Past Exhibitions

  1. 25 MILLION STITCHES: One Stitch, One Refugee. Raising awareness of the global refugee crisis through art

    June 6, 2026 to July 18, 2026

    25 Million Stitches, a global community art and activism project, was initiated by California artist Jennifer Kim Sohn, in 2019, to visually document the enormity of the number of refugees in the world and to sustain a concern for the refugees in the minds of…

  2. A RISING TIDE OF PLASTIC IN ART:  Curated by Project Vortex Founding Artist, Aurora Robson

    April 11, 2026 to May 23, 2026

    In the News:Syracuse.comThe Daily Orange Project Vortex is an international collective of artists, designers, and architects actively focusing on the global problem of plastic pollution through their art. Curated by founding artist Aurora Robson, this exhibition features works by a selection of Project Vortex members…

  3. ArtRage Goes Off the Wall

    March 27, 2026

    The ArtRage Off The Wall fundraiser was a great success, bringing 125+ people into the gallery to view and purchase the generously donated artwork from our community! Thank you to all of the artists who participated in our second OFF THE WALL exhibition and fundraiser!…

  4. VISIONS OF HOPE: Moving Images by Teens with a Movie Camera

    February 7, 2026 to March 21, 2026

    Check out the press coverage of the exhibition! Daily OrangeSyracuse.com Check out the films from the exhibition HERE. Can we reimagine filmmaking as an inclusive art practice, open to all? What can it look like to nurture new safe spaces for playful, collaborative, and imaginative…

  5. RECLAIMING OUR COLLECTIVE INHERITANCE: A Palestinian Diaspora Collection

    November 15, 2025 to January 17, 2026

    The Palestinian Thobe is more than an embroidered garment—it is a living archive. For Palestinians in the diaspora, these intricately stitched dresses are tangible connections to a homeland many have never seen, yet fiercely carry within them. Each motif tells a story—of identity, ancestral village,…

  6. The Stories We Told Ourselves: The American War On Terror

    November 8, 2025 to November 9, 2025

    Open to the public Saturday, 9 to 2 pm and Sunday 9 to 5 pm. “The Stories We Told Ourselves“, compiled by Professor Nausheen Husain, faculty fellow at the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse University, explores the dominant and counter-narratives of the American-led…

  7. NAJEE DORSEY: Poor People’s Campaign

    September 6, 2025 to October 25, 2025

    Check out the exhibition’s press! Syracuse.com Daily Orange Citrus TV Najee Dorsey’s Poor People’s Campaign, is a powerful collection of work grounded in the environmental struggles of today’s impoverished communities. Blending Southern nostalgia with digitally collaged speculative futures, Dorsey’s work unveils a future shaped by…

  8. LIFE/AFTERLIFE…DO YOU HAVE A PLAN? : Work by Vykky Ebner & Pam McLaughlin

    June 7, 2025 to July 19, 2025

    Opening Reception: June 7th from 6-8pm. Free and open to the public. Life/Afterlife…Do you have a plan?, delves into the profound psychological toll religious dogma can have on mental health and spotlights two women who bravely navigated a journey through religious indoctrination, survived its challenges,…

  9. IN THE CENTER OF THE CROSSROADS: Standing in the Intersection Between Racism, Climate Change, and Memory. Fiber Art by Vanessa Johnson

    April 12, 2025 to May 24, 2025

    In some traditional and legendary African and African-American belief systems, a Center of the Crossroads represents the rising and setting of the sun, and the human life cycle of death and rebirth. The center of a crossroads is where communications with spirits takes place.  In…

  10. ArtRage Board Goes Off the Wall

    March 28, 2025

    Community Event, Celebration and Art Sale The ArtRage Off The Wall fundraiser was a great success bringing 160 people into the gallery to view and purchase the generously donated artwork from our community! Thank you to all of the artists that participated in our first…

  11. A PLACE TO CALL HOME: Photographs by Michelle Gabel & Mike Greenlar. In collaboration with CENTRAL CURRENT

    February 8, 2025 to March 22, 2025

    IN THE NEWSCental CurrentThe Daily OrangeSyracuse.comWRVO A Place to Call Home is a collaboration between Central Current, a nonprofit newsroom covering Syracuse and Central New York, and photographers Michelle Gabel and Mike Greenlar.The exhibition captures a cross section of Syracuse’s housing crisis; those struggling with…

  12. IN SECRECY: New Works by Jaleel Campbell

    November 9, 2024 to January 18, 2025

    Check out the wonderful press this exhibition has received!Spectrum NewsSyracuse.comUrban CNYBridge Street WSYRCentral CurrentThe Daily Orange Jaleel Campbell’s latest series titled In Secrecy will explore the experiences of out, discreet and DL Black men in the gay community and what toll that takes on the…

  13. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Posters by Ricardo Levins Morales

    September 7, 2024 to October 26, 2024

    Join us for the first opening reception of the season: September 7th 6-8pm. Free and open to the public. Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective…

