Spring Exhibitions Opening Celebration

Join us for our next opening party on Thursday, March 5 at 7:30PM to celebrate our three spring exhibitions: Ana María Hernando: Seguir cantando (Keep Singing), Sammy Seung-min Lee: Becoming Motherland, and Bethany Collins: The Deluge.

*General admission tickets include museum admission, DJ sets, and all the good party vibes. Drinks are available for purchase.

*VIP tickets include first access to the exhibitions at 6PM and curator remarks.

About the Artists

Bethany Collins (b.1984) was born in Montgomery, AL and lives and works in Chicago, IL. Collins is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice examines the relationship between race and language. Centering language—its biases, contradictions, and ability to simultaneously forge connections and foster violence—her works illuminate America’s past and offer insight into the development of racial and national identities. Drawing on a wide variety of documents, ranging from nineteenth-century musical scores to US Department of Justice reports, she erases, obscures, excerpts, and rewrites portions of text to bring to the fore issues revolving around race, power, and histories of violence. Collins’s early series

​​Ana María Hernando, from Argentina (b. 1959, Buenos Aires), is a Colorado based multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the feminine, using empathy to make the invisible visible, and to question our preconceptions of the other and each other, including nature and the earth, their worth, and value. In her installations, Ana María uses textiles in abundance, and sometimes includes the work of women from around Latin America and beyond, from embroideries of cloistered nuns in Buenos Aires, to mountains of tulle, to the weavings and wares of Peruvian women from the Andes.

Sammy Seung-min Lee (b. 1975, Seoul; lives and works in Denver) explores sculpture, bookbinding, and installation in her interdisciplinary practice. Shaped by her nomadic youth and bicultural identity, she creates assemblages that bridge spatial, temporal, and socio-cultural divides. Lee's materials—from paper to architectural elements—and her adaptation of traditional techniques reimagine the relationship between the East and the West and connect tradition with contemporaneity.

About the Curator

Leilani Lynch is the Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Lynch has organized numerous museum exhibitions, including Movements Toward Freedom (2024), Gala Porras- Kim: A hand in nature (2024); Steven Yazzie: Meandered (2024); Ken Gun Min: The Lost Paradise (2024); and Anna Tsouhlarakis: Indigenous Absurdities (2023). From 2015-2022, Leilani held several curatorial positions at The Bass, Miami Beach. There she curated exhibitions with artists including Jamilah Sabur, Cara Despain, Naama Tsabar, Karen Rifas, Aaron Curry, Mika Rottenberg, in addition to co-organizing exhibitions by Adrián Villar Rojas, Haegue Yang, and Paola Pivi.*