Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Graphic Design: Konkuk University

Graphic design artwork of an array of blue rectangles of different sizes
  • January 23-February 7, 2025
  • Opening Reception – Thursday, January 23rd, 4-6pm

Facilitated by Rhode Island College Graphic Design Professor Heemong Kim, Graphic Design: Konkuk University features selected works from graduating students studying at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. The university’s objective is to develop creative designers aware of their social responsibilities through an understanding of humanity, society, technology, philosophy and culture.

RaMell Ross: Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body

Brown dog laying on wooden landing
RaMell Ross
  • February 20-March 21, 2025
  • Opening Reception – Thursday, February 20th, 4-7pm

RaMell Ross – artist, filmmaker, writer, and liberated documentarian – released his Academy Award-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening in 2018, filming and photographing the residents of a rural community in the Black Belt region of Alabama that Ross calls his adoptive home. Through his large-format color photographs, he explores the meaning and mythology of the American South and of Black identity. Ross released his first photo book Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body in 2023 and presents a truncated look at this series with a new exhibition of large-scale photographs and mixed-media sculptures for Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College. RaMell Ross is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at Brown University and received his MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Lani Irwin and Alan Feltus - Selected Works

two images of 3 women sitting together and one women with rocking horse
Lani Irwin and Alan Feltus - Selected Works
  • April 3-25, 2025
  • Opening Reception – Thursday, April 3rd, 4-7pm




 

2025 Graduating Art Students’ Exhibition

  • May 8-23, 2025
  • Opening Reception – Thursday, May 8th, 4-7pm
Rhode Island College entrance

Contact

Bannister Gallery

Located in Rhode Island College’s Roberts Hall, the Bannister Gallery presents 7 to 8 exhibitions a year by local, regional and international artists.

Dr. Victoria Gao

Director

Bannister Gallery and Exhibitions