Southland examines the role photographs have played in the visualization of the natural landscape of the American South. The exhibition explores the many technical and aesthetic methods photographers have employed in approaching the subject of the Southern Landscape. Highlighting the marshlands in Louisiana, the beaches of Florida, the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta and the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia, the exhibition shows the landscape of the American South is as diverse as the people and culture of the region. Southland not only investigates the topographical physical characteristics of the land of the American South, but the metaphysical and emotional role romanticism plays in the understanding of landscape photographs made of and about the American South. Read More about Southland

From early innovators in oil to the contemporary vanguard of material exploration, this exhibition traces Southern abstract artists’ impact upon a critically important movement – widely considered to be America’s most significant contribution to art history. By including both 20th century and contemporary artists, academically trained and self-taught – this exhibition considers the legacy of Modernism in the American South. Read More about Southern Abstraction Works from the Permanent Collection

George Rodrigue was a Louisiana painter known for his depictions of the landscape and people of Acadiana, as well as his later Pop Art paintings featuring the figure of a blue dog. This painting, Watchdog from 1983, was the first ever painting in what would become known as the Blue Dog series. Read More about The First Blue Dog George Rodrigue's Watchdog

Organized by Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought and presented in partnership with Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN is the first comprehensive posthumous retrospective for the Louisiana-born artist, Tina Girouard, and showcases over forty years of the artist’s practice. Known as a collaborator in artist communities in New York, New York, Lafayette, Louisiana and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Girouard’s work tells an expansive story of American art. A vanguard artist in the fields of performance, film, textile, printmaking and community-based practices, Girouard’s animated work explores the different places she called home. Read More about Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN

NOLA @ Night: Teens Take on the Crescent City is teen-curated exhibition highlighting the work of New Orleans Teens. Read More about NOLA @ Night: Teens Take on the Crescent City

New Orleans based artist Jacob Reptile spent three weeks working with second through fifth graders from Young Audiences Charter School at Lawrence D. Crocker Campus to create a forest of cypress trees made from recycled fabric and paper bags. For the residency, Reptile drew inspiration from the remarkable features of the Louisiana bald cypress tree. Students learned all about the tree: how its powerful roots help to hold together Louisiana’s shoreline and absorb water reducing city flooding; how the mighty cypress can not only survive hurricane winds but also acts as a windbreak for the city; and lastly, how its canopy helps to reduce high temperatures during the hot summers. Read More about Artists & Sense of Place Residency Louisiana Wildlife: Where Y’at?

NOCCA PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: A 50th Anniversary Exhibition includes works from Ogden Museum’s permanent collection; the private collection of the Museum’s founder, Roger Ogden; works purchased by the NOCCA Foundation, NOCCA’s nonprofit partner; and pieces by current and past NOCCA faculty. Read More about NOCCA PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE A 50th Anniversary Exhibition

Presented by Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Learning and Engagement Department, this exhibition features artist Rontherin Ratliff in collaboration with 4th and 5th grade students from ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Academy. Read More about Artists and Sense of Place Residency Stories from New Orleans East: The Shape of a New Day

Ogden Museum of Southern Art first launched Louisiana Contemporary, Presented by The Helis Foundation in 2012, to establish a vehicle that would bring to the fore the work of artists living in Louisiana and highlight the dynamism of art practice throughout the state. This year’s guest juror, Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, the Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford, has selected 45 works by 31 artists from a total of 790 submissions. Read More about Louisiana Contemporary 2023 Presented by The Helis Foundation