Vicki Myhren Gallery

April 12 - "Portals" Opening Reception
2024-04-12 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Denver) | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Artists and Curators Zac Abero and Luke Penton

Please join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Portals in the Davis Gallery. The exhibition is on view from April 12 through May 8, 2024.

April 16 - Lecture by Calista Lyon, Artist-in-Residence & Singer Visiting Professor in Photography
2024-04-16 17:30 - 19:00 | Shwayder Art Building, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Shwayder Art Building, Room 119

Please join the School of Art and Art History for a lecture by Artist-in-Residence & Singer Visiting Professor in Photography Calista Lyon. Lyon’s lecture, Rituals of Re-Connection: Unlearning Colonial Legacy, will provide an overview of her practice.

Calista Lyon

https://www.calistalyon.com/

Calista Lyon is an Australian artist based between Columbus, Ohio and Denver, Colorado. Using an expanded photographic practice, she creates installations, performances and community-engaged projects that investigate ecological and social breakdown in our time of colonial-capitalist modernity.

Her work has been exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Sydney Museum, Sydney, Australia; La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Australia; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT.

She has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Australia; National Association for the Visual Arts, Australia; The Regional Art Fund, Australian Federal Government, Australia; Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY.

She has completed residencies and fellowships at Epicenter, Green River, UT; Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA; The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

She is currently the Singer Artist-in-Residence & Visiting Professor in Photography at the University of Denver, Colorado.

May 9 - Performance by Calista Lyon, "The Unknown and the Unnamed"
2024-05-09 16:30 - 19:30 | Davis Auditorium, 2020-2040 South Race Street, Denver, Colorado, 80210
The Unknown and the Unnamed

https://www.calistalyon.com/theunknownandtheunnamed

The Unknown and the Unnamed uses projected images, live narration, interviews, and field recordings to reckon with the violence of historical and contemporary settler power in Australia. The performance shares a collective experience of loss, extinction, and the consequences of human action on nonhuman and human lives via the endangered Crimson Spider Orchid (Caladenia concolor).

This ongoing, multi-year research project began with my introduction to an Australian orchid collection created by self-described “recluse” and amateur botanist, Phillip Branwhite, who lived in Lyon’s family’s farming community in Tallangatta Valley, Australia.

Lyon use oral histories drawn from her personal relationships with local amateur botanists, conservationists, farmers, scientists, photographic and botanical archives, and extensive literary and scientific research. She makes visible the impacts on mental health of living in a time of escalating drought, bushfires, species extinction, deforestation, and global warming. Drawing from research in Feminist Science Studies and her experience growing up on a cattle farm in Australia, she use symbiosis as a metaphor for community challenging dominant narratives of human individualism.

Working to subvert dominant narratives of human individualism, the performance provides layered examples of individual existence borne of and reliant on interconnection, prompting considerations of our entangled relationships toward more just forms of living.

Directions and Parking Information

The Davis Auditorium (Room 248) is located in Sturm Hall

2000 E Asbury Ave., Denver, CO 80210

Free parking is available in Lot T. The parking garage, Lot T, is located underneath the tennis and basketball courts, immediately west of the gallery on the north side of Asbury, opposite Race Street. There will be an attendant stationed at the garage to open the gate and direct you, simply let them know you are here for the performance.

Driving West on Asbury Ave.: Continue straight through the 4-way stop sign at the intersection of Asbury and York. You will pass the Vicki Myhren Gallery on your right. Continue past the angle street parking to your right, and make a right turn into the parking garage and the attendant will let you in. If you reach High Street, you have gone too far.

Driving East on Asbury Ave.: Drive past the Dimond Residential Village (southeast corner of Asbury Avenue and High Street intersection). On your left, you will see the garage entrance. Make a left into the garage and the attendant will let you in.

To reach Davis Auditorium (Room 248), Sturm Hall: Follow the blue arrows on the diagram above. In the northeast corner of the parking garage, there is a pedestrian exit and pathway. Exit the garage and cross Asbury Ave. Sturm Hall will be on your right. Enter and proceed up the stairs to floor 2. A wheelchair accessible entrance is located at the back of the building, on Race St. After crossing Asbury Ave., proceed West on Asbury and turn left on Race St., Sturm Hall will be on your left. Go past the loading dock and enter the building. An elevator will be ahead on your left. Take that up to floor 2. Exit the elevator, turn left, and proceed to the front of the building. Make a right and you will be in the lobby in front of the auditorium.

