Past Exhibitions

The exhibition All Art Is Virtual proposes that all art can provide a virtual reality experience—no special goggles required. The contemporary artworks on view use cutting-edge, creative technologies such as algorithmic content generation, video and LED sculpture, digital murals, augmented reality wallpaper, interactive video and sculpture, and internet-driven animation.

Artists include AES+F, Refik Anadol, Chando Ao, Michael Bell-Smith, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Daniel Canogar, Craig Dorety, Claudia Hart, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Frank Malina, Jean-Claude Marquette, Josiah McElheny, Kent Monkman, Matt Mullican, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Jon Rafman, Kim Rugg, Jason Salavon, Siebren Versteeg, Francisco Sobrino, Josh Tonsfeldt, Theo Triantafyllidis, Universal Everything.

The first floor of Art Vault is dedicated to Networked Nature, an exhibition of Digital & Media artworks from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation that connect with nature’s creative energy.

Artworks on this floor feature artists’ pioneering approaches to artificial intelligence, machine learning, real-time software, custom algorithms, and virtual environments.

Artists include Nancy Burson, Jim Campbell, Daniel Canogar, Guillermo Galindo, Ja’Tovia Gary, John Gerrard, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Gary Hill, Madeline Hollander, Christian Marclay, Bruce Nauman, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Martin Reinhart & Virgil Widrich, Miguel Ángel Rios, Peter Sarkisian, Hiraki Sawa, Elias Sime, Sommerer & Migonneau, Jennifer Steinkamp, Siebren Versteeg.

The second floor of Art Vault is dedicated to Saint Somebody: Technologies of the Divine, bringing together artworks from across the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation’s diverse collections of Digital & Media Art, Contemporary Southwestern, and Art of the Spanish Americas that are rarely exhibited in parallel.

Saint Somebody asks: What does a saint look like? How do their miracles appear? Artists have helped to answer these questions for centuries. The litany of saints is also a history of art.

Artists include José Armijo, Dara Birnbaum, R. Luke DuBois, Carla Gannis, Jean-Pierre Hébert, Desmond Paul Henry, Jason Salavon, Cauleen Smith, Anne Spalter, Bill Viola, Saya Woolfalk, Nancy Burson, and an unidentified artist from 18th-century Cuzco, Peru.