Virtual Tours

imaginary i compares how artists and mathematicians utilize constructs of the imaginary, or complex numbers, to envision the future and reclaim, retrace, and reveal past patterns.

Federico Uribe: Metamorphosis | Metamorphosis features the Colombian-born, Miami-based artist Federico Uribe’s magical, colorful, and sculptural menagerie of animals made of everyday materials.

Rather than a traditional survey of an artist’s work, RECOLLECT: Sam Gilliam invites visitors to celebrate the connections found in his art and through his art. Guided by stories shared by those who knew Gilliam, the exhibition is a meditation on individual and extremely personal ties to the artist and his works.

With a career spanning nearly 50 years, Floyd Newsum: Evolution of Sight invites viewers to look closely at Newsum’s work in order to provoke them into further consideration of the personalized signs and imagery that he utilizes.

Taking its title from one of the artist’s signature works in MMoCA’s collection, Christina Ramberg: Vertical Amnesia will center this often overlooked and at times forgotten artist within the Chicago Imagist group.

The Children of the Large-Beaked Bird exhibition provides an opportunity for adults and children to look at history and representation with fresh eyes.

DARK MATTER by British artist Faisal Abdu’Allah explores cultural representation and self-determination.

Home, a multi-media exhibition, creates conversations around concepts often tied to the sense of home—memory, comfort, loss, displacement, and reclamation.

Drawn from the permanent collection, Boxed In is an exhibition conceived by the MMoCA Teen Forum. In attempting to understand what “the box” means, two themes began to unfold: Confinement and Conformity and Perspectives of Power.

There’s Something Happening Here represents 43 years of Mel Chin’s work, focusing on several projects that testify to his deep commitment to the intersection of art with social, political, and environmental justice.

Explore a year’s worth of accumulated moments: things that caught Santiago Cucullu’s attention, made him laugh, and influenced his thinking and perspective.

The past and present intertwine in Caja de visiones. This exhibition features selections from MMoCA’s significant collection of Mexican modern art in a show that explores the history of the artistic renaissance in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century and its connection to works being created by Mexican and Mexican-American artists working in the Midwest today.

Between explores photography as a medium uniquely positioned for revealing the liminal. Defined in a multitude of ways—in between, a threshold, a moment of transition, or a rite of passage—a liminal space is the precipice between two realities.

Natalie Frank: Unbound is the first survey exhibition of Brooklyn, New York-based artist Natalie Frank’s drawings inspired by some of the best-known and most controversial literary narratives.

Amy Cutler is known for her highly detailed compositions, elaborate costuming, and fabric patterns as means to express her characters’ psychologies and narratives.

Full Circle traces MMoCA’s collecting and exhibition history over the past 30 years and reflects the culmination of the work and dedication of recently retired Director Emeritus Stephen Fleischman.

Out of This World includes layered collages, watercolors, paintings, and prints that span 40 years of Nilsson’s career.

Uncommon Accumulation showcases gifted works to MMoCA alongside the promised gifts that have been collected by the Bednars over the past 45 years.