Exhibitions

Summer 2024 Exhibitions and Related Events

Collage image of a black-and-white photograph of a road cut on a flattened mountaintop and a sculpture of rows of red scarves hanging in a U shape.
Explore our exhibitions and related programs now through August.
May 31, 2024 – Aug 31, 2024

Free for all audiences. See individual program pages below for ticketing details.

Engage with multimedia work that focuses on connections between the environment, economics, class, and culture created by two Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipients, Jonas N.T. Becker and Tanya Lukin Linklater. These exhibitions are the largest museum presentation of Becker’s work to date and the first US survey exhibition and largest to date of Lukin Linklater’s work. Expand your experience and learn more about the themes that are central to the artists’ practices throughout the summer with related talks, performances, and gatherings at the Wex.

IMAGE CAPTIONS
From left to right: Jonas N.T. Becker, Better or Equal Use: Coalfield Expressway on the former Bull Creek Mountain, 2020/2024; coal, gelatin, dichromate, and paper, 20 x 24 in; courtesy of the artist. Tanya Lukin Linklater, Held in the air I never fell (spring lightning sweetgrass song), 2022; kohkom scarves, thread, hide, ash, copper, artificial sinew; courtesy of Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver; photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

A tall, semicircular sculpture of fifteen curved wooden ribs on a metal base sits near a video projection depicting two figures reclining on a rock.
Artist Residency
past Exhibitions

Tanya Lukin Linklater: Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather)

Sat, Jun 1, 2024 - Wed, Aug 21, 2024
Multiple Dates/Times Available
Two people walk out of a white gallery space displaying white topographical maps and into a dark gallery with framed photographs.
Artist Residency
past Exhibitions

Jonas N.T. Becker: A Hole is not a Void

Sat, Jun 1, 2024 - Wed, Aug 21, 2024
Multiple Dates/Times Available
Image of a barren mountain with road cuts and a partially flattened top. A holographic projection of a snowy mountain peak is superimposed over it.
past Exhibitions

Jonas N.T. Becker Holographic Mountain (2018)

Mon, May 13, 2024 - Sat, Aug 31, 2024
Multiple Dates/Times Available
Several people smile and applaud as they sit on steps or stand in the background and look to the right at a performance outside the image frame.
past Special Events

Wex Open House 2024

Mon, Aug 19, 2024
Three dancers face away from the camera and gesture with their arms in a gallery. Two stand at left and right, while the third is seated left of center.
Artist Residency
past Performing Arts

Scrape soak steam pour crack sew bend brace.

Tue, Aug 13, 2024 - Sat, Aug 17, 2024
Multiple Dates/Times Available
Gallery view of four freestanding triangular blue sculptures, prints displayed on a riser and the walls, and a hanging, U-shaped, red fabric work.
Artist Residency
past Talks & More

Gathering: Tanya Lukin Linklater

Sun, Aug 18, 2024
A steel pipeline travels along a wall, curves through U- and L-bends, juts out from the wall, and then terminates on a platform that has a pool of oil on it.
now Exhibitions

Nancy Holt: Power Systems

Now through July 27, 2025
Multiple Dates/Times Available

Jonas N.T. Becker’s A Hole is not a Void is organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by former Head of Exhibitions Kelly Kivland and former Curator Lucy I. Zimmerman, with support from Curatorial Assistant Jonathan Gonzalez and Curatorial Intern Madelyn Thompson. Becker’s video Holographic Mountain is curated by Jennifer Lange, director of the Film/Video Studio program at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Tanya Lukin Linklater: Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather) is organized by Kelly Kivland, former head of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts and director and lead curator at Michigan Central, with support from Curatorial Assistant Jonathan Gonzalez.