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The Permanent Collection

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The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art has nearly 6,000 art objects representing roughly 1,400 artists in its permanent collection.

Its collection of Chicago Imagists is among the largest in the world. MMoCA also has a significant collection of Mexican Modernist and a noteworthy collection of contemporary photography.

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Mexican Modernists

Explore MMoCA’s collection of Mexican Modern artworks—one of the finest and most extensive in the Midwest, it includes over 200 works of art by 60 artists.

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Frida Kahlo, Pitahayas, 1938. Oil on aluminum, 10 x 14 inches. Collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Bequest of Rudolph and Louise Langer. © 2013 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Current Exhibitions

illustration of two people's silhouettes facing each other in a field of flowers

Ain’t I A Woman?

April 23, 2022 – October 9, 2022

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older person wearing a floral print button-up shirt, resting their arm against a surface, in a leafy, vegetal, floral setting

Home

July 30, 2022 – February 19, 2023

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triptych of jacquard tapestries, each showing a person standing

Faisal Abdu’Allah: Dark Matter

September 17, 2022 – April 2, 2023

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Artist Faisal Abdu'Allah standing in front of his counter-monument modeled after him

Faisal Abdu’Allah: Blu³eprint

September 18, 2022 – April 2, 2023

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screenshot from a unity game showing a glowing rose surrounded by fences, fog, and rose petals

Upcoming Exhibitions

a person seated on a set modeled after a forest

Past Exhibitions

oil painting of house with the silhouettes of two people's heads on the inside

Boxed In

March 26, 2022 – July 17, 2022

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man holding a pipe

Mel Chin: There’s Something Happening Here

March 12, 2022 – July 31, 2022

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Fundreds on view at Fundred Reserve

The Fundred Project: Initiated by Mel Chin

January 8, 2022 – March 20, 2022

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Watercolor and acrylic on canvas word illustration that says

Santiago Cucullu: You still make me tremble

November 20, 2021 – March 20, 2022

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2 channel installation of Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes with a tunnel on one screen and seated cowboys on the other

Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes

November 6, 2021 – February 27, 2022

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Screenprint titled Vigilantes by J. Leigh Garcia, showing a truck dragging tires
photograph showing an interior kitchen or dining space covered in printed photographs

Between

July 10, 2021 – February 13, 2022

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the windows with writing on the front of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, showing part of the AMENDs exhibition inside the building

AMENDS: Nick Cave and Bob Faust

June 19, 2021 – October 24, 2021

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Gouache and chalk pastel illustration featuring a girl from the chest up blended with a wolf

Natalie Frank: Unbound

June 5, 2021 – October 24, 2021

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Patricia Kirby, Mindfulness, 2021. Multimedia work on paper, 11 x 13 1/4 inches. Courtesy of the Artist.

Alone Together: Perspectives on Isolation

April 3, 2021 – June 6, 2021

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Amy Cutler, Viragos, 2003. Gouache on paper, 19 ½ x 30 inches. Private Collection, New York. Image © Amy Cutler, courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.

Amy Cutler: A Narrative Thread

March 12, 2021 – May 16, 2021

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A statement on moving forward

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