024, Haight’s work, Beer Can Chandelier, was featured in Trash to Treasure presented by the Rumriver Art Center. During her time at the University of Minnesota, Haight has worked as a teaching assistant for Introductory Ceramics and Foundry and as the Assistant Printmaking Technician in the Malcolm Myers Print Studio.

Nora Hitchcock

Painting of a figure in a white dress kneeling, internal organs fall out of her abdomen into the space around her.
Nora Hitchcock, My Body is No Longer My Own, 2024. Oil on canvas, 66 × 36 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
I create art in response to my feelings of powerlessness over my own body as a woman. Addressing both recent and historical political acts, I bring to light the struggles of women with bodily autonomy, particularly reproductive freedom. Drawn to the genre of body horror, I show how outside forces have detrimental and grotesque effects when trying to manipulate the female body. By inserting myself into these scenarios, I dramatize these effects by bringing both the external and internal body into the same context. My work confronts how female bodies are controlled and contorted by the ever present bloody hands of the patriarchy.

Nora Hitchcock is a Minnesota-based artist exploring themes of womanhood and loss of control through depictions of the female body within the genre of body horror. Multidisciplinary in practice, she primarily works with oil paints, colored pencil, and textiles. Hitchcock has shown work locally at the Regis Center for Art’s West Gallery, Wangensteen Historical Library, and Squirrel Haus Arts. Her work has been published in The Wake MagazineThe Tower Art and Literary Magazine, and North Star Collage

Andrew Huckenpohler

Nature-inspired ceramic tea set sitting in front of a forest-themed photography book.
Foreground: Andrew Huckenpoehler, Woodland Floor, 2025. Ceramics, 21 × 14 in. Background: Andrew Huckenpoehler, Forest Vol 1: shapes, shadows, textures, 2024. Artist book, 16 × 12 in.

Artist Statement & Biography
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

I believe that creativity comes from a Source available to those who can sense it. Influenced by my love of folk music and cigars, allowing us to savor this moment and imagine what is beyond reality. To facilitate these states of mind, I imbue ceramics and photography with an unbidden reverence and awe of the natural world. My work is an imagined dreamland, a portal to adventure, a journey to where anything is possible.

Andrew Huckenpohler is a photographer and ceramicist whose work is informed by the natural world. In turn, the notion that art should be lived with is a core belief of his practice. Having grown up in a small town in rural Minnesota, Huckenpohler spent his time alone in nature, preferring it to people, and sees the world as a number of infinite possibilities to create and imagine beyond that of reality. 
 

Kira Knochenmus

A woman standing next to a deconstructed mannequin using its arm to cover her chest.
Kira Knochenmus, Untitled, 2025. Archival Inkjet print, 60 × 44 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
I am fascinated with the human condition and that the totality of what makes a human is filled with DNA, bones, and organs. My work centers around the most complex organ of the body—the brain—and I ask myself, why am I so drawn to the dark corners that live in my mind?  Ever since I was little I have gravitated toward the thematics of psychological thrillers, horror movies, monsters, aliens, true crime, and mental health disorders. I capture a variety of photographs that explore these topics and other oddities. I am more free as I let myself dive deeper into the weird, dark concepts that I envision. I want to be able to comfort people who indulge in the dark and twisted. I want people to know that it is okay to have dark thoughts, to embrace weirdness, and to connect with the feelings that arise from these indulgences. 

Kira Knochenmus is a Minneapolis-based photographer and mixed-media artist who grew up in Corcoran, Minnesota. She was given her first camera at fourteen and never stopped exploring its capabilities. Her work focuses on the human condition; she is passionate about bringing the dark corners of her mind to life. Knochenmus wants her audience to know that it is okay to have dark thoughts, to embrace weird things, and to connect with the feelings that arise.

Nick Kontz

A textured impasto painting of a bouquet resting in a vase, created with sharp palette knife marks and soft brushstrokes.
Nick Kontz, Mommy Said I’m Special, 2024. Oil on paneled canvas, 37 × 24 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
I see visual language as a mirror of spoken language in rhythm, structure, and expressiveness, but it transcends words by capturing multiple emotions simultaneously on a single plane. My work explores this sentiment through the spectrums of polarity—light and dark, control and chaos, stillness and pulse—by diving into the liminal spaces that emerge from these conflicts. Within these blurred margins, a revolution occurs, meaning takes shape through tension and release, and, if tested intensely enough, the clearest picture of our essence is revealed.

Nick Kontz is a Minneapolis-based artist who explores the human experience through the visual language of paint. Focusing on the interplay between various natural forms such as flowers and the human figure, he examines the connections between mark-making, material, and content. 


