- The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery
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- Past Exhibitions
Jaime Black, creator of The REDress Project, returns to St. Catherine University for She Holds Water, an exhibition of installation and performance art. Black describes this work as “tracing the intimacies and interconnections between our bodies and the waters we come from, the waters we are.”
By reconnecting with the Dakota language and her ancestral homelands, Angela Two Stars’ newest work addresses healing from historical, intergenerational and personal traumas.
Hend Al-Mansour, Susan Armington, Nida Bangash, Roya Farassat, Nina Ghanbarzadeh, Farida Hughes, Fawzia Khan, Ifrah Mansour, Kimberlee Joy Roth, Helen Zughaib
An Exhibition by the Faculty and Staff of the Department of Art and Art History Artists: Jennifer Adam, Lys Akerman-Frank, Carol Lee Chase, Todd Deutsch, Amy Hamlin, Bethany Rahn and Monica Rudquist
Sarah Kusa presents an immersive installation that considers ideas of anxiety, control, and experiences of personal and collective vulnerability.
2022 Student Creative Showcase
Jody Williams
Christine Nguyen & Dao Strom Curated by Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn
Charles Matson Lume
Kathleen Daniels ’73, director of The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery for 23 years, shares highlights from her personal art collection.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Visual Arts Building and the gallery space, The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery presents an alumni exhibition juried by Laura Wertheim Joseph, PhD.
A virtual community art exhibition celebrating the visionary writings of Octavia E. Butler.
Annual showcase of works by St. Kate's senior studio art majors.
Kathryn Ward '21 presents her Antonian Honors Project: a multimedia exhibition exploring her questions about truth.
Curated by Patricia Olson and Paige Tighe
A public, interactive exhibit inspired by Pandemic Art Lessons: A Women’s Art Institute Online Initiative
Courtesy of Twin Cities PBS
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, and in an effort to support the health of our campus community and the public, The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery will be closed during the 2020–2021 academic year (September–May). Instead, we invite you to participate in apART, a series of virtual visual arts programming such as online exhibitions and events, video tours of the fine art collection and more! We invite you to connect here until the gallery reopens.
In their senior juried exhibition, St. Kate’s senior studio art majors exhibit work that reconstructs personal and social narratives they see in the world.
An annual spring exhibition showcasing the talent of graduating studio art majors at St. Catherine University.
Jil Evans
Curated by Katayoun Amjadi and John Schuerman
Pao Houa Her
Linda Brooks
Paintings, prints and other artwork by Professor Emerita Patricia Olson highlight her interest in the figure as a conveyor of meaning throughout her career.
Drawing from items in the University’s Archives & Special Collections, this exhibition explores the relationship between nostalgia and gender in Japanese woodblock prints of the late nineteenth century.
Rudquist and Onofrio delve into new bodies of work addressing their shared interest in the assemblage of forms, material and space.
St. Catherine University welcomes Claytopia, the 53rd annual conference for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, March 27-30, 2019.
Exploring the History and Impact of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota
Positing abstract painting as a site that can be enacted upon, this exhibition explores a diverse art practice engaging that site through text, the body and performance.
Melanie Pankau reveals the underpinnings of a suite of geometric abstract paintings.
An annual spring exhibition showcasing the talent of graduating studio art majors at St. Catherine University.
Barbara Kreft and Kimberly Benson investigate abstraction through an uncensored exploration of medium and process, while also referencing the history of painting and the evolving digital age.
"After: Birth" specifically addresses contemporary responses to the concepts of motherhood, sexuality and the role of embroidery and fibers in third-and fourth-wave feminist art.
"Born Again" features selected artworks from Judy Chicago’s "Birth Project," a series of screen prints, needle works and textiles that first toured the United States during the mid-1980s.
Drawing from items in the University’s Adé Bethune Collection, this exhibition commemorates the centennial of artist, writer, and activist Adé Bethune.
This exhibition highlights works from the St. Catherine University Fine Art Collection done by student artists at Immaculate Heart College in Pasadena, CA in the 1950s under the tutelage of famed print artist Sister Corita Kent.
This annual spring event showcases the talent of graduating studio art majors at St. Catherine University.
Installation artist Jody Isaacson installs more than 200 hand dipped life pendulums from the gallery ceiling. Each wax form represents a person, now passed away, from Icaacson's life. One dip for each year of an individual life accumulates into a candle pendulum that represents the time spent to remember each individual. Each relationship builds the installation, the artist’s life history suspended in the gallery.
Patricia Olson's contemporary reinterpretation of a women’s midlife initiation as seen in the Villa of the Mysteries murals in Pompeii.
Eun–Kyung Suh explores the emotional resonance of the transracial adoptees’ experiences in Minnesota.
This series of paintings illustrate the daily routines and individual personalities of institutionalized veterans. Byrd's careful compositions reflect the isolation and desperation of mental illness, which few other artists have explored with such empathy and understanding.
Associate Professor of Studio Art, Todd Deutsch, depicts the unique landscape and the everyday lives of the inhabitants near the convergence of Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers.
Agile mark-makers who share an interest in spontaneity within their respective approaches to painting.
A solo exhibition of Karen Ruch Brown's anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures.
Featuring the work of nine St Catherine University studio art alumnae.
An exploration of an unusual element of the built environment: empty pools.
B.J. Christofferson's solo exhibition spans 20 years with work borrowed from 13 private collectors.