2026

Exhibition Statuses

Flesh + Bone

Exhibition of Contemporary Figurative Work

Hillyer Art Space presents Flesh & Bone, an exhibition that focuses on contemporary figurative art, pushing boundaries and providing a fresh look at the familiar subject of the human figure. This exhibition was juried by DC-based artist Judy Byron, and will feature thirty-three works by local and regional artists.

Abol Bahadori

Hybrid Baroque

We view the world through our eyes, limited by a narrow color spectrum and depth of vision. But what if we had compound eyes like insects, sonar like dolphins, and used other senses to enhance our vision? In his exhibition Hybrid Baroque, Bahadori explores new sensoria by abstracting and recomposing elements of nature, architectural structures, and human figures. 




Te-Mao Lee

In-Between beings

In the exhibition In-Between beings, Te-Mao Lee contemplates the question of existence through a series of video works that gaze toward a future two thousand years from now. Along Taiwan’s east coast, tectonic forces have gradually uplifted ancient coastal settlements to elevated sites—prehistoric traces now suspended above sea level—revealing that ancient peoples once lived by the sea. This vertical dimension of spacetime prompts a descent 20 meters below today’s sea level, where the artist explores a yet-to-arrive mode of being through the materiality of seabed sand.

Taina Litwak, Life in the Anthropocene

Taina Litwak

Life in the Anthropocene

Life in the Anthropocene features a room-sized graph of the volume of Global Plastic Production (1950-2040), assembled with discarded plastics collected largely from the artist’s household, her office, and her neighbors.

Calliandra Hermanson

of permutations and patterns

of permutations and patterns draws inspiration from several sources including early modern botanical illustrations; the diagrams of plant circumnutation (the autonomous, cyclical movement of plants in response to environmental stimuli) done by Charles Darwin in the 1880s; and the engravings from Nehemiah Grew’s 1682  “The Anatomy of Plants,” some of the earliest studies of plant morphology through a microscope.

Curated by Heather McMordie

Re-Inhabiting Conservation: Our Shared Skies

Re-Inhabiting Conservation: Our Shared Skies reconsiders the role of artists in wildlife conservation and explores the possibilities of art informed by science. The exhibit features work by over two dozen artists and writers from six countries. With a focus on creatures of flight, each artwork explores a different aspect of the complexity of wildlife conservation.

Prescott Lassman

RESIST

To many, the United States is sliding into madness and autocracy. Fueled by a cult of personality to a grifter and a demagogue, half the country cheers the spreading authoritarianism while the other half looks on in disbelief.

But some are beginning to push back. RESIST is an ongoing series that documents this growing backlash. These photographs highlight individual and collective acts of resistance by ordinary people peacefully protesting the creeping authoritarianism overtaking their country. Although the current political and cultural situation seems bleak, these acts of defiance can have a profound effect on our collective future. After all, a single grain of sand may be insignificant. But a million grains of sand can grind the gears of tyranny to a halt.

RESIST is thus a celebration of resistance and a call to action. It asks viewers to ponder the question “What are you willing to do or risk to resist?”

Modern Movements

Curated by Adriana Ospina

Selections of Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Art Museum of the Americas

April 4-May 31, 2026

The exhibition celebrates work produced between 1940–1996 by well-known figures who pushed artistic boundaries to produce a pan-American visual language and spotlights avant-garde artists who defined foundational movements like surrealism and geometric abstraction. Featuring artists such as Roberto Matta (Chile), Sarah Grilo (Argentina), Manabu Mabe (Brazil), and Jesús Rafael Soto (Venezuela), the exhibition charts the cultural exchanges and creative tensions fostered by Latin American artists, whose experimentations with form, color, and movement created powerful dialogues within and beyond their respective countries.

Curated by Yu-Chuan Tseng

She Says, Her Story: Contemporary Women Artists from Taiwan

She Says, Her Story: Contemporary Women Artists from Taiwan, curated by Yu-Chuan Tseng, is an exhibition about “her stories,” multidimensional narratives that lie between past and present, myth and reality.