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 (Golden Triangle), 1261 Delaware St, Ste 2, Denver, CO 80204, 303-355-0950, Tue–Sat: 12–4pm and by appt
Jul 19–Aug 9: Through the Natural Lens
Sep 13–Oct 4: Robin Hextrum: Magical Realism; Animalia: Group Exhibition
Oct 10–Nov 1: Karina Rodríguez: The Golden Hive
Nov 6–12: Windows to the Divine
Nov 15–26: Lindsey Kustusch
Dec 3–27: 35th Annual Holiday Miniatures Show
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 20–Sep 27: Darrell Anderson: Streets, Take 5: Jazz-Inspired Art
Center for Colorado Women’s History, 1310 Bannock Street, Denver, CO, 80204, 303-620-4933, Mon–Sat: 10am–4pm, Sun: 12–4pm
Apr 4, 2025–Mar 29, 2026: Ms. Destiny
Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St, Denver, CO 80204, 720-354-4880, Tue–Sun: 10am–5pm
Jan 25–Sep 14: Held Impermanence (Artists Select: Katherine Simóne Reynolds)
Sep 19, 2025–May 10, 2026: “Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
Ongoing: Abstract Expressions: Terrace Installation
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, 1200 Lincoln Street, Suite 111, Denver, CO 80203, 303-837-1341, Tue–Fri: 11am–5pm, Sat: 12–4pm
Jun 27–Aug 2: CPAC’s 2025 Members’ Show (juror: Anne Leighton Massoni)
Aug 8–Sept 27: What Remains: Carl Bower, Dana Stirling, and Emily (Billie) Warnock
Colorado State Capitol, 200 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80203, Mon–Fri: 9am–5pm
Feb–Aug 28: Creative Capitol: The Art of Teaching Artistry (curator: Think 360 Arts for Learning)
Nov 2025–Mar 2026: Living Tradition: Past. Present. Future: Colorado Women Artists
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
Jul 10–Sep 7: Sarah Darlene and James Holmes: Lifelines
Sep 11–28: Melissa Furness and Rian Kerrane
Oct 9–19: ILL 2025
Oct 30–Nov 9: CCD Student Exhibition
Dairy Block, 1821 Blake St, Denver, CO 80202, 720-360-4733, special event hours listed below
Aug 16, 5–10pm: Dairy Block After Dark: Evening Bazaar
David B. Smith Gallery, 1543 A Wazee St, Denver, CO 80202, 303-893-4234, Wed–Sat 12–5pm and by appt
Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204, 720-865-5000, Mon, Thu–Sun: 10am–5pm, Tue: 10am–8pm
Dec 3, 2023–Dec 7, 2025: Perfectly Imperfect: Korean Buncheong Ceramics
Feb 16–Oct 8: Confluence of Nature: Nancy Hemenway Barton
Mar 27, 2025–Feb 6, 2027: Guest of Honor: Rembrandt
Apr 13–Aug 10: Charles Sandison: Chamber
Apr 20–Aug 17: Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors
Apr 20, 2025–Jul 26, 2026: Eyes On: Susan Wick
Jun 8–Dec 7: What We’ve Been Up To: Landscape
Opening Jun 15: A Century of Art in Latin America
Jun 29, 2025–Jun 14, 2026: Southwest Impressions: Prints from the Barbara J. Thompson Collection
Opening Oct 5: Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky
Oct 26, 2025–Feb 8, 2026: The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism (special exhibition ticket required)
Ongoing: SUSTAINED: The Persistent Genius of Indigenous Art
Ongoing: Sadie Young: The Tangled Self
Ongoing: Rupprecht Matthies: ¿Being Home?
Ongoing: Ink & Thread: Codices and the Art of Storytelling
Ongoing: By Design: Stories and Ideas Behind Objects
Ongoing: Gio Ponti: Designer of a Thousand Talents
Ongoing: Islands Beyond Blue: Niki Hastings-McFall and Treasures from the Oceania Collection
Ongoing: Painting in the Andes, 1880-1780
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 Gallery, 10 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204, 720-865-1111, Mon–Thu: 10am–6pm, Sun: 11am-5pm
Opening May 30: Outside the Norm: Expanding Outdoor Joy in Colorado (Special Collections and Archives Floor)
Opening Jun 18: Emerging West: Early Photography of Arundel Hull, 1867–1869 (Gates Reading Room)
Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St, Ste 515, Denver, CO 80202, 303-623-3001, Wed–Fri: 11am–5pm by appt, email info@dikeoucollection.org to schedule a viewing
Through 2025: Devon Dikeou: Mid-Career Smear
Jul 9–Aug 1: Moving Still: Video Art Highlights from the Dikeou Collection
Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80203, 303-623-3001, open by appt and during events, for group tours please email info@dikeoucollection.org
Through 2025: Devon Dikeou: Mid-Career Smear
Emmanuel Art Gallery, Auraria Campus, University of Colorado Denver, 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 25–Sep 12: Made in Colorado 2025
Sep 25–Dec 13: Lain Singh Bangdel: Against the Current
Gallery 1261, 1261 Delaware St, Ste 1, Denver, CO 80204, 303-571-1261, Tue–Sat: 12–4pm and by appt
Aug 16–Sep 6: The 1261 Summer Show
