2024-2025 Exhibitions
Fall Semester, 2024
The Screenprint Biennial
September 12-December 13, 2024
The Turner is thrilled to host the 10-year anniversary and first West Coast edition of the Screenprint Biennial. Featuring the work of 23 contemporary artists from across the country, this exhibition brings cutting-edge printmaking to Northern California and celebrates the diverse and important story of screenprint today.
This exhibition is generously supported by the Chico State Women's Philanthropy Council.
Exhibition Catalogue
View the exhibition catalogue online. (PDF) Interested in purchasing a copy? Please contact turnerinfo@csuchico.edu
Exhibition Events
Artist Panel & Opening Reception, Thursday, September 12, 5:30-7:30 PM
A conversation between Biennial founder Nathan Meltz, visiting artist Sheila Goloborotko, and Turner Curator Rachel Skokowski. View the recording online.
Nathan Meltz uses printmaking, animation, sculpture, and performance to comment on the infiltration of technology into every facet of life, from politics and food, to family and war. His solo exhibitions include the gallery at Atelier Presse Papier, Trois-Rivières, Canada, the Shircliff Gallery at Vincennes University, Indiana, Southern Illinois University’s Vergette Gallery, GRIDSPACE, New York, the University of Florida–Jacksonville’s Andrew Brest Gallery, and Noise Gallery, Ohio. His international exhibitions include the 16th International Printmaking Triennial Graphica Creativa Triennial, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janiero, Brazil, and more. In 2014 Meltz founded the Screenprint Biennial, an exhibition and organization that seeks to showcase a range of screenprint-based art applications, from framed, editioned prints to installation, sculpture, video, ephemera and posters. Meltz is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of the Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Sheila Goloborotko grew up under the hardship of a dictatorial military regime in Brazil. In her 20s, as a Jewish, Latinx, and out-of-the-closet lesbian, she left her homeland as a refugee, making Brooklyn, NY, her home. Since 2015, she has been based in Jacksonville, Florida where she is a Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Design at the University of North Florida. For decades, she has sustained a restless, relentless auto-ethnographic multidisciplinary practice that allows singular ideas to emerge in the guise of numerous artistic actions. Resulting works transgress the boundaries of mediums and employ symbols of transience, impermanence, and stasis—the Life and Death of natural systems—founding documents, language, and democracy. She weaves these subject matters—an amalgamation of our human connection and collective history—to create single pieces that often develop into groupings—changeable, shifting, active, unsettled. With a sense of emergency, her work serves as sites for our shared Humanity, holding space for resistance, resilience, and poetic activism: it is cathartic, honest, self-searching. It invites us to find meaning and to engage in important questions about our relationship with nature, information, and one another.
Spring Semester, 2025
In Focus: Asian American Artists at The Turner
January 21-March 15, 2025
Roger Shimomura, Enter the Rice Cooker, 1994. Color screenprint. Gift of Jacki McCann.
This exhibition spotlights the work of Asian American artists in the Turner collection, including prints by significant 20th-century and contemporary artists such as Ruth Asawa, George Miyasaki, Jiha Moon, Chiura Obata, Roger Shimomura, Walasse Ting, and Patti Warashina. Discover powerful stories around identity, belonging, and resilience, with a focus on Northern California.
This exhibition is generously supported by a City of Chico Arts and Culture Grant and the Chico State Asian & Pacific Islander Council.
Exhibition Audio Guide
The exhibition is accompanied by a special audio guide, featuring the voices and perspectives of API students, staff, and faculty at Chico State. Listen to the audio guide online or view the audio guide booklet (PDF).
Exhibition Events
Curator Talk & Opening Reception, Thursday, January 30 at 5:30 PM
Kathy Aoki - Performance & Artist Talk, Wednesday, March 5 at 5:30 PM
Kathy Aoki’s work examines the absurdities of the art market, pop culture trends, and patriarchal power. Trained as a printmaker, she has since expanded her practice to include animation, and sculpture for her installations that simulate visitor centers and museums. Through her presentations of ersatz “art historical” works, authoritative wall panels, and audio tour, Aoki envelopes the viewer in fictional narratives that question today’s value systems. Humorous performance-lectures in character as an academic "Curator" often complement the work. Born in New Haven, CT, Aoki currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and has earned numerous awards including the 2025 Creative Capital Grant and fellowships at MacDowell, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, and Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium). Aoki’s works on paper reside in collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, and she has presented work in exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art (solo), the de Young Art Museum (San Francisco), and the International Print Center New York.
Ink & Clay
April 8-May 10, 2025
The 22nd Annual Ink & Clay and 29th Annual Student Printmaking exhibition celebrates the culmination of Chico State student work in printmaking and ceramics.
Student Awards Ceremony & Opening Reception, Thursday, April 17 at 5:30 PM
2025 Printmaking Juror
Guen Montgomery is an artist and performer whose work investigates identity through studies of material culture, gender, and family mythology. Montgomery’s work is located in the intersections between printmaking, performance, and sculpture. Montgomery has exhibited nationally and internationally, recently completed a residency at Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN and has work in multiple public collections including the Centre for Art and Design in Churchill Australia, and Mushashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan. Montgomery is an Assistant Professor in the Studio Arts program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she teaches printmaking, textiles and sculpture. She currently lives in Urbana amongst a joyful tangle of toys and pet fur with her wife, daughter, two cats and dog.
2025 Clay Juror
Mattie Hinkley is a maker, educator, and organizer from Virginia. Hinkley received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MFA from Maine College of Art & Design, and attended the Fine Woodworking program at the Krenov School. Along with comics and illustration, their practice explores the interconnection between art, craft, and design through functional objects. They currently teach at California State University Chico and Butte College, as well as serving as the director of Second Cousin, a nonprofit arts organization.