Past Exhibitions

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Tod Papageorge: At the Beach + In the Pool: On Influence

SUMMER 2025 EXHIBITION  Tod Papageorge: At the Beach + In the Pool: On Influence June 26 – October 26, 2025 MoCA\CT…

Banks Violette: American Standard

SPRING 2025 EXHIBITION March 15 – June 15, 2025 MoCA\CT presents American Standard, Banks Violette’s first major solo exhibition since 2008. The exhibition, on view from March 15 to June 15, 2025...

ON FIRE: Energy, Climate, Infrastructure

WINTER 2025 EXHIBITION ON FIRE: Energy, Climate, Infrastructure Westport Public Art Collections January 9 – March 2, 2025 Opening Reception…

ColleCTomania

ColleCTomania June 27 – December 29, 2024 Opening Reception: June 27, 6-8 PM Free for all MoCA\CT members; $10 admission…

Kaleidoscope – Exhibition by Camp MoCA and MoCA Gives Back Participants

Kaleidoscope Exhibition Dates: August 25- September 1, 2024 Opening Reception: Sunday, August 25 from 12:30-2 PM; Admission: Suggested Donation $10…

It Will Go On

March 21 from 6-8 PM: Opening Reception with a Special Performance by Sahmra Sawyer (also known as Supreme Divinity). Free for…

Purvis Young: This is the Life I See

September 15 – December 29, 2023 Art has an incredible power to transcend boundaries, capture emotions, and reflect the world…

Through the Lens of Icons: Revisiting the 1960s

MoCA\CT winter exhibition, Through the Lens of Icons: Revisiting the 1960s, opens on January 18, 2024. The 1960s stand as…

Sixties MOD

MoCA\CT’s winter exhibition, Sixties MOD,  ran from January 18 to March 3, 2024. The show featured selections from the Westport…

Specialized Experiences: Immersive Classes Inspired by Purvis Young

MoCA\CT is thrilled to bring you an immersive artistic experience that transcends conventional boundaries. As we celebrate the incredible work…

Purvis Young: An Urban Visionary

Art has an incredible power to transcend boundaries, capture emotions, and reflect the world we live in. It’s a medium that allows us to connect with the profound stories and unique perspectives of artists from all walks of life. One such artist, Purvis Young, stands out as a visionary of urban expression, and his work […]

The Constant Gardener

Tsao manipulates pure pigment with an alchemist’s instincts in an approach that leaves his work vibrantly colored.

Inner Landscapes

Sao's Inner Landscapes is a collection of large-scale paintings on canvas that showcases the artist's unique approach to creating meditative spaces.

Rainbow In The Dark

Anselm Reyle's best-known works include his foil and strip paintings and his sculptures. Remnants of consumer society, discarded materials, symbols of urbanity, and industrial change play a central role in his works.

Paul Camacho: El Ritmo y La Unidad

Paul Camacho: El Ritmo y La Unidad (Rhythm and Unity) is a monographic exhibition of the late artist’s formal experiments with portraiture, geometric abstraction, and still life.

2023 Annual High School Exhibition

Our annual high school exhibition featuring close to 200 student works from across the region is a stunning display of student creativity and talent.

From The Pen To The Knife

A unique collection of watercolors by the ground-breaking artist Marian Christy.

Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse

Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse was a collaboration with The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The CAMP Gallery)…

Spark

Inspired by the imagination and self expression of our students, Spark is a K-12 showcase of the creative spirit happening in our schools each day.

Punk Is Coming

Punk is Coming also showcases contemporary art influenced by the punk era by Helmut Lang, Richard Prince, Alex Bag, Penny Slinger, Linder Sterling, Tony Hope, and more.

Identity – 2022 High School Exhibition

The 2022 High School Student Art Exhibition IDENTITY features submissions encompassing the memories, experiences, relationships, and values that create one’s sense of self.

The Westport Idea

MoCA Westport and the Westport Arts Advisory Committee (WAAC) announce the opening of The Westport Idea, a new exhibition featuring selected works from the Westport Public Art Collections (WestPAC).

When Caged Birds Sing

When Caged Birds Sing features eight life-size sculptures representing current women’s rights activists who suffered and survived abuse because of their gender, and who continue to advocate for the rights of others at risk.

Élan Vital

Élan Vital features the eleven artists selected for our first Summer Open Call, curated by Max Teicher and Emily White.

SMASH

Presented in both grandiose and intimate scales and settings throughout our galleries, Minter’s videos are exhibited together for the first time in a public institution.

