Past Exhibitions and Events
Highlights from Past Exhibition Seasons, Visiting Artists and Events
Visiting artists and exhibition, Steve Rucker, Linda Herritt, Phyllis McGibbon, Harvey Breverman, Xu Bing, Mark Dion, Mary Jo Boles, Van McElwee, Burhan Dogancay, Annie Sprinkle, and Stefan Sagmeistok Keep up to date with exhibition photos and event updates available on our Facebook Page.
Previous Ohio University Art Gallery and Trisolini Gallery Exhibitions include shows byMary Jo Boles, Annie Sprinkle, Stefan Sagmeister, Harvey Breverman, Sharon Louden, Tania El Khoury, Andrea Bowers, and more.
Check out our current season or explore our visiting artists & scholars from past years.
2022-2023
Foundations Exhibition: “Make Yourself at Home”
Ohio University Art Gallery
Show Dates: 5/31-9/3
Zoe Couvillion: “Impressions to Inherit”
Trisolini Art Gallery
Show Dates: 8/30-9/17
2nd Year Graduate Exhibition: “Still Uncertain”
Ohio University Art Gallery
Show Dates: 9/13-10/1
Black in Appalachia: “A Liberated Landscape: Photographs of Black Appalachian Ohio”
William Isom II + Jessica Tezak
Trisolini Art Gallery
Show Dates: 9/27-10/22
Lecture: 10/13 5pm
Paradoxes & Realties
Curated by Sadie Meade and Hillary Gattian with work on loan from the Kennedy Museum of Art CollectionOhio University Art Gallery
Show Dates: 10/11-10/29
Strange Attractors: Noah Riedel
Trisolini Art Gallery
Show Dates: 11/17-12/3
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition 2022
Ohio University Art Gallery
Show Dates: 11/8-12/3
Image as Object: Alternatives 2023 Photography Biennial
Juried by Deborah Orloff
Ohio University Art Gallery
Tuesday, January 24 – Friday, February 17
Talk: Thursday, February 16, 5pm, Mitchell Auditorium
As Is: First Year Graduate Exhibition
Trisolini Art Gallery
Tuesday, January 24 – Saturday, February 18
2021-2022
Interlude: 2nd Year Graduate Show
September 14–October 4
Ohio University Art Gallery
Lasting Impressions: Selected Ohio University Alumni of Art Werger
October 2–31
ARTS/West • Main Gallery
Featured Artists: Connie Wolfe, Michael Whitehead, Anna Tararova, Shane Smith, Shawn Smith, Cayla Skillin-Brauchle, Matt Presutti, Jeremy Plunkett, Sage Perrott, Barry O’Keefe, Misty Morrison, Bill Mason, Jeremy Lundquist, Carrie Lingscheit, Robert Howsare, Rachael Griffin, Belle-Pilar Fleming, Terry Davis, Benjy Davies, Josh Dannin, John Cizmar, and Andrew Barger.
Ohio University Alumni Portfolio ExchangeARTS/West • Lower Gallery
Art Werger: Overview
September 28–October 23
Trisolini Gallery
State of the Arts
October 12–November 1
Ohio University Art Gallery
Ohio University School of Art + Design's annual state-wide exhibition celebrating the creative work of Arts Educators.
Matt Wedel
November 2–29
Trisolini Gallery
Matt Wedel is the Juror for the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
November 9–December 6
Ohio University Art Gallery
2020-2021
In This Space: Disrupted
August 25 - September 12
TRISOLINI GALLERY
As part of Ohio University’s efforts to bring awareness to and prevent incidents of interpersonal violence, OHIO’s Women’s Center with campus partners present this year’s arts-based fall exhibit.
Sculpture Alumnae 1987 – 2012
September 15 - October 17
OHIO UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Artists and former students selected by Associated Professor, Marilyn Poeppelmeyer: Amy Toscani BFA 1986/ MFA 1988, Amy Pryor BFA 1996, Emily Puthoff and Elena Sniezek BFA 1996, Joy Curtis MFA 2002, Heidi Bender Kaufman MFA 2009, Crystal Brown MFA 2012, Courtney Kessel MFA 2012.
over and over…
September 22 - October 24
TRISOLINI GALLERY
A solo exhibition celebrating Marilyn Poeppelmeyer teaching 34 years at Ohio University in Sculpture + Expanded Practices.
