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The art of our time is essential. Contemporary artists engage today’s most relevant issues in ways that spark inspiration, challenge assumptions, prompt dialogue, and bring deeper meaning to our lives.

Kemper Museum cares for nearly 1,500 artworks by hundreds of artists are growing Permanent Collection. Each year, eight to ten rotating exhibitions and major projects connect visitors with works from the collection and beyond, with a special focus on emerging, mid-career artists, as well as artists from historically excluded groups.

Julie Blackmon: A Life in Frame

Julie Blackmon, (American, born 1966), Records, 2021, archival pigment print. edition 4 of 7, 44 x 67.5 inches. Collection of Andrea and Steve Morgan. Art and photo © Julie Blackmon.

Established in 2016, the Atrium Project is an annual series of commissioned projects that presents the work of emerging and mid-career Hispanic and Latinx artists. 

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Sarah Zapata: So the roots be known

Artist Sarah Zapata's installation for the 8th Annual Atrium Project

Sarah Zapata: So the roots be known | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Spandita Malik: Jāḷī—Meshes of Resistance

Beyond Ninth Street: Legacies of Women in Abstraction

Chromophobia

Mixed Use Field on Texas Coast

Liver, Bacon, Onions

Learning to Zip

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