Past Exhibitions

March 27 — April 19, 2025

Curated by J. Benjamin Burney, Out of Time examines how artists who work in painting, sculpture, mixed media, and photography, envision speculative futures while grappling with America’s complex past. Through the power of visual representation, these works challenge historical narratives, question societal norms, and propose bold new realities.

February 20 — March 15, 2025

Curated by Nathan Storey, this exhibition features six interdisciplinary artists that search for their fragmentary pieces and reimagine queer constellations as they unearth LGBTQ+ histories. They grapple with their collective pasts, allowing them to look toward queer futures.

January 16 — February 8, 2025

Curated by Rae Richards, Transnavigation investigates how trans jewelers are navigating their bodies and the world their bodies exist in—whether through reinterpreting tools, inventing alternate ways of being, revisiting ancestral practices.

October 31, 2024 – January 4, 2025

WARNING: Mi Amá is a collection of new work by Denver poet, artist, and musician Diego Florez-Arroyo that explores the deep, innate connection between humans and the concept of “mother” in all its forms—biological, earth, and spiritual.

August 22 — October 19, 2024

Living Rooms delves into the dual perspectives of Denver, CO artist Saul Acevedo Gomez and Brooklyn, NY animator Kate Stone, offering two unique lenses to ponder the many hidden narratives woven into our surroundings. The artwork melds abstract elements with everyday motifs, aiming to reshape and redefine both.

June 13 — August 10, 2024

Fitz J. Lewis, Sara Rockinger, and Stephanie Mercedes engage with themes of gun violence, war, and cultural conditioning. Featuring a combination of performance, sculpture, and textile art, the collection of works questions societal norms, explores personal experiences and challenges the glorification of guns and war in our culture. The exhibition critically examines these issues and attempts to transform symbols of violence and loss into expressions of beauty, art, and transformation.

May 2 — June 1, 2024

The Obstacle is the Path seeks to highlight some of the talent and innovation of the artists and curators who have been essential to our journey over the past five years. Inspired by the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, who famously said, "What stands in the way becomes the way," this exhibition commemorates Union Hall's 5th Anniversary by delving into this timeless concept.

March 28 - April 20, 2024

Curated by Zak Ashburn, Laugh Lines is a thought-provoking and transformative group exhibition that challenges societal norms through the lens of humor. This dynamic showcase delves into cultural critiques, using humor as a multilayered tool to expose truth, darkness, love, and more.

February 22 — March 16, 2024

Curated by Kiera McIntosh, To Offer/To Leave, aesthetically and thematically inspired by the tales of Shakespeare’s character Ophelia and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, showcases a moment in time after a decision of withdrawal has been made. Through the thoughtful inclusion of light, sound, and aromatic sculpture the viewer plays witness to the tale before them within a space contemplation.

January 18 — February 10, 2024

Curated by Jennifer Lord, Dirty Abstraction proposes an abstraction that communicates and contains cultural, ecological, political, and/or spiritual content. It is abstraction that pushes against traditional notions of pure form and into critical content. The exhibition explores the contradiction of does it matter / it doesn’t matter how much the viewer gets.

November 2, 2024 — January 6, 2024

A two-person exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Boulder artist A Grix, and Denver artist Vinni Alfonso. Through Flesh to Infinity conveys the nuances of opposing ideas coexisting within a single being, embodying figurative and non-figurative expressions, akin to the intertwined nature of bodily functions and spiritual expansion.

September 21 — October 21, 2023

As You Are invites viewers to explore the human experience through the eyes and hands of three young emerging artists. With a rich palette of oil paintings and colored pencil drawings, the collection of portraits bears witness to resilience that emerges from embracing authenticity and self-acceptance. The works delve into generational pressures, grapple with shame, imposter syndrome and celebrate imperfections.

July 13 — September 9, 2023

In conjunction with Denver’s inaugural Month of Video (.MOV), Traverse delves into the notions of journey and identity in a landscape, fusing performance and video work to investigate the relationship between the environment and one's self. In dialogue with the landscape, artists use a symbolic and physical passage to rewrite a narrative, question ideologies, evince transformation, and shift perspective.

May 4 — July 1, 2023

Experimental machinations remain an extension of our desires and demonstrate how we use technology to fulfill quirky human needs. These curious machines aim to achieve creative and tender objectives, merging our complex human inclinations with mechanical logic. Artists attempt and perform mechanical prose through an assemblage of interactivity, performance, and ingenuity, some of which draw inspiration from automata and early robots.

March 30 — April 22, 2023

Curated by Shawn C. Simmons, Against Nature explores the emerging field of queer ecology in response to prevailing ideas of human versus nature. As we face the climate crisis of today and tomorrow, each featured artist enacts their own utopian vision by reimagining the relationship between queer identity and nature.

February 23 — March 18, 2023

In conjunction with Denver’s Month of Photography celebration in March 2023, co-curators Nadiya Jackson and Florence Blackwell introduce five artists who have utilized their art to navigate various life-altering experiences to reach their boon. Boon (noun) is a thing that is helpful or beneficial.

January 19 — February 11, 2023

Curated by Jenny Nagashima, Sacrum unravels the layers of intimacy surrounding the universal yet unnamable sensations experienced in the womb and the complications that arise in the pursuit of recreating those feelings in our daily lives.

November 10, 2022 – January 11, 2023

A solo exhibition showcasing a new ceramic sculpture series by Juntae TeeJay Hwang. Through the ceremony and pomp of a wedding, TeeJay alludes to the stress and anxiety that comes from being on display and the emotional labor exerted in everyday life that is often invisible yet holds familial and societal structures together.

