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The Gund at Kenyon College

The Gund is a teaching museum that connects people with art and artists, new ideas, and each other.

We believe in expanding the museum's role as a nexus of connection, critical learning, and collective imagination. Our growing collection of more than 450 modern and contemporary works spans a range of mediums, narratives, and voices. Through high-quality exhibitions and programming within and beyond our campus, we invite a deeper understanding of ourselves and our society among Kenyon students an

d the broader community. Along with the Kenyon Review and Kenyon’s Philander Chase Conservancy land trust, The Gund champions the power of art as an agent of change and the college’s vital role in stewarding our local environment as a place to learn, live and grow together.

04/13/2026

This Thursday, we invite you to hear a distinguished panel of scholars draw from the themes of La Vaughn Belle’s work in the exhibition Liberating Light, currently on view at The Gund, which centers the Black female body as a site of historical migration, trauma, and resilience. Panelists include Barbara Abadía Rexach, San Francisco State University; Ana-Hilda Figueroa de Jesús, independent curator; Irene López, Kenyon College; and Noralis Rodriguez-Coss, Gonzaga University; moderated by Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Practices and Scholarly Engagements at The Gund, Dr. Diana Flatto.

Liberating Light and its correlating programs are sponsored in part by the Art Bridges Foundation.

Image Credit: La Vaughn Belle, "Por El Viento Y La Corriente (Becoming Wind and Current)," 2023, video, 4:31 minutes. Collection Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico Artistic Commission, MAC en el Barrio, 2022

04/09/2026

Join us for a special artist conversation with Kenyon alumna, Emily Kraus '17 and Daisy Desrosiers, Director & Chief Curator for The Gund. Together, they will discuss Kraus’s evolving artistic practice and her recent exhibition in NYC at Luhring Augustine, In Relation.

This event will take place in the Community Foundation Thater at The Gund.

Kraus's exhibition, In Relation, will be on view at Luhring Augustine Tribeca from April 11 – June 13, 2026.

Photo credit: Julia Bennett

04/06/2026

Join us tonight as Columbus-based artist and 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, Dionne Lee, comes to Kenyon to share about her artistic practice as well as the ideas and materials that shaped Drafts (2016), a recent addition to The Gund’s permanent collection.

Dionne Lee works in photography, collage, and video to examine power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American landscape. Through analog photography, her practice challenges the historical narratives that exist within photographic representations of land and place. Her silver gelatin collages explore American soil as a site of trauma and source of resilience, considering its relevance to both the contemporary landscape and the body, while fragmented imagery in her collages guides narratives tied to memory, emotion, and place. These works engage with social history and climate change while interrogating the limits of human control and intertwine complex associations with ownership, belonging, and visitorship.

04/04/2026

🌷Holiday Break at The Gund🌷

The Gund will be closed on April 5, 2026 and will reopen with normal hours on April 8.

We look forward to welcoming you back on Monday, April 6, for an artist talk with Dionne Lee in the Community Foundation Theater.

Credit Line: Todd McKie, Portrait of Heaven, 1973, watercolor on paper. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund ’63. 2020.4.11

03/26/2026

Careers in the Arts returns for its third year—by popular demand.

In partnership with Kenyon’s Career Development Office, this program brings together five Kenyon alumni whose paths reflect the many roles that sustain the art world today. Open to students of all majors, the conversation highlights how a passion for art can translate into diverse careers.

✨ Meet the speakers:

• Kate Aufses ’08 – Art lawyer at Freedman Normand Friedland LLP specializing in restitution of artworks misappropriated during the Holocaust; former Associate General Counsel at NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs.

• Jessica Gomez Ferrer ’17 – Program Manager at United States Artists and a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and writer working across books, textiles, ceramics, and animation.

• Sabrina Parker Greene ’18 – Grant writer in the Development Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, supporting foundation and government funding for the museum.

• Fritz Horstman ’01 – Artist, curator, and Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation; author of Interacting with Color (Yale University Press, 2024).

• Greg Nosan ’90 – Museum leader with more than two decades of experience, most recently Vice President of Publishing and Interpretation at the Art Institute of Chicago.

