The University at Buffalo Art Galleries (UBAG) support art and ideas that are urgent and relevant to our time and place. UBAG advances art as both inquiry and creative practice available to everyone. Across two locations at the Center for the Arts and UB Anderson Gallery it provides opportunities to experience and research art through its exhibitions program and collection. UBAG is adept at drawing on the many resources and the long history of the university to create exhibitions that are relevant to the local community but that also address critical issues in contemporary culture. From immigration to labor to medicine to the history of the counterculture, the exhibitions program touch on many of the most important concerns of our culture today and present a range of eclectic artists working in different fields.
The University at Buffalo Art Galleries
Collective Question, Loosely Assembled, Cycle 1: Collective Question (installation view), 2019. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Clara Lacasse.
Heather Hart, Oracle of Conduction (installation view), 2020. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Brenda Bieger.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, Intimacies: Mediterranean Civilization, 2017. Site-specific installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Gregg Bordowitz, Some Styles of Masculinity (detail), 2019. Performance, New Museum, New York. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Chloe Foussianes.
“The Warhol Foundation aims to support the full range of artistic activity in America—from exhibitions at major museums to neighborhood projects by artist collectives. Arts writers, through the range and specialization of their individual interests, touch upon all of this activity—illuminating and interrogating it and bringing it into conversation with the public. Support for artists is not complete without support for the circulation and serious consideration of their ideas. The Arts Writers Grant program keeps artists at the center of cultural dialogue and debate—in our opinion, right where they belong.”
Joel Wachs, President