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Take a self-guided 3D virtual tour of MMoCA’s recent exhibitions at home and through your computer. View close-ups of contemporary or modern artworks and read the artwork labels through an educational experience that can be enjoyed by adults, kids, students, teachers, art lovers, and more.
Virtual tours are supported by Mark and Judy Bednar.

2025 Wisconsin Triennial
The Wisconsin Triennial is a cornerstone of MMoCA’s exhibition calendar. Every three years the exhibition charts the latest art being made across the state, capturing the richness and variety of artistic expression in Wisconsin. From painting to performance and figurative to formal abstraction, the exhibition reflects the rich diversity of Wisconsin’s visual arts scene.

José Lerma, Domestic in a Foreign Sense
Domestic in A Foreign Sense is a solo exhibition by José Lerma featuring large-scale portraiture created in thick impasto and limited brush strokes. With a career spanning over two decades, Lerma’s return to the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is particularly significant, as it was here that he had his first museum exhibition in the 1999 Wisconsin Triennial after earning his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

45 Years of Triennials: Acquisitions 1978–2022
MMoCA has regularly acquired artworks from these exhibitions, adding them to the permanent collection. 45 Years of Triennials: Acquisitions 1978–2022 showcases selected pieces from this collection, highlighting the evolving interests of Wisconsin artists. Many of the featured artists continue to actively contribute to the contemporary art dialogue across the state and the nation.

Bird and Blossom
In Bird and Blossom, MMoCA presents a selection of kachō-e (flower-and-bird pictures) woodblock prints from the Museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition explores artistic renderings of the natural world through two pivotal Japanese print movements: the Edo and Meiji era ukiyo-e and twentieth-century shin hanga. In these colorfully rendered works, animal-habitat relationships prompt close examination.

Broken Spectre
Broken Spectre is a monumental exhibition by artist Richard Mosse that focuses on the devastation of the Amazon rainforest by bringing together the seen and unseen to highlight the interconnectedness of seemingly disparate actions and decisions. Using unique photographic techniques, Mosse explores the ecological devastation too vast to comprehend, too minute to perceive, and too normalized to see.

Line to Form: Richard Hunt’s Prints and Sculpture
Line to Form: Richard Hunt’s Prints and Sculpture presents an in-depth exploration of Richard Hunt’s artistic legacy, spotlighting prints and sculptures created during his distinguished career. The exhibition features a selection of Hunt’s prints from the 1970s, from MMoCA’s collection, alongside two bronze sculptures.

William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations
William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations showcases works created by the Brooklyn-based artist William Villalongo. Highly recognized for his paintings, collages, and signature velour paper cut-outs, Villalongo’s striking visual narratives invite the viewer to engage with the complexities and precarity of Black existence.

imaginary i
imaginary i compares how artists and mathematicians utilize constructs of the imaginary, or complex numbers, to envision the future and reclaim, retrace, and reveal past patterns.

Federico Uribe: Metamorphosis | Metamorfosis
Federico Uribe: Metamorphosis | Metamorphosis features the Colombian-born, Miami-based artist Federico Uribe’s magical, colorful, and sculptural menagerie of animals made of everyday materials.

RECOLLECT: SAM GILLIAM
Rather than a traditional survey of an artist’s work, RECOLLECT: Sam Gilliam invites visitors to celebrate the connections found in his art and through his art. Guided by stories shared by those who knew Gilliam, the exhibition is a meditation on individual and extremely personal ties to the artist and his works.

Floyd Newsum: Evolution of Sight
With a career spanning nearly 50 years, Floyd Newsum: Evolution of Sight invites viewers to look closely at Newsum’s work in order to provoke them into further consideration of the personalized signs and imagery that he utilizes.

Christina Ramberg: Vertical Amnesia
Taking its title from one of the artist’s signature works in MMoCA’s collection, Christina Ramberg: Vertical Amnesia will center this often overlooked and at times forgotten artist within the Chicago Imagist group.

Wendy Red Star: Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird
The Children of the Large-Beaked Bird exhibition provides an opportunity for adults and children to look at history and representation with fresh eyes.

Faisal Abdu’Allah: Dark Matter
DARK MATTER by British artist Faisal Abdu’Allah explores cultural representation and self-determination.

MEL CHIN: There’s Something Happening Here
There’s Something Happening Here represents 43 years of Mel Chin’s work, focusing on several projects that testify to his deep commitment to the intersection of art with social, political, and environmental justice.

SANTIAGO CUCULLU: You still make me tremble
Explore a year’s worth of accumulated moments: things that caught Santiago Cucullu’s attention, made him laugh, and influenced his thinking and perspective.

CAJA DE VISIONES: Arte moderno y contemporáneo de México en el Medio Oeste de los Estados Unidos
The past and present intertwine in Caja de visiones. This exhibition features selections from MMoCA’s significant collection of Mexican modern art in a show that explores the history of the artistic renaissance in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century and its connection to works being created by Mexican and Mexican-American artists working in the Midwest today.

NATALIE FRANK: Unbound
Natalie Frank: Unbound is the first survey exhibition of Brooklyn, New York-based artist Natalie Frank’s drawings inspired by some of the best-known and most controversial literary narratives.

AMY CUTLER: A Narrative Thread
Amy Cutler is known for her highly detailed compositions, elaborate costuming, and fabric patterns as means to express her characters’ psychologies and narratives.

FULL CIRCLE: Acquisitions and Exhibitions
Full Circle traces MMoCA’s collecting and exhibition history over the past 30 years and reflects the culmination of the work and dedication of recently retired Director Emeritus Stephen Fleischman.

GLADYS NILSSON: Out of This World
Out of This World includes layered collages, watercolors, paintings, and prints that span 40 years of Nilsson’s career.

UNCOMMON ACCUMULATION: The Mark and Judy Bednar Collection of Chicago Imagism
Uncommon Accumulation showcases gifted works to MMoCA alongside the promised gifts that have been collected by the Bednars over the past 45 years.