Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

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2024 – 2025

Yonia Fain (1913–2013): Tracing History
September 3 – December 16, 2024
Emily Lowe Gallery

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Yonia Fain (1913 - 2013): Tracing History

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Honoring the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
January 27– July 25, 2025
Emily Lowe Gallery

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Museum Exhibition: Salvador Dali

 

 

Exhibition Policy

The Hofstra University Museum of Art does not accept unsolicited artist submissions or exhibition proposals, and we cannot respond to each inquiry or return unsolicited materials.

Past Museum Exhibitions

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004

For information on exhibitions between 1963 – 2003,
please contact the Curatorial Department at 516-463-5673.

2024
Les Visionnaires In the Modernist Spirit
January 30-July 26, 2024
Emily Lowe Gallery
2023
New Perspectives: The Museum of Art at 60
September 5-December 15, 2023
Emily Lowe Gallery
When We All Stand
January 31 - July 28, 2023
Emily Lowe Gallery
The Barack Obama Presidency
February 14 – April 13, 2023 David Filderman Gallery
April 18 – May 15, 2023 Lobby, President’s Suite, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Second Floor, South Campus
2022
Off the Press
August 16, 2022 - January 27, 2023
David Filderman Gallery
New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection
September 6 - December 9, 2022
Emily Lowe Gallery
Art of the Dogon
February 8 - July 22, 2022
David Filderman Gallery
Drawing Matters
January 25 - June 17, 2022
Emily Lowe Gallery
2021
Nevertheless She Persisted 
September 1, 2021-January 21, 2022
David Filderman Gallery
Where Were You? Witnessing History
September 1 – December 10, 2021
Emily Lowe Gallery
2020
Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age
January 28 – June 19, 2020
Emily Lowe Gallery
2019
Other People's Parties
August 13, 2019 – March 13, 2020
David Filderman Gallery
Environmental Impact
September 3 – December 13, 2019
Emily Lowe Gallery
Pushing Boundaries: American Art After World War II
January 29 – August 16, 2019
Emily Lowe Gallery
Inspiration: Japanese Woodblock Prints
March 26 – July 26, 2019
David Filderman Gallery
2018
Hidden in Sight: Photographing Incarceration
August 14, 2018 – March 10, 2019
David Filderman Gallery
Changing Perceptions: World War I and the Visual Arts
September 4 – December 14, 2018
Emily Lowe Gallery
Romare Bearden: Storyteller
January 23 – August 17, 2018
Emily Lowe Gallery
Portfolios II: Offset Lithographic Prints
March 27 – July 27, 2018
David Filderman Gallery
2017
Andy Warhol
September 5, 2017 – March 11, 2018
David Filderman Gallery
Converging Voices: Gender and Identity
May 2 – December 15, 2017
Emily Lowe Gallery
Women in Contrast
March 28 – August 18, 2017
David Filderman Gallery
Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
January 31 – April 13, 2017
Emily Lowe Gallery
2016
Political Slant II: Editorial Cartoons
October 4, 2016 – March 12, 2017
David Filderman Gallery
Over the River: Transforming Long Island
September 6 – December 16, 2016
Emily Lowe Gallery
In Print
February 16 – September 18, 2016
David Filderman Gallery
AFRICA: Sub-Saharan Diversity
January 26 – August 12, 2016
Emily Lowe Gallery
2015
Enduring Images
May 4, 2015 – January 31, 2016
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Doug Hilson: Urbanscapes
September 1 – December 11, 2015
Emily Lowe Gallery
Portfolios I: The 1970s
May 26 – August 14, 2015
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
From Portraits to Tweets: Imagery, Technology and the U.S. Presidency
February 3 – May 8, 2015
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
The George W. Bush Presidency: Points of Perspective
February 23 – April 10, 2015
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
2014
Exploring the Centuries: 3rd - 20th Century Asian Art
September 16, 2014 – February 8, 2015
David Filderman Gallery
Past Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art
September 2 – December 10, 2014
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Don Resnick: Essence of Place
May 13 – August 15, 2014
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Spirit and Identity: Melanesian Works from the Hofstra University Museum Collections
February 18 – August 1, 2014
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
David Jacobs: Sight and Sound
February 4 – April 27, 2014
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
2013
Land of the Rising Sun: Art of Japan
September 30, 2013 – February 2, 2014
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Arnold Newman: Luminaries of the Twentieth Century in Art, Politics and Culture
September 3 – December 13, 2013
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
The Lyon, the Which, and the Warhol: The Sequel
Celebrating Fifty Years of the Hofstra University Museum
May 28 – September 15, 2013
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
We Hold These Truths ...
April 16 – July 26, 2013
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
50/50: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Hofstra University Museum
