Summer Exhibition Opening Celebration

It’s party time! Join us for our next exhibition opening celebration on Friday, July 24, at 7:30PM to celebrate our summer exhibition, . The exhibition brings together recent artworks by 28 artists with ties to Colorado. While not comprehensive, together these perspectives offer a kaleidoscopic view of how we understand Colorado during its 150th anniversary of statehood.

*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, curator remarks, and complimentary drinks from the designated VIP bar until 7:30PM. Additional drinks are available for purchase after 7:30PM.

About the Curators

Miranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her most recent accomplishments include acting as the Susan Brennan co-Artistic Director (alongside Ebony G. Patterson) of the 2024–2025 international art triennial Prospect.6 in New Orleans; and organizing the following exhibitions at MCA Denver: Suki Seokyeong Kang: Mountain—Hour—Face (2025, co-organized with Leilani Lynch); Cowboy (2023, co-organized with Nora Burnett Abrams); Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe (2023); Clarissa Tossin: Falling from Earth (2022); Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lighting / Rivalizando con el relampágo (2022); and Jason Moran: Bathing the Room with Blues (2021). In 2016, Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker co-organized the acclaimed group exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, and in 2014 Lash organized the traveling retrospective Mel Chin: Rematch. From 2008 to 2014, Lash was the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She currently serves on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and was a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Curatorial Leadership.

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 to 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.

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