2017

Yun-Fei Ji is a Chinese-American painter based in Ohio and New York. Growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, Ji spent some of his earliest years on a collective farm outside Hangzhou where, in the absence of TV and…

Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, William Kentridge (b. 1955) works across a variety of media and disciplines—from sculpture to the performing arts, printmaking, books and film. Among the greatest artists of our time, he is acclaimed for poetic animated films…

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

This exhibition features three large-scale works by the Opelousas-based artist: Bud Sport (2008), Nadir (2011) and Vestige (2001). Major earned a BFA in painting in 1991 from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. In 1995, she also earned an MFA in…

An encyclopedic survey of vernacular Southern art, this exhibition comes to the Hilliard from the Collins’ New Iberia home, where they have amassed over 2,000 objects. The exhibition is organized by Gus Kopriva, an independent curator and the owner of…

Lee’s installations incorporate sculptural, photographic, and drawing traditions to consider ways in which place is created among changing urban and environmental conditions. The sculptures and installations she constructs are informed by her observations of daily life and through the collecting…

This solo exhibition marks the artist's first in Louisiana and is guest curated by Véronique Serrano, director of the Musée Bonnard in France. Pierre Bonnard: Landscapes from Le Cannet features 24 selected works on loan from the collection of the…

This exhibition focuses on the longstanding innovative practice of New Orleans based artist Lin Emery. It features more than a dozen examples of her work and includes eight wind-powered kinetic sculptures. In addition to recent pieces in aluminum that are…

There is a long tradition in south Louisiana of people making musical instruments. In the early days it was done out of necessity. Music was all around, but ready-made instruments were not. Makers relied on their own ingenuity to craft…

Over a prolific career, compelled by a “curiosity to engage contradiction” and an impulse to disrupt “assumptions about spatial relations,” Joan Tanner’s art has developed across disciplines to encompasses many media, including painting, photography, video, sculpture, and assemblage. Consistently she…