Travis Roozée: Normality Always Ends: Harper College

November 2 – December 10, 2026

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Contemporary art gallery wall displaying framed blue-toned and black-and-white artworks.

Interior view of a contemporary art gallery with framed artworks displayed on white walls.

Gallery corner featuring blue-toned and black-and-white framed artworks under track lighting.

Contemporary gallery space featuring blue-toned and black-and-white framed artworks on white walls.

Gallery interior with large windows and framed artworks displayed on adjacent white walls.

Art gallery wall displaying a series of blue-toned and black-and-white framed artworks beside large windows.

Gallery corner displaying blue-toned and black-and-white framed artworks on white walls under track lighting.

Wide view of a gallery wall featuring a series of blue-toned and black-and-white framed artworks.

About the Artist

Travis Roozée is a Chicago-based photographer and artist. His personal work scrutinizes the built environment as it relates to consumerism, industrial practices, and material decay, and his most recent work merges photographic chemistry with virtually generated and real-world fabrications. He received a BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 1993, the era of Photoshop 1.0, and his MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2010, the year Instagram launched. These transformative events serve as crucial entry points into his artistic practice.

This solo exhibition, Normality Always Ends, presents a meaningful retrospective of Roozée’s development as an artist. The exhibition title, derived from Eliezer Yudkowsky’s book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, demonstrates how a shift in biology or technological norms can be overwritten, thus shifting perceived standards. This framework has heavily informed the work produced in this exhibition; upcycling material for still life is a direct response to overabundance and accessibility. Roozée’s creations illustrate that there is vitality in everything, and one can collect and curate by simply walking.

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Artist Talk and Reception

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

12:45 p.m., Room C200