Opening Receptions for Faculty Exhibitions
2024-09-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Join the School of Art and Art History to celebrate the opening reception of two exhibitions. On view in the Vicki Myhren Gallery are the artworks of current DU faculty members. In the Davis Gallery and Shwayder Art Building lobby, are recent acquisitions of artworks by former DU faculty members.

Free parking available in Lot L.

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Learn more about current faculty in the VMG

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Code-X Exhibition Opening Reception
2025-01-09 17:00 - 19:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Join us to celebrate the opening of Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices at the Vicki Myhren Gallery.

The Vicki Myhren Gallery is proud to present Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices, curated by DU’s own Rafael Fajardo, Professor of Emergent Digital Practices. This exhibition brings together the artworks of more than a dozen Chicanx artists who reimagine the long tradition of the codex as a dynamic space for Chicanx storytelling. Ranging from painting and prints to comic books, zines, and video games, these artworks bridge the analog and digital. The artists mix the ancient, colonial, and modern to explore the complexities of contemporary life, including migration, Mestizaje, and cultural survival. Featuring many interactive artworks, this exhibition invites all visitors to play and engage with these innovative and thoughtful reworkings of the codex.

Month of Photography Exhibition Opening Receptions
2025-03-13 17:00 - 19:00
Please join DU’s School of Art and Art History to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions as part of Denver’s Month of Photography.

On view in the Vicki Myhren Gallery, “Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945-1995” traces the history of fine art photography in Colorado from the end of the Second World War to the cusp of the 21st century. Curated by Rupert Jenkins, the exhibition features more than 140 works by more than 60 artists. “Outside Influence” will be on view through April 27, 2025.

The Davis Gallery will feature the artwork of DU alum Kari Varner. The exhibition will be on view from March 3 through 31, 2025.

Free parking will be available in Lot L across the street from Shwayder Art Building.

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Outside Influence: Photography Panel Discussion
2025-04-15 17:00 - 19:00
The Vicki Myhren Gallery invites you to an evening of community and conversation on the exhibition “Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado, 1945-1995” now on view at the Vicki Myhren Gallery through April 27.

Featuring:

Albert Chong, Contemporary artist and Professor of art, University of Colorado, Boulder

Ellen Macfarlane, PhD, Assistant Professor of American art and photography, University of Denver

Natascha Seideneck, Contemporary artist and Associate Professor, Metropolitan State University

Rupert Jenkins, moderator, Photography writer and Curator of “Outside Influence”

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The panel is free and open to the public. Parking is available across the street from the Vicki Myhren Gallery, Shwayder Art Building in parking garage L.

2025 Senior Showcase Opening Reception
2025-05-15 17:00 - 19:00
Join the School of Art and Art History to celebrate the annual Senior Showcase exhibition featuring artworks by graduating BFA and BA Studio Art majors.

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Curator Conversation with Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson
2025-05-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Reiman Theater, Margery Reed Hall, 2306 E. Evans Ave., Denver, Colorado, 80210
MCA Denver and the University of Denver present a conversation with Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, the Susan Brennan co-Artistic Directors of the sixth iteration of the international art triennial Prospect New Orleans. Titled Prospect.6 The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home, this triennial was originally presented across twenty-one venues throughout the city of New Orleans from November 2024 to February 2025. For the first time in its history, a selection of this triennial will travel beyond New Orleans and will be on view at MCA Denver from May 23 to August 24, 2025.

Lash and Patterson will compare notes around the ethos and goals of Prospect, the longest running multi-venue triennial in the United States. Central to their approach is a deep commitment to supporting artists’ practice, commissioning new projects, and centering the connections between different regions of the world that are deeply impacted by climate change and colonial legacies.

The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home: Selections from Prospect.6 opens at MCA Denver on Friday, May 23rd. For more information visit www.mcadenver.org.

Miranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her most recent accomplishments include acting as the Susan Brennan co-Artistic Director (alongside Ebony G. Patterson) of the 2024–2025 international art triennial Prospect.6 in New Orleans; and organizing the following exhibitions at MCA Denver: Suki Seokyeong Kang: Mountain—Hour—Face (2025, co-organized with Leilani Lynch); Cowboy (2023, co-organized with Nora Burnett Abrams); Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe (2023); Clarissa Tossin: Falling from Earth (2022); Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lighting / Rivalizando con el relampágo (2022); and Jason Moran: Bathing the Room with Blues (2021). In 2016 Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker co-organized the acclaimed group exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art and in 2014 Lash organized the traveling retrospective Mel Chin: Rematch. From 2008 to 2014, Lash was the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She currently serves on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and was a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

Ebony G. Patterson‘s expansive practice addresses visibility and invisibility, through explorations of class, race, gender, youth culture, pageantry and acts of violence in the context of “postcolonial” spaces. With the strong sensibility of a painter, Patterson works across multiple media – including tapestry, photography, video, sculpture, drawing and installation – united by her consistent visual language and intention. Each work is intricately embellished and densely layered, in order to draw the viewer closer and to question how we engage in the act of looking. The idea of the garden, both real and imagined, has formed an essential arc of Patterson’s practice. Framing the garden as an active site of power, Patterson explores it as a metaphor for “postcolonial” space and an extension of the body.

