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Photography, 2D and Multimedia Gallery

Established in 1988, The Kooyumjian Gallery is a nonprofit gallery dedicated to photography and media arts. The gallery exhibits a wide range of photographic works by student, local, national and international photographers.

Newly remodeled and expanded as part of the School of Communications Sverdrup west wing renovations, the newly designed gallery space re-opened in the fall of 2022. The Kooyumjian Gallery provides a formal gallery space for presenting exhibitions, fostering young photographers and showcasing professional and student works.

The gallery and gallery events are free and open to the public.

Now on Exhibit:

The FUSE 2026

May 8 – June 10

Jonathan Pence

A bright courtyard with vivid blue walls, yellow-trimmed doors, and several colorful potted plants including a large yellow urn.

Professor Natalia Kaniasty

A motion-blurred action shot of a battered car competing in a demolition derby on a dirt track.

Haruto Fujimoto

A wide, grassy mountain valley between two steep, shadowed slopes under a hazy, bright sky.

Eden Rolves

A grainy, black-and-white abstract photograph showing the blurry silhouette of a person against a pale, out-of-focus background.

Professor Trevor Junger

A vibrant light projection of a traditional Japanese castle layered over the facade of a modern skyscraper at night.

Ella Adam

The FUSE is a collaborative exhibit of the Barrett Faculty Exhibit, the 39th Annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibit with a highlight on the achievements of the 2026 Seniors. Featuring the work of Film, Photography and Animation students, this exhibition illuminates standout students' works and will deliver a vibrant experience alongside the works of their mentors, the faculty.

Join Us! Reception and the FUSE Awards: 5:30-7:30 p.m., Friday, May 8, 2026

The Friday, May 8 opening celebration will toast the Senior Exhibitors and culminate in the FUSE Awards for Motion Image (Film and Animation) and Still Image (Photos, Animation/Illustration, CG, Film Stills) Award with a screening of the award-winning student works.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Noppadol Paothong: Wild Places

Noppadol Paothong is a nature/conservation photographer and an associate fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP). His images appear regularly in many national publications, such as Audubon, Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife, Ranger Rick and many more. He is also a staff wildlife photographer with the Missouri Department of Conservation and contributes his images and stories to its high quality publication, Missouri Conservationist, Xplor, and many others. For over 20 years, he has been documenting rare and endangered species, primarily grassland grouse and their fragile habitat, and has published two large-format national award-winning books, Save the Last Dance (2012) and Sage Grouse, Icon of the West (2017).

Sky Hopinka: Poetry, Film and Photography

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in California, Oregon and Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary and nonfiction forms of media. His work has played at various festivals including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. He was a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University fellow, Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow, Art Matters Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Forge Project Fellow and MacArther Fellow. He received the Alpert Award for Film/Video and the Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography

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Beginnings 2026: Juried High School Exhibition

This exhibit showcases the artistry of high school student photographers. The choice of subject, creativity and composition shares the immense talent of these students and shines a spotlight on the imagination of these teens.

Interested in having your high school participate? Email us at kgallery@webster.edu

Submission Deadline: Nov. 4, 2026