Past Exhibits

2017

• CONTINGENt: drawing and sculpture by Joan Tanner

  May 23, 2017 ‐ September 16, 2017

  Guest Curated by Julien Robson
  

   

  Over a prolific career, compelled by a “curiosity to engage contradiction” and an impulse to disrupt “assumptions about spatial relations,...

  

• CRAFTING THE SOUTH LOUISIANA SOUND

  September 08, 2017 ‐ October 15, 2017

  Curated by Anya Burgess and Chris Segura
  

   

  There is a long tradition in south Louisiana of people making musical instruments. In the early days it was done out of necessity...

  

• LIN EMERY: A Movement, 1957-2017

  October 07, 2017 ‐ January 27, 2018

  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 s...

  

• PIERRE BONNARD: Landscapes from Le Cannet

  May 27, 2017 ‐ August 12, 2017

  Guest Curated by Veronique Serrano

   

  This solo exhibition marks the artist's first in Louisiana and is guest curated by Véronique Serrano, director of the Musée Bonnard in France...

  

• SANDRA EULA LEE: Make of / Make do

  December 27, 2016 ‐ May 06, 2017

  Guest Curated by Dr. Christopher Bennett
  

   

  Lee’s installations incorporate sculptural, photographic, and drawing traditions to consider ways in which place is created among...

  

• SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS: Homemade Art from the Becky & Wyatt Collins Collection

  February 03, 2017 ‐ August 12, 2017

  Guest Curated by Gus Kopriva
  

   

  An encyclopedic survey of vernacular Southern art, this exhibition comes to the Hilliard from the Collins’ New Iberia home, where they have a...

  

• SPOTLIGHT ON SHAWNE MAJOR

  December 09, 2016 ‐ May 13, 2017

  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 199...

  

• THE NEW ORLEANS TRICENTENNIAL: George Rodrigue Foundation

  September 08, 2017 ‐ October 14, 2017

  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 compe...

  

• WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: Journey to the Moon

  September 08, 2017 ‐ January 20, 2018

  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 th...

  

• YUN-FEI JI: Looking for Lehman Brothers 

  February 03, 2017 ‐ May 13, 2017

  Guest Curated by Dr. Christopher Bennett
  

   

  Yun-Fei Ji is a Chinese-American painter based in Ohio and New York. Growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, Ji spent...