  14. BEN ALTMAN – I Own This Stolen Land

    June 8, 2024 to July 20, 2024

    In 2021 photographer Ben Altman and his wife bought 38 acres of land next to their home in rural Danby, NY, to prevent logging and development. He recognized that the title to this beautiful land originated in genocide. More than two hundred years ago the…

  15. SOFÍA LUZ PÉREZ: My Shadow is My Teacher

    April 6, 2024 to May 18, 2024

    READ CARL MELLOR’S REVIEW HERE! Sofía Luz Pérez is a Mexican American artist born in Austin, Texas and raised in Central New York. Her work often depicts ancient feminine archetypes while referencing self-portraiture, bringing together the ancient wisdom of her pre-Colombian cultural heritage with her…

  16. MAHTAB HUSSAIN – Muslims in America: Syracuse Edition

    February 3, 2024 to March 16, 2024

    Check out the great Media Coverage this exhibition has received!The Daily OrangeSyracuse.comCentral Current British photographer Mahtab Hussain is creating a major new body of work about the Muslim experience in America. This October, ArtRage hosted Hussain for a two week residency to photograph Syracuse’s Muslim…

  17. William Mazza – Forest for Trees

    November 11, 2023 to January 13, 2024

    Mining the Literary Landscape William Mazza—a collective member of Syracuse’s Altered Space gallery (1991-1996) and currently an artist based in New York City—uses chance, duration, and accumulation to interpret landscape as the relationship of people to mediated environments. The most material expressions of his wide-ranging…

  18. HELEN ZUGHAIB – Stories My Father Told Me

    September 9, 2023 to October 28, 2023

    Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon OPENING RECEPTION – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th from 6-8pm Employing vivid color, rich pattern, stunning beauty, and admiring love, Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib has brought her father’s childhood stories of Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s and 40s…

  19. CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Our Shared Future

    April 1, 2023 to May 20, 2023

    OPENING RECEPTION – SATURDAY, APRIL 1st from 6-8pm Three local artists, Christine Chin of Ithaca, and Carrie Drake and Anita Welych of Syracuse, explore the natural environment and the consequences of climate change through their art Christine Chin uses NOAA data to create her Stuffed…

  20. Portrait of A Village, Ukraine – Photographs by Lida Suchy

    January 28, 2023 to March 11, 2023

    For the past 9 years, Ukraine has been represented by images of conflict, destruction, and carnage, brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. As a first-generation American and daughter of Ukrainian refugees, Lida Suchy draws on her background as a resource and inspiration for her…

  21. ROMMY TORRICO: Cabeza en las nubes

    November 12, 2022 to January 14, 2023

    A collection of liberatory visions Cabeza en las nubes, directly translated as ‘head in the clouds’, is a body of work that spans a decade of dreamscapes that have been born from liberatory struggle and creative release. Rommy, a queer trans migrant who navigated the…

  22. Without Courage There Are No Other Virtues

    September 10, 2022 to October 29, 2022

    Robert Shetterly’s – Americans Who Tell The Truth. For the past 20 years, Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series has tried to be a lantern that throws its light forward andback–knowing the truth of the past’s struggles for justice is essential to…

  23. In the Windows: Syracuse Portraits of Earth Justice Activists

    September 10, 2022 to October 29, 2022

    Photography by Marilú López FrettsBiographies by Lindsay Speer View the Virtual Exhibition Here Successful movements depend not just on one person, but many. These portraits highlight local activists who deserve our gratitude and thanks for their efforts to make our community better, healthier, and more…

  24. IN THE WINDOWS: The Bald Eagles of Onondaga Lake

    July 9, 2022 to September 7, 2022

    ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: Bald Eagles have great significance to the Onondaga Nation & to the US.   Since they have returned to Onondaga Lake people come to photograph them near their roost in the trees of “Murphy’s Island” behind Destiny.   However, their roost is threatened by…

  25. GABRIEL GARCIA ROMAN: Queer Icons

    June 4, 2022 to July 8, 2022

    This exhibition is Dedicated toCommunity Organizer and Black Proletarian FeministNikeeta Slade View the Virtual Exhibition New York City based artist, Gabriel García Román began his ongoing ‘Queer Icons’ series in 2011. This portrait series honors Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC) specifically activists, community…

  26. Nikeeta Slade

    June 4, 2022 to July 9, 2022

    The QUEER ICON exhibition is Dedicated to Community Organizer and Black Proletarian FeministNikeeta Slade We celebrate a brilliant sister, dear friend, comrade, haiku poet, and Lisa’s only baby—Nikeeta A.T. Slade. Nikeeta was our hilarious self-proclaimed curmudgeon, a Black woman in the trades, Texas-raised organizer, worker…

  27. The War in Ukraine: Dispatch from Moldova. Photographs by Maranie Rae Staab

    April 28, 2022 to May 31, 2022

    VIEW THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION One week after Russia invaded Ukraine, photojournalist, Maranie Rae Staab traveled to Moldova at the Ukrainian border and to the Southern Ukrainian cities of Odessa and Mykolayiv. Her intention with this virtual exhibition is to share the experiences of those she…

  28. FROM WHERE WE STAND: Photographs from The Stand’s Annual South Side Photo Walk

    April 2, 2022 to May 14, 2022

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION The South Side Newspaper Project, a collaboration of neighborhood residents and Syracuse University, has given voice to the South Side community of Syracuse since its founding in 2010. The annual summer Photo Walk is its largest annual community…

  29. THE STRUGGLE TO CONNECT: A Call and Response Conversation on Race and Gender by Women Artists, Curated by Vanessa Johnson

    February 5, 2022 to March 19, 2022

    The Struggle to Connect is an invitational group exhibition featuring a racially diverse group of women artists from CNY and beyond. The exhibit will confront the differences between white feminism and the feminist issues of women of color and explore differences in experiences and perspectives….

