Bailey Doogan: Ways of Seeing
2026-01-17 - 2026-04-04 | University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1031 North Olive Road, Tuscon, AZ, 85719, United States
The University of Arizona Museum of Art presents “Bailey Doogan: Ways of Seeing,” the first comprehensive survey to showcase selections from every phase of the late artist’s prolific career. A celebrated painter, graphic designer, and Professor Emerita, Bailey Doogan (1941–2022) was a pivotal figure in the feminist art movement, using her work to interrogate traditional conventions of female beauty and the politics of the aging body.
This exhibition features 80 works that span Doogan’s evolution from surrealist experimentation to her monumental, unflinching figurative paintings. Central to her practice was the belief that “our bodies are diaries of our experience”. By centering wrinkles, scars, and the physical realities of the female form—subjects historically marginalized in Western art—Doogan’s work opens vital conversations about representation, self-examination, and the power of the female gaze.

Featured Feminist Programming

Exhibition Reception: Thursday, January 22, 2026 | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Friday, January 23, 2026 | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM. Featuring Terry Etherton, Doug Nielsen, Cynthia Miller, and Ann Simmons-Myers; moderated by curator Violet Rose Arma.
Virtual Talk: “Horror and Humor: Bailey Doogan and the Feminist Revolution”Thursday, February 5, 2026 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Art critic Eleanor Heartney examines how 1980s feminist thinking shaped Doogan’s strikingly original outlook on gender, power, and the body.

Curators: Violet Rose Arma and Olivia Miller, in close consultation with Moira Doogan.
