Cantor Art Gallery Exhibitions
At Holy Cross, art is woven into the fabric of student life.
Exhibitions are carefully selected to complement our academic programs, sparking new perspectives and conversations that continue beyond the gallery walls.
Current Exhibitions
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Impetus: Visual Arts Faculty 2026
Feb. 3-April 8, 2026
The faculty of the Studio Art program at Holy Cross are fundamental to the student creative experience. In addition to teaching and mentoring, these faculty members maintain a vibrant studio practice outside of the classroom and conduct scholarly research in areas ranging from the environment, feminism, the spectacle of religion, the body, memory, and consumerism. Featuring work by Rachelle Beaudoin, John Carney, Marcus Clarke, Hilary Doyle, Colleen Fitzgerald, Matthew Gamber, Anna McNeary, Victor Pacheco, Cristi Rinklin, and Leslie Schomp.
EVENTS
Opening Reception | Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m. | Cantor Art Gallery
Celebrate with the Studio Art faculty at the opening of this exhibition featuring their recent work. Light refreshments will be provided.
Makers and Mentors: A Studio Faculty Roundtable | Feb. 11, 4 p.m. | Cantor Art Gallery
Senior art majors facilitate a conversation with faculty artists about nurturing the creative process, balancing personal life and professional work, and how to find joy and motivation during career advancement.
Winter Homecoming Concert
Feb. 7, 12 p.m., Cantor Art Gallery
Presented by the Department of Music.
This concert explores the complex themes of memory, political resistance, and the formation of identity through place and experience. Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata, a classical example of a composer writing music grappling with the political environment of his time, is paired with a selection from his student, Galina Ustvolskaya’s “Grand Duet,” a work that challenges the normative compositional and musical boundaries of her time.
- Julianna Stratton, cello
- Robert Gardner, piano
Conversations on Contemporary Art and Faith: Marcus Clarke and Peter Fritz
Monday, March 16, 12 p.m. | Cantor Art Gallery
Exhibiting artist Marcus Clarke is joined by Professor Peter Fritz of the Religious Studies department to discuss the intersections of contemporary art, religion, and theology in society today.
Currently on view in Impetus: Visual Arts Faculty 2026, Clarke’s work explores the challenge of creating art that explores religion today, balancing belief, sentimentality, and criticism. Focusing on American Christianity and its varied forms, including Pentecostal worship, megachurch aesthetics, and Catholic devotional traditions, Clarke investigates the spectacle and theatricality of religious rituals.
Treadmill of Information: Art, Influencers and Wellness Culture
Wednesday, March 18, 12pm | Cantor Art Gallery
Join Professor Rachelle Beaudoin, Liz-Drexler Hines, Director of Student Wellness Education, and Jeff Oliver, Head of Olympic Sports Performance, as they discuss Beaudoin’s work in the current exhibition, Impetus. Beaudoin’s work addresses ideas around self-care and wellness, critiquing the online performance of and push towards constant optimization.
Reframing Identity Through Our Histories: Hilary Doyle, Colleen Fitzgerald, and Leslie Schomp
Wednesday, March 25, 12:30pm | Cantor Art Gallery
Hilary Doyle, Colleen Fitzgerald, and Leslie Schomp discuss their work currently on view at the Cantor Art Gallery. Each artist uniquely foregrounds the role of history in examining contemporary society, whether through familial history, historic figures, or cultural heritage traditions. Each mines personal or public archives to consider how we deal with the past to speak to contemporary issues around gender equality, social issues, memory, and the self.
Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, active Berlin, Germany), Mind Touch Touch Touch, 2025, digital print of charcoal drawing
Repetition and iteration define Christine Sun Kim’s work, which distinctly incorporates the visual representation of sign language. This mural was made exclusively for the Cantor’s front window and comes from a body of work that combines text and graphic representations of signs in American Sign Language (ASL). Here, Kim depicts the arc of the hand movement in the sign obsess, which is a compound formed by the signs for mind and touch. Through her practice, Kim foregrounds Deaf culture; explores the relationship between sound, language, and image; and explores the social politics of communication. CLICK HERE for a video of obsess being signed in ASL.
Christine Sun Kim joins the 2025-26 Prior Presents Visiting Artist Series in a February 19 co-presentation with the Holy Cross Department of Visual Arts.
(Image courtesy of the artist, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles and New York, and WHITE SPACE, Beijing.)
Past Exhibitions
The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–1975)
August 26-December 19, 2025
The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War explores the significance of Vietnam’s national costume—the áo dài—during the Vietnam War. Honoring the 50th anniversary of a conflict, the legacies of which continue to haunt us to this day, the exhibition highlights the contributions of Vietnamese women to politics, society, and culture. Artifacts trace the history of the áo dài as a practical item of clothing and important symbol of Vietnamese heritage and identity in Vietnam, among Vietnamese Americans, and on the global stage—thus showing how a national costume can be both traditional and modern fashion with meanings that change over time and space. Co-curated by Professors Ann Marie Leshkowich (Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross), Martina Nguyen (History, Baruch College, City University of New York), and Tuong Vu (Political Science, University of Oregon).
(The Saturday Evening Post cover photo by Burt Glinn © SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing Indianapolis, IN.)
Scenes from The Cantor Art Gallery
"Ritual and Devotion" is Sneha Shrestha's first major solo exhibition which explores the concepts of ritual and devotion beyond the sacred to include the secular.
“Dharma and Punya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal” displays nearly one hundred objects of Buddhist ritual art, many rarely seen in the West.
The work of graduating senior visual arts studio majors showcase their work in "Fine Art: Senior Concentration Seminar Exhibition" from April 26 - May 25, 2018.
An immersive and visually complex exhibition, “Club Disminución” draws upon Horochowski’s versatility as an artist, as she mixes a range of media to create a vibrant installation environment.
From the exhibition “Gabrielle Thierry: The Musicality of the Water Lilies/La Musicalité des Nymphéas” that ran from Aug. 30 through Oct. 7, 2017. Thierry’s series of eight large-scale paintings were inspired by her rediscovery of the “Water Lilies” landscapes by Claude Monet on view at the the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris.
“In Process: Contemporary Photographers Rethinking Their Medium From the Collection of Mark D. Nevins ‘86” presents the work of 22 contemporary photographers who are exploring the medium and technologies of photography in a diversity of ways.
Graduating visual arts students who have participated in the year-long Senior Concentration Seminar present their work in “Amalgam” from April 28 - May 27, 2016.
