Denver has just a few weeks left to see one of its biggest art moments of the year. Colorado Currents, the major group exhibition at MCA Denver, brings together recent works by twenty-eight artists with deep ties to Colorado, and it closes on November 15, 2026.
Curated by Miranda Lash, MCA Denver’s Ellen Bruss Chief Curator, and curator Leilani Lynch, the show fills the entire museum with more than 100 artworks. The multigenerational artists draw on their own experiences, research and hopes for their hometowns, current homes and homelands, asking how historical legacies shape the present and what Colorado’s future could look like.
The works range widely and joyfully: Colorado’s Indigenous communities, histories of mining, labor and cowboys, mountain, desert and prairie landscapes, close studies of local flora and fauna, drought and wildfires, pop culture, and shifting cities and neighborhoods. Together they offer a kaleidoscopic view of the state in its 150th year of statehood, a milestone the exhibition celebrates alongside the nation’s 250th anniversary and MCA Denver’s own 30th anniversary in December.
MCA Denver, at 1485 Delgany Street, is open Wednesday to Friday from noon to 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you have been meaning to go, this is the moment: once Colorado Currents closes, this particular portrait of Colorado, painted by the artists who know it best, will not come together again.
Photo: MCA Denver / Polina Saran