Second Year MFA Exhibition
: Ceramics
October 20 - December 5
OHIO UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Emily Connell, Gina Pisto, Hayun Surl, Graphic Design: Sarah Baker, Daniel Opoku, Sadie Sullivan, Painting & Drawing: Kelly Hanning, Todd Jones, Amina Kassim, Photography: Kayla Holdgreve, James Mullens, Marissa Stewart, Printmaking: Fiona Avocado, Vanessa Bahr, Christin Fanelli, Hattie Phillips, Kathryn Yarkosky, Sculpture + Expanded Practices: Halla Abu Baker, Lily Erb.
Soft Relay
November 3 - 28TRISOLINI GALLERY
Two-person exhibition with OHIO MFA Alumni and the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition jurors: Haylee Ebersole - Printmaking 2013 and John Burt Sanders - Painting & Drawing 2011
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
November 17 - December 12
OHIO UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
View exhibition video
This years’ jurors are OHIO MFA Alumni, Haylee Ebersole - Printmaking 2013, and John Burt Sanders - Painting & Drawing 2011
BFA Thesis: Eben Tobar - Ceramics
December 8 - 12
TRISOLINI GALLERY
2016-2017
Artist John Sims exhibition reception, lecture and panel discussionVisiting Artist A.L. Steiner
2015-2016
Amanda Williams [January 28 - 29, 2016]
Claire Pentecost
[February 1-3, 2016]
Corinne Teed
[February 23, 2016]
A.L. Steiner
[February 17-18, 2016]
Bartholomew Ryan [March 10 - 11, 2016]
John Sims [March 17, 2016]
Kevin Krueger [March 29, 2016]
Russ Wrankle
[April 28, 2016]
Stefan Sagmeister
[September 2015]
Garth Johnson [2015]
Travis Townsend
[November 2015]
Sarah Workneh [December 2015]
2011
Large PrintsSeptember 8 - October 15, 2011
Large scale works from the Kennedy Museum of Art's Print Collection and does not only highlight the scale of the printmaking medium but also the richness of the images and technical skill masterfully created by renowned artists such as Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, George Segal, Nancy Graves and Elizabeth Murray.
Jim Dine: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Prints
September 8 – November 12, 2011
Trisolini Gallery
Prints by artist Jim Dine from his various portfolios from Kennedy Museum of Art permanent collection.
Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens [November 4 -Jan 27, 2011]
Trisolini Gallery
Ecosexuals in Love: Our PollenAmorous Relationship with the Earth, Sky and Sea. Artists Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens invented a new field of research they coined “Sexecology”
Visiting Faculty Exhibition
March 29 - April 13, 2011
Trisolini Gallery
Brian Benfer, Elizabeth Gerdeman, Carrie Lingscheit, Rachel Clark
2010
Ohio University Ceramics Invitational
July 18 - October 9, 2010
Trisolini Gallery
Ceramics exhibition organized to highlight wood-fired ceramics. Invited artists are Dan Anderson, Brian Benfer, Birdie Boone, Josh Copus, Naomi Daglish, Ryan Greenheck, Brian Harper, Sam Hoffman, Pat Houston, Cary Hulin, Michael Hunt, Michael Kline, Brenda Lichman, Missy McCormick, Lindsay Oesterritter, Adam Posnak, Jane Shellenbarger, Dennis Siporski, Mackenzie Smith, Tara Wilson, Russel Wrankle.
Burhan Dogancay: Urban Walls
Sept. 14 – Nov. 20, 2010
Ohio University Art Gallery
Purple Wedding to the Appalachian Mountains
Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens
Sat, November 6, 2010, 2pm
GALBREATH CHAPEL
Mark Dion: Collected Editions 1984-2009
September 18 – November 14, 2010
Trisolini Gallery
Rehearse, Rewind, Repeat: Photography, Video and Performance
Exhibition dates: January 12 - February 18, 2010
Ohio University Art Gallery
Danette Pratt: Biological Illustrations as Art
February 18 – April 3, 2010
Trisolini Gallery
2009
From Sabbatical: Work by Robert Peppers, Marilyn Poeppelmeyer, Art Werger
January 8 - February 21, 2009
Ohio University Art Gallery
Visiting Faculty: Deborah Schwartzkopf
The Counterpoint of Practical and Capricious
April 3 - April 24, 2009
Trisolini Gallery
Nelson Hippolyte
Asphalt: Poetics of the SurfaceFebruary 5 – March 7, 2009
Ohio University Art Gallery