• Kate Aufses ’08 – Art lawyer at Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, specializing in restitution of artworks misappropriated during the Holocaust; former Associate General Counsel at NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs.

For the day's full itinerary, please visit www.thegund.org/events/career-in-the-arts-day-2

03/24/2026

How do exhibitions take shape—from global biennials to academic museums?

Join Daisy Desrosiers, Director & Chief Curator of The Gund, and Katherine Calvin, Assistant Professor of Art History at Kenyon College, for a conversation exploring curatorial practice across institutional and global contexts.

Drawing from Desrosiers’s role as Co-Curator of the 15th Shanghai Biennale and her work at The Gund, the discussion will examine how exhibitions operate at different scales—and how each framework shapes artistic production, public engagement, and intellectual discourse.

We hope to see you there!

03/16/2026

Join us for a special artist conversation with Sofía Táboas and curator Dr. Jodi Kovach, who organized the artist’s latest exhibition, A Sensible Place.

Together, they will discuss Táboas’s practice and offer a behind-the-scenes look at how the exhibition came together—from the conceptual development of the project to its presentation in the galleries at The Gund. This will be a rare opportunity to experience the work while hearing directly from the artist and curator.

This conversation will take place in the Buchwald–Wright Gallery, 4:15-5:30 PM.

✨ Seating is limited.

03/12/2026

Pivot moves you—even before you move around it.

In the latest issue of The New Yorker, a story about the art-world riggers who install monumental sculptures reminds us how much choreography goes into bringing works like Richard Serra’s Pivot to life. Designed specifically for the West Quad at Kenyon, the sculpture’s towering steel plates—each weighing tens of tons—had to be lifted and set with extraordinary precision.

Serra’s work is never just an object; it’s an experience. As you walk through Pivot, the shifting planes of steel reshape the space around you, asking you to slow down, turn, and reconsider how your body moves through the landscape. Minimalist sculpture at this scale transforms perception itself.

Installed in 2021, Pivot is one of only a small number of Serra tower sculptures worldwide and stands as a landmark on Kenyon’s campus—visible from Middle Path, the Gund, and beyond.

We’re grateful to the incredible Graham Gund '63 H'81 and his wife Ann, for their vision and generosity in bringing Serra’s work to Kenyon and helping shape the landscape of art on campus.

Next time you pass through the West Quad, take a moment to « pivot » with it.

01/22/2026

✨ The exhibitions are officially OPEN at The Gund! ✨

Join us next Tuesday, January 27, from 4–6 pm for our Opening Celebration, featuring guided tours of the exhibitions led by members of our team and our Gund Associates at 5 pm.

We’re excited to share a preview of our Gund Associates in the Curatorial Research Group putting the final touches on their exhibition honoring the life and legacy of our founder, Graham Gund ‘63 H’81 —celebrating his life and lasting contributions to art, education, and architecture.

📅 Mark your calendar and join us next week—we can’t wait to welcome you!

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01/12/2026

Behind every exhibition is a beautiful (and well-orchestrated) mess.

Sketches taped to walls, some last-minute changes, crates everywhere, conversations overlapping.

The chaos isn’t a problem and it is very organized in its own logic — it’s the pulse of the work. It’s where ideas collide, where exhibitions find their true form, and where collaboration becomes visible.

This messy, demanding, exhilarating process is exactly why working in museums continues to inspire us. Take a look behind the installation of our solo project with painter Vivan Suter. ✨

This exhibition will be on view from January 22 - May 31, 2026.

10/16/2025

✨ We’re thrilled to see our current exhibitions reviewed in Collective Arts Network Cleveland !

Madalyn Fox observes:
“Though the five shows on view through Dec. 14 may seem disparate at first, a connective tissue emerges: a meditation on how art not only reflects but enacts care—binding together communities, histories, and futures.”

Come see for yourself. Link in bio!

📷 Image by Luke Stettner.

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Kenyon College, 101 1/2 College Drive
Gambier, OH
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Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 7pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

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