Past Exhibitions
Collecting Every Day
Yun Shin
January 26 – February 27, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 19, 2026 • 5:30–7:30 pm • Artist remarks at
6 pm
Collecting Every Day is a body of work by Yun Shin that explores how her young son shapes her daily routines and emotional life. Using graphite, gouache, and watercolor on paper, Shin documents early parenthood through the objects and systems her son creates, reflecting themes of love, care, quiet worry, and role reversal. The work becomes a record of evolving relationships and an ongoing dialogue between parent and child.
More Rythms, More Rhymes
October 30 - December 5th, 2025
Opending Reception: Thursday October 30th, 2025, 5:30-7:30pm
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present “More Rhythms, More Rhymes”
a two-person exhibition of works by Emily Bayless and Justin Schwartz. This duo has
been making work alongside one another since 2017 with Bayless working mainly in ceramic
and fiber, and Schwartz working with oil paint and mixed media. Over those years their
work has evolved in a shared visual language and a growing dialogue of their individual
use of color, pattern, repetition, texture, and scale. When viewing their works together,
their influence on one another as traditionally 2D and 3D makers emerges as a strong
formal theme.
Echo, Trim, Extend
September 15th - October 17th, 2025
Opending Reception: Friday September 19th, 2025, 5:30-7:30pm
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring Josephine Durkin, Leigh Merrill, and Christy Wittmer. Together, these three artists propose a meditation on materiality, fragmentation, and perception. Through distinct yet overlapping methods, including sculpture, collage, visual reconstruction, and accumulation, their practices explore the space between the known and the invented, the enduring and the ephemeral. Josephine Durkin's studio practice includes the production of sculptures, collage, installations, and wall drawings. Each work marries realism with abstraction, and stems from the history of previous projects and travel. Through intuitive, layered construction, she utilizes casts of scrap material, documentation, remnants of in-progress assemblages, maps and prototypes - all of which function as matter, or inventory, set aside for the creation of future works. Through photo collage, Leigh Merrill’s work explores the intersections between reality and simulation, as well as the impact of human activity on the environment. Her collages function as neither document nor absolute fiction; they reveal a complex relationship with place, a combination of what exists and what is desired. Balancing experimentation with skilled craft, Christy Wittmer creates sculptures that challenge expectations of function and notions of stability. Stacked and balanced, her work is held together by the weight of one object supporting another, investigating fragility, resilience, time and impermanence. Together, the artists destabilize fixed categories of image, object, and meaning—offering instead a set of visual propositions in which transformation, memory, and the act of making coalesce.
Memory in Motion: Jack Hein and Jason Thing
April 30th-September 5, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 2025, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery presents Memory in Motion: Jack Hein and Jason Thing, an exhibition by The University of Dallas’ current MFA students. The exhibition explores themes of memory, war, and identity through ceramic sculpture. Both artists, originally from Burma (Myanmar), draw from their experiences as refugees to create emotionally resonant works that push the expressive limits of clay. Hein’s pieces reflect on migration, impermanence, and belonging, while Thing’s sculptures, often centered around the elephant as a symbol of endurance, incorporate elements of war and displacement. Together, their work invites viewers to engage with powerful narratives of survival, adaptation, and cultural memory.
The exhibition was co-curated by the Spring 2025 Gallery Practicum students: Antonio Alverez, Andreea Chiriac, Amelia Ebent, Maya Prochnow, Griffin Medcalf, Sei Sato Uehara, Joseph Scholz, Thomas Skendzel, and Mike Zhang
Daniel Heyman: The World Has Gone Crazy and So Am I
February 7 - March 21, 2025
Reception: Thursday, March 13, 2025 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. with remarks by the artist
at 6:00 p.m.
Daniel Heyman: The World Has Gone Crazy and So Am I features drawings and paintings
on handmade paper that reflect the influence of Heyman's extensive travels in Europe
and Japan. The works are a part of his ongoing conversation with art and artists conducted
through pictures. The importance of handmade paper, typically Japanese style “kozo”
washi, is evidenced by the great variety of paper used. The works exhibited—some created
in one sitting, some over many years—feature spontaneous sketches and layered drawings
in mediums like sumi ink, graphite, and gouache. Heyman’s work resists classification
as it explores themes of landscape, nature, history and human rights. The exhibition
highlights his mastery of both technique and subject, offering a window into his personal,
often intuitive creative process.
