The John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno, proudly announces three new exhibitions as part of its spring program. “Home Truth: Image Making in Absence, Photography by Steven Seidenberg,” co-curated by Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Lilley Museum, Stephanie Gibson and Carolyn L. White, “Ayana V. Jackson,” co-curated by Stephanie Gibson and visual storyteller Iyana Esters, and “Homeland Security: Images from the Epicenter of the Cuban Missile Crisis,” an archival collection of photography from Prensa Latina in the museum’s Front Door Gallery. All exhibitions run from Jan. 27 through May 23, 2026.

An opening reception celebrating the new season will take place on Thursday, Feb. 19,  from 5:30–7:30 p.m., at the Lilley Museum of Art. Refreshments will be served. Parking is free at the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex.

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 featured 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.

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.

Ayana V. Jackson is a prolific photographer whose practice examines how Black women’s bodies have been imaged, circulated and misrepresented across the diaspora. The works in this exhibition span the range of the artist’s practice from 2013–2023 where Jackson draws from European modernism, Black equestrian histories and colonial portraiture. The exhibition and programming are supported by Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida. To deepen community partnership, the museum will present a series of events throughout the exhibition, including curatorial talks and tours, artist lectures and a photography symposium featuring exhibition artists and professors at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The exhibitions are free and open to the public. Visitors are welcome Tuesday through Saturday, from noon to 4 p.m. Program information can be found on the Lilley's webpage. “Home Truth: Image Making in Absence,” “Ayana V. Jackson” and “Homeland Security: Images from the Epicenter of the Cuban Missile Crisis,” are supported by the College of Liberal Arts Hilliard Endowment, GSA, ASUN and the Department of Art at the University of Nevada, the Lilley Museum of Art Director’s Circle, Friends of the Lilley, and Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida.

Founded in 1971 and renamed in 2019, the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art houses a permanent collection of approximately 3,000 works. Through exhibitions and public programming, the Lilley Museum of Art advances the University’s educational mission by fostering dialogue, experimentation and critical inquiry through the visual arts.