Patterson received her BFA in painting from Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica in 2004. She received an MFA degree in 2006 in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Patterson has taught at the University of Virginia, Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts, Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky, and was the Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is in the public collections of 21c Museum and Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. In 2021, Patterson was included in both the Liverpool and Athens Biennials. She lives and works in both Chicago, IL and Kingston, Jamaica and is co-represented by Monique Meloche Gallery, and Hales New York/ London, co-presented Ebony’s monumental installation from the Liverpool Biennial at The Armory Show NY in Platform section curated by Tobias Ostrander.

Free Parking is available in parking garage E, located on the southeast corner of Evans Ave. and High St. at 2130 S. High St.

The entrance will be off of High St.

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Opening Reception for 2025 Summer Exhibitions
2025-06-27 17:00 - 19:00
Join the Vicki Myhren Gallery and Davis Gallery to celebrate the opening of our 2025 summer exhibitions.

The reception will take place in Shwayder Art Building (2121 E. Asbury Ave.) from 5-7 PM on Friday, June 27.

Free parking is available in Lot L between 4:45 and 6:15 PM.

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On view in the Vicki Myhren Gallery

everything left was carried

Artwork by Phipps Visiting Assistant Professor Rebecca Padilla

On view in the Davis Gallery

Krip-Hop

Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Ace Robles

Curated by Todd Edward Herman

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Closing Reception for "Collecting Colorado" and "Spectators"
2025-09-11 17:00 - 19:00
Join us to celebrate our summer shows Collecting Colorado: Landscapes from the Platt Collection and Spectators.

This event is free and open to the public. Free parking available in Lot L.

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"Ruminations" and "Fictions of the Self" Opening Receptions
2025-09-25 17:00 - 19:00
Please join us on Thursday September 25 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM to celebrate the opening of our two fall shows: “Ruminations” in the Vicki Myhren Gallery and “Fictions and the Self” in the Davis Gallery.

Free parking will be available in Lot L across the street from the gallery.

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Ruminations: Tracing the Past Shaping the Future

Fictions and the Self: The Photographs of Patrick R. Nagatani

Davis Gallery Exhibition: Ex Voto by MG Bernard
2025-12-11 08:00 - 2026-01-18 17:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Ex Voto: Ego, Deus, et Medicus

MG Bernard (she/they/ugh)

On view in the Davis Gallery from December 11, 2025, to January 18, 2026.

The exhibition stems from Bernard’s interest in the medieval Church’s affiliation with health care, including pilgrimage, prayer, & the miraculous healing power of reliquaries. Catholic tradition glorifies Jesus’ & Mary’s suffering but illustrates sick & disabled people as inferior, sinful, & in need of healing. What happens when we shift the sacred gaze from historically idealized, sanitized figures such as the Virgin Mary & Christ to a chronically ill, queer, perverse bodymind? By repurposing used medical equipment specific to cystic fibrosis as contemporary sacred objects, Bernard subverts the traditional narrative that disabled & sick bodies need cleansing & curing. Instead, her artwork venerates the sick and disabled as new versions of divine saints who are prayed to.

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Please join us for the reception on January 9 from 6-9 PM.

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Davis Gallery: Ex Voto Reception
2026-01-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Celebrate Ex Voto: Ego, Deus, et Medicus at the Davis Gallery with artist MG Bernard.

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Exhibition: Echoes by Deborah Howard
2026-01-15 00:00 - 2026-03-15 23:59 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, Colorado, 80210, United States
The Vicki Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver is proud to present Echoes, a survey of work by acclaimed artist and long-devoted DU faculty member Deborah Howard. This exhibition honors Deborah’s remarkable career as an artist and educator, celebrating nearly four decades of creative and academic contributions. Since joining the University of Denver in 1987, Deborah has inspired generations of artists and, in turn, found inspiration through teaching and collaboration with students, which she describes as the wellspring of her most meaningful work.

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Join us to celebrate Deborah at the opening of “Echoes”

The exhibition will be on view from January 15 through March 15, 2026.

The Vicki Myhren Gallery is open 12-5 PM, Tuesday through Sunday.