Denise Lau

Weaving depicting an abstract fall forest.
Denise Lau, Fall Forest, 2025. Yarn and found objects 18 x 18 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
Through painting, printmaking, textiles, and sculpture, I explore landscapes and how I relate to them through pareidolia—the finding or assigning of human physical characteristics in nature. I am inspired to share how I experience the world through the vibrant landscape of the four seasons. Each season marks time and  memories, and I illustrate this complexity through a combination of materials and processes to portray the emotion that each season evokes. My non-traditional approaches to image making through texture and found objects offer a unique experience of landscape beyond the outdoors.

Denise Lau is an artist working in painting, printmaking, textiles, and sculpture. Her work has been shown locally through Art-A-Whirl, F-O-K Creatives, Squirrel Haus Arts, the Minnesota Zoo’s Hanfl Nature Center, and numerous exhibitions at the Regis Center for Art. Through her time at the University of Minnesota, Lau served as president of Bohemian Press and as a member of Sculpture Club. She has coordinated the Minneapolis Van Cleve Park Art Fair for the past two years, where she also maintained and added to the Gateway Mural. Her work is held in numerous private collections throughout the Midwest where she works as a freelance artist and educator.

Ella Leidy

A wooden dining table and three chairs with broken parts that have been mended with needlework textiles.
Ella Leidy, Feminine Urge, 2024. Found objects and textiles.


Artist Statement & Biography
My practice is a reflection on the social stereotypes, cultural beliefs, and political rhetoric surrounding gender and sexuality in the United States. I explore the realities of womanhood and queerness and their intersection through the lens of my own lived experiences in the American Midwest. My upbringing in rural North Dakota is central to my practice as I reckon with feelings of isolation and otherness as a queer child through the use of familiar found objects. Drawing both on memory and materiality, I combine these objects with craft processes to weave my experiences into broader narratives of gender and sexuality throughout history. 

Ella Leidy is an interdisciplinary artist who works in found objects, photography, and soft sculpture. She was raised in rural North Dakota, where her early understanding of gender and sexuality set the foundation for her artistic practice. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Second Shift Studio Space, the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Center, and across the University of Minnesota’s campus. During her time pursuing a BFA, Leidy’s work earned her both the Wayne and Virginia Potratz Scholarship and the Gay Grossman Memorial Scholarship. 

Ian McKenna 

A harshly lit image of the side of a hill in the night time.
Ian McKenna, Untitled, 2025. Digital scan of film negative.


Artist Statement & Biography
Growing up in Minnesota, I always felt a strong connection to the land and an urgency to document it. Much of the work I create is made when taking walks in nature. I am constantly noticing coyote dens, footprints, deer beds, and other signs of persistent change that are occurring around us. I am interested in the Midwest landscape and how humans and other beings interact with it. I find photographs to be the best way to interact with the idea of change and the world as a whole.

Ian McKenna is a Saint Paul-based photographer. His work primarily focuses on time, place and change. In 2023 his work was shown in a solo exhibition titled, Photos From The Archive at the Midway Triangle Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota.  

Jeanette Riemermann

A painting of a green perfume bottle with a bright red label, in an abstract style. There's green cloth hanging over the top of the canvas.
Jeanette Riemermann, Splintered in Shipping, 2025. Acrylic and fabric on canvas, 35½ × 24 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
My paintings play with the destruction and distortion of images to see how an audience interacts with a work of art that is present, yet inherently hidden. My work draws attention to the feminine associations of the perfume bottle that is then veiled, blurred, divided, and broken down. Using various analog methods to dismantle and collapse each bottle’s form emphasizes the importance of certain visual moments. Currently, I am exploring sculptural ways to play with the dissection and concealment of my paintings.

Jeanette Riemermann is a Minneapolis-based painter who engages with the forms of perfume bottles and veils. Her work has been shown locally at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and the Regis Center for Art. Riemermann’s work is held in private collections across the United States.

Guanjian She

A figure clothes in black stands on a woven mat placed on a concrete floor.
Guanjian She, Room, 2024. Video with sound, 4:00 minutes.


Artist Statement & Biography
I work with experimental film, photography, and ceramics to explore memory, grief, and the complexities of personal history. My practice often intertwines archival materials, fragmented narratives, and tactile elements, reflecting on the impermanence of time and emotion. Language also plays a recurring role as its limitations and shifts mirror the dissonance of identity and lived experience. My work exists in the in-between, where borders blur and meaning unfolds. Through layered visuals and immersive installations, I investigate how absence shapes presence, how the past lingers within the present, and how personal loss can resonate within collective memory. 

Guanjian She is a multimedia artist working across experimental film, photography, and ceramics. Their work explores themes of memory, grief, relationships, and identity, often drawing from personal archives and poetic text. Navigating cultural duality, they incorporate translation and materiality to reflect on displacement and belonging. Their practice engages with the fragility of memory and the emotional weight of absence, using visual and tactile elements to evoke a sense of time, loss, and transformation.

