Past Exhibitions

10 Years Gone

ended on September 7th, 2015

Timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Ten Years Gone features six contemporary artists who explore the passage of time, memory, loss, and transformation. Read More

Self/Reflection

ended on August 9th, 2015

A selection of works from the permanent collection by Brassaï, Jaroslav Rossler, Florence Henri, Clarence John Laughlin, and others that investigate, play with, and exploit reflections and mirror images in modern photography. Read More

Kongo Across the Waters

ended on May 25th, 2015

This exhibition explores connections between the art and culture of the Kongo peoples of western Central Africa and African American art and culture in the United States. Read More

Photo-Unrealism

ended on April 25th, 2015

This exhibition from the permanent collection explores the history of the abstract, the unreal, and the surreal in photography from its origins to the present Read More

Degas’ Little Dancer

ended on March 1st, 2015

NOMA will share this renowned work, on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, with audiences in a newly created focus gallery this fall. Read More

Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection

ended on January 25th, 2015

The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to be organizing Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, the most extensive presentation to-date of the Photorealist painting collection of Sydney and Walda Besthoff. Read More

Reparation: Contemporary Artists from New Orleans

ended on January 25th, 2015

Reparation is an exhibition of 187 works by 180 New Orleans artists, young and old, and is part of Luciano Benetton’s Imago Mundi collection: works commissioned and collected by Benetton on his world travels Read More

Spheres of Influence: Pictorialism, Women, and Modernism

ended on November 23rd, 2014

These works from NOMA’s permanent collection focus on a network of women who shared ideas through correspondences and reacted to each other’s works, creating a web of mutual influence that helped pull photography from its nineteenth century roots into the modernist twentieth century. Read More

Alexis Rockman: Drawings from Life of Pi

ended on October 12th, 2014

This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to explore the relationship between visual art and commercial filmmaking through Alexis Rockman’s watercolor drawings that were the first stage in the development of the 2012 feature film “Life of Pi.” Read More

Mel Chin: Rematch

ended on May 25th, 2014

The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to present a major retrospective of the conceptual artist Mel Chin. ‘Mel Chin: Rematch’ is the most expansive presentation of the artist’s work to-date, the outgrowth of extensive research and archiving of Chin’s past work and artistic practice, uncovering rarely seen materials from over the past four decades. 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

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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

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