Beyond Resilience features the work of Mona Bozorgi, Odette England, Melissa Grace Kreider, Marcy Palmer, Danielle SeeWalker, Shuyuan Zhou—artists who examine the enduring impact of patriarchy on individuals and culture. Rather than glorifying resilience as a virtue, this exhibition asks why resilience is so often required—and who is expected to bear it.
The six artists in Beyond Resilience, confront the harms of patriarchy and envision a world beyond survival. Their practices challenge systems of gendered, racial, and cultural control, while offering space for reimagining identity, care, and liberation. Beyond Resilience asks us not just to endure, but to build something better: a future grounded in equity, empathy, and transformation. Beyond Resilience centers on the dismantling of patriarchal harm and the reimagining of identity through care, healing, and resistance.
This exhibition form a broader dialogue: Beyond Resilience traces the cost and consequences of patriarchal systems on those historically marginalized and asks what happens when we confront violence, interrogate power, and begin to imagine different futures—beyond Resilience and dominance and toward mutual liberation.
Curated by Hamidah Glasgow.
LensScratch article on Beyond Resilience
Coloradoan article on Summer 2025 Exhibitions
North Forty News article on Current Exhibitions
Featured Artists
Mona Bozorgi
Mona Bozorgi’s work, which uses photographs sourced from demonstrators in Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement, combines photography and sculptural elements to reflect the complexity of the subject matter and the interwoven struggle for women worldwide to throw off the control of patriarchy for autonomy and agency.
Odette England
Odette England uses snapshot-like images to put us in the place of the observer, the interloper, the victim, and the gazed at. The work is uncomfortable in a good way. She shows us how the language of guns and cameras/photography is eerily similar. Add some red lipstick from a bullet-like case, and it all comes full circle.
Melissa Grace Kreider
Melissa Grace Krieder’s work, showing us the prevalent yet mostly unaddressed crisis of domestic violence and sexual assault, is brave, distressing, and eye-opening. In a newspaper print piece of hers, the figure of 700,000 untested rape kits is quoted. How can a society that values its people equally allow this to happen, let alone persist?
Marcy Palmer
Marcy Palmer’s images use historical processes to create images that speak about the methods women have used over time to avoid becoming pregnant or not remaining pregnant. They are the perfect combination of process and content, serving each other in an exciting way. The images are gorgeous, and the message is profound. LensScratch article on Marcy Palmer.
Danielle SeeWalker
Danielle SeeWalker (Lakota) is a painter I have long admired for her honesty in bringing awareness to the rights of Native Americans. Including work that addresses the MMIWG catastrophe in the Americas was vital to me in making this show feel complete.
Shuyuan Zhou
Shuyuan Zhou’s images of the female members of her family tell stories of girl babies left exposed to the elements, the strict roles allowed for women in society, and, ultimately, the connections across generations that women share.
