Currently on at The Lilley
A listing of exhibitions and collections has been provided below.
Home Truth: Image-making in absence
Jan. 27 - May 30, 2026
The photographic practice of Steven Seidenberg explores a material world of the unnoticed, fixing attention on structures, environments, and landscapes often hidden in plain sight. Three photographic series are combined in this exhibition; each focuses on past and present living conditions in a different area of the world (Puglia and Rome, Italy; Kanazawa, Japan). Seidenberg’s richly detailed images capture current and former living spaces—houses, tents, outbuildings, and empty lots— providing the viewer with ideas about the lived environment, how space is used, and how humans travel through and live within the spaces they occupy under wide-ranging material conditions.
All images by Steven Seidenberg from the series The Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South, Kanazawa Vacancy, and Baobab: Migrant Tent City, Rome.
Ayana V. Jackson
Jan. 27 - May 30, 2026
Ayana V. Jackson is a prolific photographer whose practice examines how Black women’s bodies have been imaged, circulated, and misrepresented across the diaspora. Her work draws from 19th- and early 20th-century colonial archives, European and American portraiture, and the ethnographic gaze, re-staging and reimagining these histories to expose photography’s role in constructing racial hierarchies. The works in this exhibition span the range of the artist’s practice from 2013 to 2023, where Jackson draws from European modernism, Black equestrian histories, and colonial portraiture. Jackson’s images explore where resistance meets rest, where fleeing becomes survival, and where stepping back becomes a form of getting ahead.
Co-Curators: Iyana Esters, Artist and Folklorist and Stephanie Gibson, Director, Lilley Museum of Art.
Image credit: Ayana V. Jackson, Mary Fields: With a jug of Whiskey by her Foot, a pistol packed Under her apron, and a shotgun by her side, 2023, courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim Gallery.
This Just In: Recent Additions to the Lilley Museum of Art Collection
Jan. 27 - May 30, 2026
An exhibition of brand new acquisitions to the Lilley Museum of Art.
Credit: Carol Cole Levin, Fortress, 1992, Clay, concrete, wire, and wood picture frame, Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist 2025.
Homeland Security: Images from the Epicenter of the Cuban Missile Crisis at the Front Door Gallery
Jan. 27 - May 30, 2026
In October 1962, Cuba was at the center of a crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Today’s history books and classes are filled with stories of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev locked in a battle of wills, but we know much less about how Cubans themselves responded to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Featuring photographs from Prensa Latina, Cuba’s revolutionary news agency, this exhibit offers a unique, intimate view of Cuban life during the crisis.
Credit: A young man uses a rangefinder to watch for incoming aircraft (Roberto Salas, October 1962), Prensa Latina
Connect the Dots: Highlights from the Lilley Museum Collection
Ongoing
Connect the Dots brings together artwork from across the Lilley Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Interesting pairings and installations around themes of place, people, and materiality compel us to think about the artists who make the work, the conditions and time periods the work was made, and our relationship to both.
Images: (L) Lucy Neider, Untitled (Figure at a Table), oil, no date. (L) Sheila Pinkel, Angel, xeroradiography, 1978-1982. Both, Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art.
Connor Fogal | Emerald Bay at the Front Door Gallery
Ongoing
Emerald Bay by Connor Fogal is an expansive mural project that will be installed in the Front Door Gallery, on now. Visit the site and watch the artist paint.
Connor Fogal is a portrait and mural artist from Reno, Nevada. Fogal was born with Cerebral Palsy, which affects his physical mobility and speech. With a painting career that spans 20 years, Fogal uses a head-pointer paintbrush to create elaborate mural projects and has been commissioned to paint at Options Veterinary Hospital, the Historic Lake Mansion, and for private commission. His artistic influences include Edward Hopper and Vincent Van Gogh.