Finding Inspiration

Students found inspiration in artwork on view in the Museum during the 2022-2023 school year. Through close observation and discussion, students learned to make connections between artwork on view and their own experiences.

Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation

This exhibition highlighted the work of fifteen artists of Asian heritage who draw on a rich array of motifs, techniques, and cultural motivations to construct diverse “Asias” in a modern global context. Divided into three thematic sections, the works in Global Asias suggested the plurality and fluidity of “Asia” as cultural construct and creative practice.

Long Island Biennial 2022

The Long Island Biennial is a juried exhibition that fosters deeper connections between contemporary artists from Nassau and Suffolk Counties and the communities in which they live and work. Created in the last two years, the works featured in the Long Island Biennial 2022 represent a vital cross-section of Long Island’s contemporary art.

Viewfinders: Photographers Frame Nature

This exhibition considered artists’ rich and varied responses to the symbiotic relationship between nature and humans. Spanning the late nineteenth century to the present, the exhibition featured black and white and color photographs, digital photographs, photomontages, and videos depicting places as far away as outer space, and as near as The Heckscher Museum’s own backyard.

Raise the Roof: The Home in Art

Exploring the spaces we inhabit, this exhibition encompasses more than 50 artworks from the Museum’s Collection that reflect the many meanings of home. The house is a site where daily life unfolds, work takes place, identities cohere and shift, memories form, and imagination takes flight. The art on view demonstrates the central role that domestic space plays in our lives and in art.