Past exhibitions

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Cherished: The Art of Clementine Hunter

July 30–October 23, 2024


Fierce Planets: Work from the Studio Art Quilt Associates

April 18–September 8, 2024


Interior Space: Photographs by Roland Miller & Paolo Nespoli

April 9–September 8, 2024


Coming Home: Geoffrey Beene–Southern Reflections

April 26– July 3, 2024


One Stitch at a Time: Southern Vernacular Quilts

March 21–June 23, 2024


Andy Warhol / Friends & Frenemies: Prints from the Cochran Collection

January 11–March 28, 2024


Birds: Works from the Permanent Collection

November 9, 2023–March 28, 2024


Mirror Mirror by Daniel Rozin

November 30, 2023–March 3, 2024


African American Masterworks from the Paul R. Jones Collection
at The University of Alabama

August 3–December 3, 2023


Reveal: Photographs by Jerry Siegel

September 1-November 12, 2023


The Shaping of Us: Queerness in Ceramics

August 3–October 22, 2023


Hank Willis Thomas
Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America

April 20–July 30, 2023


I, Too, Am Thornton Dial

March 30 – July 2, 2023


Some Boys, a Few Bunnies, and One Lousy Unicorn: Sculptures by Alex Podesta

October 13, 2022 – April 2, 2023


Volterra and Pasqua by Kevin Benham

November 17, 2022–February 26, 2023


Pearlware, Polish, and Privilege: Art by Paul Scott

October 27, 2022–February 26, 2023


Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection

November 17, 2022–February 26, 2023


Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936–Present

July 14 – October 23, 2022


Mario Moore: Responding to History

July 14 – October 23, 2022


Louisiana Abstraction

August 2–October 16, 2022


Eugene Martin: The Creative Act

April 7–October 2, 2022


State of the Art: Record

March 10–June 19, 2022


Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers

October 20, 2021–March 20, 2022


The Boneyard: The Ceramics Teaching Collection

July 8, 2021 – February 13, 2022


Form & Fire: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection

July 8, 2021 – February 13, 2022


Collection Spotlight: Recent Acquisitions by Black Artists

March 28 – September 26, 2021


The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design

March 11 – June 6, 2021


Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road

September 17, 2020 – March 14, 2021


Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South

October 22, 2020 – February 14, 2021


Living with Art: Selections from Baton Rouge Collections

March 5 – September 27, 2020


Conspicuous: Satirical Works by Caroline Durieux

March 19 – August 30, 2020


Gods & Things: Asian Art from the Permanent Collection

November 5, 2019–February 23, 2020


Destination: Latin America

October 24, 2019–February 9, 2020


Adore | Adorn: The Elsie Michie Contemporary Jewelry Collection

June 27–October 6, 2019


Semblance: The Public/Private/Shared Self

June 27–October 6, 2019


Matt Wedel: On the Verge

April 4–September 29, 2019


Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens

March 8–June 9, 2019


Katrina Andry: The Promise of the Rainbow Never Came

November 15, 2018–March 25, 2019


Malcolm McClay: Swimming to Inishkeel

November 1, 2018 — February 10, 2019


George Rodrigue: The Cajun Landscape

November 1, 2018 — February 10, 2019


Collection Spotlight: Angela Gregory

July 12–October 18, 2018


Confluence by Jerry Uelsmann

July 12–October 14, 2018


Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects

April 12–October 14, 2018


Robert Williams: Slang Aesthetics

March 8–June 17, 2018


Collection Spotlight: William Hogarth

March 8–June 17, 2018


Bonjour | Au Revoir Surréalisme: Prints from the Atelier of Georges Visat

September 28, 2017–March 25, 2018


Broken Time: Sculpture by Martin Payton

October 19, 2017–February 11, 2018


Reflections: African American Life from the Myrna Colley-Lee Collection

July 28–October 1, 2017


When the Water Rises: Recent Paintings by Julie Heffernan

March 11–September 17, 2017


Contemporary Masters: Works on Paper from the Art Museum of South Texas

April 7–July 9, 2017


Exploring Photography: Works from the Permanent Collection

April 7–July 9, 2017


Everlasting Calm: The Art of Elliott Daingerfield

December 16, 2016–March 19, 2017


Painting Enlightenment: Experiencing Wisdom and Compassion through Art and Science

September 9 – November 27, 2016


Hunt Slonem: Antebellum Pop!

April 22 – August 5, 2016


The Carnival, The City And The Sea: Haitian Art from the Perry Smith Collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art

December 11, 2015 – March 20, 2016


Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris, 1880-1910

September 5 – November 15, 2015


Mexico in New Orleans: A Tale of Two Americas

May 5 – September 6, 2015


Shaking up Prohibition in New Orleans: The Cocktail Drawings of Olive Leonhardt

May 5 – August 30, 2015


Debbie Fleming Caffery: Baton Rouge After the Storm

June 5 – August 30, 2015


Margaret Evangeline: On War

March 13 – August 2, 2015


Click here for exhibitions prior to March 2015.