Upcoming Exhibitions

Rough Gems 2026 Curatorial Training Program

Each year Rough Gems offers a platform for three new and emerging Denver-area curators to present an exhibition at Union Hall, complete with financial support, professional curatorial mentorship, and access to valuable resources. Selected 2026 exhibitions will take place in six week increments and each will include two community engagement events. The 2026 Rough Gems program is generously supported by Kenneth King Foundation.

Drexciya: Into the Deep

March 5 — May 2 | Guest curated by Sierra Jeter

Wearing, Wearing

June 25 — August 8 | Guest curated by Felicity Wong

Wearing, Wearing features six artists who employ strategies of abstraction, repurposing, amalgamation, and deconstruction to investigate the relationships between clothing and decay. Embedded in histories of racial and colonial capitalism, the garment industry has not only laid waste to our environments, but also rendered garment laborers invisible, dispensable, and machine-like. Moving away from aspirations towards luxury fashion, this exhibition asks how mundane, cheap, and dying garments can contribute to but also help us navigate landscapes of decay.

In the Shadows

August 20 — October 3 | Guest curated by Italu Ramos Hernandez

The title "In the Shadows" draws on the phrase "living in the shadows," a term often used to describe immigrants in the United States. It evokes a state of invisibility, of existing in silence. The exhibition seeks to reclaim immigrant stories by bringing together works that explore memory, displacement, belonging, and identity beyond political narratives. By centering voices that are too often ignored, In the Shadows not only humanizes immigrant experiences but challenges broader political ideas of legality, recognition, and who is permitted to belong.