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 terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”