Museum of Museums (MoM) was a contemporary art center in Seattle, WA.
Nearly every inch of the property is art activated.
Housed in a renovated mid-century medical building, MoM hosts two formal exhibition spaces, three additional on-site museums, rotating installations, murals and sculpture, a theater, weekly art classes, pop-ups, and conceptual gift shop.
Our mission is to increase the artist population of Seattle and inspire our local arts ecosystem through exhibition, education, and conversation about the role of the artist, philanthropist and collector.
Summer 2023 Exhibitions
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SEA OF VAPORS
Museum of Museums is pleased to announce Sea of Vapors, an immersive installation by Emily Counts opening in the True Space this summer!
Exploring themes of identity, memory, mortality, and our relationship to nature, Counts invites the audience to partake in a voyage alongside a masterfully staged collective of female figures who are traveling by boat through a dream space to meet their venerated Queen.
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Soft Touch
Soft Touch is an immersive, tactile survey of soft sculpture and textile art featuring over 40 artists from the Pacific Northwest and far beyond. Audiences are invited to sit, stand, or recline in a gallery cushioned by a patchwork of futon mattresses, shag carpets, and curtaining as they explore work that interweaves themes of identity, humanity, and natural ecosystems.
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ENSLIMED
"Enslimed" is an immersive art installation designed by Lilia Deering, a Seattle-based artist with a background in large-scale installation, sculpture, and performance art. In this piece, Deering draws upon her experience creating unexpected immersive environments to subvert the sterile aesthetics of the modern restroom space.
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REFLECTING BOUNDRIES BY MARIANA GUTHEIM
Mariana Gutheim is an interdisciplinary architect, designer, and artist whose work focuses on creating site-specific light installations using architectural digital tools. In her piece Reflecting Boundaries, Gutheim explores the influence of technology on architecture and creative processes within a transitory space—specifically, MoM's Toilet #2.
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BANGER at Ummagumma
MoM’s sound installation returns with a poetry collection titled BANGER, curated by Richard Chiem. Featuring four of Seattle’s most prominent poets, Rae Armantrout, Quenton Baker, Kamari Bright, and E.J. Koh. These poems break the glass, these poets break convention. The shards become you. Enter the sky, dreamy and airborne, you will never touch the ground again.
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The Supperfield Museum of Contemporary Art
The Supperfield Museum of Contemporary Art is the only full-scale miniature Art Museum in Seattle. This Winter, SMAC is pleased to bring :
“CORAJE” paintings by Caspar Thrillson, “401Y2K” installation by Shonny Provo, “Experiments in Candied Horror” paintings by Christopher Sweetbeard, “A Pattern and Altar for Joy and Delight” installation by Rufina Nechama Futureself (The Flerps Galleries). “Undecidable Propositions” an installation by K Haas (The Atrium). “Every Beautiful Thing”New Work by Uncle Ruby (Box Galleries).
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Proving Ground by Jeff Rufus Byrd
Byrd reimagines the view from Camp Milliman in a video installation that provides a window into a dream. Byrd is a performance and video artist who has presented work all over the globe. He has exhibited in over 75 group exhibitions, and has performed at notable venues as Lincoln Center in New York and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
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The Crawler's Museum by Catherine Croft
Locker #141 debuts its first installation, "The Crawler's Museum," by Catherine Croft. In this mixed media installation, Croft hands the space over to the insects of the museum. “We overheard you are looking for someone to fill locker 141 with some art and it just so happens that the locker, while small for you humans, is the perfect size for us little fellows. We would like to use this space to show off the works created by the resident insects, arachnids, and worms of MoM; The Crawlers Museum.”
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Promise The World Your Love by Kristen Terry Ramirez: A Retrospective
Museum of Museums is proud to announce the creation of the Ramirez Room, in honor of the late Kristen Ramirez, to showcase emerging and mid-career artists working in the Pacific Northwest. We are honored to inaugurate this gallery with a small retrospective of Kristen’s work.
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Imaginary Lands : An Exhibition by Artists 6-16
The Emergence Room is a rotating, monthly showcase of visual art that celebrates young artists 6-16 from around the Pacific Northwest.
This summer, we welcome “Imaginary Lands” - an installation by “The Westside School” students.
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"Fondly Yours" at The Charles Mudede Theater
A collection of valedictions, a handful of balloon ribbons. Eight short films about love and loneliness: soft joys and snack-sized heartbreak, curated by Rob Patrick.
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Arborescent, A Video Stairwell Installation
Arborescent is an interactive experience by Sabin Timalsena that allows the participant to control an algorithmic botany simulation with hand gestures. Sabin is a computational artist, who creates art by writing in the language of computers. Arborescent is a collaboration between the artist and the visitors who interact with it.
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7 Stair Mural
Rain Sissel transforms the 7 steps that lead between our 1st and 2nd floors with a kaleidoscopic tufted textile mural.
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MoM Gift Shop
This unique gift shop showcases 63 items as an ever-rotating selection!
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Sasquatch Daydream
by Crystal Barbre. “Sasquatch Daydream” is an ode to Mary Catherine's and all of the strong women of the Pacific Northwest that have battled cancer.
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Chilkat in South Beach
Mural by Nahaan.
The color palette was inspired by my time when Nahaan lived in South Beach, Miami, Florida and brings forward traditional chilkat weaving design work in a contemporary way. “Our people were travelers along time ago and were inspired and influenced by nations aside from ours. This helps to diversify and generate creativity that embodies different ways of viewing the world”.
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Banana Mural by Ariel Parrow
Located in the first floor of MoM.
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Provisional Body
By Gracelee Lawrence in the front lawn of MoM.
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LAUGHING SKIES
Entryway Mural by Nikita Ares.
Nikita was born in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines in 1996, and has lived in Seattle since 2014. Her work consists primarily of drawings and paintings inspired by intimate moments. The movements and energies of humans and objects interest her and she creates variations of these gestures in her work.
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LENA
Mural by Barry Johnson.
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Heavenly Future Portal
By Ari Glass.