Past Exhibitions

This solo exhibition by Kevin Brisco Jr. examines how domestic spaces hold our most intimate experiences while shaping our understanding of self.

Rodin: Toward Modernity presents 40 of the artist’s most celebrated bronze sculptures, including The Burghers of Calais, The Kiss, Saint John the Baptist, figure studies for The Gates of Hell,…

Tides, Time, and Terrain: Floyd Sonnier and the Evolving Cultural Landscape marks the Hilliard Art Museum’s first permanent collection exhibition in over a decade.

This intimate exhibition showcases 19 works from Picasso’s final creative surge, revealing how the master reimagined printmaking through his innovative linocut technique.

An intergenerational artistic conversation on the beauty and fragility of the Louisiana Ecosystem.

Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir’s (also known as Shoplifter) constructs entire spaces—encapsulated ecosystems in vivid, hyper-colorized installations that recall the emotional vastness of mid-twentieth-century color-field painting movement.

Robert Wiggs was an important faculty member in the history of the Department of Visual Art at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was a sculptor and educator who…

The iconic silhouette motifs of Ana Mendieta’s career represent meaningful relationships between human and land.

EVERY|WHERE: BEILI LIU is comprised of three works of art. Each explores our relationship to water in different ways that raise fundamental questions about art and how we understand each…

George Rodrigue was a dynamic storyteller, and his portraits invite you to experience the story that each painting tells. As a decedent of Acadian exiles, Rodrigue’s portraits of Cajun culture…

This body of work started on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 am, when Ito’s grandfather witnessed a great tragedy that destroyed nearly everything in Hiroshima.

The paintings and drawings in Sam Reveles: Solastalgia are abstract interpretations of landscapes and contours of human and animal bodies.

“Black Flesh” is a solo exhibition by Noel W. Anderson delving into the relationships between media, image making, and race. In his tapestries and works on paper, Anderson is interested…

The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts grants monetary scholarships to high school juniors and seniors through an annual visual arts competition in order to encourage individual participation in the…

“Mind Full: An Exploration of Emotions by Lafayette Parish School System” students is an exhibition by LPSS students participating in the school system’s Talented Visual Arts program. The works are…

With her distinctive and powerful visual language, Argentinian-born and Los Angeles-based Luciana Abait addresses climate change, environmental fragility and perils, and their impact on global migration and planetary survival.

South Arts 2022 Southern Prize and State Fellows is a showcase of the best of Southern visual art.

Envisioning the South is an in-depth look at Roger Houston Ogden’s evolution as an art collector.

Little Things: Drawings and Photographs by Fred Packard is a survey of works on paper by the beloved artist who founded the photography concentration in the Department of Visual Arts.

Talking to Death: An Allegory for Sculpture is a multi-media installation by the artist Trevor Gould. As Gould’s title indicates, there is a great deal at stake for sculpture in the 21st…

Picture a Portrait features students’ explorations of what a portrait can look like and mean. The depictions will vary in style and media, but the uniting factor is the excellence…

For several generations the black owned bars and lounges on St. Bernard Avenue in New Orleans’s 7th Ward were mainstays of the community. They were safe spaces for refreshment in…

Deep Look is an intimate look at some of the finest works of art in the Hilliard Art Museum’s collection. This exhibition is also an important reflection of the Hilliard’s…

This exhibition features a selection of Tom Lea’s output as an artist-correspondent for LIFE magazine during World War II. Between 1941 and 1946, Lea traveled more than 100,000 miles to document service…

Twenty Years of Marais Press is a retrospective of the creative output of visiting artists’s printmaking collaborations within the Marais Press. Located in the Department of the Visual Arts here…

Nancy Macko’s exhibition The Fragile Bee presents pollinator conservation as an environmental justice issue with roots in 1970s Ecofeminism. Macko’s bees are symbols of a movement that aims to undo the damage…

LaChaun Moore: 17845 is a contemplative exploration of the artist’s family history and relationship to agriculture. Moore’s worldview and artistic practice is informed by being a Black woman whose family inspired her…

 “The imagery I work with is largely stream of consciousness and dream based. As the individual images are cut up and re-stitched together, a nonsensical narrative often emerges focusing on…

Philip Gould’s Bridging the Mississippi: Spans across the Father of Waters is an expansive account of America’s greatest waterway. The impetus for this project, bridges, frequently do not receive their…

This exhibition takes its name from Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, a collection of historical and contemporary poems exploring African Americans’ complicatedrelationship with the American landscape. With…

This landmark exhibition celebrates and commemorates a vibrant 250 year tradition. Acadian brown cotton blankets were taken for granted by past generations; today they are cherished for their artistic merit…

The concept of sanctuary, though often idealized, is rarely acknowledged as fleeting and subjective. Sanctuary: New Works by Linda Alterwitz explores notions of refuge with an interdisciplinary approach and great psychological depth.…

Other than a fortuitous reference to water, Heraclitus of Ephesus’ aphorism, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the…

This exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Lafayette Parish School System Talented Visual Arts Program and the Hilliard Art Museum. Using the  exhibitions on view in Spring , students…

Khara Woods uses materials, pattern, and abstraction to great effect in her studio practice. Her gridded hard-edge compositions incorporate warm wood grain with a bold, personable palette of saturated colors.…

The tone of Shell’s portraits and political aims are carefully calculated. Time and again, he portrays his sitters as self-possessed, questioning individuals whose humanity shines. Those depicted dominate the foreground…

The Hilliard University Art Museum is pleased to be the exclusive venue for the exhibition The Art of Sir Winston Churchill. History has painted a portrait of Winston Churchill as…

The playful and exploratory studio practices of Woody and Steina Vasulka bring to light the material qualities of video. Breaking from the narrative traditions of film-making and television, the Vasulkas…

The exhibition Robert C. Tannen|BOX-CITY is an interactive exhibition using cardboard boxes as to-scale models that allow museum visitors to explore urban design concepts as they relate to collaboration and…

Notes from the Schoolyard is a mail art exhibition organized in collaboration with Talented Visual Art in the Lafayette Parish School System. Typically, mail art is sent like correspondence to…

Malaika Favorite’s found object paintings seem to burst with an energy that conveys a sense of a life lived so well it verges on the mythical or magical. Somehow, seeing…