Davis Gallery Exhibition: Journeys: DU Alumni Artists 1987-2025
2026-01-22 08:00 - 2026-02-22 17:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Journeys: DU Alumni Artists 1987-2025

The Davis Gallery and DU’s School of Art and Art History are proud to present “Journeys: DU Alumni Artists 1987- 2025” featuring over 20 artists who studied under acclaimed artist and long-time DU painting professor Deborah Howard who will retire at the end of this year. Since joining the University of Denver in 1987, Deborah has inspired generations of artists and, in turn, found inspiration through teaching and collaboration with students, which she describes as the wellspring of her most meaningful work.

This exhibition runs concurrently with a survey exhibition of Deborah’s work on view in DU’s Vicki Myhren Gallery (January 15 through March 15, 2026).

On view January 22 – February 22, 2026

Featured Artists:

Patricia Aaron

Emma Beech

Mark Brausell

Justin Bravo

David Clark

Austin Fowler

Sarah Fukami

Amy Guadagnoli

Cassandra Lillard

Wangui Maina

Laurel McMechan

Mo Nguyen

Kathryn Oberdorfer

Barth Quenzer

Julia Rymer-Brucker

Lilian Schaffer

Naomi Scheck

Faith Williams

Echoes and Journeys Opening Receptions
2026-01-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Shwayder Art Building, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Kick off 2026 by celebrating the opening of two new exhibitions!

Our first exhibitions of 2026 both honor artist Deborah Howard who has served as DU’s painting professor since 1987 and will retire at the end of this year. Join us to celebrate Deborah and her lineage of talented students.

Free parking is available in Lot L across the street from Shwayder Art Building.

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In the Vicki Myhren Gallery:

Echoes

Echoes features a survey of work by acclaimed artist and long-devoted DU faculty member Deborah Howard. This exhibition honors Deborah’s remarkable career as an artist and educator, celebrating nearly four decades of creative and academic contributions.

On view January 15 – March 15, 2026

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In the Davis Gallery:

Sarah Fukami, 09657A (Hirosawa Frank) III, 2017. Photo plate lithography, screen printing and laser cutting on paper.

Journeys: DU Alumni Artists 1987–2025

In honor of Deborah Howard’s retirement, the School of Art and Art History is proud to present “Journeys: DU Alumni Artists 1987- 2025” featuring some of Deborah’s former students.

On view January 22 – February 22, 2026

Alumni Panel
2026-02-19 17:00 - 18:30 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
As a part of Journeys: DU Alumni Artists, 1987-2025, the Davis Gallery is pleased to present a panel of alumni artists featured in the exhibition.

Davis Gallery: Heroes and Art Crushes Opening Reception
2026-02-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Join the Davis Gallery on Thursday, February 26 to celebrate the opening of the exhibiton “Heroes and Art Crushes” as part of Month of Printmaking!

The reception is free and open to the public.

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Davis Gallery Exhibition: Heroes and Art Crushes
2026-02-26 17:00 - 2026-03-29 17:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Organized by DU professor Catherine Chauvin as part of Month of Print, Heroes presents a survey of artists employing printmaking to share their passion for the field. Artists (our heroes, or “art crushes”) who have created work in the DU printmaking studio will be highlighted. Each of the main areas of printmaking will be on exhibit.

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 26 from 5-7 PM.

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Deborah Howard Artist Talk
2026-03-06 16:30 - 18:30 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, Colorado, 80210, United States
Please join the Vicki Myhren Gallery for an artist talk by renowned artist and DU painting professor Deborah Howard. Deborah’s artwork is currently on view at the VMG in her show Echoes.

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Event Information

Friday, March 6, 4:30 PM

2121 E Asbury Ave., Denver, CO 80210

Free parking will be available in Lot E

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Deborah Howard

Since joining the University of Denver in 1987, Deborah has inspired generations of artists and, in turn, found inspiration through teaching and collaboration with students, which she describes as the wellspring of her most meaningful work.

Deborah’s practice spans a wide range of media from ancient encaustic paint to monumental charcoal wall drawings. She blends expressive mark-making with deeply reflective themes drawn from memory and collective history. Deborah transforms familiar, everyday objects–especially worn shoes– into poetic meditations on presence, absence, and the passage of time. From her intimate portraits of Child Survivors of the Holocaust to bold abstractions, Echoes reveals Deborah’s distinctive ability to translate culture and emotion into form. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on how art can hold memory, connect generations, and bear witness to the beauty and complexity of the human story.

Echoes

Echoes presents a range of artworks by Deborah Howard. The exhibition is on view from January 15 through March 15, 2026.

