The Galleries at CSU
Contact Info
Mailing Address
The Galleries at CSU
2121 Euclid Avenue, ART
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Contact Us
Phone: 216-687-2329
galleries@csuohio.edu
Exhibitions Archives
2025 — 2026 Season
54th Annual Student Art Show
April 21 — May 23, 2026
Bostwick Design Partnership Gallery at
2729 Prospect Avenue E., Cleveland, OH, 44115
Past Seasons
2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017
2015-2016 2014-2015 2013-2014 2012-2013 2011-2012 2010-2011 2009-2010 2008-2009
2007-2008 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003 2001-2002 2000-2001
2024 — 2025 Season
53rd Annual Student Art Show and Haddad Merit Scholar Exhibition
April 15 — May 16, 2025
Opening Reception, Thursday, April 17, 2025 5:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m.
Held in partnership with the Bostwick Design Partnership Gallery at 2729 Prospect Avenue E., Cleveland, OH, 44115
2nd Annual Office of the President Exhibition
June 10 — November 22, 2024
Showcasing Student Art
The Department of Art and Design and The Galleries at CSU are excited to announce the 2nd Annual CSU Office of the President Exhibition. This special exhibit features a selection of CSU student artwork, carefully curated by the gallery director and studio art faculty on disply in the office of CSU President Laura Bloomberg.
The collection higlights creativity and talent across a variety of artistic disciplines, offering a beautiful representation of CSU students' work.
2023 – 2024 Season
- 52nd Annual Student Art Show and Merit Scholar Exhibition || April 16 - May 24, 2024
- 2024 Haddad Merit Scholar Exhibitions || April 16 - May 24, 2024
2022 – 2023 Season
- 51st Annual Student Art Show and Merit Scholar Exhibition || April 18 - May 27, 2023
- Beyond Borders: The Art of Siona Benjamin || January 17 - March 25, 2023
- The 24th Robert Thürmer People's Art Show || September 20 - November 26, 2022
- CAN Triennial: You Are Here || July 8 – August 31
2021 – 2022 Season
- 2021 – 2022 Thursday Night Art Talk
- 50th Annual Student Art Show and Merit Scholar Exhibition || Tuesday, April 19 - Saturday, May 28
- Blaque Cleveland || Tuesday, January 18 – Thursday, March 19, 2022
- Best Served Cold || August 24 – October 30
2020 – 2021 Season
- 49th Student Show & Merit Scholar Exhibition || May 4 – June 5
- Here There Be Monsters & Glimpses || February 23 – April 3, 2021
- Ongoing Matter || November 12 – 24, 2020
2019-2020 Season
- CSU Student Art Showcase || Friday, May 1 – Saturday, June 6, 2020
- Timelessvision: Earth, Sea and Sky || Friday, January 31 – Saturday, April 11, 2020
- Faculty Show || Friday, September 13 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
- David Hicks || Friday, September 13 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
- Distinguished Alumni Invitational Show || Friday, September 13 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
2018-2019 Season
- International Video and Animation Exhibition || Friday, March 8 – Saturday, April 26
- Neither East Nor West || Friday, March 8 – Saturday, April 26
- Incurably Atomic || Friday, January 18 – Saturday, February 23
- Angels and Daemons || Friday, January 18 – Saturday, February 23
- The 23rd People's Art Show || Friday, October 26 – Friday, December 7
- Demise || Friday, August 31 – Friday, October 5
- ABC at Ten Years: A Retrospective || Friday, August 31 – Friday, October 5
2017-2018 Season
- 47th Student Show and Merit Scholar Exhibition || Friday, May 4 – Saturday, June 9
- Terminal Tower || Friday, March 9 – Saturday, April 21
- Precipice || Friday, January 19 – Saturday, February 24
- Symbols, Glaciers, and Ghosts || Friday, January 19 – Saturday, February 24
- Digital Passage || Friday, January 19 – Saturday, February 24
- Codes and Identity || Friday, January 19 – Saturday, February 24
- Dark Pronoun || Friday, October 27 – Saturday, December 9