FABLES AND LABELS: Ruhee Maknojia and Hiromi Stringer
December 6, 2024 - January 31, 2025
Fables and Labels: Ruhee Maknojia and Hiromi Stringer, explores the limitations of
cultural and geographical labels in the context of their work. First conceived during
their time at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the exhibition responds
to how their art is often reduced to identity categories—Indian for Maknojia and Japanese
for Stringer—overshadowing the broader global narratives they engage with. Through
a combination of painting, animation, drawing, and sculpture, both artists challenge
the traditional boundaries of art and history. Stringer’s fictional Umeyama Time Teleportation
Museum reimagines historical narratives, questioning the authority of museum labels
and historical records. Meanwhile, Maknojia uses memory, storytelling, and the psychological
"doorway effect" to explore how fables, much like fragmented memories, are reassembled
and reinterpreted. Together, these works invite viewers to rethink the roles of labels
and fables in shaping our understanding of history, identity, and art.
ARNY NADLER: SCULPTURES + WORKS ON PAPER
October 18 - November 22, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, October 18th from 5:30-7:30 with remarks by the artist
at 6:00 p.m.
Arny Nadler: Sculptures + Works on Paper features ceramic sculptures and drawings from Nadler’s ongoing series, Firstlings. Nadler’s work explores ideas of wholeness, both in physical and psychological forms. In clay and ink, he contemplates the body’s precarity and its sometimes galling ability to adapt. These simultaneously heroic and absurd forms question our fixed notions of defeat and triumph. In the face of danger, desire, or even loss, theirs is a system that adjusts toward survival.
Photo by Richard Sprengeler
Arny Nadler
Firstling No. 17, 2019
painted ceramic
22.5 x 16.5 x 12 inches
Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920
May 5 – October 15, 2024
The Mexican American Museum of Texas in Collaboration with the Latin American Studies program at the University of Dallas to Bring the exhibit: Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920 to North Texas.
Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920 was produced by the Bullock Texas State History Museum in partnership with the Refusing to Forget Project, an award-winning educational nonprofit on racial violence on the Mexico-Texas Border. The exhibit will open on May 5, 2024, and will be on display through October 15, 2024, at the University of Dallas, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery.
As described by TMAMT Board member, Ruben Arellano, PhD, in his Introduction to the exhibit, The Life and Death on the Border exhibit focuses on the decade between 1910 and 1920, a time of great violence and upheaval along the Texas-Mexico border. It examines the causes and effects of state-sanctioned racial violence against ethnic Mexicans and explores the actions that Mexican Americans took to advance the cause of justice and civil rights.
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STRONGMAN: Rocky Horton and Thomas Sturgill
March 22, 2024 - Apr 25, 2024
Opening Reception: March 22, 2024, 5:30pm - 7:30 pm
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery proudly presents: STRONGMAN: Rocky Horton and Thomas Sturgill. This exhibition explores themes of Southern masculinity, humor, and mortality. Each artist has long created works circulating this topic. As natives of small southern towns, masculine identity championed sports, cars, and bravado. The works in this exhibit humorously play with this criteria and offer vulnerability as an antidote.
Horton’s work explores his mortality, identity, and place in history. Each work presented is a kind of self-portrait and thus a contemplation of silliness, seriousness, identity, and ultimately, demise. Sturgill’s work centers on hubris, collecting, success, and humor. The work is based on the simple feat of strength, each piece explores what it means to succeed…what it means to attain.