February 5 – March 28, 2013
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
The Lyon, the Which, and the Warhol
Celebrating Fifty Years of the Hofstra University Museum
January 14 – May 19, 2013
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
2012
Political Slant: Editorial Cartoons
October 1 – December 21, 2012
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Toward Greater Awareness: Darfur and American Activism
September 4 – December 7, 2012
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Opportunity and Impact: Works by Émigré Artists
April 2 – September 9, 2012
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Yonia Fain: Remembrance
April 19 – August 3, 2012
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Barbara Roux: Environments
February 7 – April 5, 2012
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
The Disappearing Landscape: Selections from the Hofstra University Museum Collection
January 23 – March 18, 2012
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
2011
B. Amore: Naples - New York
September 30 – December 4, 2011
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Burton Silverman: The Humanist Spirit
September 1 – December 16, 2011
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
From the Hand:  Drawings From the Hofstra University Museum Collection
June 8 – September 11, 2011
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Body Mapping
May 10 – July 29, 2011
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
1930s: Art in America
February 28 – May 27, 2011
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Soweto Art: From the Collection of Violet and Les Payne
February 1 – April 21, 2011
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
2010
75 Stories for 75 Years
In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Hofstra University
September 23, 2010 – February 4, 2011
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Acquired Riches: Highlights from the Hofstra University Museum Collection
September 1 – December 17, 2010
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Settling Into Nature: La Bassee, a Contemporary Landscape in France, Photographs by Mikael Levin
May 4 – July 30, 2010
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Children's Pleasures: American Celebrations of Childhood
February 2 – April 18, 2010
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Something's A Foot: Small Works from the Hofstra University Museum Collection
January 4 – September 12, 2010
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
2009
Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works From the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin
October 13 – December 18, 2009
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100
September 29 – December 6, 2009
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Andy Warhol: The Photographic Legacy Program, Recent Gifts to the Hofstra University Museum
July 20 – September 20, 2009
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Burton Morris: Pop!
July 14 – September 27, 2009
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Cultural Diversity Awareness Program Posters
 June 1 – August 31, 2009
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Tranquil Power: The Art of Perle Fine
April 7 – June 26, 2009
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Perle Fine and Friends: An Intimate Portrait by Maurice Berezov
April 7 – June 26, 2009
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
A Celebration of Darwin's Legacy
February 20 – May 22, 2009
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Ancient Echoes in Contemporary Printmaking
January 27 – March 20, 2009
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Out of Africa: Works from the Hofstra University Museum Collection
January 12 – March 15, 2009
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Sacred to the Memory: Photographs by Robert Reinhardt
November 7, 2008 – February 6, 2009
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
2008
The Presidents: 1933 - 2001, History of Presidential Conferences at Hofstra University
September 8 - October 26, 2008
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
The Presidents: 1933 - 2001, History of Presidential Conferences at Hofstra University
September 8 – December 8, 2008
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
The Greatest of All Time: Muhammad Ali
September 23 – December 2, 2008
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
A Painter's Witness to History: Recent Work by Yonia Fain
May 5 – August 8, 2008
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
On Location: Women Photographers from the Hofstra University Museum Collection
January 14 – June 27, 2008
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Stan Brodsky: The Figure: 1951 - 2006
April 8 – June 6, 2008
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Bells, Baubles & Farce
February 5 – April 27, 2008
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
African American Highlights from the Reader's Digest Art Collection
January 29 – March 20, 2008
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
2007
Photographing Suburbia: Crewdson, Owens, and Weiner
September 24, 2007 – January 28, 2008