Oct 10–Nov 1: Tight II (curator: Anthony Waichulis)
Dec 3–27: Small Works
Dec 11: Dam Westerners Holiday Party (curator: Rose Fredrick)
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
Aug 7–Oct 22: Beau Carne: Sweet Summer Goodbye
History Colorado Center, 1200 N Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, 303-447-8679, Daily: 10am–5pm
Oct 18, 2024–Oct 5, 2025: ¡Viva La Causa! Long Live the Cause!: The Art of Change
Jan 24, 2025–Jan 1, 2026: Horizon: On the Plains with John Fielder
K Contemporary, 1412 Wazee St, Denver, CO 80202, 303-590-9800, Tue–Fri: 12–6pm, Sat: 12–5pm
Jul 19–Aug 30: Marielle Plaisir: Rhapsody for a Beloved World; Romelle: Machina
Sep 13–Oct 25: Daisy Patton; Ya La'Ford
Nov 8–Dec 27: Anne von Freyburg; Shawn Huckins
Jan 17–Feb 28, 2026: Francisco Souto; Taylor Anton White
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 1201 Bannock St, Denver, CO 80204, 303-832-8576, Tue–Sat: 11am–5pm, Sun: 12–5pm (visitors must be 13 or older)
Ongoing: Vanity & Vice: American Art Deco
Ongoing: International Decorative Art
Ongoing: Colorado & Regional Art
Ongoing: Vance Kirkland Paintings
McNichols Civic Center Building, 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80202, 720-865-5570, Daily: 10am–4pm (closed during events)
May 22–Sep 30: Fiber Art Today; Fashion Photography in Denver
Metropolitan Frame Company. 424 N Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, 303-446-2265, Mon–Fri: 9am–6pm, Sat: 10am–3pm
Mirada Fine Art, 1331 15th St, Denver, CO 80202, 303-697-9006, Tue–Sat: 11am–6pm, Sun: 12–4pm
Aug 16–Oct 5: Lyudmila Agrich: Artistic Alchemy (Opening reception: Aug 16, 4–6pm)
Nov 29–Dec 28: 16th Anniversary Holiday Exhibition
Mirus Gallery, 1144 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, 303-828-9060, Wed–Fri: 12–6pm by appt and Fri: 9pm-12am for Mirus Marketplace
Jun 16–Sep 5: Psychonauts
Sep 12–Nov 14: Travis Gillan
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St, Denver, CO 80202, 303-298-7554, Tue–Fri: 12–7pm, Sat–Sun: 10am–5pm
May 23–Aug 24: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home: Selections from Prospect.6 New Orleans
Sep 12, 2025–Feb 15, 2026: Roni Horn: Water, Water on the Wall, You’re the Fairest of Them All; Deborah Jack: The Haunting of Estuaries…An (After)Math of Confluence
Night Lights Denver, Daniels & Fisher Tower, 1601 Arapahoe St, Denver, CO 80202, Tue–Sun: program runs approximately dusk to midnight
Jul: Month of Video: Kelly Gallagher, Kyle Evans, Tom Nelson, and kokofreak bean (curator: Month of Video)
Aug: Sarah Kennedy, Deanna Sirloin, Elliott McKnight, Ebony Blanding, and Liliana Penagos (curated in partnership with Arts & Entertainment Atlanta)
Sep: Annual Digerati Experimental Media Festival Program
Oct: Monumomentum 2025 (curators: Donald Fodness and Tobias Fike)
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
Jul 10–Aug 30: Duologies
Sep 18–Nov 15: Ted Larsen
Spark Gallery, 1200 Acoma Street, Denver, CO 80204, 303-681-4687, Fri–Mon: 11am–3:30pm, Tue: 12–9pm
Aug 1–26: SPARK Supporting Members’ Show (Opening reception: Aug 2, 12–3pm)
Aug 29–Sep 23: Elaine Ricklin, Leo Franco, and Eric Wall (Opening reception: Aug 30, 12–3pm)
Sep 26–Oct 21: Joyce Coco, Annalee Schorr, and Katherine Smith-Warren (Opening reception: Sep 27, 12–3pm)
Oct 24–Nov 18: Robert St John, Barbara Baer, and Beth Roland (Opening reception: Oct 25, 12–3pm)
Understudy, 890 C 14th St, Denver, CO 80202, Thu–Sun: 12–6pm
Jul 31–Aug 31: Laura Conway: Hard Ain't It Hard: A Song to Woody Guthrie (Opening reception: Aug 2, 5–8pm)
Sep 11–Oct 12: Phillip Stearns
Oct 23–Nov 23: Joseph Martinez
Union Hall, 1750 Wewatta St, Ste 144, Denver, CO 80202, located inside The Coloradan, 720-927-4033, Wed–Sat: 12–6pm
May 9–Aug 23: Oracle (Guided experience: Every Sat, 1–4pm, by reservation)
Walker Fine Art, 300 W 11th Ave, Unit A (enter on Cherokee St), Denver, CO 80204, 303-355-8955, Tue–Sat: 11am–5pm
Jul 18–Sep 6: Untethered: Derrick Breidenthal, Theresa Clowes, George Kozmon, and Sara Sanderson
Sep 12–Nov 8: Sandra Klein, Heather Patterson, Angie Piehl, and Joo Woo
William Havu Gallery, 1040 Cherokee St, Denver, CO 80204, 303-893-2360, Tue–Fri: 10am–6pm, Sat: 11am–5pm, and by appt
May 16–Sep 20: Homare Ikeda: The Boat; Cheryl Ann Thomas: Final Porcelain Sculptures; Naomi Scheck: Tactile Horizons
Sep 26, 2025–Jan 10, 2026: Sam Scott; Dana Hart Stone
Zing Art Gallery, Zing Credit Union, 1075 Acoma St, Denver, CO 80204, 303-573-1170, Mon–Fri: 9am–5pm, Sat: 9am–1pm
Jul 8–Sep 30: Circle of Friends (curator: Genevieve Waller)
Oct 8, 2025–Jan 2, 2026: Paintbox Guild