Exhibitions at the Lilley Museum of Art

Explore exhibitions currently on display at the Lilley Museum of Art across its multiple galleries, find updates on upcoming exhibitions and browse an archive of past exhibitions.

Current exhibitions

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 is an on-site mural project by Reno artist Connor Fogal, currently taking shape in the Front Door Gallery, inviting visitors to witness the creative process as it unfolds.

Upcoming exhibitions

image: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, dust-time [detail], 2025, dual-projected video

Earth's Winding Sheet

Aug. 27 - Nov. 21, 2026

Earth's Winding-Sheet tells a story of the minuscule, highlighting the work of artists who investigate the biggest of our problems, the magic of the unseen, and our place and responsibility in the natural order of things, through the materials of dust, clay, spores, and concrete, asking, "What is the significance of what we don't see?" Featured artists include Kim Abeles, Rebecca Cummins, Futurefarmers, Ruth Hilts, Brie Ruais, Jared Stanley, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy and Sining Zhu.

image: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, dust-time [detail], 2025, dual-projected video, stereo sound. Courtesy of the Artist.

black text on white background that says "Scrub Piece. Go to a public monument on the first day of spring. Clean it thoroughly. No announcement is necessary. KF 1956."

92 Events: A Fluxus Show at the Front Door Gallery

Works spanning six decades by American-born Swedish Fluxus artist Ken Friedman.

Covering around 110 feet of running wall space across the University Fine Arts Building, the exhibit features a set of directions and suggestions and invites visitors to take a piece of the project home on the show's closing day.

Past exhibitions

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Past exhibitions

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