Past exhibitions
In addition to holding one of the largest university-affiliated art collections in the South, the LSU Museum of Art presents world-class touring exhibitions of regional, American and European painting, sculpture, decorative arts, works on paper and photography.
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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.