- Candyland || Friday, October 27 – Saturday, December 9
- The Trees of Kinsman || Friday, October 27 – Saturday, December 9
- 3.9644E+7 CM3 of Volumetric Projections || Friday, October 27 – Saturday, December 9
- The Beauty of Losing and Forgetting || Friday, September 1 – Saturday, October 14, 2017
- Harmonic Cycles: Frescoes and Altar Stones || Friday, September 1 – Saturday, October 14, 2017
- Push Right Back || Friday, September 1 – Saturday, October 14, 2017
- Final Boss || Friday, September 1 – Saturday, October 14, 2017
2016-2017 Season
- The 46th Student Show and Merit Scholar Exhibition || Friday, May 5 – Saturday, June 10
- The Curious Case of Color || Friday, March 10 – Saturday, April 15
- Paper Shadows || Friday, January 20 – Saturday, February 25, 2017
- From There to Here || Friday, January 20 – Saturday, February 25, 2017
- Ghosts and Strangers || Friday, January 20 – Saturday, February 25, 2017
- Riparazioni || Friday, January 20 – Saturday, February 25, 2017
- The 22nd People's Art Show || Friday, October 28 – Thursday, December 8
- Sixty Paintings from the Bible || Thursday, September 1 – Saturday, October 8, 2016
- The Book of Judith || Thursday, September 1 – Saturday, October 8, 2016
- The Painted Shul || Thursday, September 1 – Saturday, October 8, 2016
- To Speak Her Heart || Thursday, September 1 – Saturday, October 8, 2016
2015-2016 Season
- 45th Student Show and Merit Scholar Exhibition || May 5, to June 11, 2016
- Empty Gestures || March 10, to April 16, 2016
- Go Figure || March 10, to April 16, 2016
- Tightrope: Walk the Line || March 10, to April 16, 2016
- The Ornamental Impulse: Form, Pattern, and Color || March 10, to April 16, 2016
- CSU Celebrates 150 Years of Eucild Avenue's Greatness || January 16, to February 27, 2016
- I came so far for Beauty || January 16, to February 27, 2016
- A Spirit Resonates: Chinese Art from the Degenfelder Collection || Thursday, October 22 – Saturday, December 5
- A Tradition Re-Interpreted: New Work by Chinese Artists || Thursday, October 22 – Saturday, December 5
- A Spirit Resonates: Chinese Art from the Degenfelder Collection || Thursday, October 22 – Saturday, December 5
- Unending Journeys: The Works of Samuel Butnik || Thursday, August 27 – Saturday, October 3
- Andean Spirit: Past and Present || Thursday, August 27 – Saturday, October 3
2014-2015 Season
- At Home in Africa || August 28 – October 4, 2014
- The 21st People's Art Show || October 30 – December 4, 2014
- Mind Creatures: The Amazing World of Marvin Jones || January 15 – March 7, 2015
- Only Human: Wrestling Entropy || January 15 – March 7, 2015
- Place and Vision: The Artistic Legacy of Masumi Hayashi || January 15 – March 7, 2015
- Merit Scholar Exhibition || March 26 – May 2, 2015
- The 44th Student Show || March 26 – May 2, 2015
- The Art of Autism: Exploring Self-Expression || May 9 & 10, 2015
- Phyllis Seltzer: The Italian Works || May 14 – June 20, 2015
- Travis Kinchy: From the Shadows into Light || May 14 – June 20, 2015
- HeartWorks || May 14 – June 20, 2015
2013-2014 Season
- Graphic Advocacy: International Poster for a Digital Age 2001–2012 || Thursday, May 15 – Saturday, June 21
- 43rd Student Show || Thursday, March 27 – Saturday, May 3
- Merit Exhibitions || Thursday, March 27 – Saturday, May 3
- Analog Immigration || October 25 – December 7, 2013
- Two Minds ... One Canvas: The Collaborative Work of Jo Gelbard and Miles Davis || October 25 – December 7, 2013
- Based on a True Story || August 30 – October 12, 2013
- Truppe Fledermaus and the Carnival at the End of the World ||August 30 – October 12, 2013
2012-2013 Season
- Hold the Wall: Trends in Contemporary Painting || May 17 – June 22, 2013
- Art for Hope || May 17 – June 22, 2013
- The 42nd Student Art Show and Merit Scholarship Exhibitions || March 29 – May 4, 2013
- Animatopoeia: A Most Peculliar (Post Modern) Bestiary || January 18 – March 2, 2013
