IN/BETWEEN: WITHIN/OUTSIDE brings together artists who examine how identity is shaped through encounters with censorship. Curated by Karine Nguyen, ’26, Malena Lo Prete, ’26, and Paige Pryor, ’26, as part of the course ARTH 324: Panic! at the Museum: Art and Censorship, the exhibition explores how restrictions on what can be seen or said create space for resistance, revision, and self-definition.

Through redacted texts, fragmented narratives, silhouettes, and abstracted images, many works foreground absence: what has been erased, hidden, or left out of institutional memory. These omissions reveal how identity is shaped as much by what is unseen as by what is visible.

At the same time, artists assert presence through handwritten notes, archival materials, and documentary photography, reclaiming agency and rewriting dominant narratives around race, gender, culture, and power.

IN/BETWEEN: WITHIN/OUTSIDE invites viewers to reflect on the shifting, uncertain spaces where identity is continually challenged, negotiated, and reimagined.

Artists: Barbara Tisserat, Chris Dacre, Fred Wilson, Gordon Parks, Judy Chicago, Kara Walker, Pavlo Makov, Shahzia Sikander and Wendy Red Star

In/Between, Within/Outside is organized by the University of Richmond Museums as part of the course, Panic! at the Museum: Art and Censorship. The exhibition is curated by Karine Nguyen, ’26, Malena Lo Prete, ’26, and Paige Pryor, ’26.

Image: Wendy Red Star, Huxshiwaammishe (Beaded Cuffs), from the series Biluka (Our Side), Set E, 2023. Archival pigment prints on Satin Photo Rag. Museum purchases, Louis S. Booth Arts Fund,  H2024.10.02. © Wendy Red Star