Pop-Up Exhibitions: Duane Michals and Enrique Chagoya
2026-04-02 12:00 - 2026-05-03 17:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, Colorado, 80210, United States
2026 Pop-Up Exhibitions

On view in the Vicki Myhren Gallery April 2 through May 3, 2026

This April, the Vicki Myhren Gallery is pleased to present two mini exhibitions within the gallery, both featuring recent acquisitions of the University Art Collections.

Duane Michals: Beyond Likeness

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There’s No Place Like Utopia: Recent Acquisitions from Enrique Chagoya

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Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, April 2 from 5-7 PM!

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Davis Gallery Exhibition: Matters of the Mind
2026-04-02 12:00 - 2026-05-03 17:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
On view April 2 through May 3, 2026 in the Davis Gallery

By sharing depictions of mental health struggles, the Matters of the Mind exhibition offers windows into experiences with mental illness and reflections of shared experiences. The exhibition brings artworks together that articulate a range of experiences with different mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and the use of antipsychotics.

Curated by Abigail Kopetzky (MA ’26)

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, April 2 from 5-7 PM

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2026 Pop-Up Exhibition Opening Receptions
2026-04-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, Colorado, 80210, United States
Please join the Vicki Myhren Gallery and Davis Gallery to celebrate the openings of several new exhibitions across our galleries.

Free parking is available in Lot L across the street from Shwayder Art Building.

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The Vicki Myhren Gallery presents two pop-up exhibitions featuring recent acquisitions by acclaimed artists Enrique Chagoya and Duane Michals.

Enrique Chagoya, Road Map (2003), color lithograph with folds.

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The Davis Gallery will feature Matters of the Mind, an exhibition featuring artwork by students that engages with mental health. Curated by Abigail Kopetzky (MA ’26)

"Outside Influence" Book Launch
2026-04-21 16:30 - 18:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, Colorado, 80210, United States
Join the Vicki Myhren Gallery to celebrate photography at DU!

We are thrilled to host the book launch for Rupert Jenkins’ Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado, 1945-1995. In spring 2025, the VMG was pleased to feature an exhibition of the same name related to this incredible publication.

Remarks by author Rupert Jenkins at 5:15.

A limited number of book will be available for sale, price $45 including tax. Bring your own copy if you want it signed!

Purchase the Book here

Learn more about the VMG exhibition Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado, 1945-1995

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Duane Michals, Self-Portrait As Someone Else (1973), silver gelatin print with hand-applied text.

And don’t miss our current exhibition of over 150 photographs by esteemed photographer and DU alumnus Duane Michals (BA ’53).

Check out “Duane Michals: Beyond Likeness”

2026 Senior Showcase Exhibitions
2026-05-14 12:00 - 2026-06-14 17:00 | Shwayder Art Building, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
The annual Senior Showcase exhibitions featuring artwork by graduating students from the School of Art and Art History will be on view across Shwayder Art Building.

Bachelor of Fine Arts – Vicki Myhren Gallery

Bachelor of Arts with Distinction – Davis Gallery

Bachelor of Arts – Shwayder Lobby

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, May 14 from 5-8 PM!

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2026 Senior Showcase Opening Reception
2026-05-14 17:00 - 20:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, Colorado, 80210, United States
Celebrate the opening of our annual Senior Showcase exhibitions at Shwayder Art Building! Come check out artwork by graduating seniors in the School of Art and Art History.

Bachelor of Fine Arts – Vicki Myhren Gallery

Bachelor of Arts with Distinction – Davis Gallery

Bachelor of Arts – Shwayder Lobby

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Davis Gallery: Entre lo divino y lo diario Opening Reception
2026-06-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Join us on Thursday, June 18 from 5-7 PM to celebrate the opening of Entre lo divino y lo diario: Reinterpreting the Sacred in Santero Art in the Davis Gallery.

The exhibition explores evolving ideas of sacrality in New Mexico through the work of contemporary artist Jacob Gutierrez alongside traditional santos from the University of Denver Art Collections.

Davis Gallery Exhibition: Entre lo divino y lo diario
2026-06-18 17:00 - 2026-07-24 17:00 | Davis Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, Colorado, 80210
Entre lo divino y lo diario: Reinterpreting the Sacred in Santero Art

Curated by Magdalena Sterling (MA ’26)

On view in the Davis Gallery June 18 through July 24

Summer 2026 Exhibition Opening Receptions
2026-06-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Vicki Myhren Gallery, 2121 E Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Join the Vicki Myhren Gallery and DU School of Art and Art History to celebrate the opening of our summer exhibitions featuring visiting artists Ana González Barragán and Abbey Peters.

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