Welcome to DARIA: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, a publication devoted to art writing and criticism focused on the Denver-area visual art scene. DARIA seeks to promote diverse voices and artists while fostering critical dialogue around art.
Abend Gallery, 1261 Delaware St, Ste 2, Denver, CO 80204, 303-355-0950, Tue–Sat: 12–4pm and by appt
Aug 22–Sep 12: Contemporary Figuration; Michael Magrin: Rhythms of Place; Calvin Lai: Finding Shelter; Best of 1261
Sep 19–Oct 10: Kelly Birkenruth: The Beauty of Sustenance; Ulrich Gleiter; Fall Group Show
Oct 16–31: Jill Soukup; Ron Hicks: The Book of Parenthesis; Jon Doran: The Poetics of Light; Zack Zdrale: Summer in the Studio
Nov 21–Dec 31: 36th Annual Holiday Miniatures Show (Opening reception: Nov 21, 6–8pm)
Jan 9–30, 2027: The Long View; Regarding Horses
Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, 2401 Welton St, Denver, CO 80205, 720-865-2401, Mon, Wed, Thu: 9am–6pm, Tue: 9am–8pm, Fri–Sat: 10am–5pm
Jun 1–Sep 30: Jess E. DuBois: Projecting Soul onto Canvas (Cousins Gallery, 3rd Floor)
Nov 23, 2026–Mar 13, 2027: Echoes: Sovereign Space
Center for Colorado Women’s History, 1310 Bannock St, Denver, CO, 80204, 303-620-4933, Mon–Sat: 10am–4pm, Sun: 12–4pm
Apr 3, 2026–Mar 31, 2027: Votes and Dreams
Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St, Denver, CO 80204, 720-354-4880, Summer hours, May 16–Aug 31: Tue–Thu, Sat–Sun: 10am–5pm, Fri: 12–7pm; Fall hours, Sep 1–May 15: Tue–Sun: 10am–5pm
May 16, 2026–Feb 14, 2027: Still in Sound
May 16, 2026–Sep 19, 2027: Celebrating 15 Years: 15 New Paintings in 15 Months
Feb 27–Sep 19, 2027: Tools of the Trade: A Lifetime of Materials and Techniques
Ongoing: Abstract Expressions: Terrace Installation
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, 1200 Lincoln St, Suite 111, Denver, CO 80203, 303-837-1341, Tue–Fri: 11am–5pm, Sat: 12–4pm
Aug 7–Sep 19: Sites of Memory: Harlan Bozeman, Justin A. Carney, Taylor Edgerton, and Letitia Huckaby
Aug 21–Dec 31: Celebrate Colorado: Show Us Your Downtown Online Exhibition
Sep 25–Nov 14: Mary Ellen Mark: Indian Circus (In-Person Panel Discussion: Oct 27, 5:30pm)
Nov 20, 2026–Jan 2, 2027: Emerging Vision: Biennial Student Show
Jan 8–Feb 20, 2027: New Focus: Personal Projects by Veterans; 10 Years/10 Voices: Alumni of the Veterans Workshop Series
Feb 26–April 10, 2027: Month of Photography Exhibition
Colorado State Capitol, 200 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80203, Mon–Fri: 9am–5pm
Aug 1, 2026–Feb 28, 2027: Colorado: Past, Present, Future
CU Denver Experience Gallery, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1025 13th St, Denver, Colorado 80204, 720-865-4220, Tue–Fri: 4–7pm, Sat–Sun: 12–7pm
Aug 27–Sep 27: Remember the Love: Resilience and 9/11 (Photographs by Michael Rieger)
Oct 3–Nov 4: Catrinas en Mi Ciudad (The Galleria)
Oct 8–25: ILL 2026
Nov 5–15: 2026 CCD Senior Capstone Exhibition
Dairy Block, 1821 Blake St, Denver, CO 80202, 720-360-4733, special event hours listed below
David B. Smith Gallery, 1543 A Wazee St, Denver, CO 80202, 303-893-4234, Wed–Sat: 12–5pm and by appt
Aug 22–Sep 26: Ashley Garrett: The Soaring Roar (Main Gallery); Ian Fisher: They Are Ghosts (Project Room)
Oct 24–Nov 21 (regular hours), Nov 22–Dec 19 (by appt): Linda Lopez (Main Gallery); Mathew McConnell (Project Room)
Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204, 720-865-5000, Mon, Thu–Sun: 10am–5pm, Tue: 10am–8pm
Oct 4, 2026–Jan 31, 2027: DIVA (ticketed) (Curator Conversation: The Making of DIVA: Oct 3, 11am–12pm; Untitled: Artist Takeover featuring Mother Valentino Flora: Oct 30, 6–7pm; The Diva as Cultural Revolutionary: Art, Agency, and the Politics of Performance, with Dr. Reiland Rabaka: Nov 14, 2–3pm; Behind the Baton LIVE: DIVA with Scott O'Neil and Holly Harmon: Nov 17, 3–4:30pm and 6:30–8pm)
Thru Sep 20, 2026 : Sadie Young: The Tangled Self'
Sep 29, 6–7:30pm: Bring Them Home Film Screening
Thru Oct 4, 2026: Ink & Thread: Codices and the Art of Storytelling
Oct 20, 6–7pm: Logan Lecture: A Conversation with David Huffman
Oct 23, 12:30–7pm, Oct 24, 10am–5pm: 25th Annual Mayer Center Symposium
Thru Oct 25, 2026: What We’ve Been Up To: People
Nov 8, 2026–Jul 27, 2027: I Follow Rivers: Indigenous Worlds in Latin America
Nov 21, 7–10pm: Macheté Mouth Record Release and Concert at the Denver Art Museum
Thru Nov 29, 2026: Fuse Box: Sarah Sze
Jan 12, 2027, 6–7pm: Rags to Rhinestones
Jan 19, 2027, 5:30–6:30pm: Logan Lecture: SunYoung Park and Laura Shill
Thru Jan 24, 2027: Storytellers: The Blackfeet Nation and Charles M. Russell; Guest of Honor: Rembrandt (Rembrandt’s 1634 wedding portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, with Petria Noble: Oct 13, 6–7pm)
Feb 2, 2027, 6–7pm: Logan Lecture: Ebony G. Patterson
Thru Feb 7, 2027: Conversation Pieces: Stories from the Fashion Archives
Thru Summer 2028: John Edward Thompson and Colorado Modernism
Ongoing: Knife Fork Spoon: Everyday Tools, Extraordinary Design (Everyday Objects, Extraordinary Stories: A Conversation with Dung Ngo & Darrin Alfred: Sep 26, 11am–12pm)
Ongoing: Grass Scripts: Bamboo Art from the Abbey Collection
Ongoing: Sustained!: The Persistent Genius of Indigenous Art
Ongoing: Rupprecht Matthies: ¿Being Home?
Ongoing: A Century of Art in Latin America
Ongoing: Islands Beyond Blue: Niki Hastings-McFall and Treasures from the Oceania Collection
Ongoing: The 19th Century in European and American Art
The Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum, 1201 Bannock St, Denver, CO 80204, 303-832-8576, Mon, Thu–Sun: 10am–5pm, Tue: 10am–8pm
Thru Feb 21, 2027: Space Is the Place: Art & Design in the Atomic Age
Thru Mar 7, 2027: ‘Round the Clock: 24 Hours of Colorado in Prints
Ongoing: International Decorative Art
Ongoing: Colorado & Regional Art
Ongoing: Vance Kirkland Paintings
Denver Performing Arts Complex, Buell Theatre Lobby, 1400 Curtis St, Denver, CO, 80204, 303-893-4100, open during events and by appt
Mar 14, 2025–Dec 31, 2027: Jann Haworth: Catalysts
Denver Public Library, Central Library Galleries, 10 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204, 720-865-1111, Mon–Thu: 10am–6pm, Sun: 11am–5pm
Jul–Dec: Le Brun Club: Women Artists of the West (Gates Reading Room, 5th Floor)
Through Mar 2027: 1776–2026: Uplifting Inclusive Portrayals of America's Heritage
Ongoing: Art Collection Display (1st Floor; Special Collections and Archives, 5th Floor; 7th Floor Gallery)
Dikeou Collection, temporarily closed
Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80203, 303-623-3001, open by appt, email info@dikeoucollection.org
