Exhibitions Overview

At the heart of the Tang Museum's activities is an ambitious exhibition program. Of the twelve exhibitions the museum organizes per year, several involve individual faculty or groups of Skidmore community members as curators and advisors. These large-scale projects often combine a wide variety of objects from antique maps, scientific equipment, and Rube Goldberg cartoons, to Shaker furniture, hair dryers, and astronomical atlases with new works of international contemporary art. The Tang also originates traveling survey exhibitions of contemporary art. These have included important and scholarly investigations into the work of Kara Walker, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Trisha Brown, and Richard Pettibone, among others. The Opener series features projects with artists who come to campus as part of their collaboration and often involve realizing new work. Some of the artists included in that series are Paul Henry Ramirez, Nayland Blake, Jim Hodges, Alyson Shotz, Shahzia Sikander, Lee Boroson, Michael Oatman, and Julia Jacquette. Extensive, award-winning publications accompany many of the Tang's exhibitions.