From Beneath: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition highlights work by UMD Department of Art MFA students graduating at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year, and showcases cutting-edge graduate research that utilizes a myriad of new approaches in art-making. This year the exhibition features work by MFA candidates Kenneth Hilker and Dan Ortiz Leizman.

According to the artists, the exhibition invites viewers to embody gestures of gazing up, lying down, and listening in. Hilker's monumental wooden and metal sculptures reach upward, questioning the proportions and scales of our existence. Ortiz Leizman's multimedia installations weave AI, tactile sound, and imagery of queer reproduction from within the US war machine, culminating in a set of three digital “wombs.”

From Beneath is organized by the University of Maryland Art Gallery, in association with the Department of Art. Major support is provided by the Dorothy and Nicholas Orem Exhibition Fund. Generous support is provided by the Maryland State Arts Council. This exhibition is in association with University of Maryland's Arts for All initiative. 

An in-person exhibition preview will take place on Wednesday, May 1, 5-7pm. Free admission and open to the public.

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