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01 Maureen Gruben, Stitching My Landscape (detail), 2017

On View Now

The first exhibition of colonial Latin American art at Cornell, plus works by Precious Okoyomon, Shahpour Pouyan, and more

Jul 20, 2024–Dec 15, 2024

A landscape painting detail where Our Lady of the Rosary stands with Saint Anthony of Padua, holding a book with the figure of the Christ Child standing on it at the center, and a portrait of a woman with dark hair wearing pearls appears at bottom right.

Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas

A dazzling introduction to the cultural complexity and myriad themes of colonial Latin American art made in the 17th through 19th centuries.

Oct 10, 2024–Dec 15, 2024

A virtual reality scene inside an 11th-century Persian mosque with a view outside

Shahpour Pouyan: Winter in Paradise

Installations of ceramic sculptures and drawings, along with an immersive, multisensory virtual reality work.

Oct 24, 2024–Dec 22, 2024

A colorful wildflower garden

Precious Okoyomon: The Sky Measures Little

Precious Okoyomon presents a new commission in three parts, deepening the artist’s engagement in racial and colonial histories of the natural world.

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The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University opened in 1973 and has always been open to all without charge. Designed by I. M. Pei & Partners, the Museum is named for Herbert F. Johnson, Class of 1922.

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Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ leadership.

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