The MSU Union Art Gallery opened its doors during the fall of 2016. It is programmed and operated by the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University. Located on the second floor of the MSU Student Union just off of the Abbott Road entrance to campus this space maintains a diverse range of visual art exhibitions twelve months of the year. 

COSTUME PARTY AT THE MOSLEM TEMPLE

An exhibition featuring MSU Artist/Designer-in-Residence: Critical Race Studies Qais Assali.

March 15 – May 11, 2019

The Wash (As It Seams)

Solo exhibition featuring the work of Babette Shaw.

January 21 – March 2, 2019

TEAL QUILT PROJECT

Comfort, heal, advocate, and educate through community-participatory art

October 25-December 15, 2018

THEN NOW

A solo exhibition featuring the paintings and sculptures of Dianne Wolter.

August 3-October 5, 2018

SELF

A solo exhibition featuring the paintings of Clarissa R Gerber.

May 25 – July 21, 2018

In Our Nature: Dialogues Between Humans and the Environment

Curated by Museum Studies students in Professor Susan J. Bandes’s Curatorial Practices course, this exhibition explores the varied ways that humans and the environment interact over time and across the globe.

April 20 – May 12, 2018

WATER Puerto Rico……Flint a Human Right

A solo exhibition featuring Karen Hampton MSU Artist-in-Residence: Critical Race Studies

January 19 – March 23, 2018

GRAND RIVER

A solo exhibition featuring the work of Jeffery Evergreen.

October 16 – December 16, 2017

Knitting the Resistance

Crafting political protest from the 2017 Women’s Marches.

July 21, 2017 –  September 16, 2017

Nowhere

A solo exhibition featuring the sculptures of Matthew Boonstra.

May 20 – June 20, 2017

(RE) Dress: Outfitting Controversy

Objects from the MSU Museum and Broad Art Museum Curated by MSU Museum Studies Students

April 21, 2017 – May 10, 2017

1963 / 2017 Measured in Moments

Photographs by Leonard Freed in dialogue with Ta-Nehisi Coates

February 17, 2017 – March 31, 2017

Color Pattern Form

An exhibition featuring the paintings of Maria Rose Adams and the ceramics of Jeff Blandford

December 2, 2016 – January 27, 2017

Women of Graphic Design

An exhibition featuring Alumnae of the MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design.

October 14, 2016 – November 20, 2016