Past Exhibitions
2024-2025 Season
Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
Curated by David Ayala-Alfonso
September 26-December 14, 2024
Young Artists: Layers of Me
Shawsville Middle School
January 7-11, 2025
Shaunté Gates
This Is Not a Test
January 23-March 30, 2025
Charisse Pearlina Weston
I saw the room but darkly dreamed it...
January 23-March 30, 2025
SOVA Faculty Triennial
Assembly
April 10-26, 2025
ICAT: Open (at the) Source
May 5-16, 2025
SOVA Senior Show
May 9-15, 2025
2025 New River Art Juried Biennial
Blacksburg Regional Art Association
June 5-August 23, 2025
2023-2024 Season
william cordova: can't stop, won't stop: tenets of southern alchemy
September 21-December 17, 2023
Laurie Steelink: Spirit Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot
September 21-December 17, 2023
Joe Kelley
I am gone, expanding
January 5-January 13, 2024
Messengers
Leslie Hewitt, Tarrah Krajnak, and Rodrigo Valenzuela
February 1-April 21, 2024
ICAT: Open (at the) Source
April 29-May 11, 2024
SOVA Senior Show
May 3-9, 2024
Michiko Itatani
Cosmic Encounters
June 6-August 30, 2024
Erika Ranee
How Are Things on My End
June 6-August 30, 2024
Turner Street Mural: Erika Renee
August 2024-July 2025
2022-2023 Season
Craig Drennen: First Acts, Scene 2
October 13-December 17, 2022
Steve Locke: the daily practice of painting
October 13-December 17, 2022
Yanira Collado: Zafa/ A Spellworking of Temporal Geometry
February 16-April 22, 2023
Anne Samat: Follow Your Heart Wholeheartedly 2
February 16-April 22, 2023
SOVA Senior Show
May 5-13, 2023
ICAT: Open (at the) Source
May 1-20, 2023
Conor McGrady: Mountains Series
August 2022-June 2023
I'll be your mirror...
June 8-September 1, 2023
2021-2022 Season
Sheila Pree Bright: A Beautiful Struggle
September 9-November 20, 2021
Larry Fink: Gathering: Pearls and Polyester
September 9-November 20, 2021
Student Arts Spotlight
December 2-18, 2021
Namwon Choi: The Shape of Distance
January 27-March 26, 2022
Shin-il Kim: In Between Five Colors
January 27-March 26, 2022
Gathering: Faculty Triennial
April 7-30, 2022
ICAT: Open (at the) Source
April 7-May 14, 2022
Lilian Garcia-Roig: Legacy of Place
June 9-September 2, 2022
MaterPolis
June 9-September 2, 2022
2020-2021 Season
Cause Collective: In Search of the Truth
September 10-October 10, 2020
22 Steps: John Lewis
September 10-November 21, 2020
Jason Middlebrook: Another World
September 10-November 21, 2020
Student Arts Spotlight
October 8-November 18, 2020
Four Freedoms
Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery of For Freedom
October 15-November 21, 2020
Unbearable Beauty
James Balog, Daniel Beltrá, Edward Burtynsky, Chris Jordan, and Steve Norton
January 21-April 24, 2021
Roots, Reeds, and Vines: The Art of Basketry
June 3-August 28, 2021
2019-2020 Season
DATAForm: Yorgo Alexopoulos, Jim Campbell, and Daniel Canogar
August 29-November 9, 2019
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Grand Lobby Mural Project: Surge by Daniel Canogar
August 29, 2019-December 2021
Fierce Women
Chakaia Booker, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Marilyn Minter, and Rozeal
January 30-April 25, 2020
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Student Arts Spotlight
June 1-August 15, 2020
Online exhibition
2018-2019 Season
History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence
August 23-October 13, 2018
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Multiply
Art installation created collaboratively by community members
October 18-December 15, 2018
SWARM
Talia Greene, Don Maynard, Bjorn Schulke, Leah Sobsey, and Marina Zurkow
October 25-December 15, 2018
Arboreal
Elizabeth Bradford, Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, Ori Gersht, Sam Krisch, Rosemary Laing, Jason Middlebrook, Tom Nakashima, Roxy Paine, Quayola, Linda Foard Roberts, Eric Serritella, Claire Sherman, Michele Sons, and Yuken Teruya
January 24-March 23, 2019
22 Steps: Ice Storm by Emilio Santini
Spring 2019
