We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website that showcases the Renaissance Society’s exhibition, event, and publishing activity both past and present. We’ve worked with Project Projects, a New York-based design firm, to develop a site that we hope is a resource for those interested in learning more about our program, researching our history, or planning a visit.
The website is one...
If you’re on our mailing list, you’ll soon be receiving our Centennial program booklet, the first piece of print in our new visual identity designed by New York-based Project Projects, winner of the Cooper Hewitt’s 2015 National Design Award for Communication Design.
We’re also hard at work on a new website, which we’re excited to share with you in early September. Check back then, or sign up...
Cover of The New World 2, Travels in Turtle Island
Just arrived: the second of our two Josef Strau publications, The New World 2, Travels in Turtle Island. This volume features texts by Jay Sanders, Bernadette Van-Huy, Stefan Tcherepnin, Antek Walczak, Fernando Mesta, José Rojas, Solveig Øvstebø, and Josef Strau, plus full color images documenting the exhibition.
Visit our online bookshop to purchase it for $35, or with The New World 1,...
1915 invitation to the first public meeting of the Renaissance Society. Courtesy the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
A hundred years ago today, on June 3, 1915, University of Chicago faculty members met to establish “a society to stimulate the love of the beautiful and to enrich the life of the community through the cultivation of the arts.”
Little did they know that the institution would go on to become one of the leading international platforms for contemporary art. We hosted one of the first exhibitions...
Case containing VHS documentation of Pierre Huyghe’s 2000 Renaissance Society exhibition, The Third Memory
This year the Renaissance Society reaches our 100th anniversary. What began in 1915 as a group of University of Chicago academics has since grown into a rigorous platform for risk-taking, boundary-pushing contemporary art. The original intentions of the Renaissance Society still ring true: to present art that engages with key questions of our times, to support ambitious artistic...
Susanne Ghez
The staff and board of the Renaissance Society warmly congratulate Susanne Ghez, the Ren’s former Executive Director and Chief Curator, on her recognition by the Venice Biennale. She will receive a Special Golden Lion for Services to the Arts on Saturday May 9 during the awards ceremony and inauguration of the 56th Exhibition.
In awarding Ghez the Special Golden Lion, the Board of Directors...
We’re delighted to offer this special edition poster created by Mathias Poledna on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society.
The 18 x 24 inch posters have been produced in an edition of 100, with each signed by the artist. They are available for $100 plus shipping.
For more information and to purchase, please visit our online shop.
Hamza Walker, photo by Dawoud Bey
We’re delighted to announce that Hamza Walker, the Ren’s Director of Education and Associate Curator, has been selected as co-curator of Made in L.A. 2016, with Hammer Museum curator Aram Moshayedi.
Made in L.A. 2016 will be the third in an ongoing series of exhibitions focused on artwork created in the Los Angeles region and will be on view June through September 2016. The artist list will...
