Current and Upcoming
Kate and John Stirek Gallery
Exhibitions housed in the Kate and John Stirek Gallery emphasize the work of contemporary artists and their cross-disciplinary collaborators. These collaborations engage questions of science, technology and ecology and their varying reverberations into our daily lives.
At 3,000 square feet, the gallery is equipped to support experimentation across media and host rigorous conversation about timely issues in our social and cultural landscape. Our exhibitions ask how artists can shape future understanding of the world around us.
PRAx artist residency programs provide opportunities for creating and exhibiting new bodies of work. PRAx gratefully acknowledges the support of Teiger Foundation for a series of exhibitions in the Stirek Gallery in the 2025-27 period.
Exhibitions in this space are curated by Ashley Stull Meyers, Mary Jones and Thomas Hart Horning Chief Curator of Art, Science, and Technology.
machinekind
September 25 - December 13, 2025
Exploring the space between machine-generated efficiency and the poignant and sometimes valuable inefficiencies that accompany human behavior.
Ray Theater
Check back for upcoming exhibitions!
Lightboxes and Arts Corridor
PRAx regularly rotates artworks in the Toomey Lobby Lightboxes and in the Arts Corridor. Installations in these spaces vary in medium and theme. Curators include PRAx staff, OSU arts and design faculty, and external partners.
Mooning Nancy
September 26 – November 8
Mooning Nancy is a series of digital photomicroscopic images of spellcasting salt, photographed by John Whitten.
Top image: Mar, Mar e Mar by Polara Studio