George Dunbar: Elements of Chance
ended on February 19th, 2017
This exhibition surveys the career of George Dunbar (American, born 1927), who played a pivotal role in introducing abstract art to the South. Read More
Past Exhibitions
Kenneth Josephson: Photography Is
ended on February 19th, 2017
This exhibition presents a brief survey of the work of Kenneth Josephson (American, born 1932), one of the most inventive photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. Read More
Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction
ended on February 19th, 2017
This exhibition of works from NOMA’s collection explores photography’s relationship to the world through a diverse selection of photographs that include obstructing elements or remind us that the photograph itself is often an obstruction to the real world. Read More
Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection
ended on January 16th, 2017
Seeing Nature explores the development of landscape painting, from a small window on the world to interpretations of artists’ personal experiences with their surroundings on land and sea. It reveals… Read More
‘Forever’ Mural by Odili Donald Odita
ended on December 31st, 2016
NOMA has commissioned Nigerian-born Odili Donald Odita to transform the first floor elevator lobby with a kaleidoscope mural. Read More
Unfiltered Visions: 20th Century Self-Taught American Art
ended on October 17th, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, the raw, instinctive approach of self-taught artists has quietly attracted acclaimed “contemporary” artists, collectors with keen eyes and in more recent decades, insightful museum curators, who… Read More
The Essence of Things – Design and the Art of Reduction: An Exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum
ended on September 11th, 2016
This exhibition brings together approximately 150 objects covering 100 years of design history. From familiar items like flip-flops and paperclips, to conceptual chairs and lamps by superstar designers, this exhibition celebrates simplicity in design. Read More
Bob Dylan: The New Orleans Series
ended on July 31st, 2016
Dylan portrays traditional views of French Quarter courtyards and alleyways, and captures moments in the private and public lives of New Orleans’s inhabitants in this series of paintings. Read More
Paper Negatives | Negative Image
ended on July 17th, 2016
This spring, NOMA will explore historical and contemporary roles of the photographic negative through three complementary exhibitions: Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds, Paper Negatives, and Negative Image. Although the history of… Read More
Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds
ended on July 17th, 2016
Vera Lutter elevates the current role of the negative from a nearly invisible part of the photography process to the chief object of our attention. Lutter’s photographs are one-of-a-kind negative prints made inside a room-sized pinhole camera with exposures that range from hours to days. Read More
Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum
ended on May 22nd, 2016
Self-Taught Genius considers the shifting implications of a self-taught ideology in the United States, from a widely endorsed and deeply entrenched movement of self-education to its current usage to describe… Read More
Pierre Joseph Landry: Patriot, Planter, Sculptor
ended on March 20th, 2016
NOMA will present the first exhibition to focus on the works of Pierre Joseph Landry. Born in France, Landry immigrated to Louisiana at the age of 15. He became a… Read More
Time/Frame
ended on February 28th, 2016
This selection of photographs from NOMA’s permanent collection invites an intimate reflection on the concept of time and our place within it. Read More
Tina Barney: Photographs
ended on February 28th, 2016
In conjunction with NOMA’s exhibition of its American art collection, Visions of US: American Art at NOMA, the museum will present a selection of Tina Barney’s photographs in the Great Hall…. Read More
Tim Youd: 100 Novels
ended on February 21st, 2016
Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Tim Youd will visit NOMA to perform the latest installment of his 100 Novels Project. Read More
Jasper Johns: Reversals
ended on January 31st, 2016
This exhibition showcases an exceptional group of prints by Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930), one of most influential artists of the 20th century. Read More
Visions of US: American Art at NOMA
ended on January 24th, 2016
Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the 18th through 20th centuries. Drawn from NOMA’s world-class collection of American art, the exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United States. Read More
Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi
ended on January 10th, 2016
This exhibition features work by the Japanese artist Bidou Yamaguchi (b. 1970). Trained to make reproductions of historic Japanese Noh masks, the artist has, since 2003, radicalized this traditional idea and practice. Yamaguchi’s masks apply the forms, techniques, transformative spirit, and mysterious elegance of Noh masks to iconic female portraits from the European art historical canon, as well as to Kabuki actor prints by Sharaku, Japan’s enigmatic eighteenth century portrait master. Read More
Upcoming Exhibitions
Carlo Saraceni’s Our of Loreto and Peruvian Viceregal Statue Paintings
on view starting December 7th, 2024
Paintings of richly dressed statues of the Virgin Mary were among the preferred themes in Spanish and Peruvian 17th- and 18th-century painting. This installation reflects the gradual process of adoption and adaptation of this iconography by Indigenous and Mestizo artists in Viceregal Peru in the creation of Marian images. Read More
Current Exhibitions
Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home
on view through February 2nd, 2025
Founded in 2007, Prospect New Orleans is a citywide triennial exhibition of contemporary art featuring artists from Louisiana and around the globe. For P.6, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn has created a two-channel film made in collaboration with musician Thảo Nguyễn and New Orleans-based producer and director Marion Hoàng Ngọc Hill. Read More
Exhibition Videos
Video: Twins Seven-Seven and Yoruba Folklore
Public Programs Coordinator Connor Kilian discusses artworks by Twins Seven-Seven on view in Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club. Read More