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Past Exhibitions

2025
From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains
From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Currents of Climate Change
June 13–September 14, 2025
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Carmen Winant The Last Safe Abortion 6
Carmen Winant: The last safe abortion
January 18–May 4, 2025
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Synchronicities Installation View 22
Synchronicities: Intersecting Figuration with Abstraction
January 18–May 4, 2025
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2024
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Benefit Art Auction Exhibition
October 11–October 25, 2024
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Paul Stephen Benjamin: Black of Night
May 18–September 15, 2024
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Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers
May 18–September 15, 2024
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2023
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Paolo Arao: Reverberations
December 9, 2023–April 14, 2024
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Neo-Custodians: Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural Memory, and Belonging
December 9, 2023–April 14, 2024
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Benefit Art Auction Exhibition
October 13–October 27, 2023
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Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence
May 20–September 17, 2023
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Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness
May 20–September 17, 2023
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2022
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Opulence: Performative Wealth and the Failed American Dream
December 8, 2022–April 16, 2023
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Elisabeth Kley: Minutes of Sand
December 8, 2022–April 16, 2023
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Reflections and Reverberations 1
Maya Dunietz: Root of Two
May 7–September 18, 2022
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2021
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I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality
December 9, 2021–March 20, 2022
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Nick Cave: Ensemble
August 12–August 22, 2021
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Stephanie Syjuco I Am An
All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy
June 5–September 19, 2021
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Charley Friedman: Soundtracks for the Present Future (installation view), 2021; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; Photo: Colin Conces.
Charley Friedman: Soundtracks for the Present Future
June 5–August 1, 2021
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2020
Paul Mpagi Sepuya Drop Scene Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Photo by Colin Conces7
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Drop Scene
December 10, 2020–April 24, 2021
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Joey Fauerso: Inside the Spider's Body
December 10, 2020–April 24, 2021
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Maria Antelman: Soft Interface
December 10, 2020–April 24, 2021
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Claudia Wieser Generations Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Photo by Colin Conces5
Claudia Wieser: Generations
March 19–August 15, 2020
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Liv Schulman The Gobernment Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Photo by Colin Conces8
Liv Schulman: The Gobernment
March 19–August 15, 2020
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2019
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Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens: Look, it’s daybreak, dear, time to sing
November 20, 2019–February 15, 2020
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Jillian Mayer TIMESHARE Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Photo by Colin Conces2
Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE
November 20, 2019–February 15, 2020
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Inner Ear Vision Sound as Medium 5
Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium
July 11–September 14, 2019
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Alison O Daniel Heavy Air 3
Alison O’Daniel: Heavy Air
April 4–June 15, 2019
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Lui Shtini Tempos 2
Lui Shtini: Tempos
April 4–June 15, 2019
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2018
I let them in Conditional Hospitality and The Stranger 4
I let them in. Conditional Hospitality and The Stranger
December 13, 2018–March 2, 2019
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Sheila Pepe Hot Mess Formalism 1
Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism
June 28–September 15, 2018
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Beginning break rapid Kenji Fujita Barbara Takenaga 2
beginning.break.rapid: Kenji Fujita & Barbara Takenaga
March 22–June 2, 2018
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Sick Time Sleepy Time Crip Time Against Capitalism s Temporal Bullying 1
Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism's Temporal Bullying
March 22–June 2, 2018
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2017
Monarchs Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly 6
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly
December 7, 2017–February 24, 2018
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David Brooks Continuous Service Altered Daily 1
David Brooks: Continuous Service Altered Daily
June 1–August 26, 2017
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Cassils Phantom Revenant 3
Cassils: Phantom Revenant
February 2–April 29, 2017
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Paula Wilson The Backward Glance 1
Paula Wilson: The Backward Glance
February 2–April 29, 2017
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Chimeras 1
Chimeras
February 2–April 29, 2017
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2016
Time Space Futures 7
Time + Space: Futures
June 16–September 17, 2016
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Nebraska Rising 5
Nebraska Rising
June 16, 2016–September 17, 2017
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Time Space Beginnings 7
Time + Space: Beginnings
February 4–May 14, 2016
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Crossroad A Social Sculpture 2
Crossroad: A Social Sculpture
February 4–May 14, 2016
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Everyday Static Transmissions 3
Everyday Static Transmissions
February 4–May 14, 2016
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2015
Fallen Fruit Power of People Power of Place 4
Fallen Fruit: Power of People, Power of Place
August 6–October 10, 2015
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Bemis Painters 1982 2015 6
#BemisPainters, 1982–2015
July 16–October 10, 2015
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Sarah Rowe Vertical Disintegration 2
Sarah Rowe: Vertical Disintegration
July 10–August 8, 2015
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Brandon Ballengée Collapse 1
Brandon Ballengée: Collapse
June 11–October 10, 2015
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A Call to Respond Carver Bank 2
A Call to Respond | Carver Bank
April 17–September 19, 2015
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Riitta Ikonen Portrait of the artist as a young leaf 1
Riitta Ikonen: Portrait of the artist as a young leaf
February 19–June 27, 2015
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2014
FOOD THEATER 3
FOOD THEATER
December 16, 2014–May 23, 2015
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