[Exhibition]: 2025 Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art thru January 11th, 2026
Out to Sea, Out to See, You and You and You and Me, 2018-2023
Group Exhibition: 2025 Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art
On view Oct 3, 2025–Jan 11, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday 3 October, 6 - 8pm
Dating back to 1978, CMCA’s Biennial is the longest running survey of contemporary art by artists with ties to Maine. This edition features 29 artists selected from a pool of over 450 applicants by jurors Keith Fox, Tom Keyes, and William Hathaway. Well over three quarters of the artists are full-time Maine residents living in communities from York to Bar Harbor to Orono; others have longstanding seasonal ties to the state or have participated in residencies and fellowships at a number of its prestigious schools and artist-endowed foundations. Though certain motifs and strategies recur across the jurors’ selections—seafaring and the horizon, uncanny interior scenes and landscapes, narratives of the vitality of marginalized communities and the dignity of labor, and the state’s ongoing love affair with painting—their choices reflect an open-minded, non-thematic, and intergenerational understanding of Maine’s role in contemporary art.
