Previous Exhibitions

My Hampton Roads: A Community Project

September 13 - December 30, 2012

In celebration of the Instagratification: Christine Michalka-Marahrens exhibition the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) invited the community in Hampton Roads to participate in the My Hampton Roads: Community Project. This online and in-gallery project serves as the community’s artistic response to the prompt “My Hampton Roads….” MOCA asked the community to submit one original photograph and caption on MOCA’s Facebook page. Each week the photographs are compiled into an online album for everyone to enjoy and the most “liked” photographs are transferred into a slideshow in gallery at MOCA. To view or submit to the project visit facebook.com/VirginiaMOCA. …

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My Hampton Roads is....in my backyard - Alan Skees

The Disposable Film Festival

September 13 – December 30, 2012

Selected by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the world's "coolest film festivals," the Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 by Carlton Evans and Eric Slatkin to celebrate the democratization of cinema made possible by low cost video technology: everyday equipment like mobile phones, pocket cameras, DSLRs and other inexpensive devices. Through screenings, workshops, competitions, panels, and other events intended to educate and inspire, the Disposable Film Festival promotes experimentation and helps build the track record needed for a new generation of filmmakers to enter and change the industry. Disposable kicks off in San Francisco every March before traveling to cities around the worl…

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Prisms

September 7-23, 2012

Celebrate the artistic accomplishments of Art Campers at the Prisms 2012 art exhibition on view in MOCA’s Fleming Gallery. Art Campers, their families, friends and teachers are invited to share in the excitement at the closing reception, Sunday, September 23, 2012, 2-4pm. Artwork can be taken home at the close of the reception. This reception will coincide with a FREE Family Fest and will feature children’s art activities, scavenger hunts and refreshments. …

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Prisms 2010.

Andy Warhol: Portraits

May 26-August 19, 2012

Watch MOCA's Warhol commercial. Read the Warhol review from the Virginian-Pilot. Click here to listen to or download MOCA's Warhol audio tours. The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Andy Warhol: Portraits, featuring original works from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. This notoriously private artist is revealed in the company he keeps. Including screenprints, drawings, paintings, Polaroids, and vintage family photos this exhibition explores the phenomenon that is Warhol’s work on a deeply personal level. Andy Warhol: Portraits includes more than 130 portraits produced by Warhol from the 1940s to the 1980s. This exhibition contains portraits of Warhol in his youth…

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Andy Warhol: Portraits at MOCA.

I Like Soup

May 26 to August 19, 2012

I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about. I'm working on soups, and I've been doing some paintings of money. I just do it because I like it. - Andy Warhol, Time Magazine, May 11, 1962 As MOCA and the Hampton Roads community celebrates the Andy Warhol: Portraits exhibition, we wanted to take a moment to explore Warhol’s idea of a tin soup can and the many ways in which popular culture influences artists today. A plain, unused tin can was given to a selection of local, national and internationally recognized contemporary artists. They were asked to reinterpret the can and use it in the creation of their own art. Each original can is …

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