The Delaware Contemporary was founded in 1979 with over 40 years of exhibition history. Originally The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts known as the DCCA, the museum went through a major rebrand in 2017 of all marketing platforms including our current website.
We value and are very proud of the topical issues that have been explored through contemporary art in our spaces over the years, and are grateful to the 100s of 1000s of people from board members, staff, studio artists, and exhibiting artists who have made us who we are today. We are working to add archived information to our website as resources permit. In the meantime, if you would like information on exhibitions prior to 2016, please contact us at info@decontemporary.org.
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Past Exhibitions 2016
Indigo Dream
Stephanie Garmey
August 29, 2016 - January 8, 2017
DuPont I Gallery
The Grand Vocabulary: Contemporary American Illustration
Group Exhibition of Contemporary Illustrators
August 5 - November 12, 2016
Carole Bieber & Marc Ham Gallery
To Buick the Regal
Tyler Held
December 5, 2016 - February 24, 2017
Beckler Family Gallery
Machines for Making Meaning: Prototypes and Possibilities
Jake Beckman
September 5 - November 19, 2016
Beckler Family Gallery
Jessie & Katie
Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn
July 16 - October 16, 2016
E. Avery Draper Gallery
Foreign Bodies
Vesna Jovanovic
July 8 - October 30, 2016
Constance S. & Robert J. Hennessy Project Space
Lynn Herrick Sharp Award Exhibition
Emily DiMaio, Kate Huffman, and Christian Vitale
June 24 - July 31, 2016
DuPont II Gallery
2016 Members’ Juried Exhibition
Lori Crawford, Khánh H. Lê, Jinie Park, Kasey Toomey, Tamsen Wojtanowski
May 23 - August 29, 2016
Beckler Family Gallery
Farewell
University of Delaware MFA Thesis Exhibition
Tara Booth, Dusty Boynton, John Coniff, Ryan Craycraft, Daniel Giordano, Morgan Joseph Hamilton, Kylie Lockwood, Phil McGaughy, Quentin Moseley, Steven Lee Tanner, Charlotte Thurman
May 13, 2016 - June 17, 2016
DuPont II Gallery
Leap
An exhibition by the 2016 University of Delaware BFA Graduates
May 2, 2016 - May 9, 2016
DuPont II Gallery
Carried Weight
Zoe Charlton, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Xaviera Simmons, and Shoshanna Weinberger
March 18, 2016 - July 17, 2016
Carole Bieber & Marc Ham Gallery
*Carried Weight also served as the fulcrum to the Gretchen Hupfel Symposium, “Repositioning Blackness in Contemporary Art,” held on Saturday, April 16, 2016
Listening to Horses
Lynda Schmid
February 5 - May 13, 2016
Beckler Family Gallery
Letting Go
Amy Stevens
January 30 - June 5, 2016
E. Avery Draper Gallery
Confirmations, Declarations, Doubts
Aaron McIntosh and Andria Morales
January 25 - April 24, 2016
DuPont I Gallery
Vivianus
Leslie Friedman
January 6 - June 26, 2016
Constance S. & Robert J. Hennessy Project Space