Current Exhibitions

Our Exhibitions and Programming:

The Ross Art Museum strives to exhibit diverse, emerging and established artists for our OWU family and community. Exhibits rotate in alignment with the academic calendar. We proudly support the creativity and vitality of the arts in the state of Ohio and beyond.

Every year, our curatorial focus centers on specific issues impacting our students and community. Our goal is to foster discussion, learning, and shared discovery. During the 2026-27 academic year, the Ross Art Museum will include exhibitions examining the complex issues surrounding communication, surveillance, and democracy.

Communication, Surveillance, and Democracy 2026-27

Opening October 15th from 5-7pm

Ardine Nelson: City Center Mall

October 13 - December 18

Columbus's short-lived City Center Mall, open from 1989 to 2009, is the subject of Ardine Nelson's striking photographic series. Before its demolition, the mall was intended to revitalize the downtown urban core but was plagued by challenges almost from the outset. Nelson's photographs explore the limits of capitalist democracy and consumer culture.

Ardine Nelson's Website

City Center Mall 889

by Ardine Nelson

City Center Mall 5346

by Ardine Nelson

City Center Mall 747

bu Ardine Nelson

City Center Mall 1000

by Ardine Nelson

A More Perfect Union

October 13 - April 4

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, we return to the Constitution's call "to form a more perfect Union." What does it mean to be both an individual and part of a collective? How do we balance personal liberty with our responsibilities to one another? Who is included when we say, "We the People"? Featuring work from the Ross Art Museum's permanent collection and invited artists, A More Perfect Union examines efforts to live up to our nation's aspirations and ideals.

Geolocation: Have My Location?

by Larsen/Shindelman

I Am Ame/Rican,

by Juan Sánchez

Family for Black Lives Matter

by Marcus Jackson

Fragment

October 13 - December 18

Fragment is a visual reflection on the scattering of information, the polarization of opinion, the fraying of the social fabric, the erosion of trust, and the fracturing of individual and collective identities. Department of Fine Arts faculty Kristina Bogdanov, Frank Hobbs, and Jeff Nilan offer their perspectives on our current historical moment.