The Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), which opened in the fall of 2005, is unique among Chicago's many museums for mounting exhibits that explore the spiritual in art from all cultures, faiths, and eras. LUMA is located on

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's Water Tower Campus in downtown Chicago, at 820 North Michigan Ave. LUMA's permanent collection comprises the Martin D'Arcy Collection of

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, and

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art and objects ranging in date from 1150 to 1800. Established in 1969 by Donald Rowe, S.J., the collection contains over 300 pieces. It was named after British humanist and Jesuit theologian

Martin D'Arcy Martin Cyril D'Arcy (15 June 1888 – 20 November 1976) was a Roman Catholic priest, philosopher of love, and a correspondent, friend, and adviser of a range of literary and artistic figures including Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy L. Sayers, W. H. Aude ...

, S.J., who amassed an art collection at

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, in

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. The collection was formerly located in the E.M. Cudahy Memorial Library on Loyola's Lake Shore Campus, in

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Selected exhibitions

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Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

Una Mostra Impossibile'' (October 8, 2005 – February 11, 2006) * ''

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: Flamenco'' (February 18–March 27, 2006) * ''The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the

Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dal ...

'' (October 28, 2006 – January 15, 2007) * ''A Blessing to One Another:

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

and The Jewish People'' (April 14–August 12, 2007) * ''

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's Silver Clouds'' (February 16–April 27, 2008) * ''Manifest Destiny/Manifest Responsibility: Environmentalism and the Art of the American Landscape'' (May 17–August 10, 2008) * ''On the Same Map: Hope is a Human Right—A Photographic Journey of

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'' (November 29, 2008 – January 4, 2009) * ''Rodin: In His Own Words—Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation'' (June 13–August 16, 2009) * ''Back to the Future:

Alfred Jensen Alfred Julio Jensen (11 December 1903 – 4 April 1981) was an abstract painter. His paintings are often characterized by grids of brightly colored triangles, circles or squares, painted in thick impasto. Conveying a complex web of ideas, often ...

, Charmion von Wiegand, Simon Gouverneur, and the Cosmic Conversation'' (September 12–November 15, 2009) * '' Moholy: An Education of the Senses'' (February 10–May 9, 2010) * ''The Papercut

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Archie Granot Archie Granot is a papercutting artist based in Israel. He works in traditional Jewish art, including ketubahs (ketubot), mizrachs, mezuzahs, haggadah The Haggadah ( he, הַגָּדָה, "telling"; plural: Haggadot) is a Jewish text that set ...

'' (February 10–May 9, 2010) * ''Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam'' (August 21–November 14, 2010) * ''

Eric Gill Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' describes Gill as ″the greatest artist-cra ...

: Iconographer'' (February 12–May 1, 2011) * ''Inscribing the Divine:

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'' (August 20–October 23, 2011) * ''Heaven + Hell (February 10-June 30, 2012) a collaborative exhibition with

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: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago * ''Andra Samelson: Cosmologies'' (July 20 – November 3, 2013) * ''Santitos'' (November 23, 2013 – January 12, 2014) * ''Elegant Enigmas: The Art of

Edward Gorey Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an Americans, American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other w ...

'' (February 15–June 15, 2014), Co-presented by the Loyola University Chicago Libraries. * '' Shaker in Chicago'' (February 7–April 26, 2015), a dual exhibition presenting an overview of the history of the United Society of Believers for Christ’s Second Appearing, featuring ''Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection'' and ''As It Is in Heaven: The Legacy of Shaker Faith and Design'' * ''

William Utermohlen William Charles Utermohlen (December 5, 1933 – March 21, 2007) was an American figurative artist known for his late-period self-portraits completed after his 1995 diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease. He had developed progressive memo ...

: A Persistence of Memory'' (February 6 – July 23, 2016) * ''

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: The Art of Indonesian Puppetry'' (February 4, 2017 – June 3, 2017), Courtesy of the May Weber Collection, Loyola University Chicago. * ''

Steve Schapiro Steve Schapiro (November 16, 1934 – January 15, 2022) was an American photographer. He is known for his photographs of key moments of the civil rights movement such as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom or the Selma to Montgomery ...

: Misericordia: Together We Celebrate'' (February 4, 2017 – June 3, 2017) * ''Jeffrey Wolin: Pigeon Hill: Then and Now'' (July 1, 2017 – October 21, 2017) * ''Susan Aurinko: Searching for Jehanne – the Joan of Arc Project'' (July 1, 2017 – October 21, 2017) * ''Gregory Beals: They Arrived Last Night'' (February 6, 2018 – June 2, 2018) * ''Her Story, My Dreams: The Images of Della Wells'' (February 6, 2018 – June 2, 2018) * ''Tonika Lewis Johnson: Everyday Englewood'' (February 6, 2018 – June 2, 2018)

Current exhibitions

* ''Following the Box'' (July 3 – October 20, 2018), curated by Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral * ''Tonika Lewis Johnson: Folded Map'' (July 3 – October 20, 2018) * ''Victoria Martinez: Celestial House'' (July 3 – October 20, 2018)

Annual exhibition

''Art and Faith of the Crèche: The Collection of James and Emilia Govan'' shows how artists across the globe depict the nativity with clothes, architecture, and figures from their native lands. This show has run every year around Christmas since 2007, and features nativity scenes from around the world.

Selected artists

* Mary Abbott *

David Lee Csicsko David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

Arthur Dove Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinati ...

* Stephen Fredericks *

Martin Johnson Heade Martin Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819 – September 4, 1904) was an American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, and depictions of tropical birds (such as hummingbirds), as well as lotus blossoms and other still lifes. His pai ...

* Steve Jablonski *

Wenzel Jamnitzer Wenzel Jamnitzer (sometimes Jamitzer, or Wenzel ''Gemniczer'') (1507/1508 – 19 December 1585) was a Northern Mannerist goldsmith, artist, and printmaker in etching, who worked in Nuremberg. He was the best known German goldsmith of his e ...

* William Smith Jewett *

Gary Kolb Gary Alan Kolb (March 13, 1940 – July 3, 2019) was an American professional baseball player. An outfielder and utilityman, Kolb played all or parts of seven seasons (1960; 1962–65; 1968–69) of Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardi ...

Joan Mitchell Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artis ...

Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American Abstract Expressionism, abstract expressionist Painting, painter, printmaker, and editor of ''The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology''. He was one of the youngest of th ...

* Nicario Jimenez Quispe *

* Shawn Stucky * Qes Adamu Tesfaw *

References

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