Murphey Stromberg

A square porcelain tile covered in ceramic ruffles.
Murphey Stromberg, Soda Tile #1, 2025. Kim’s porcelain for soda fire, 9 × 9 × ½ in.


Artist Statement & Biography
My work swings between functional and sculptural, often blending the two worlds into one. I find satisfaction in the intricacy and beauty found through deconstruction. Using additive and reductive techniques, I aim for a textural experience that is both tactile and visual. I don’t shy away from maximalism, preferring to fire my work in atmospheric wood and soda kilns to further enhance the textures present on the body of my pieces. I draw inspiration from water, coral, the color blue, and my many memories of visits to Wisconsin state park beaches.

Murphey Stromberg is a Minneapolis-based ceramicist. As a Teaching Assistant and Ceramic Assistant Technician during their studies within the Department of Art, Murphey loves all aspects of the ceramic process. Their work has been shown locally at the Larson Gallery and the Regis Center for Art’s Quarter and West galleries. When they’re not arm deep in clay, Stromberg enjoys listening to Lady Gaga, spending time with their friends, and cooking. 

Grace Theriot

A feminine figure draped in fabric hunched over with a sword in hand.
Grace Theriot, The Maid and The Monolith, 2024. Archival inkjet print, 30 × 44 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
As a non-binary photographer, my work is a representation of how the expression of sexuality and gender are dynamic concepts. My images celebrate the richness of feminine expression, while subtly critiquing the ideologies of institutions, particularly the catholic church. Rather than making overt references, I believe the nods to the church’s historical control over women are more powerful when conveyed through subtle imagery. I incorporate delicate and nuanced elements within my images to create a quiet but resonant critique on society's treatment of women. Through the photographic image, I push for the slightest details to evoke a broader dialogue on the intersectionality of power and femininity.

Grace Theriot is a Minneapolis-based photographer with a focus on fashion and portraiture imagery. Their interest in highlighting the feminine figure offers insight into their experience as a young non-binary artist. Their works have been included in publications such as PhotoVogueCanonThe StarTribune, and more. Local exhibitions include Form+Content Gallery and the Regis Center for Art’s West Gallery, among others. They currently work as a freelance photographer and graphic designer.  

Ava Weinreis

A digital painting of a man holding a torch approaching a large castle.
Ava Weinreis, An Attempt to Find Safety, 2025. Archival Inkjet print of digital drawing, 18 × 32 in.


Artist Statement & Biography
Within the space of a blank canvas, I attempt to build a world that exists beyond the grasp of my reality. My main intention when creating a piece is to extract the viewer from a realm that is logical and familiar, instead placing them into one that is brimming with life and ideas beyond their comprehension. I often find myself fascinated by objects and creatures that tend to create unease. I aspire to harness the power they hold to reel in the viewer by creating scenes of disquiet that remain intriguing enough to be explored deeper.

Ava Weinreis is a Twin-Cities based multimedia artist specializing in the creation of digital, conceptual artwork. Their work explores the creation of original worlds and characters akin to ones found in games and movies. They have exhibited locally at the Regis Center for Art’s West Gallery.

About the Katherine E. Nash Gallery
The Katherine E. Nash Gallery is a research laboratory for the practice and interpretation of the visual arts. We believe the visual arts have the capacity to interpret, critique, and expand on all of human experience. Our internationally recognized exhibitions, publications, and scholarship foster a center of discourse on the practice of visual art and its relationship to culture and community—a place where we examine our assumptions about the past and suggest possibilities for the future. Learn more at nash.umn.edu.

About the Department of Art
At the University of Minnesota, we believe that art has the power to transform our understanding of the world. The artistic practice and research undertaken by our students and professors have a lasting impact on the individual, the community, and the environment, and resonate on visceral, emotional, and philosophical levels. Housed within the Regis Center for Art—a 145,000 square foot space dedicated to art production, exhibitions, and studio art education—the Department of Art offers instruction for graduate and undergraduate students in four areas of study: Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking; Interdisciplinary Art and Social Practice; Photography and Moving Images; and Sculpture and Ceramics. Learn more at art.umn.edu.

The Katherine E. Nash Gallery spans 5,000 square feet for the presentation of exhibitions and related programming that engage with a wide range of artists, scholars, and collaborative partners.

Location
Regis Center for Art (East)
405 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00am – 5:00pm

The Regis Center for Art is accessible by U-Card only. Please call 612-624-7530 upon arrival to gain entrance to the galleries through the building's main entrance located on 21st Avenue South directly across from the parking garage.

