University at Albany Fine Art Museum Collections

University at Albany Fine Art Collections

The University at Albany Art Fine Art Collections are comprised of over 3,000 objects and reflect over 50 years of modern and contemporary art, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings and sculpture by many of the most prominent artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Collections includes works by such renowned artists as: Vito Acconci, Josef Albers, Sanford Biggers, Xu Bing, Mel Bochner, Lee Bontecou, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Marisol Escobar, Mary Frank, Helen Frankenthaler, Phil Frost, Anna Gaskell, Leon Golub, Grace Hartigan, Douglas Huebler, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Joseph Kosuth, Christian Marclay, Mary Ellen Mark, Cameron Martin, Robert Motherwell, Vik Muniz, Louise Nevelson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Judy Pfaff, Katherine Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., James Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, Yinka Shonibare, Lorna Simpson, Robert Smithson, Richard Stankiewicz, Brian Tolle, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, and Jack White.

Access the archive of the Collections. 

University Art Museum Collections Study Space

As part of a comprehensive, public, research institution, the University Art Museum is committed to providing spaces for creative, rigorous, interdisciplinary inquiry that can actively transform higher education. The UAM’s Collections Study Space is a multi-purpose space designed to safely house the University at Albany Fine Art Collections and simultaneously make them accessible to students, faculty, other researchers and scholars, and the community.

The Collections Study Space serves as a viewing and study gallery for fine art in a classroom context. It offers a range of behind-the-scenes experiences that inform current museum best practices and fosters an environment in which contemporary art is experienced through multiple perspectives. A designated teaching area accommodates classes of up to 20 students or small community groups. The Study Space also serves as a site for discussions, talks, small panels, readings and informal conversations related to the artists and artworks in the Collections.

The primary role of the Collections Study Space is to provide proper care and storage of the Collections. The space includes extensive flat files to hold works on paper, sliding rack systems for paintings, and shelving systems for framed works and boxed portfolios. A range of registrarial functions are performed on site, including cataloguing, photographing and conditioning works of art as well as the administration of the Museum’s ongoing loan program.

Works from the collections have been part of major nationally touring exhibitions at The Los Angeles County Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Cincinnati Art Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; The Baltimore Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York;The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College; the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz; and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College

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The Collections Study Space is free and open to the public.

To view selected holdings from the Collections, schedule guided tours, conduct research, or reserve classroom time please email Darcie Abbatiello at [email protected].

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Initial support for the Collections Study Space was provided by the Henry Luce Foundation American Art Program.