Hindsight is 2020

The Hindsight is 2020 High School Student Art Exhibition features submissions created during the year 2020, illustrating a diverse portrait of what young people experienced during these challenging and unique times.

World Peace

Curated to appear together for the first time, the works in World Peace reflect the culture of identity, and the divided and fractured political climate of America’s past and present.

Helmut Lang

MoCA Westport is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Helmut Lang, curated by Todd von Ammon, on view to the public through September 12, 2020.

MoCA High School Student Art Exhibition 2020

MoCA High School Student Art Exhibition 2020

Yayoi Kusama

We bring together two of celebrated artist Yayoi Kusama’s works that offer two distinct persepectives on the ‘Infinite.’ One more internal, one more external, they both demonstrate how we reflect in the universe around us.

Love Wins

Love Wins features a site-specific mural created by Staples High School student Poppy Livingstone (Westport, CT) and the teens of Westport, in support of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

Unfit For Print

Unfit For Print is a dual exhibition featuring the selected works of Noah Fox and Patrick Perry.

Between the Ground and the Sky

MoCA Westport and the Westport Farmers’ Market (WFM) announce a new collaboration culminating in an exhibition entitled Between the Ground and the Sky on view August 27 – October 17, 2021. 

5th Annual High School Art Exhibition | Project Space

AWARDS CEREMONY   Fri. April 26  |  6-7:30pm Students throughout the region submitted original works of art showcasing their creativity and artistic talent, and have an opportunity to compete for several distinguished awards for young artists. Westport Arts Center is pleased to announce the following 2019 awardees: Sontag Award Juror’s selection for best in show $500 […]

Tête-à-Tête | Partner Program

Features artists that reimagine and reinvent the Victorian-era conversation bench–also known as a tête-à-tête, courting bench, conversation bench, kissing bench and gossip’s chair.

Fractured

Spencer Platt Curated by Kenneth Baker On view January 11 – March 2, 2019 Opening Reception: January 11, 6-8PM Curated by world-renowned art critic Kenneth Baker, this first solo exhibition of award-winning photographer and Westport native Spencer Platt, presents the photojournalist’s work in a fine art space and context, allowing the viewer to question meaning, […]

Paradise

On view September 14 – December 1, 2018 Curated by Todd von Ammon PARADISE embodies the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch wherein human activity is the dominant influence over the climate and the natural environment. Each artwork examines some aspect of how contemporary culture both influences and is influenced by the natural environment since the 1980s. […]

SELECTS 2018

SELECTS 2018 is the twelfth annual summer member artist exhibition at Westport Arts Center. The exhibition is on view June 22 – August 24, 2018. The exhibition is juried by Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson of Pierogi Gallery (NYC), arguably known as one of the most prominent established galleries dedicated to emerging artists. Joe Amrhein […]

Fourth Annual High School Student Art Exhibition

In its fourth year, the exhibition (on view March 23 – June 2, 2018) was juried by esteemed art historian Elizabeth Gorayeb, Executive Director of the world-renowned Wildenstein Plattner Institute. She also served as the curator for the Arts Center’s Spring Exhibition, Handmade: Women Reshaping Contemporary Art. Staples High School senior Lilianna Giaume of Westport, […]

Handmade: Women Reshaping Contemporary Art

The Westport Arts Center presented Handmade: Women Reshaping Contemporary Art from March 23 – June 2, 2018. The exhibition was curated by Elizabeth Gorayeb, Executive Director of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., a non-profit art historical research foundation based in New York. For nearly two decades, Gorayeb has specialized in art historical research on the […]

What Keeps Mankind Alive / The Last Library

Ward Shelley’s What Keeps Mankind Alive featured a selected group of diagrammatic paintings that tease out narratives from history and culture. The paintings were presented within the context of The Last Library, an ongoing collaboration between Shelley and artist Douglas Paulson. The Last Library featured a room-sized installation of bookcases and 3,000 books that according to Shelley, “should have […]

Vivian Maier – A Lifetime of Photographs

©Estate of Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. The Westport Arts Center presented Vivian Maier – a Lifetime of Photographs from September 15 to November 10, 2017. The exhibition featured over seventy color and black & white photos taken by the secretive nanny-photographer during her lifetime. The opening reception for the exhibition […]

Leonard Everett Fisher: A Retrospective

The Westport Arts Center’s  “Leonard Everett Fisher: A Retrospective” exhibition featuring one of Westport’s most revered practicing artists ran from March 27 – April 25, 2015. The collection reflected Fisher’s ability to blur the lines between design, illustration and art, and reveals the long-lasting impact that Fisher has made in his lifetime.  The Westport Arts […]

