Join us at both signature events and special offerings in conjunction with new exhibitions.
Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood features 65 paintings and works on paper, exploring themes meaningful to the artist: neighborhood, community and religion. Over a career spanning eight decades, Crite documented the multicultural, multiracial and multigenerational communities of Boston, as well as historic social and economic changes that transformed the nation in the latter half of the 20th century. The artist created a rich visual record of Black life in 20th-century urban America, revealing a sense of community that resonates across time and place.
The exhibition brings together the artist’s early durational films and later serial photographs to examine repetition and duration as central forces in his art. Presenting nearly 70 photographs from the Zimmerli’s collection and a suite of films on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, On Repeat offers a rare look at how Warhol used time, stillness and seriality to chart the shifting terrain of identity.
In the fall of 2024, museum officials started offering monthly Highlights Tours led by student educators, who undergo semester-long training facilitated by members of the Zimmerli’s education and curatorial teams. With an increase in popularity, tours were increased to twice a month in spring 2025. This academic year, the museum is offering 16 such tours.
Over the past couple of years, administrators and staff of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have made it their mission to transform the facility into a bilingual space – and extend a welcoming hand to New Brunswick’s Hispanic and Latino community.
The Zimmerli’s first exhibition dedicated to Armenian nonconformist art from the Dodge collection features nearly 60 artworks by more than 30 artists who captured the ideological, stylistic and aesthetic diversity of Armenian nonconformism from the 1960s to 1990.
The public is invited to an array of free programs, including a new series of virtual talks with four artists whose works are on view in Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, the unprecedented survey of contemporary Native American art. Such favorites as SparkNight, Último Domingo and Art Together also continue through the spring.
Exploring the Multiplicities of Indigeneity, Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always features more than 100 works by nearly 100 artists including Norman Akers, Kay WalkingStick, Emmi Whitehorse, Alan Michelson, New Red Order, and Zoë Urness, among others.
Group exhibition joined by intimate solo presentation of Smith’s work from the Zimmerli’s collection.
It is with deep sadness and profound respect that the Zimmerli acknowledges the passing of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), a visionary artist, educator, and activist whose life’s work transcended boundaries and bridged cultures. Her extraordinary contributions to contemporary art and her tireless advocacy for Indigenous voices have left an indelible mark on the art world and beyond.
McCarthy joins the Zimmerli on January 6, 2025. He will serve on the museum’s senior leadership team and participate in shaping its mission and vision, as well as oversee the museum’s curatorial department and assume responsibility for its scholarly and artistic program while managing the development of the permanent collection and exhibitions.
The Zimmerli has been awarded the first installment of a three-year General Program Support grant from the NJSCA. These funds are vital to advancing the museum’s mission by supporting exhibitions and public programming that reach a broad spectrum of audiences, creating an accessible space that is welcoming to all.
This is the museum’s and university's first grant from the Nissan Foundation, which will help fund a series of free, public programs for all ages in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, on view at the Zimmerli from Feb. 1 through Dec. 21, 2025.