2023-2024
Martin Lang & Thomas Wharton
Duets
2021-2022
2019-2020
Pieced + Painted: Galen Cheney + Andrea Myers
Heri Bert Bartscht: 100 Years
Costa Rica to Lubbock: Drawings by Tom Spleth
CAMEO: Emerging Artist Show 2019
2018-2019
Of a Feather
juergen strunck prints: no secrets
NATURA NATURATA: Nature Created
Sacred Transmitted: A Century of Design from the Emil Frei Studio Archives
Shape-Shifter: Drawing From Observation
The Space Between
2017-2018
Onward Forward 2018
Dwelling: Paintings by Peter Ligon + Layla Luna
What Remains: Rachel Mcginnes and Kelly O’Briant
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Martin Lam Nguyen, C.S.C: MOMENTS
Modern Sacred: The Saint John’s Bible and Selections from the Permanent Art Collection
2016-2017
Onward Forward 2017
View from the Art Village: 50-Year Retrospective
2017 University of Dallas Regional Juried Ceramics Competition
Poets, Painters, and Paper: Post World War II American Avant-Garde Art
Art Department Faculty Exhibition
Business, Cleverly Disguised as Pleasure
Chagall: Intersecting Traditions
2015-2016
Natural Resources
2014-2015
Marking Time • Making Space
2015 University of Dallas Regional Ceramic Competition
Viewshed: Explorations in Landscape
The Shape of Line
The Body Politic
2013-2014
Bureaucracy of Banality: Graduate Students Summer Exhibition
Juergen Strunck – In Retrospect: 45 Years of Teaching
Reconfigured
Jen Blazina and Anda Dubinskis
Robert Rauschenberg: Four Decades of Work on Paper
The University of Dallas Art Department 2013 Faculty Exhibition
2012-2013
8: University of Dallas 2013 Graduate Students' Summer Exhibition
Fresh Tracks: an abstract dialog
University of Dallas 2013 Regional Ceramic Competition
Beyond the Textile
Fragile Elements
Fred Spaulding and Waleed Arshad
2011-2012
University of Dallas 2012 Graduate Students' Summer Exhibition: Unsupervised Obsessions
The Mirror and The Monitor: Female Self-Portraiture in Video Practice
Paper in Space
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
Robbie Barber and Mary O'Shaughnessy
Natural Perceptions: Allison Hunter and Marilyn Jolly
2010-2011
3 to Watch: Bernardo Cantu-Yelizaveta Nersesova-Carlo F. Zinzi
2011 University of Dallas Regional Ceramics Regional Exhibition
Cut & Paste: Gordon Young and Enrique Fernandez Cervantes
Metal Heart: Elizabeth Akamatsu and Lauren McAdams
University of Dallas Art Department Faculty Exhibition
2009-2010
TBA
Drawing on Sculpture
Rick Maxwell, David Newman, Don Taylor
You Should Know Them #1 - Professors and Their Students
Una Vista de Argentina
Uncoverings: Simeen Ishaque and Soody Sharfi
one world: north east west south
International Printmaking Exhibition
2008-2009
Landscape Affected
2009 University of Dallas Regional Ceramic Competition
Narratives: Colombik, Comeaux, Snelling, Palma
Thoughts and Remarks: Michael Miller, Bill Tourtillotte
Nuances: Marietta Patricia Leis - Dalton Maroney
2007 -2008
Video Art: The Early Years
Up Close
20th The University of Dallas National Print Invitational
Historias
University of Dallas Art Department Faculty Exhibition
Brian DeLevie and Elizabeth Sher
2006-2007
Capturing a Moment
2007 University of Dallas Regional Ceramics Competition
Humor in Art
Evolution
Action/Reaction
2005 - 2006
Eleven
Layers and Allusions
19th The University of Dallas National Print Invitational
A Texas Vernacular
Defining Space
Korea Then and Now
2004 - 2005
A Core Convergence
Stimulating the Senses
The Doors of Florence
Maya Lin
University of Dallas Art Department Faculty Exhibition
2003 - 2004
18th University of Dallas National Juried Print Invitational
Fragments: Works Selected by Robyn Stoller
Be Still
Hold
2002 - 2003
Duo
Figure Once Removed
Upwards
About Landscape
2001 - 2002
Wonder
Stall
University of Dallas 17th National Print Invitational
Slide
Floored
Untitled (Bowers, Hamilton, Schwartz, Steinfield
2000-2001
F/X Faculty Show
Animalia
Ulterior
Surfacing
Shutter
20th Century Works on Paper
Plunge