guilty 2026
April 2-16 2026 | juried by derrick velasquez
opening reception | March 13, 2025 – 3:00-5:00 pm
The annual CU Denver student show, Guilty, is a showcase of students’ technical skills and inventiveness across all media. While there is no overarching theme to this exhibition, Guilty is still a testament to the curiosity, effort, and ambition that CU Denver students integrate into their respective artistic practices.
The call for entries is live! All CU Denver students are eligible to submit works for consideration. To access the call for entries, click here.
The final deadline for submissions is March 8, 2026. All applicants will be notified of the status of their submissions by March 16, 2026.
This exhibition is made possible by CU Denver’s College of Arts & Media
meet the juror
Artist photo taken by Colleen Wallace
Derrick Velasquez is an artist and exhibition organizer who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. He was a 2017 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors and a 2019 MacDowell Fellow. Derrick has served on the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs and the boards of Denver nonprofits Tilt West, Union Hall, and Minerva Projects. His most recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at The Herron School of Art and Design, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Robischon Gallery (Denver), Pentimenti (Philadelphia), Carvalho Park (Brooklyn), GalerieRobertson Ares (Montreal), and Hawthorn Contemporary (Milwaukee) as well as group exhibitions at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Transmitter in New York. Derrick founded Yes Ma’am Projects, an artist-run gallery in the basement of his Athmar Park home and Friend of a Friend, a project space that began in 2021 at the Evans School, a mostly vacant schoolhouse in Downtown Denver and has since relocated to Platte River and 38th Ave. He has organized exhibitions at the MCA in Denver, Trestle Gallery in New York, The Carnegie in Covington, Kentucky and at Galerie Robertson Arés in Montreal.