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Hofstra University Person of Color Sculpture Competition Finalists
September 17 – December 9, 2007
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
American Perspectives: 1907 - 1992
September 4 – December 14, 2007
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
What We Wear
April 16 – August 10, 2007
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Looking and Thinking Past Auschwitz
Internationally recognized photographer Jillian Edelstein's portraits of Primo Levi.
April 2 – June 22, 2007
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Opening Windows to Gernika
April 25 – May 21, 2007
Main Floor, Axinn Library
Twardowicz and Dodson: Artists in Parallel
February 6 – May 11, 2007
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Bearden, Lawrence, Parks: Artists of Influence
January 29 – April 5, 2007
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Rhoda Sherbell, NA: Looking East En Plein Air
December 11, 2006 – March 23, 2007
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
2006
Euclid to E-books: ideal books moving ideas
September 18 – December 8, 2006
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
"Voiceless in the Presence of Realities": 9/11/01 Remembrances from the Long Island Studies Institute
September 5 – December 10, 2006
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
The Betrayal of Srebrenica: A Commemoration
September 27 – December 3, 2006
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Baile Y Música: Preserving Hispanic Culture on Long Island
May 15 – September 10, 2006
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
2006 Fine Arts Students Exhibition: Selected Works
April 24 – June 18, 2006
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Views of Old New York City: D. T. Valentine's Manuals, 1841-1870
January 23 – May 7, 2006
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist-Citizen: Posters for a Better World
February 11 – April 23, 2006
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Sally Gall: Selected Landscapes
February 1 – April 13, 2006
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
2005
Quilt National '03
November 15 – December 16, 2005
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Clinton and New York
November 7, 2005 – January 15, 2006
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
A New Democrat: Remembering the Clinton Presidency
November 7, 2005 – January 15, 2006
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
A Tale of Two Cities: Eugene Atget's Paris and Berenice Abbott's New York
September 6 – October 23, 2005
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
R.B. Kitaj: Selections from "In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part"
August 22 – October 23, 2005
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor, and Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Lifting the Rose-Colored Glasses: Three Social Realists
June 7 – July 29, 2005
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Hofstra at Seventy: New Views of Our Past
May 18 – August 14, 2005
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
The Photographs of Ruth Orkin
April 25 – August 12, 2005
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
"Our Local Heavens"
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Years on Long Island and New York City, 1922 - 1924
April 11 – May 8, 2005
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Poetic Dimensions in the Modern Still Life
February 1 – May 8, 2005
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
France - Near and Far: Ralph Gibson Photographs
January 18 – April 17, 2005
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
From the Market to the Mall
New Visions of Suburban Life Conference Exhibition
February 7 – April 1, 2005
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
2004
Visual Interpretations of Don Quixote
November 4, 2004 – January 9, 2005
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
The Provost Collects: Dreidels as Art
September 27 – December 17, 2004
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Playing, Learning, Working in Amsterdam's Golden Age: Jan Luyken's Mirrors of Daily Life
September 21 – December 5, 2004
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
New, New Media: Recent Trends in Web Design
September 7 – October 31, 2004
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Trophies, Cups and Titles: Sports on Long Island
June 14 – September 17, 2004
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Where the Island Begins
June 7 – August 31, 2004
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
From the Collection: Print and Photograph Portfolios
June 1 – July 29, 2004
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Places Made Sacred: Houses of Worship in Nassau County
February 23 – June 2, 2004
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
President Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Procession in New York City, April 24-25, 1865
February 2 – May 28, 2004
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Over There! World War I and World War II Posters and Artifacts from the Long Island Studies Institute
February 10 – May 9, 2004
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall