Past Exhibitions

Browse current exhibitions from MICA students, faculty and alumni.

Nov. 03
Aug. 31
Phaan Howng: The Succession of Nature

Phaan Howng: The Succession of Nature

Phaan Howng: The Succession of Nature From November 3, 2017 — August 31, 2018 The third iteration of the Commons Collaboration kicks off with an exciting project from Baltimore-based artist Phaan Howng in collaboration with Blue Water Baltimore. For…
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Jul. 11
Aug. 25
Young Blood

Young Blood

Maryland Art Place presents its 11th annual Young Blood exhibition, showcasing the works of recent Baltimore-area Masters of Fine Art Graduates. Featuring:Caroline HatfieldMFA Interdisciplinary Studio Art (Towson)Mitchell NoahMFA Intermedia and Digital…
Aug. 03
Jan. 04
OVERLOOKED

OVERLOOKED

Humans now recognize more brands than plants. In order to combat this trend, OVERLOOKED employs biomimicry in reverse. Instead of following the human adaptation of nature’s problem-solving abilities, the surreal nature of OVERLOOKED adopts human methods…
Aug. 10
Sep. 21
Counterweight

Counterweight

Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, August 10, 7:00–10:00 pm
Oct. 04
Feb. 10

Across County Lines: Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont

Photography is arguably the region’s most widely practiced artistic medium. From analogue to digital to experimental, the range of photographic techniques practiced throughout North Carolina is both broad and deep. Across County Lines: Contemporary Photography…
Aug. 16
Sep. 23

2018 Sabbatical Exhibition

The 2018 Sabbatical Exhibition, from Thursday, August 16 - Sunday, September 23, will showcase the work of faculty members who took a semester away from MICA during the 2017/18 academic year to explore new themes. Participating artists include: Rebcca…
Aug. 16
Sep. 23
2018 First Year Experience Exhibition (FYE)

2018 First Year Experience Exhibition (FYE)

Timed to coincide with the arrival of this year's freshman, the First Year Experience (FYE) Exhibition is one of the College's most highly regarded student shows. The exhibition, which opens in galleries across campus, features work by rising sophomores…
Aug. 18
Aug. 31

Children's Book Illustrations on Display

It might be from Dr.Seuss, or Beatrix Potter; Jan Brent or Robert McCloskey, but everyone has a memory of their favorite childhood book. Children’s books are formative memories for many, not least because of their captivating illustrations. The Decker…
Aug. 18
Oct. 25

LaToya M. Hobbs: Sitting Pretty

August 18 – October 25 ARTIST’S RECEPTION: Thursday, September 27, 6-9 p.m.Rosenberg Gallery Sitting Pretty exhibits 15 large-scale woodcut and mixed media monotype portraits by LaToya M. Hobbs that confront European expectations of beauty and hairstyle…
Sep. 07
Sep. 29

Corliss Cavalieri: Unrolled / Unstretched

September 7 - 29 The works exhibited are paintings done in 2018. A small rotation of works will occur during the duration of the show on one wall of older never-exhibited paintings.Artist Reception:Saturday, September 15, 6 – 8 PM PUBLIC HOURSFridays…
Sep. 05
Sep. 30

As, Not For

As, Not For is an incomplete historical survey of work created by African-American graphic designers over the last century. These practitioners are absent in too many classroom lectures, and their methods mostly invisible or uncredited in the field. This…
Sep. 22
Oct. 07

Image Harvest

Join us as we celebrate the opening of the first Grad Show exhibition, Image Harvest, by Illustration Practice M.F.A. students. The show is on view in Riggs and Leidy Galleries through October 7, 2018.  
Sep. 27
Dec. 07

Accumulation

We all have the tendency to gather things - photographs, books, slips of paper, memories, regrets - these things form unwitting collections. This tendency can lead to constructive ends - brick-by-brick building towers, homes, streets - or can be entirely…
Sep. 28
Oct. 20

Featured Collections by PJ Linden and Hunter Stabler

Featured Collections by PJ Linden and Hunter Stabler Exhibition Dates: September 28 – October 20, 2018 Opening Reception: September 28, 2018 5:30 – 10:00pm September 7, 2018 (Philadelphia, PA) - Paradigm Gallery is pleased to present Featured Collections…
Sep. 29
Oct. 25

SPLINTER: sculptures by Alex Green

GradEx is proud to present SPLINTER: sculptures by Alex Green. Alex is an MFA student in the Rinehart School of Sculpture currently exploring feminist themes through stylized representations of the female form.  The opening reception will be held October…
Oct. 05
Oct. 28

2018 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition

On View: Friday, October 5 - Sunday, October 28, 2018 Reception: Friday, October 5, 5–7 pm The work in this annual exhibition is a selection of the best submissions from all four years of undergraduate students. From hundreds of entries, approximately…
Sep. 21
Mar. 10

Lauren Frances Adams: Crazy Quilt

Painting Faculty Lauren Frances Adams exhibits at the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 21 Sept 2018 – 10 March 2019.  The wallpaper commission appropriates from the historic American textile technique called crazy…
Nov. 02
Nov. 18

PEM Fall Show 2018

Photographic and Electronic Media, MFA Fall Show Alex Henderson, Beichen Zhang, Bingyi Liu, Brian Rohrbaugh, Camila Franco Ribeiro Gomide, Cyrus Feldman, Dorie Heyer, Elizabeth Avila-Neuheisel, Jenn Allen, Jia Sun, Jiayang Huang,  Jing Zhao, Josh Littlefield…
Oct. 19
Nov. 18

Andrea Sherrill Evans: Invasive

Drawing Faculty Andrea Sherrill Evans' solo exhibition, Invasive, runs Oct. 19 - Nov. 18 at VisArts Common Ground Gallery in Rockville, MD, with an opening reception & artist talk on Friday, Oct. 26 7-9pm. Invasive documents the transformed – and transforming…
Dec. 08
Dec. 08

FYE: Empathy

In this shared exhibition, FYE students in both Forum (with professor Goetsch), and Drawing: Tradition & Innovation (with professor Fernandez Vazquez) approach the subject of Empathy from differing perspectives within their art making. Participants actively…
Nov. 09
Dec. 09

2018 Faculty Exhibition

The Faculty Exhibition features the work of MICA’s world-renowned faculty, highlighting their diversity in content, medium, and style. Participating artists include: Lauren Adams, Joyce Antigrace, Albert Birney, Holden Brown, James Condron, Jane Cottis…
Dec. 02
Dec. 14

Strange Light under my Bed, A Pop-Up Exhibition

Sandra Liu and Ida Greenberg's pop-up show of paintings, puppets, and animation about the complexities and humor of life.  Exhibition on view December 2 through December 14 in Lazarus Studio 340. Light reception on Friday, December 7 from 3:15-4:15pm…
Feb. 22
Feb. 02

UP/Start Pop Up & Pitch Exhibit

Student and alumni UP/Start participants will showcase their businesses for a chance to advance in the top 8. Applications to participate in the Pop Up & Pitch Exhibition are due January 22. All are welcome to attend and view this year’s participants…
Feb. 02
Mar. 11

Counternarratives: Performance and Actions in Public Space

Students in the Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) at the Maryland Institute College of Art are pleased to present Counternarratives: Performance and Actions in Public Space. On view in MICA’s Decker Gallery from February 2 through March 11, 2018, this…
Feb. 15
Mar. 13

Germinal: Solo Exhibition by MICA Faculty Lauren Frances Adams

MICA presents “Germinal,” a solo exhibition consisting of a site-specific installation by B.F.A. Painting faculty Lauren Frances Adams. The exhibition explores themes converging around feminist activists from American history, domestic ornament in service…
Mar. 19
Apr. 07

Opening Reception: Texas Is The Reason

David Billet & Ian Kline's "Texas Is The Reason"Jan Meyer Traveling Fellowship 2017 RecipientsOpening Reception: March 26, 2018 4:00 – 6:00pm On View: March 19, 2018 – April 7, 2018This collaborative project, supported by the Jan Meyer Traveling Fellowship…
Mar. 24
Apr. 08

MICA GRAD SHOW II Exhibition

DUE TO THE RECENT INCLEMENT WEATHER, THE EXHIBITION HAS BEEN DELAYED BY A DAY AND WILL BEGIN SATURDAY, MARCH 24. MICA’s Office of Graduate Studies is delighted to announce GRAD SHOW II, featuring students from 4 graduate programs: Graphic Design, MFA…
Apr. 06
Apr. 06

Waterways Exhibit

Exhibition of works by MICA Interactive Arts students that utilize water quality data being gathered from sensors at the Jones Fall Watershed in the harbor. 
Apr. 16
Apr. 16

Face to Face

“Face to Face” is a collaborative exhibition between MICA Freshman forum classes and middle school students from the Baltimore Montessori Public charter school. This project is a portrait exchange between the two groups, functioning to create a conversation…
Apr. 13
Apr. 29

MICA GRAD SHOW 3 Exhibition

MICA’s Office of Graduate Studies is delighted to announce GRAD SHOW III, curated by Ian Cofre and Darren Jones, will feature 48 students from 5 M.F.A. programs: Leroy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Mount Royal School of Art, Photographic and Electronic…
Apr. 14
Apr. 29

MFACA Thesis Exhibition: PUSH

The questioning of…the (re)claiming of...the (re)positioning of...sacred space and time. What is the difference between change and transformation? Questions of belonging, for the artist and for the people. For whom was the Institution created? Access…
May. 23
May. 23

Community Arts Collaborative Americorps Exhibition at MICA

  The CAC Americorps program at MICA presents the annual CAC exhibition. CAC members exhibit artworks from their year of service at their Americorps sites in collaboration with site youth/adults in the Pinkard gallery. The event will also feature food…
Sep. 28
Sep. 28

GradEx Exhibition: Mirror

The mirror shows "it" as if it was the most familiar stranger. When people stand in front of "it", "it" is strange, but in a trance is pulling your memory.Opening Reception: Friday, September 28, 20187:00pm-8:30pmFREE Admission! 
May. 25
May. 25

Memorial Exhibition: Dennis Farber

Please join the MICA community in celebrating the life and work of Dennis Farber, a well-known painter and photographer, who served as the director of the Mount Royal School of Art from 2000 to 2004 and co-chair of MICA's Foundation program from 2010…
Apr. 20
May. 04

Opening Reception: May Contain

 May Contain, an exhibition of work from Andrea Evans' Drawing for Thinking & Making class, opens on April 20 runs through May 4.  The show features work from Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Fiber, Animation, Illustration, and GFA majors.  Artists include:…
Mar. 03
Mar. 03

Groundlessland Exhibition

This exhibition is located at the Lazarus Center, curated by GradEX. Invited artists are: Nandan Sam He and Boyd Totin.
Feb. 28
Feb. 28

Black Contemporary Artists Exhibit

To celebrate Black History Month, the Decker Library is highlighting works and publications by contemporary black artists from Baltimore and around the nation. From conceptual artists to painters, sculptors, photographers, singers, poets, writers, book…
Feb. 23
Mar. 11

MICA GRAD SHOW I: Teaching, MA Opening Reception

MICA’s Office of Graduate Studies is delighted to announce GRAD SHOW I, featuring students from the MA, Teaching program. MICA GRAD SHOW I will be on view February  23rd - March 11th in Riggs and Leidy Gallery, Lazarus Center. Opening Reception, Friday…
Jan. 19
Feb. 22

Land/Trust

MICA presents Land/Trust, an exhibition of seven local, national, and international contemporary artists that centers on their relationships to the land and their positions as community activists, caretakers, and interventionists in an era of ecological…
Feb. 15
Feb. 18

Enduring Concerns: Paintings by MICA's James Hennessey

A career-spanning exhibition by the MICA emeritus faculty member, focusing on work produced in Baltimore from 1965 to the present day. Reception: Thursday, Feb. 15, 5 - 7 p.m. Biography:James J. Hennessey earned his undergraduate degree at Illinois…
Jan. 29
Feb. 11

Architectural Terracotta Residency Exhibition

Last June, a group of five artists, whose specialties ranged from ceramics to digital fabrication tools, traveled to Baltimore for three weeks to study the architectural terracotta features throughout the Bolton Hill neighborhood and make work inspired…
Jan. 25
Jan. 25

Poetry reading by Demian DinéYazhi'

Land/Trust Programming:  In conjunction with the exhibition Land/Trust, currently on view in the Meyerhoff Gallery at Maryland Institute College of Art, the Curatorial Practice graduate class of 2019 is excited to welcome artist Demian DinéYazhi' to Baltimore…