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The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is seeking artworks from artists living in Louisiana for its annual juried exhibition, Louisiana Contemporary 2025.
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Get matched →Louisiana Contemporary, presented by The Helis Foundation, was first launched in 2012 as an annual survey exhibition to highlight the work of artists living in Louisiana and the dynamism of art practice throughout the state. Since its inception, the Ogden Museum has showcased works by over 600 artists, establishing Louisiana Contemporary as a significant event in the national arts calendar. This statewide, juried exhibition promotes contemporary art practices, provides exhibition space for living artists' work, and engages a national audience to recognize Louisiana's vibrant visual arts culture and New Orleans' role as a rising international art center.
Daniel S. Palmer, PhD, Chief Curator, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.
The 2025 edition of Louisiana Contemporary is a polyphony of vibrant voices, collectively showcasing Louisiana's visual culture and New Orleans' central position as a rising international art center. The exhibition continues the tradition of highlighting the state's brightest luminaries and freshest new voices, displaying a range of creative approaches in various media that reflect the myriad worldviews and perspectives of this thriving place. The exhibition's unofficial subtitle and theme is "New Orleanian Love Song," inspired by Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah’s 2017 album, Ruler Rebel. The artworks convey the breathtaking essence of this place and its people through revelatory paintings of the landscape, nuanced photographs of individuals and communities, and multi-media works extrapolating the historic power and sense of tradition. Whether figurative or abstract, all components communicate resilience and universal creative inclusion, reflecting the state's unique aura.
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