Upcoming Exhibitions

Mariam Ghani (American, b. 1978) and Erin Ellen Kelly (American, b. 1976), Like Water from a Stone (Vigdel #1), 2014 (detail)
3
September
Through
25
May
2025

Gump Family Gallery and Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Gallery

This small exhibition is embedded in the Museum’s installation of 20th- and 21st-century art and features Ghani’s video work alongside two photographs by the artist. Using performance to illuminate and personify issues around place and culture, Ghani traces millennia of geological and social changes in Norway, including those wrought by the discovery and extraction of oil.

Crijn Hendricksz Volmarijn (Dutch, ca. 1604-1645), Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh's Butler and Baker, 	ca. 1631-1637
3
September
Through
25
May
2025

Wendy M. Watson Gallery

Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painters invested great care in the technical concerns of luminosity, clarity, reflection, and shadow, producing paintings where light and its diverse forms take center stage. The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum holds a rich group of works that demonstrate these interests and the astonishing range of lighting effects that these painters achieved.

Installation view of Relaunch Laboratory, October 2023
3
September
Through
25
May
2025

Front Gallery

Leading up to fall 2026, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s 150th anniversary, Museum staff will be working with the campus and community to imagine new methods of display. This full-scale rethink aims to broaden and deepen the stories we are able to share, raise the voices of marginalized communities, and unseat traditional Eurocentric and colonialist perspectives that have dominated museum practices for centuries.

Installation view of Relaunch Laboratory, October 2023
3
September
Through
25
May
2025

Front Gallery

Leading up to fall 2026, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s 150th anniversary, Museum staff will be working with the campus and community to imagine new methods of display. This full-scale rethink aims to broaden and deepen the stories we are able to share, raise the voices of marginalized communities, and unseat traditional Eurocentric and colonialist perspectives that have dominated museum practices for centuries.