EXHIBITIONS

Reclaiming Red

Jan 24 to Feb 22 | Northlight Gallery
Reception | Feb 7 | 6 to 8 p.m.

Colors hold symbolism and meanings already established by Western societies. However, for Native and Indigenous people, the symbolisms are diverse and hold different meanings. The color red carries great significance for Indigenous and Native communities. It is a sacred color used to describe our origin stories, sacred land and blessings of fire for warmth, cooking and protection. Reclaiming Red explores the colonial implications of the color redand demonstrates how Indigenous people use it for healing, peace, sacredness, unity and Hózhó (a Diné Bizaad word for balance and harmony).

Participating artists: Tedra Begay (Diné), Jaida Grey Eagle (Oglala Lakota), Tailyr Irvine (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Eugene Tapahe (Diné) and Maya Tinhitiyas Attean, (Wabanaki, Penobscot Nation).

Curated by Erin Tapahe (Diné).

Image: Jaida Grey Eagle, “Always”, 2022.

Gut-Rot

Exhibition by Camila De Andrade Bianchi

February 28 – March 7, 2025

Gut-Rot invites audiences to engage with the regenerative potential of decay and our interconnectedness with one another. This exhibition challenges the mechanistic paradigms that often define modern existence, advocating for a more holistic understanding of humanity rooted in collaboration and care among all life forms. In Gut-Rot, we are invited to embody a rich web of relationships, where decay is not an end but a path to renewal and flourishing.

Tricky Ricky

Exhibition by Richard Pence

April 03 – April 12, 2025

Tricky Ricky is an interactive thesis exhibition by Richard Pence. The exhibition invites the audience to experience the craft of chemical photography first hand, encouraging participants to view photographs not only as windows into that which is shown but as crafted objects whose production speaks to its value. As an educator, Pence seeks to inform and include his audience in explorations of the matter behind the photographic magic. With custom hand made cameras, novel analog printing techniques, and edu-tainment, Tricky Ricky turns the gallery space into a living darkroom.

November 15- November 25, 2024

After Party

This exhibition of expanded photography takes the mythology of the “Party School” as a point of departure.

September 06 - November 01, 2024

Tasvir Exhibition

A Research Exhibition on Contemporary Iranian Image-Based Art

March 29 to April 27, 2024

Healing – Rethinking Gender

An interdisciplinary collaborative exhibition of artists, faculty and graduate students at ASU.

January 19– February 03, 2024

Land, Body & Archive

Land, Body & Archive, an exhibition by Southwest Photo Collaborative

Phoenix Transect

Phoenix Transect features the work of ASU alumni who participated in a multi-year field study with Professor Emeritus Mark Klett.

Nov. 17-Dec. 1, 2023

Meaning Making Machines

Meaning Making Machines celebrates/visualizes the embodiment of the photographic process through the singular practices of a group of student artists.

Sept. 15 – Nov. 4, 2023

Seral Bodies

Northlight Gallery’s forthcoming exhibition Seral Bodies, is curated by Roshii Montaño and Ninabah Winton and will examine the contemporary practice of Indigenous photographers and artists.

Oct 21 - Nov 19, 2022

American Journey

Join us in the gallery for the opening reception of An American Journey Continues, photographs and digital montage by ASU Professor Stephen Marc.

Sept 8 - Oct 8, 2022

Reimagining Earth

Features the works of ASU MFA alumni who explore the experience of the human animal and the non-human creatures that share this Earth.

April 1 – 23, 2022

50 Years of Curating

Northlight Gallery celebrates 50 years with an exhibition featuring the creative works of its curators since its establishment in 1972.

March 4 – April 2, 2022

Circle of Influence

Northlight Gallery and the ASU School of Art will honor Regents Professor Mark Klett for 40 years of service to the university with an exhibition.

Oct 21 – Nov 19, 2021

Naked and The Nude

Naked and The Nude brings together works from the Northlight Gallery Permanent Collection and the Solari Foundation Collection.

Sept 9 – Oct 9, 2021

Memento Mori

Memento Mori: Memento Vivere is an exhibition on death and photography, and will showcase a collection of image-based works.

Jan 21 – Feb 19, 2021

Borders and Boundlessness

Borders and Boundlessness features the photographs of ASU MFA alumni.

September 26 - October 26, 2019

Person Perception

Person Perception Persona features portraits from the Solari Foundation on loan to Northlight Gallery by photographers well known and accepted in the canon of the history of photography.

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