Emmanuel Art Gallery, University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Campus, 1205 10th St Plaza, Denver, CO 80204, 303-315-7431, Mon–Wed, Fri: 10am–4pm, Thu: 10am–7pm, Sat: 10am–2pm; Summer: Tue–Thu: 10am–4pm
Jun 18–Sep 19: Come Together: 150 Years of the Emmanuel
Oct 16–Dec 11: Orange Chip: Works From the Brian Tschumper Collection
Galleri Gallery at Meow Wolf Denver, 1338 1st St, Denver, CO 80204, 866-636-9969, Daily hours of operation may vary; please check tickets.meowwolf.com/denver for the most current information
Sep 1–30: Demi-Decade Exhibition (Part 2)
Oct–Dec: Brandon Opalka
Jan–Mar 2027: Leilani Nobuko Derr
Gallery 1261, 1261 Delaware St, Ste 1, Denver, CO 80204, 303-571-1261, Tue–Sat: 12–4pm and by appt
Sep 19–Oct 10: Ulrich Gleiter
Oct 16–31: Jill Soukup; Ron Hicks
Nov 5–14: Flourishing Through Beauty
Nov 21–Dec 31: Small Works
Jan 9–30, 2027: Large Landscapes
Feb 6–27, 2027: Adrienne Stein
History Colorado Center, 1200 N Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, 303-447-8679, Daily: 10am–5pm
Jul 18, 2025–Jan 31, 2027: Expedition 1776: The Journey of Domínguez & Escalante
Sep 26, 2025–Apr 4, 2027: 38th Star: Colorado Becomes the Centennial State
Nov 22, 2025–Oct 18, 2026: Moments that Made US
Jan 24, 2026–Jan 10, 2027: Mountains Majesty: On the Summit with John Fielder
Mar 26, 2026–Jan 6, 2027: All Hands on Deck: Life and Legacy of the USS Colorado Battleship
Apr 9, 2026–Apr 11, 2027: Keeping Place: Colorado Heritage for All
K Contemporary, 1412 Wazee St, Denver, CO 80202, 303-590-9800, Tue–Fri: 12–6pm, Sat: 12–5pm
Sep 5–Oct 24: Kuzana Ogg: Raiments of Light (Main Gallery); Jonathan Saiz: RESTRAINT (Project Space) (Opening reception: Sep 5, 3–6pm)
Nov 7–Dec 24: Melissa Furness & Mychaelyn Michalec
McNichols Civic Center Building, 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80202, 720-865-5570, currently closed due to construction
Metropolitan Frame Company, 424 N Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, 303-446-2265, Mon–Fri: 9am–6pm, Sat: 10am–3pm
Aug 28–Oct 8: Tommy Joyce: Meridian (Opening reception: Sep 29, 6–8pm)
Oct 15–Nov 25: Chase DeForest: Stretched & Stitched: Artworks in Leather (Opening reception: Oct 15, 6–8pm)
Dec 3, 2026–Jan 14, 2027: Virginia Diaz Saiki (Opening reception: Dec 3)
Jan 21–Mar 4, 2027: Norm Shearer (Opening reception: Jan 21, 2027)
Mar 11–Apr 22, 2027: Alexandra Stefanec (Opening reception: Mar 11, 2027)
Apr 30–Jun 10, 2027: Annie Gutsch (Opening reception: Apr 30, 2027)
Jun 17–Jul 29, 2027: Heidi Larraz (Opening reception: Jun 17, 2027)
Aug 5–Sep 16, 2027: Darcie Shively (Opening reception: Aug 5, 2027)
Sep 23–Nov 4, 2027: Evan Hecox (Opening reception: Sep 23, 2027)
Nov 11–Dec 31, 2027: Bill Nelson (Opening reception: Nov 11, 2027)
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St, Denver, CO 80202, 303-298-7554, Wed–Fri: 12–7pm, Sat–Sun: 10am–5pm
Jul 24–Nov 1: Colorado Currents (curators: Miranda Lash and Leilani Lynch)
Night Lights Denver, Daniels & Fisher Tower, 1601 Arapahoe St, Denver, CO 80202, Tue–Sun: program runs approximately dusk to midnight
Sep 1–Oct 31: Sea of Uncertainty: Cadmiumcoffee, Heck Studio, Anna Taberko, Warcat, and Bichael Burphy
Nov 27–Dec 31: Vertical Study: CU Boulder Media Production Students: Nicollette Dunn, Antonio Herrera, Rhett Hutcheson, Jon Kovereid, Leif Lomo, and Alex Melvin
