John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

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The Lilley Museum of Art, with its transcultural permanent collection and ambitious exhibition calendar, supports creative inquiry and inspires dialogues among Nevada's diverse artistic communities.

Our fall programming continues! We welcome you to join us for an artist lecture by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy at the Lilley M...
08/31/2026

Our fall programming continues! We welcome you to join us for an artist lecture by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy at the Lilley Museum this Thursday, September 2 from 6-7pm.

Sindhu Thirumalaisamy is a Houston-based artist and filmmaker whose work responds to spatial and narrative processes of enclosure. Her films, installations and performances seek a cinematic language of ecological resistance and care.

TOMORROW! We have a full evening of events scheduled here at the Lilley. We welcome you to our three fall exhibitions: “...
08/26/2026

TOMORROW! We have a full evening of events scheduled here at the Lilley. We welcome you to our three fall exhibitions: “Earth’s Winding Sheet”, “Gather, Carry, Keep”, and “92 Events: A Fluxus Show” tomorrow form 5:30-8pm.

Welcome remarks by Director Stephanie Gibson will take place at 6, followed by a performance by Sining Zhu at 6:30 in the gallery.

Be sure to also stop by Sheppard Contemporary for the opening of “Without Mountains and Rivers Without End: Speculative Geographies on an Interior Northwest” until 8pm.

Join us this Thursday, August 27th at 6:30pm for a performance by artist Sining Zhu in the gallery. The performance will...
08/25/2026

Join us this Thursday, August 27th at 6:30pm for a performance by artist Sining Zhu in the gallery. The performance will take place during the opening receptions of “Earth’s Winding Sheet”, “Gather, Carry, Keep”, and “92 Events: A Fluxus Show” (5:30-8pm).

Sining Zhu is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, performance, sound, and multimedia. She currently lives in Los Angeles and is studying for an MFA in Fine Arts at the California Institute of Arts. Her practice focuses on the complicated relationship and cognition of identity between the self and others and the interaction and separation of the individual and the group. Her enthusiastic roots in research and collective behavior, which she uses to explore contemporary art practice and reveal indisputable facts and hidden delicate sorrow in the social environment. By overlaying everyday, personal, reminiscent objects and accumulating new contexts and meanings to awaken collective resonance.

The stage is set for our next exhibit in Front Door Gallery! Gather, Carry, Keep consists of a collection of vessels fro...
08/18/2026

The stage is set for our next exhibit in Front Door Gallery! Gather, Carry, Keep consists of a collection of vessels from the Great Basin. The opening for this exhibition is August 27th from 5-7pm.

In a milestone moment for the Lilley Museum of Art and the University of Nevada, this summer, Director Stephanie Gibson ...
08/12/2026

In a milestone moment for the Lilley Museum of Art and the University of Nevada, this summer, Director Stephanie Gibson and President Brian Sandoval signed the Pledge of Excellence with the American Alliance of Museums.

The Lilley Museum of Art pledges that, in fulfillment of its educational mission, we strive to operate according to core standards set out by the American Alliance of Museums, to the best of our abilities and in accordance with our resources. This is an important step in this museum’s pathway to national museum accreditation. This distinction recognizes our museum and UNR’s commitment to, and demonstration of, the professional standards for education, public service, and collections care. Thank you to our staff, students, visitors, and supporters who help us improve, every day.

Image credit: Aubrey Flores

We are excited to welcome you back on campus with a celebration of the Lilley Museum’s fall season with the opening of “...
08/10/2026

We are excited to welcome you back on campus with a celebration of the Lilley Museum’s fall season with the opening of “Earth’s Winding Sheet”. This reception, celebrating the new season, will take place on Thursday, August 27, 5:30-8 pm, at the Lilley Museum of Art, with a curatorial tour and a performance by artist Sining Zhu.

Curated by Executive Director and Chief Curator, Stephanie Gibson, Earth’s Winding-Sheet tells a story of the minuscule, highlighting the work of artists who investigate the biggest of our problems, the magic of the unseen, and our place and responsibility in the natural order of things, through the materials of dust, spores, and debris, asking, “what is the significance of what we don’t see?”

Featured artists include Kim Abeles, Rebecca Cummins, Futurefarmers, Ruth Hilts, Brie Ruais, Jared Stanley, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, and Sining Zhu.

Image: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, dust-time [detail], 2025, dual-projected video, stereo sound. Courtesy of the artist.

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1664 N Virginia Street MS 0224
Reno, NV
89557

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Tuesday 12pm - 4pm
Wednesday 12pm - 4pm
Thursday 12pm - 4pm
Friday 12pm - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

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