- Dante Rodriguez: New Works || January 18 – March 2, 2013
- Main Gallery: The 20th People's Art Show || November 9, to December 13, 2012
- 1307 Euclid Avenue: The Firest Exhibition || Main Gallery: September 7 to October 20, 2012
- Full-Time Studio Art Faculty Show || North Gallery: September 7 to October 20, 2012
- Teaching Staff Exhibition || Center Gallery: September 7 to October 20, 2012
- Jennie Jones || South Gallery: September 7 to October 20, 2012
- The Galleries at CSU Opening || Main Gallery: Friday, October 19, 2012
2011-2012 Season
- The Merit Scholar Student Show || April 25 - May 5, 2012
- The 41th Annual Student Art Show || The Wooltex Gallery, Tower Press Building || March 30 - April 21, 2012
- 2307 Chester Avenue || Main Gallery: October 28, to December 10, 2011
- Material and Metaphor || September 2 to October 15, 2011
- Spirit of Spontaneity: New Works by Hector Castellanos-Lara || Gallery C: September 19 to October 15
- The Retzler Collection || Gallery C: September 2 to 17
2010-2011 Season
- On The Corner Off || Main Gallery: September 3 – October 9, 2010
- A Bundle of Twigs (is strong) || Gallery C: September 10 – October 8, 2010
- 19th People's Art Show || Main Gallery: October 29 – December 9, 2010
- Coming Home || Gallery C: November 2010
- Life Imitates Artifice || Main Gallery: January 21 – March 12, 2011
- Cleveland Photographic Society || Gallery C: January 21 to February 15, 2011
- Works by Van Wentz || Gallery C: February 18, to March 12, 2011
- 40th Annual Student Art Show || Main Gallery: April 1 – May 7, 2011
- Senior Merit Scholarship Exhibition || Gallery C: April 1, to 16
- Junior Merit Scholarship Exhibition || Gallery C: April 18, to May 7
- Presence || Main Gallery: May 20 – June 18, 2011
- HEARTWORKS || Gallery C: May 20 – June 18, 2011
- Decorative Forms and Devotional Object || Art Building, Vitrine in the Elevator Lobby
2009-2010 Season
- Another Way of Looking: Influences from Islam || May 21 to June 26, 2010
- Islamic Manuscripts from the Cleveland Public Library Collection || May 21 to June 26, 2010*
- Touching the History: Photographs from the Dome of Hagia Sophia || May 21 to June 26, 2010*
- Merit Scholarship Exhibitions || April 2 to May 1, 2010*
- AIGA Student Chapter Exhibition || May 3 to 14, 2010*
- 39th Annual Student Show || April 2 to May 8, 2010
- Enchanted India: Tradition and Experience || February 18 – March 6*
- Physical Graffiti || January 22 – February 13*
- 60x60 || January 22 – March 6
- A Thin Red Line || November 13 to December 5, 2009*
- A Different World || October 23 to November 10, 2009*
- The Human Subject || October 23 December 5, 2009
- Retorno Al Origen (Return to the Source || September 15 to October 10, 2009*
- Scenes Unseen || August 28 to September 12, 2009*
- Toplu: Landscapes Of New Turkish Suburbia || August 28 to October 10, 2009
*Gallery C Exhibitions
2008-2009 Season
- On the Other Side and Object Lesson || May 29 – June 27, 2009
- The 38th Annual Student Show || April 3 - May 2, 2009
- Each in their Own Voice: African American Artists in Cleveland 1970 - 2005 || January 23 - March 7, 2009
- The 18th People's Art Show || October 24 - December 4, 2008
- Digital Safari: International 'New Media' Exhibition || August 29 - October 4, 2008
- Faces/Rostros: 36 Photographs by Steve Cagan
- Nuevas Obras || September 15 - October 4, 2008
- Boris Vitlin || August 29 - September 13, 2008
2007-2008 Season
- Focus: Fiber 2008 || May 16 - June 21, 2008
- Louis Burroughs: Paintings || June 5 - 21, 2008
- The Library of Creation and Destruction: A Personal Archive of Vanishing Alphabets || May 16 - 31, 2008
- The 37th Annual Student Art Show || March 28 - May 3, 2008
- Curious Terrain || January 18 - March 8, 2008
- Mere Witness || February 11 - March 8, 2008
- Have We Forgotten ... "Still in Chains" || January 18 - February 9, 2008