  30. ROBIN HOLDER: USA: The United States of Anxiety/We’re In It Together

    November 13, 2021 to January 15, 2022

    Click here to view the Virtual Exhibition. Watch our Virtual Artist Talk on YouTube. Robin Holder has been on ArtRage Gallery’s radar for quite some time and we are thrilled to be sharing work from two of her recent series with you.  Her art career…

  31. LIVING IN LIMBO: Portraits from the Border by Bill McLaughlin

    September 11, 2021 to October 30, 2021

    VIEW THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION HERE Artist Bill McLaughlin of New Berlin, NY traveled to Tijuana, Mexico in December 2019 to photograph the migrants and asylum seekers left stranded at the border. They were stranded due to the January 2019 abrupt change in US immigration policy…

  32. In the Windows: Finding the Sunny Side

    June 25, 2021 to August 30, 2021

    This photography showcase highlights five young refugee clients from InterFaith Works. InterFaith Works asked these girls what they wanted the community to see through their eyes. Each girl came back with a different story. Please join us and see our community through their eyes. Thank…

  33. Leslie Feinberg: SCREENED IN, LOOKING OUT: A Disabilities Photo Exhibit

    May 13, 2021 to July 11, 2021

    MAKE IN-PERSON RESERVATIONS HERE VIEW OUR VIRTUAL EXHBITION READ CARL MELLOR’S REVIEW HERE Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014) was a renowned trans activist, historian, writer and the author of the groundbreaking gender- nonconforming 1993 novel ‘Stone Butch Blues.’ Feinberg made this photographic series between summer 2009 and…

  34. In the Windows: The Power of the Ordinary: Masked Portraits by Katie Mulligan

    May 1, 2021 to June 14, 2021

    Katie Mulligan is a Syracuse based, freelance illustrator and animator. This series of masked portraits drawn in ink, celebrates the efforts of ordinary people in fighting COVID-19 and captures the moment we are currently living in. The choice to wear a mask for the collective…

  35. DEADLOCKED AND LOADED: Disarming America

    February 11, 2021 to April 18, 2021

    View the Virtual Exhibition HERE. Share on facebook. Share on Instagram. PRESS LINKS. Read all about itThe Indypendent WAERBridge StreetThe Daily OrangeNewhouse Communications Center NCC News and NCC VideoUrban CNY Syracuse.com/Carl Mellor ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: Curated by Karen M. Gutfreund. The Pandemic was top-of-mind for…

  36. JOE GUERRIERO: ESPERANDO A LA NORMALIDAD – Cuba y los Estados Unidos

    November 5, 2020 to January 17, 2021

    ArtRage Gallery se complace en anunciar que nuestra exposición actual, “Esperando a la normalidad: Cuba y los Estados Unidos” ya está disponible en español, tanto en la galería como en línea con nuestra exposición virtual. Puede hacer clic aquí para reservar una fecha para ver la exposición en la galería Haga clic aquí para ver la exposición  virtual. Hay una…

  37. JOE GUERRIERO: WAITING FOR NORMAL- Cuba and the United States

    October 22, 2020 to January 17, 2021

    CLICK HERE to reserve your time to see the exhibit. CLICK HERE to read a review by Carl Mellor. CLICK HERE to see the exhibition virtually. CLICK HERE to review our visitor safety guidelines. CLICK HERE to watch the Zoom Artist Talk recorded on November 12, 2020….

  38. TIM ATSEFF: THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS – A Trump Dystopian Heptology

    September 3, 2020 to October 4, 2020

      CLICK HERE to review our visitor safety guidelines. CLICK HERE to read a Review by Carl Mellor. Tim Atseff has been painting since 1970. He spent his professional career in journalism including several years as an editorial cartoonist exposing hypocrisy and corruption with the…

  39. 8 MINUTES 46 SECONDS: A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

    July 16, 2020 to August 23, 2020

    Four Syracuse photographers capture the current movement for racial justice and police accountability; featuring the work of Ciara Feltham, Dennis Fernando, Maranie Rae Staab and Julio Urrutia. CLICK HERE TO VIEW EXHIBITION We at ArtRage stand in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and join those in our…

  40. ArtRage Past & Present: A Virtual Group Exhibition

    May 26, 2020 to July 15, 2020

    ArtRage has been closed to the public for over two months and we are deeply missing our friends, volunteers and supporters along with the social interactions at gallery openings, lectures, films and other events here at ArtRage. This tumultuous period of social distancing, isolation, quarantine,…