More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

Join for an interactive tour of this season’s featured exhibition, Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China, which presents more than forty large-scale photographs created by fourteen contemporary artists in China between 1993 and 2006. The exhibition is divided into three interrelated thematic sections—The Presence of the Past, East and West, and Performance […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

Hear from the artists featured in Apparition, the thesis exhibition by the MFA in Visual Art candidates in the 2026 graduating class of the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Art. Over the course of two days, each artist will deliver a 10-minute lecture that summarizes their practice, with a primary emphasis on the work […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

Hear from the artists featured in Apparition, the thesis exhibition by the MFA in Visual Art candidates in the 2026 graduating class of the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Art. Over the course of two days, each artist will deliver a 10-minute lecture that summarizes their practice, with a primary emphasis on the work […]

This talk by Peggy Wang, associate professor of art history and Asian studies at Bowdoin College, addresses the conflicting pressures that artists in China confronted during the 1990s and early 2000s, including rapid urbanization and cultural globalization. Even as they navigated political constraints and deficits in resources, contemporary artists enacted productive strategies for making and […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

Students in Christopher Douthitt’s course “Interactivity and DSP: Laptop Music” in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will perform their final projects in the Kemper Art Museum galleries. Through multichannel sound installations, students will activate the space with interactive pieces that respond to the Museum’s architecture, artworks, and visitors. Free and open to […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

Join Kemper Live: Traverse, featuring music, poetry, dance, and hands-on art-making inspired by artworks on view that explore migration, global exchange, reflection, and transformation. Through art and performance celebrating global creative expression, consider how artists traverse and transform social, geographic, conceptual, and creative boundaries. The event will feature a pop-up art gallery and art-making with Room13Delmar, […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

What does it mean to listen to a nation? This is the question raised in Sarah Koellner’s Teaching Gallery installation, Listening to the Art of German Cultures, and related gallery talk, in which she introduces listening as a practice not exclusively related to sound, but expanded to include sound associations, visual artistic cues, and the […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

More than 40 large-scale photographs created in China between 1993 and 2006 make up Looking Back Toward the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists, the survey represents a wide cross section of the conceptual photography that flourished in the nation in the decades following the 1989 […]

José Garza, coordinador de programas académicos del museo, los invitan a un tour en español de la exhibición de arte Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China y obras de arte seleccionadas en la colección permanente. Durante el tour, sentirse libre para compartir sus observaciones e interpretaciones. Este programa se ofrece en colaboración […]