Join us at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art for the opening reception of three new exhibitions that explore identity, history, and the very act of seeing. Admission is free and open to all.

Living Here

East Gallery and WorkShop Gallery

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is proud to present Living Here, an exhibition of artists from the East and Southeast Asian diasporas. Featuring artists whose ancestries lie in Cambodia, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines, the exhibition looks at the way familiar touchstones—such as food, clothing, and movies—permeate diasporic movement through the materiality of touch, taste, sight, and sound.

The artists respond to personal memories and historical events that shape diasporic identity: from karaoke nights and parent-child relationships to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the journeys of Filipino Rough Riders with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Living Here incorporates painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and oral histories from Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project, created by the UNLV Libraries Oral History Research Center.

Artists include Eliza O. Barrios, Ching Ching Cheng, Daieny Chin, Jisoo Chung, Emmanuel David and Yumi Janairo Roth, Maya Fuji, Sush Machida Gaikotsu, Jeannie Hua, Hue, Phung Huynh, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, eri king, Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza, Quindo Miller, Jiha Moon, May Nguyen, Ian Racoma, Michael Rippens, Jennifer Seo, Stephanie Shih (史欣雲), Stephanie H. Shih, TT Takemoto, Sherwin Rivera Tibayan, Maria Villote, and Christine Wong Yap.

Perception

West Gallery

What does it mean to trust your eyes? Perception challenges the relationship between seeing and knowing with artworks that confuse, surprise, and delight. Static paintings appear to move. Diagrams mislead. Space collapses into impossible forms.

Drawn from the Barrick’s permanent collection—including new acquisitions by Thomas Burke, Denise R. Duarte, Dirk Staschke, and Thomas Ray Willis—this exhibition is presided over by a giant brain and a pair of weeping eyes. Works on view include drawings, sculptures, paintings, photography, and more by Deborah Aschheim, Chad Brown, Diane Bush, Tomoko Daido, Jack Endewelt, Ripper Jordan (James Hough, David Ryan, Sean Slattery), Kara Joslyn, Julie Oppermann, Brian Porray, Harry Roseman, James Stanford, Laurens Tan, John Torreano, Mikayla Whitmore, and Cindy Wright.

Floreo

Window Gallery

Las Vegas artist Brian Martinez presents Floreo, a shaped painting installation that blends Mexican art history with contemporary Chicano culture. Rivera’s iconic Vendedora de Flores is reimagined through Mesoamerican imagery and modern street fashion, set against a striking red and blue backdrop on the Museum’s south exterior wall. The Window Gallery is always open to the public.

Exhibitions on view: June 20 – December 20, 2025

Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Admission: Always free