Cartographies of Longing

In the Gallery · September 15 – December 5, 2026. Admission is free.

Works by Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich, Nour Bishouty, Amanda Boulos, Deanna Bowen, Christian Chapman, Meryl McMaster, Arthur Shilling, Travis Shilling & Shellie ZhangCurated by Sandy Saad-Smith

Cartographies of Longing brings together artists whose practices draw upon family histories, oral traditions, and archival fragments to map intergenerational relationships to land. Through painting, photography, film, installation, and mixed media, the artists engage with ancestral memory to reveal histories that are often beyond the limits of official archives.

Throughout the exhibition, past and present unfold simultaneously, shaped by migration, colonialism, environmental transformation, and the enduring legacies of displacement. Rather than presenting land as a fixed geography, the exhibition approaches it as a living archive, continually formed through memory, storytelling, movement, and lived experience.