Past Exhibitions

The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art features innovative exhibitions that showcase new perspectives and trends in contemporary art. Located in stunning galleries in our landmark Porteous Building, the ICA at MECA presents cutting edge work by local, national, and international artists.

2020

ACOUSTIC RESONANCE: October 2 – December 11, 2020
Straight Lines in Four Directions For Social Distancing (after Sol LeWitt): Yumi Janairo Roth: August 2020
Some Things We Can Do Together: Megan and Murray McMillan: July 8 – September 12, 2020
...to unravel the bind: Maine College of Art 2020 Faculty Triennial: January 17 – March 1, 2020
Jan Piribeck: The Qajaq Journey: December 17, 2019 – January 13, 2020

2019

DesignInquiry: Futurespective: October 4 - December 14, 2019
Darkness and the Light: July 12 - September 20, 2019
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 10 - June 8, 2019
Parasitic Honeyshoes | Visual Tensions | Letting Yourself Go: April 5 - 26, 2019
Drawing Now: January 17 - March 22, 2019

2018

Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways: October 5 - December 14, 2018
Curious Nature: 2018 Alumni Triennial: August 3 - September 15, 2018
Tim Bavington: Rock & Roll Abstraction (Bob Crewe Gallery): July 13 - October 19, 2018
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 11 - June 8, 2018
You Never Know How You Look Through Other People's Eyes: March 8 - April 20, 2018
Off the Wall: January 17–February 23, 2018

2017

Confabulations of Millennia: October 6 - December 8, 2017
American Genre: Contemporary Painting: July 20 – September 15, 2017
2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 12 - June 9, 2017
VRAGE: April 26 - 28, 2017
UNLOADED: March 16 - April 14, 2017
Collective Actions II: February 1–March 3, 2017

2016

Anguish: The Grave Misgivings of Remembrance: October 28, 2016 - January 14, 2017
In This Realm: October 6–21, 2016
Bounty: August 24–September 29, 2016
Made in LA: July 1— Sunday, July 31, 2016
Ann Hirsch: Sharing Love: July 1—August 12, 2016
Ceramics Pop-up Shop: June 9—June 19, 2016
Brothers, Some Good Times, and The Last Huraa: June 3–June 5, 2016
2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 6–May 27, 2016
Collective Actions: April 1–April, 2016
MECA Through & Through: March 23, 2016
Tinderbox: January 11–March 5, 2016

2015

Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah: January 21–April 5, 2015
East to East: June 5–July 3, 2015
The Sound Closet
Thomas Moser Legacy in Wood: July 22–September 20, 2015
Innocent Production: September 28–October 5, 2015
Residual Utopia, Alumni Biennial 2015: October 9–December 15, 2015
Fantastical Reality: December 21, 2015–January 3, 2016
We Are What We Hide: June 2013—June 2016

2014

Project _: August 21–October 12, 2014
The Wrong Kind of Bars: August 21–October 12, 2014
Rehearsal Space: Dance and Conversation: June 11–August 3, 2014
2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 9–June 1, 2014
Bryan Graf: Moving Across the Interior: January 22–April 6, 2014
Idea of North: February 22, 2014

2013

2013 Maine College of Art Faculty Exhibition: November 7–December 22, 2013
Allan Kaprow: How To Make A Happening: November 7–December 22, 2013
Ardor: 2013 Alumni Biennial Juried Exhibition: August 24–October 13, 2013
Kate Gilmore: Mind the Square: June 3–August 4, 2013
Alex Da Corte: Fun Sponge: June 3–August 4, 2013
Dan DenDanto and Frank DenDanto: Bump: January 23–April 7, 2013
Ander Mikalson: A Score for Two Dinosaurs: January 23–April 7, 2013
The Peninsula School: January 23–April 7, 2013

2012

The World Over: 2012 MECA Faculty Exhibition: November 7–December 22, 2012
MEGAWORDS: August 16–October 6, 2012
Lisi Raskin + Kimberely Kay: MotorPark: June 13–October 6, 2012
Bridgman & Packer: October 5–6th, 2012
The Art Department: Lazer Hotel: June 13–August 5, 2012
Francis Cape: Utopian Benches: June 13–August 5, 2012
2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 10–June 2, 2012
Consumption: April 17–19, 2012
Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968–1974: January 25–April 8, 2012
Michael Bell-Smith: January 25–April 8, 2012