September 29 – October 29, 2022

Esther Hernandez’s debut exhibition as Union Hall’s new Chief Curator. Featuring several local and national artists, One Foot in the Grave explores themes of the afterlife, with works that playfully celebrate human fallibility and our temporal lives' messy, unconventional beauty.

July 21 — September 17, 2022

Curated by Robert Martin, the featured artists in the story of you + me — Erickson Díaz-Cortés, Jordan Ramsey Ismaiel, Em Van Loan, and Robert Martin — have created work about and inspired by their intimate relationships; both with others and with themselves. Documenting the quieter and sometimes deeper moments of love and light, the exhibition is indulgent in earnestness and sentimentality.

May 13 — July 9, 2022

Curated by Eriko Tsogo and presented in partnership between Denver Film and Union Hall, AURA explores the interdisciplinary territory of art and technology – presenting a mix of traditional and experimental art forms that challenge the possibilities of creative innovation.

March 31 — April 23, 2022

Curated by Nate Craig, the makers, artists, and artisans place themselves, their story, and personhood so intimately into their craft that it is impossible to separate the maker from object.

February 24 — March 19, 2022

Curated by Brook Vann and A Grix, Virga is a collaborative curatorial project based on a relationship between selected artists’ work and the meteorological phenomena of the Virga Cloud.

January 20 — February 12, 2022

Curated by Amy Hoagland, Perception Shift investigates how different materials — projected light, shadow, ceramic, graphite, glass, and metal — can work alongside each other to shift the viewer’s way of seeing.

November 18, 2021 — January 8, 2022

Voices of the Desert is Denver-based artist Cherish Marquez’s first solo exhibition presents a series of videos, animations, augmented reality filters, still images and installations exploring environmental justice, mysticism, and healing from generational trauma.

September 9 — November 6, 2021

Chain Letter is a group exhibition co-curated by artist Alexander Richard Wilson and Ari Myers. Chain Letter comes as an effort at correlating the depictions and sensations held in form by a collection of artists connected in age, friendship, and an experience of communal loss.

July 29 — August 28, 2021

The first exhibition focusing on the multidisciplinary project They Rage, organized by photographer Summer Taylor and facilitator Shammai Mading. MATTER IS MINIMUM includes images and audio made during the summer of 2020, when They Rage conducted a series of interviews with black and brown women and non-binary people in Denver, providing space for the expression of of their anger.

May 14 — July 10, 2021

Loving You is a solo exhibition featuring the photographic work and performance art of MaryV, a 23-year-old artist based in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition consists of analog photography from two ongoing bodies of work that document the transitions of Kia Lopez (she/her), MaryV’s childhood friend; and Chella Man (he/him), her partner of over four years.

April 1 — April 24, 2021

Curated by Kiah Butcher, Object Empathy features three Colorado-based artists whose work explores and reimagines sentimentality through intimate and personal practices. Alongside their artworks, personal effects are displayed as ‘human artifacts’ building a bridge between empathy and objectivity.

February 25 — March 20, 2021

In conjunction with Denver’s Month of Photography celebration in March 2021, co-curators Genevieve Waller and Mary Grace Bernard present an exhibition of photography, collage and film works by six local artists. Referring to the well-known phrase of the evil stepmother in the Brothers Grimm version of Snow White, the exhibition title conjures ideas of representation, magic, power and narrative.

January 21 — February 13, 2021

Curated by Alli Lemon, the works included in Exclamation Point. explore play, joy, rigor, and what it means to make a “painting” in 2021.

October 22 — January 9, 2021

Curated by Erin Espelie, the artists here work to illuminate indiscernible thresholds, subtle rhythms of horizons, watermarks of catastrophe. Our fortunes, our fates, our borders, our bodies are all co-terminous.

February 26 — March 12, 2020

Curated by Robert Martin, this exhibition utilizes the subtle strategies employed for display throughout the canon of religious art; such as hanging work slightly above eye level to evoke awe and spotlighting singular works by centering them independently at the ends of corridors, transforming Union Hall into a cathedral of artistic sanctity.

February 5 — February 20, 2020

NEUwave is a dissertation on motion and emotion, intimacy and peace, connectivity and duality, nurturing and nourishment, self love and self healing. A translation through the lens of poetry, paintings, photography and sound. An introduction to the evolution of the progressive being.

January 15 — January 30, 2020

Curated by George P. Perez, Literally Behind plays with interior space by utilizing absurd placements of artworks to establish a dynamic and exaggerated installation with domestic materials.

August 15 — October 12, 2020

Inspired by Union Hall’s Poems for our Country exhibition held in November 2019, Words for our Country is a community-driven project that takes your words, quotes, stories, anecdotes (and whatever is on your mind!), and turns it into art

November 14, 2019 — January 11, 2020

An exhibition of commissioned artworks featuring artists with a text- or textile-focused practice, based both locally and nationally. Given the prompt “Poems for Our Country,” the artists featured in this exhibition were asked to lend their voices by creating a banner containing a slogan, message, or sentiment for the year to come.

October 25 — November 9, 2019

A two week pop-up exhibition curated by Sarah McCormick, in land, in body presented new works from four Boulder-based artists which explore the threads connecting human and non-human bodies.

September 5 — Ocotober 19, 2019

A fashion-focused exhibition blending the egalitarian approach of streetwear with high-concept editorial photography and immersive presentation methods.

July 12 — August 24, 2019

An exhibition of new works by Denver-based artists, focused on place-based storytelling through sculptural objects.

May 21 — June 29, 2019

Union Hall’s inaugural exhibition, showcasing figural landscape paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Deborah Brown.