Bowdoin College Museum of Art Will Present Landmark Josefina Auslender Retrospective and Hung Liu’s "Happy and Gay"
Josefina Auslender, Untitled, 1971, graphite; 18 ¼ x 14 ¼ in. © Josefina Auslender. Courtesy of Sarah Bouchard Gallery
This winter, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will present two exhibitions exploring the power of art to interrogate history, memory, and personal experience—all filtered through the lens of immigration. Josefina Auslender: Drawing Myself Free (December 11, 2025–May 31, 2026) is the first museum retrospective devoted to the Argentine-born, Maine-based artist. Focused upon the artist’s decades-long practice in drawing, this exhibition, organized by the BCMA, features more than 90 works, from the 1970s to the present, and engages with Auslender’s evolving styles and themes. Hung Liu: Happy and Gay (January 22 – May 31, 2026) explores how the artist reinterpreted the propaganda of her Chinese childhood, informed by her experience during China’s Cultural Revolution, and her emigration to the United States. The exhibition features ten paintings, as well as a selection of prints, archival materials, and a video.
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