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Stan Douglas | Hors-champs

February 13 - August 24, 2025

Stan Douglas (b. 1960, Vancouver, Canada) works in photography, film, installation, and interactive augmented reality. Within his practice, he investigates the context of history, considers alternative narratives, and examines the intersection between race, class, and power. He gained international acclaim in 1992, when he premiered his first multichannel video installation, Hors-champs, at Documenta.

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Radical Histories: Chicanx Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

February 6 - June 8, 2025

Since the 1960s, Chicanx artists have used graphic arts to educate and agitate, presenting a vast array of political and social themes designed to challenge the status quo. Their artworks are declarations of political advocacy, cross-cultural solidarity, and an effort to reclaim the past. Radical Histories: Chicanx Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum features 60 prints drawn from SAAM’s leading collection of Latinx art. It focuses on artists creating visual counter-histories—from ancient to contemporary times—that defy notions of American exceptionalism, heteronormativity, whiteness, and borders.

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Square + Triangle: Home in the Colby Museum's Collection

December 6, 2024 - April 21, 2025

This exhibition offers varied perspectives on home, domesticity, and placemaking. It includes artworks that examine our relationships with physical places—the buildings and landscapes we inherit—as well as the emotional resonances that form as we personalize where we live and how we share space.

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Into the Wind: American Weathervanes

November 9, 2024 - June 8, 2025

Featuring promised gifts to the museum from a distinguished private collection in Maine, and accompanied by an arrangement of folk art and folk-art-inspired works from the Colby Museum’s collection, Into the Wind dives into the history of American weathervanes, exploring their symbolism, use, manufacture, and trade in the northeastern United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Some American Stories

September 26, 2024 - September 26, 2026

Some American Stories is a thematic presentation of works from the Colby collection in the museum’s Lunder Wing that leads visitors on a journey from before the founding of the United States to the present day. Each gallery represents a different topic within the broader narrative of American art and history, reflecting a great diversity of experiences.

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Alex Katz: Repetitions

March 31, 2023 - March 29, 2026

Alex Katz transforms the people and places that comprise his two homes—New York City and Lincolnville, Maine—into powerful images that reflect his enchantment with modern life and his dedication to painting. This installation of the Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz highlights different strategies of repetition in Katz’s art, focusing on four words that describe this defining aspect of his artistic practice: reflection, recurrence, reduplication, and re-creation.

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