Arthur Ross Gallery
Inaugural Faculty Director Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw gives remarks at the opening reception for After Modernism: Selections from the Neumann Family Collection. Credit: Eric Sucar.
Friends gather at the opening reception for Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body. Credit: Eric Sucar.
Artist Eissa Attar MFA’25 addresses guests at the opening reception for Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth: 2025 Penn Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition. Credit: Eric Sucar.
Friends gather at the opening reception for After Modernism: Selections from the Neumann Family Collection. Credit: Eric Sucar.
Friends gather at the opening reception for Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body. Credit: Eric Sucar.
The Arthur Ross Gallery is a faculty-led, multidisciplinary exhibition space dedicated to showcasing global, contemporary, and historical art of all kinds. Located in the Ann and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library building, a National Historic Landmark designed by architect Frank Furness at the heart of the University of Pennsylvania, the mission of the Arthur Ross Gallery is to share arts-based research and cultural production by Penn’s faculty, students, and alumni.
Key to the Arts at Penn, the Arthur Ross Gallery works collaboratively to support and advance the University of Pennsylvania’s strategic framework, “In Principle and Practice.” Its programming includes art exhibitions, film, music, performance, lectures, panels, curatorial seminars, student-led tours, and school programs for elementary-age children.
The Arthur Ross Gallery is free and open to the public.
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Visitors engage with artwork by Adebumni Gbadebo during the opening reception for Songs for Ritual and Remembrance Credit: Eric Sucar
A visit from Penn President J. Larry Jameson for a tour of the After Modernism exhibition. (left to right) Wesley Dalton, Emily Zimmerman, Sigal Ben-Porath, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, President J. Larry Jameson, Peter Decherney, Miette Gourlay, Morgan Verona, Joshua Baek. Credit: Eric Sucar
Local Philadelphia grade school students sketch works in the David C. Driskell and Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, and Friendship exhibition.
Visitors enjoy remarks at the opening reception for Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body. Credit: Eric Sucar.
Collecting the New Irascibles: Art in the 1980s
A landmark exhibition, Collecting the New Irascibles: Art in the 1980s opens a window onto the Lower East Side art scene, where low rents and studio-ready lofts fostered a dynamic arts ecology fueled by fearless critics and intrepid dealers.
January 28-April 12, 2026
