Staged Meaning/Meaning Staged – Landscapes from Fisher’s Permanent Collection

Opening January 22, 2019 “Staged Meaning/Meaning Staged” is an exhibition that honors our donors over the last 80 years – since Fisher’s founding at USC in 1939. Beginning with selections from our first major gift from Elizabeth Holmes Fisher, this show displays works from our growing collections. Through the prism of landscapes, from the seventeenth-century…

Janet Sternburg: LIMBUS

USC Fisher Museum of Art proudly announces LIMBUS, a solo exhibition by photographer Janet Sternburg, visual artist, author of books of essays, memoirs and poetry, and educator. The exhibition, organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art, opens on September 18, 2018 and runs through December 1, 2018.“ Limbus was defined,” writes Sternburg in her artist’s statement,…

Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene

On view Sept. 18 – Dec. 8, 2018 USC Fisher Museum of Art proudly announces a timely exhibition that depicts how humans are directly and indirectly impacting the planet. Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene is presented by USC Fisher Museum of Art in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA). The exhibition features…

2018 Roski Annual Student Exhibition

USC Fisher Museum of Art May 2-11, 2018 Opening Reception and Award Ceremony, May 1, 5-7pm Museum hours: Mon-Fri, 12-5 pm; closed Sat, Sun Presented by USC Roski School of Art and Design and the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the 2018 Roski Annual Student Exhibition showcases artworks by the talented undergraduate students at Roski. Most disciplines…

Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures

SENGA NENGUDI: IMPROVISATIONAL GESTURESJANUARY 20 – APRIL 14, 2018 Senga Nengudi is one of the seminal conceptual and performance artists of our time. Educated in Los Angeles in the 1960s, Nengudi left L.A. to study art in New York and Tokyo decades ago. She is now returning to Los Angeles, to major acclaim, with Senga Nengudi:…

James hd Brown: Life and Work in Mexico

September 19 – December 2, 2017 Click here to view the exhibition on Google Arts and Culture. James hd Brown: Life and Work in Mexico is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January…

Fisher Museum – Spring 2017

Since January 31, 2017, the USC Fisher Museum of Art has been collaborating with Art Division, a non-profit organization dedicated to training and supporting underserved young adults who are committed to studying visual arts, on a semester-long project that has brought Art Division students to the USC campus as part of a residency at the Fisher Museum. Art Division students, surrounded by works from Fisher’s permanent collection in…

2016 USC Roski Annual Student Exhibition

  The Annual Student Exhibition showcases outstanding artwork made by USC students over the course of the 2015-2016 academic year. The faculty committee welcomes all USC students, regardless of their major, to submit work for the jury process. The exhibition will include work in painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video and design. USC Roski has long-advocated an interdisciplinary…

Lita Albuquerque, “20/20: Accelerando”

January 26 – April 10, 2016 Tracing the relationship between humanity and the cosmos, 20/20: Accelerando follows the journey of a 25th century female astronaut in the year 6,000 BCE on a mission to spread interstellar consciousness. Crash-landing onto Earth, she forgets her mission, prompting her to embark on a journey of remembrance and self-discovery: “Where…