School of Visual Arts (SOVA) Faculty Triennial
April 4-May 4, 2019
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ICAT: Open (at the) Source
Perspectives
April 4-June 1, 2019
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SOVA Senior Show
May 9-18, 2019
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Gerry Bannan: Peaceable Kingdom
May 9-June 1, 2019
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2019 New River Art Juried Biennial
Presented by Blacksburg Region Art Association
June 13-August 3, 2019
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22 Steps: My Song by Deanne M. Lane
Summer 2019
2017-2018 Season
Pia Fries
September 14-December 9, 2017
Radcliffe Bailey
September 14-December 9, 2017
Blacksburg High School: Year of the Artist
December 13-20, 2017
Ray Kass
January 18-March 31, 2018
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Salaam: Saba Taj
April 5-22, 2018
Laurie Anderson: Invented Instruments
April 26-June 9, 2018
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ICAT: Open (at the) Source
Trace
April 30-June 9, 2018
SOVA Senior Show
May 3-12, 2018
SoundScapes
Olivia Block, Maria Chavez, Marcus Fischer, Robin Rimbaud (AKA Scanner), and Jana Winderen
May 17-June 9, 2018
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22 Steps: Gadji beri bimba by Hugo Ball
Spring 2018
Sitting Pretty: The Chair Re-Envisioned
Roger Atkins, Alexander Bannan, David Bohnhoff, Bruce Bradford, Stoel Burrowes, Graham Campbell, Sonya Clark, Jacob Cress, Felicia Dean, Douglas Finkel, Sophie Glenn, Timothy Hintz, Craig Nutt, and Ann Walsh
June 21-August 12, 2018
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William Wegman: Sit!
June 21-August 12, 2018
2016-2017 Season
Susan Jamison: Enchantment
September 1-October 8, 2016
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Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
September 8-November 28, 2016
Amy Cutler
September 15-December 10, 2016
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Lynn Hershman Leeson
October 20-December 10, 2016
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DesignSpace: Hand Lettering
November 29, 2016-Summer, 2017
Artists and Architecture: Projection/Convergence/Intersection
James Casebere, Amy Casey, Dionisio Gonzáles, Candida Höfer, Matthew Kolodziej, Jean-François Rauzier, and Jennifer Williams
January 19-April 1, 2017
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22 Steps: I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become by Erika Meitner
Spring 2017
Passages
April 12-16, 2017
Susan Danko
April 13-June 3, 2017
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ICAT: Open (at the) Source
Sensing Place
April 27-May 20, 2017
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SOVA Senior Show
May 4-14, 2017
From These Woods…
John Albright, Alex Bannan, Charlie Brouwer, Melissa Engler, Greg Galbreath, Bill and Corinne Graefe (Phoenix Hardwoods), Travis Graves, Andrew Hayes, Michael Kovick, Steven McBride, Jonathan Rugh, Daniel Sanchez, Norm Sartorius, Mac Traynham, Shanti Yard, and Jennifer Zurick
June 8-September 1, 2017
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2015-2016 Season
Stephen Vitiello: A Scuttering Across the Leaves
September 3-13, 2015
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Beyond Real: Still Life in the 21st Century
Gerry Bannan, Ori Gersht, David Halliday, Jennifer Hand, Laura Letinsky, Tim O’Kane, and Agniet Snoep
September 3-November 15, 2015
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Philip Taaffe
September 3-November 15, 2015
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22 Steps: Fall Rising by Lisa Ress
Fall 2015
Meaghan Dee: Post
December 3, 2015-January 24, 2016
Charlie Brouwer: Known/Unknown
December 3, 2015-February 7, 2016
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Paul Ryan: the sun that never sets
December 3, 2015-February 7, 2016
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Charlie Brouwer: Searching, Reaching, Transcending…