2011

A Perpetual Present: 2011 MECA Faculty Selects Exhibition: November 16–December 23, 2011
Time-Lag Records: Listening Room: October 12–26, 2011
Miguel Calderón: Inverted Star / Poseídos: October 12–26, 2011
Rally: 2011 Maine College of Art Alumni Exhibition: August 24–October 9, 2011
Speak More Clearly: August 24–October 9, 2011
Drawn to Disaster: June 22–August 7, 2011
Project Space Videos: June 22–Sunday, August 7, 2011
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 14–June 12, 2011
Lili Reynaud-Dewar: Cléda's Chairs: April 26–29, 2011
FOREST: April 19–23, 2011
Fracturing the Burning Glass: Between Mirror and Meaning: January 26–April 10 , 2011
ICA Collaboration with the Portland Pirates: March 1–6, 2011

2010

2010 Faculty Exhibition: Vivaria Particula: November 17, 2010–January 9, 2011
Mind Bending with the Mundane: September 1–October 17, 2010
A Meticulous Ferment: June 23–August 15, 2010
MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 7–June 6, 2010
Exchange: January 20–April 11, 2010

2009

Archaeology Above Ground: November 18–December 20, 2009
aggregate: September 2–October 18, 2009
Magnify: June 24–August 16, 2009
2009 MFA Thesis: May 9–June 7, 2009
Manifold: March 25–April 24, 2009
Twilight: January 21–March 8, 2009

2008

Out There: The Mediated Landscape: November 19–December 21, 2008
Ruminant: August 27–October 19, 2008
Send: Conversations in Evolving Media: June 11–August 10, 2008
2008 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 10–24, 2008
2008 Senior Index Exhibition: April 2–April 27, 2008
2008 Winter Exhibition Series: January 25–March 16, 2008

2007

intervals: MFA Alumni Exhibtion: October 12–27, 2007
Maine College of Art 33rd Annual Art Auction: November 9, 2007
Anthromorph Alumni Exhibition: August 29–October 7, 2007
Corridor at Sea: The Performative Object: June 15–August 19, 2007
Maine College of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 12–25, 2007
BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition: May 12–29, 2007

2006

Robert Indiana & MECA Prints
From Baja to Bar Harbor: Transnational Contemporary Art
The Body Eclectic: Selections from the RBC Dain Rauscher Collection
2006 Faculty Exhibition

2005

Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculptures and Shaker Classics
2005 MFA in Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition
2005 Senior Thesis Index
Back From Nature: The Sportsman Redux
2005 Maine College of Art Faculty Exhibition
2005 Regional Scholastic Art Awards

2004

Living Green: Examining Sustainability
MECA Art Auction
Wenda Gu: Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium
2004 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
Curators' Intuition
2004 Maine College of Art Faculty Exhibition
2004 Regional Scholastic Art Awards

2003

MECA Alumni Exhibition
Art Auction
Skowhegan Faculty 2002-03
Senior Thesis Exhibition 2003
Sebastiao Salgado: Migrations-Humanity in Transition
2003 Scholastic Art Awards
2003 Maine College of Art Faculty Exhibition

2002

MECA Art Auction
William Pope.L: eRacism
Playground
2002 Senior Thesis Exhibition
Terrain: Sculpture Today
2002 Maine College of Art Faculty Exhibition
2002 Scholastic Art Awards

2001

Maine Contemporary Furniture
MECA Art Auction
Two Photographers
2001 Maine College of Art MFA Faculty Exhibition
Katarina Weslien, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ulf Rolloff
Domestic Culture: home in visual culture
2001 Maine College of Art Faculty Exhibition
DAY WITH(OUT) Art

2000 & Previous

2000

MECA Art Auction
Translation/Seduction/Displacement
Robert Farber: A Retrospective, 1984–1995
Senior Thesis Exhibition 2000
Beyond Decorum: The Photography of Iké Udé
Scholastic Art Awards
Congressional Art Awards
2000 Maine College of Art Faculty Exhibition

1999

Rez Williams: Steel Walls and Waterlines
Eva Marco
The Art of Reading : Books and Non-Books
From the Centre to the Edge
Maine College of Art Alumni Exhibition
Lucy Mitchell: Omnium Gatherum
Senior Thesis Exhibition 1999
1999 Maine College of Art BFA Exhibition
Maine High School Competition
3 Installations
1999 Maine College of Art Faculty Exhibition

1998

Do It
Tonee Harbert, Bradley McCallum,
Martha Rosler Lesley Dill, Judy LaBrasco, Susie Brandt
1998 Senior Thesis Exhibition
1998 Maine College of Art BFA Exhibition
Maine High School Competition
David Thomas, Tom Friedman, Lucy White
1998 Maine College of Art Faculty
Uta Barth, Nancy Chunn, Anthony Caro
Zeke Berman, Harvey Quaytman,
Deborah Oropallo
Quiet in the Land
David Ireland
Flow Thru Out by Mierle Laderman Ukeles