Announcing Three Fall 2025 Exhibitions
The Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce three exhibitions that connect diverse creative disciplines, geographies, and ideas with Austin and Central Texas communities.
Graphic: Lope Gutiérrez–Ruiz
Hundred Points: Contemporary Graphic Design from Austin, São Paulo, Cairo, and Helsinki
September 26, 2025 – January 1, 2026
Organized in collaboration with Fusebox, Hundred Points is the first design-focused museum exhibition to take place in Austin. The exhibition brings together 46 projects by 16 leading designers and studios in four major global design centers to explore how geography, history, and community inform visual and material cultural production.
Designers and studios include Pentagram Austin, Lauren Dickens, Canales & Co., and Föda (Austin); Estúdio Campo, Elaine Ramos, Alles Blau, and Margem (Sāo Paulo); Ahmad Hammoud, 40Mustaqel, Omar Mobarek, and Ntsal (Cairo); and Marina Veziko, Schick Toikka, Weklig, and TSTO (Helsinki).
Zalika Azim, still from Blood Memories (or a going to ground), 2023. Single-channel video, 17:07 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Zalika Azim: Blood Memories (or a going to ground)
October 23, 2025 – March 7, 2026
Zalika Azim: Blood Memories (or a going to ground) represents the artist’s first solo exhibition in Texas, featuring site-specific installations, works on paper, photography, sound, and live performance. The exhibition explores themes of belonging, focusing on the interstitial spaces between departure and arrival. Blood Memories marks the culmination of Azim’s 2023–24 St. Elmo Arts Residency at UT Austin, where she explored local histories of Austin’s freedmen towns and their ties to contemporary conditions of Black life in Central Texas and across the U.S.
Ode, untitled from the series A Rose and a Prayer (detail), 2022. Archival inkjet print.
Love in Excess
October 23 – December 9, 2025
VAC Curatorial Fellow Maysa Martins’s group exhibition Love in Excess reflects on the complexities of love, desire, and longing from perspectives of Black queerness and Black femininity. Inspired by Ophelia Marie’s ballad, “Love in Excess,” the exhibition considers how the act of intense longing can ignite equally intense love-fueled affect, so powerful it overflows its boundaries, spilling into the body, the divine, and the political.
Artists include Gwladys Gambie, Lídia Lisboa, Ophelia Marie, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Tatiana Nascimento, Ode, Madelynn Poulson, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Ntozake Shange, Cauleen Smith, and D'Angelo Lovell Williams.