Main Street to Madison Avenue

April 21 – June 23 Our celebration of the 1950s and 1960s continued with our Spring 2017 exhibition, Main Street to Madison Avenue. The exhibition highlighted many of the most significant illustrators, photographers and designers that lived and worked in Westport in the 50’s-70’s, and who left an indelible mark on contemporary art and culture through their […]

Third Annual High School Student Exhibition

April 21 – June 30 Simultaneous with Main Street to Madison Avenue, the third annual High School Student Exhibition opened on April 21.  High School students throughout Fairfield County were invited to submit original works of art showcasing their creativity and artistic talent for the Exhibition. The exhibiting art work and award recipients were selected by distinguished artists Ann […]

More Than Words: As We Are

An art collaboration led by artist Pamela Hovland with the broader community of Westport, the As We Are! full gallery installation presented a local perspective on identity and stereotype that people of all demographics encounter daily. Opening on Friday, January 27 at the Westport Arts Center, the exhibition featured portraits of students, community leaders, business […]

MORE Than Words / #iammore

The MORE Than Words/#iammore exhibition featured works created in support of the theme of the Arts Center’s previous exhibition MORE Than Words – courage, resilience and empowerment in the face of bullying – featuring pieces by some of the most important contemporary artists of our time. The MORE Than Words/#iammore exhibition was on view November […]

More Than Words

The Westport Arts Center’s fall 2016 exhibition and related community programming, was entitled MORE Than Words – courage, resilience and empowerment in the face of bullying. The MORE Than Words exhibition examined the topic of bullying within a broad cultural context that considers how perceived imbalances of social, physical, or political power can be abused […]

SOLOS 2016

Juried by Douglas Hyland, Former Director of the New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA) in New Britain, CT, SOLOS 2016 was on view from June 24 – August 20, 2016.  SOLOS 2016 was generously sponsored by Cohen & Wolf, P.C. In its tenth year, SOLOS is a celebration of the artistic talent and diversity of the Arts Center’s artist members. […]

Two Steps Forward: Contemporary Cuban Art

Featured image above: Franklin Alvarez’s Shortcut II, watercolor on paper, 2015. Two Steps Forward: Contemporary Cuban Art was an exhibition featuring a diverse and compelling range of works by emerging and established Cuban artists, on display April 29 – June 4, 2016. Two Steps Forward: Contemporary Cuban Art included a significant collection of contemporary Cuban art from the […]

NOIR

The Westport Arts Center’s NOIR exhibition featured the works of renowned Westport artist Ann Chernow. The exhibition was on view March 18 – April 23. The exhibition included 43 paintings, drawings, lithographs, and etchings, some of which were completed in 2016 and were never before been seen by the public. Chernow is best known for her portrait-style illustrations that evoke […]

2nd Annual High School Student Exhibition

The second annual high school student exhibition was on view March 18 – April 23. As part of the competition, Staples High School eleventh-grade student Sebastian Avila was chosen as the recipient of the 2016 Tracy Sugarman Award for his work “Dream On,” a charcoal and wax pastel drawing. The competition was generously sponsored by […]

Enid Munroe: Artist & Alchemist

The Enid Munroe: Artist & Alchemist exhibition was on view at the Westport Arts Center from January 22 through February 27, 2016. Enid Munroe has been a successful exhibiting artist for 50 years best known for her landscape paintings and portraits.  The Artist & Alchemist exhibition showcased Munroe’s works beyond her traditional domain of painting, […]

Eric Fischl; Photographs and Paintings

The Westport Arts Center hosted an exhibition of photographs and paintings by the renowned artist Eric Fischl July 10 – September 15, 2015.  Fischl is considered one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The showcased works were a unique aggregation of Fischl’s early photographs and paintings from […]

Edward Burtynsky: Nature Speaks

On September 19, 2014, the Westport Arts Center opened Edward Burtynsky: Nature Speaks an exhibition that included large-format color photographs by world-renowned Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky, who has achieved international recognition for his photographs of industrial landscapes around the world. He has devoted over 30 years to photographing some of the world’s largest industrial operations—places […]

Chuck Close: About Face

The Westport Arts Center’s exhibition Chuck Close: About Face (Nov 2013 – Jan 2014) brought together the internationally renowned works of Chuck Close with local experiences of Westport residents in a singular and memorable exhibition. Previous Visual Arts Director Helen Klisser integrated together silkscreens, woodcuts, linocuts, etchings, relief prints, color Polaroids, and charcoal drawing from […]