Contact Us
[email protected]
612-624-7530

Parking & Public Transit
Learn more about the parking options below:
21st Avenue South ramp
5th Street South lot
19th Avenue South ramp

Hourly metered parking is available nearby on 22nd Avenue South and Locust Street
The gallery is accessible via Metro Transit buses and light rail lines. For your best route, visit Metro Transit Trip Planner.

Accessibility 
Regis Center for Art is accessible to visitors who use mobility devices or prefer to avoid stairs. Service animals are welcome in the gallery.

A fully accessible, gender neutral restroom is available on the 2nd floor of the Regis Center for Art (West). To access this restroom, take the elevator to the 2nd floor and proceed across the skyway towards Regis West. As you exit the skyway the restroom will be directly across from you. Fully accessible gendered restrooms are located directly to the left hand side when exiting the gallery on the first floor of Regis Center for Art (East).

Large bags and backpacks must be left at the gallery front desk with the attendant. In order to protect the art, no food or drink is allowed in the gallery.

The Gallery will be closed for the summer season. 
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September 9 – December 6, 2025 
Vaivén: 21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

Saturday, September 13, 2025
Public Program & Reception | 7:00 - 10:00 PM

Artists in the exhibition include Candida Alvarez, Genesis Báez, Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Ricardo Cabret, Melissa Calderón, Rodríguez Calero, Colectivo Moriviví, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Gisela Colón, Cristina Córdova, David Antonio Cruz, Maritza Dávila, Larissa De Jesús Negrón, Ada del Pilar Ortiz, Estrella Esquilín, Mónica Félix, Cándida González, GeoVanna Gonzalez, Ivelisse Jiménez, Juanita Lanzo, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Olivia Levins Holden, Ricardo Levins Morales, Nora Maité Nieves, Héctor Méndez Caratini, Javier Orfón, Josué Pellot, Joey Quiñones, Wanda Raimundi Ortiz, Elizabeth Robles, Amber Robles-Gordon, Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez, Shellyne Rodriguez, Luis Rodríguez Rosario, Raúl Romero, G. Rosa-Rey, Juan Sánchez, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Amarise Deán Santo, Edra Soto, Bibiana Suárez, Nitza Tufiño, andWilliam Villalongo.

April 1 – 19, 2025 
see through love

January 21 – March 8, 2025 
Paul Shambroom’s American Photographs 

September 10 – December 7, 2024 
Art and Artifact: Murals from the Minneapolis Uprising

April 30 - May 11, 2024
Vital Condition (BFA Thesis)

March 26 - April 13, 2024
Delta Passage (MFA Thesis)

January 16 - December 28, 2024 (Touring Exhibition)
Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers
Katherine E. Nash Gallery | January 16 - March 16, 2024
Rochester Art Center | April 24 – July 21, 2024
Tweed Museum of Art | September 3 – December 28, 2024

September 12 - December 9, 2023
Regis Center for Art 20th Anniversary Exhibitions: Works by Faculty and Staff

May 2 - 13, 2023
Heart of the Matter (BFA Thesis)

March 28 - April 15, 2023
lineage (MFA Thesis)

January 17 - March 18, 2023
A Tender Spirit, A Vital Form: Arlene Burke-Morgan & Clarence Morgan

September 13 - December 10, 2022
A Picture Gallery of the Soul

January 21 - March 28, 2020
The Beginning of Everything

September 10 – December 7, 2019
Queer Forms

September 15, 2015 - January 27, 2019 (Touring Exhibition)
Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta 
Katherine E. Nash Gallery | September 15 - December 12, 2015
NSU Art Museum | February 28 - July 3, 2016
BAMPFA | November 9, 2016 - January 15, 2017
Bildmuseet | June 18, 2017 - October 22, 2017
Martin-Gropius-Bau | April 20 - July 22, 2018
Jeu de Paume | October 16, 2018 - January 27, 2019

Mission

The Katherine E. Nash Gallery is a research laboratory for the practice and interpretation of the visual arts

Vision

We believe the visual arts have the capacity to interpret, critique, and expand on all of human experience. Our engagement with the visual arts helps us to discover who we are and understand our relationships to each other and society.

The Katherine E. Nash Gallery will be a center of discourse on the practice of visual art and its relationship to culture and community — a place where we examine our assumptions about the past and suggest possibilities for the future.

The Nash Gallery will play an indispensable role in the educational development of students, faculty, staff, and the community.

History

Professor Katherine "Katy" E. Nash (1910–1982), a faculty member of the Department of Art from 1961–1976, proposed that the Student Union create a university art gallery. Founded in 1979, the gallery moved to its current location in the Regis Center for Art in 2003. Learn more about the remarkable life and work of Professor Nash.

 
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