Jan 1–Feb 28, 2027: Wasenam
Pablo’s Coffee on Penn, 1300 Pennsylvania St, #102, Denver, CO 80203, 303-832-1688, Daily: 7am–2pm
Pablo’s Coffee on 6th, 630 E 6th Ave, Denver, CO 80203, 303-744-3323, Daily: 6am–4pm
Rainbow Dome, 1660 Federal Blvd, Denver, CO 80204
Robischon Gallery, 1740 Wazee St, Denver, CO 80202, 303-298-7788, Tue–Fri: 11am–6pm, Sat: 12–5pm
Sep 10–Oct 31: Tom Judd: Interrupted Landscape; David Hytone: The Other End of the Telescope; John Buck; Stephen Batura (Opening reception for all exhibitions: Sep 10, 6–8pm)
Nov 19, 2026–Jan 30, 2027: Group 50th Anniversary Exhibition (Opening reception: Nov 19, 6–8pm)
Spark Gallery, 1200 Acoma St, Ste 100, Denver, CO 80204, 303-681-4687, Fri–Mon: 12–5pm, Tue: 12–8pm
Aug 14–Sep 8: Kaleidoscopes in Every Face: Ten Artists From The Birdseed Collective (curator: Raymundo Muñoz)
Sep 11–Oct 6: Wendy Clough: Still Not Memory; Mai Wyn Schantz: Tangencies; Gail Wagner: Consonance (Opening reception: Sep 12, 12–5pm)
Oct 9–Nov 3: Madeleine Dodge: Splendor of Fire, Seeds of Light; Jennifer Evans: Local Ingredients; Vero Silva: The Echo of Your Touch (Spark Gallery’s NOVA Scholarship Recipient) (Opening reception: Oct 10, 12–5pm)
Nov 6–Dec 1: Gary Manual, Sue Simon, and Vero Ada Gonzalez (Spark Gallery’s NOVA Scholarship recipient) (Opening reception: Nov 7, 12–5pm)
Dec 4–22: Spark Gallery’s Holiday Small Works Exhibition and Sale (Opening reception: Dec 5, 12–5pm)
Jan 2–Feb 2, 2027: Annual Spark Gallery Members’ Exhibition (Opening reception: Jan 2, 12–5pm)
Feb 5–Mar 2, 2027: Barbara Baer, Annalee Schorr and Pat Aaron (Opening reception: Feb 6, 12–5pm)
Understudy, 890 C 14th St, Denver, CO 80202, Thu–Sun: 12–6pm
Sep 12–Oct 11: Linda Bishara: Sanctum Amaru
Oct 23–Nov 22: Olive Moya
Jan 15–Mar 14, 2027: Taste Test in collaboration with MSU Center for Visual Arts
Union Hall, 1750 Wewatta St, Ste 144, Denver, CO 80202, located inside The Coloradan, 720-927-4033, Wed–Sat: 12–6pm
Aug 20–Oct 3: Rough Gems: In the Shadows (guest curator: Italu Ramos Hernandez)
Oct 16, 2026–Jan 23, 2027: Desert: Adán De La Garza
Feb 11–Mar 20, 2027: Rough Gems program: Exhibition #1
Walker Fine Art, 300 W 11th Ave, Unit A (enter on Cherokee St), Denver, CO 80204, 303-355-8955, Tue–Sat: 11am–5pm
Aug 28–Nov 7: Julie Maren: Flourish; Natural Reverie: Norman Epp, Jane Fulton Alt, Laura Guese, and Rob Mellor
Nov 13, 2026–Jan 9, 2027: Caprice Pierucci, Karin Schminke, Sandra Klein, Melana Bontrager, Elaine Coombs, Deidre Adams
William Havu Gallery, 1040 Cherokee St, Denver, CO 80204, 303-893-2360, Tue–Fri: 10am–6pm, Sat: 11am–5pm, and by appt
Jul 10–Sep 12: Flourish: Dorothea Cheney, Steve Cope, Stephen Dinsmore, Hart James, Heidi Jung, Betsy Margolius, and Debra Salopek
Sep 18–Nov 7: Klaire Lockheart: Brodalisque (Artist talk: Sep 19, 12pm; Wes Hempel: Your Invitation (for both exhibitions: Opening reception: Sep 18, 5–8pm)
Nov 13, 2026–Jan 9, 2027: Richard Carter, Jean Gumpper, Tony Ortega (Opening reception: Nov 13)
Jan 15–Feb 27, 2027: Zach Rieke, Dennis Lee Mitchell (Opening reception: Jan 15, 2027)
Zing Art Gallery, Zing Credit Union, 1075 Acoma St, Denver, CO 80204, 303-573-1170, Mon–Fri: 9am–5pm, Sat: 9am–1pm
Jul–Sep: Art Street: Group Exhibition
Oct–Dec: Zing Member Show
Jan–Mar 2027: Photos by Steve Sorensen