Seen and Unseen is a show about visibility and invisibility,  but even more a show about discernment: what deserves our attention, what overwhelms our attention, what is hidden by power, what is protected by privacy, and what becomes visible through love. 

Seen and Unseen gathers artists whose work attends to the immigrant experience. For those who come from somewhere, and find themselves somewhere else, visibility can be both gift and grief: to be seen may mean recognition, welcome, representation, or dignity; but it may also mean surveillance, suspicion, stereotyping, exposure, or control. To remain unseen may offer safety, privacy, and sacred interiority; but invisibility may also mean erasure, exploitation, loneliness, or exclusion.

These artists attend to the visible signs of migration — documents, rooms, garments, language, food, architecture, faces, and public images — while honoring the invisible realities they carry: longing, fear, faith, family history, grief, resilience, and hope. The exhibition asks not simply that we see more, but that we see more carefully. 

The exhibition asks how art might form a better kind of attention — one that sees without consuming, reveals without extracting, witnesses without spectacle, and honors what remains hidden.

Curated by Sarah Bernhardt, this exhibition opens to the public September 8, 2026 and runs through November 7, 2026. We will have a Dovetail event for Seen and Unseen on October 9, 2026, which you can learn more about here.