- Masumi Hayashi: Meditations || November 2 - December 15, 2007
- Tribute to Masumi || November 2 - December 15, 2007
- The Ineffable Object || September 7 - October 20, 2007
- The Robbie Kirkland Memorial Art Show || October 1 - 20, 2007
- El Chocó, Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival photographs by Steve Cagan || September 7 - 29, 2007
2006-2007 Season
- Skinning the Eye || May 18 - June 16, 2007
- Cities: The Footprints of Man || June 7 - June 16, 2007
- 36th Student Show || March 30 - May 4, 2007
- The Great Grid: Patricia Zinsmeister Parker || January 19 - March 3, 2007
- Internal Baggage Project: Part Two: Forced Alter Ego || February 13 - March 3, 2007
- Through the Looking Glass: Indrani Nayar-Gall || January 19 - February 10
- 17th People's Art Show || November 3 - December 14, 2006
- Carlos Cortez: Artist, Poet, Leader || September 25 to October 12, 2006
- Silent Mix || September 8 to October 12, 2006
2005-2006 Season
- Accessible Expressions || June 8 - June 16, 2006
- Eye Contact: Pamela Heller || May 19 - June 3, 2006
- Into View || May 19 - June 17, 2006
- 35th Student Show || March 31 - May 6, 2006
- Dichroism: Ray Howlett || February 13 - March 4, 2006
- Drawing a Line: Lawrence Baker retrospective || January 20 - February 10, 2006
- On the Wall || January 20 - March 10, 2006
- Third Cleveland Biennial || November 4 - December 10, 2005
- Richard Schneider Retrospective || September 9 - October 15, 2005
- Echos || September 9 - 24, 2005
2004-2005 Season
- Memento Mori || May 20 - June 18, 2005
- 34th Student Show || April 1 - May 6, 2005
- Psychological Expressionism || January 21 - March 5, 2005
- The 16th People's Art Show || November 5 - December 10, 2004
- The Mural Project || September 10 - October 15, 2004
2003-2004 Season
- The Buddha Project || May 21-June 26, 2004
- Foreign Affairs || January 3 - March 6, 2004
- Second Cleveland Biennial Juried Exhibition || November 3 - December 2003
- Disclosure || September 5 - October 11, 2003
2002-2003 Season
- Confessions of the Avant-Garde || May 30 - June 21, 2003
- 32nd Student Show || April 4 - May 2, 2003
- Brian Glassman Retrospective || January 24 - February 15, 2003
- 7S || January 24 - March 8, 2003
- The 15th People's Art Show || November 1 - December 12, 2002
- Abriendo las Ventanas || September 17 - October 5, 2002
- George Mauersberger: Recent Works || August 30 - October 5, 2002
2001-2002 Season
- Five Journeys || May 20 - June 14, 2002
- 31st Annual Student Exhibition || April 5 - May 3, 2002
- Merit Shows || February 25 - May 10, 2002
- Visionaries || January 25 - March 15, 2002
- The First Cleveland Biennial Juried Exhibition || November 2 - December 15, 2001
- Jelliffe Collection || November 2 - December 14, 2001
- Marvin Jones: 25 Years || August 31 - October 13, 2001
2000-2001 Season
- El Milenio Latino || June 15 - July 14, 2001
- The Yoors Tapestries || May 11 - June 9, 2001
- 30th Annual Student Exhibition || April 6 - May 4, 2001
- Natural Histories || February 9 - March 24, 2001
- East 4th and Prospect || February 9 - March 10, 2001
- 14th People's Art Show || December 8, 2000 - January 19, 2001
- For Every Thing A Season: Jewish Ritual Art In Cleveland || September 7 - November 4, 2000
1999-2000 Season
- Alumni Exhibition 2000 || March 3 - April 1, 2000
- Faculty Show: Work || January 21 - February 19, 2000
- Perry Gunther || December 3 - 30, 1999
- Abstraction 2x3 || October 15 - November 24, 1999
- Miervaldis Polis || November 15-24, 1999
- Bratislava In Cleveland || September 3 - October 1, 1999
- Proyecto Horizontal || September 3 - October 1, 1999
- The Other Book || March 5 - April 3, 1999
1970-2005 Season
- Each in Their Own Voice: African-American Artists in Cleveland 1970 - 2005
Contact Info
Mailing Address
The Galleries at CSU
2121 Euclid Avenue, ART
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Contact Us
Phone: 216-687-2329
galleries@csuohio.edu