January-February, 2016
DATAStream
John F. Simon Jr., Philip Argent, Casey Reas, and Quayola: Strata #1
February 4-May 7, 2016
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Grand Lobby Mural Project: HighWire by Diana Cooper
February 2016-June 2019
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SOVA Senior Show
May 2-15, 2016
ICAT: Open (at the) Source
The Macronaut Project
May 2-June 12, 2016
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22 Steps: The Willows in the Morning by Neal Klemba
Spring, 2016
Young Artists: Home
May 19-July 3, 2016
Giles County Public Schools grades 4-7
P. Buckley Moss: Sowing Seeds
June 2-August 7, 2016
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Steven White: 100 Portraits
June 30-August 14, 2016
Joe Kelley
July 14-August 24, 2016
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2014-2015 Season
The College of Architecture and Urban Studies (CAUS): Collegiate Legacy Emeritus Faculty Exhibition
August 22-September 15, 2014
Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color
Manfred Mohr, Odili Donald Odita, and Patrick Wilson
September 25-November 20, 2014
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Grand Lobby Mural Project: Bridge by Odili Donald Odita
October 2014-November 2015
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Betsy Bannan
December 4, 2014-February 1, 2015
Sam Krisch: Elements
December 4, 2014-February 1, 2015
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Young Artists: Community High School, Roanoke
Narratives and Persuasion: Puppets, Prints, and Manifestos
December 4, 2014-February 1, 2015
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Lalla Essaydi
February 12-April 12, 2015
Threaded
Shinique Smith, Polly Apfelbaum, and Angelo Filomeno
February 12-April 12, 2015
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ICAT: Open (at the) Source
Luminescent Forest and Cloud
Aki Ishida and Ivica Ico Bukvic: Cloud
Paola Zellner Bassett and Tom Martin: Luminescent Forest
April 23-May 17, 2015
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SOVA Senior Show
April 30-May 17, 2015
Pat West: Tangled
June 4-August 9, 2015
Unleashed
Nathan Blake, Lucinda Roy, Diane Porter Goff, Rob Neukirch, Diana Mazor, Lesley Howard, Jane Hendrick, Amy Marengo, Ann Goette, Tom Gardner, Matthew Vollmer, Erika Meitner, and Nikki Giovanni
June 4-August 9, 2015
Wanderings: Mary Collier, Charlotte Chan and Betty Moore
June 4-August 9, 2015
2013-2014 Season
Joan Grossman: This edge I have to jump
October 28-November 24, 2013
Jennifer Steinkamp: Madame Curie
October 28-December 1, 2013
Leo Villareal: Digital Sublime
October 28-December 1, 2013
Young Artists
December 6-15, 2013
Montgomery County Public Schools grade 5
Landscape: Another Dimension
Adam Cvijanovic, Joni Pienkowski, Jacco Olivier, and Chiho Aoshima
January 17-March 7, 2014
Aspects of the Self: Portraits of our Times
Christopher Baker, Tara Bogart, Brian Calvin, Daniel Canogar, Mary Kate Claytor, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Ben Durham, Joan Gaustad, Elizabeth King, Charles LeDray, Janet Niewald, Julian Opie, Suzanne Opton, Tony Oursler, Daniel Rozin, Thomas Ruff, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Jeanne Silverthorne, Mickalene Thomas, Nick Vitelli, Andy Warhol, Kehinde Wiley, and Zhang Xiaogang
March 21-April 27, 2014
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ICAT: Open (at the) Source
May 3-18, 2014
SOVA Senior Studio Exhibition
May 3-18, 2014
Young Artists
May 24-June 5, 2014
Featuring Step on It shoe project with Blacksburg Middle and High School, Christiansburg Middle and High School, Auburn Middle and High School, and Shawsville Middle School
OpenLab
Fields + Array: Ashton Hamm, James Heard, Daniel Hemmendinger, Chelsea Kilburn, and Matthew Ridgeway
Motion + eMotion: [trans]LAB: Alireza Borhani and Negar Kalantar
June 14-July 27, 2014
Pictured (above):
Unbearable Beauty
January 21-April 24, 2021