Open year round, the Galleries at Herron showcase the artwork of emerging and established contemporary artists and designers.
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Current exhibitions
As Grand As What, 2021
Three-channel video of performance
Color, stereo sound
16:50 minutes, looped
Courtesy of the artists
Bla refers to the life energy that animates the world, according to Tibetan medicine. This concept is known across many cultures. The word bla can be interchangeable with prana (Sanskrit), qi (Chinese), ruh (Arabic), or mana (Polynesian, Melanesian, and Maori).
In this three-channel video installation, the artist Himali Singh Soin appears as a masked figure whose purpose is to reconnect bla to the world. The loss of bla is reflected in the crisis of contemporary times, represented as parched earth and a weary body.
The film’s journey begins in the Himalayan mountains and travels to a Vesuvian volcano, where a drummer calls upon li, a spirit manifestation of both human and non-human consciousness. A series of remedic rituals is performed to infuse bla back into our bodies and recharge the anima, or life, of the planet.
For the artists, As Grand As What reimagines “the structure of the Kalachakra mandala [Sanskrit, meaning Wheel of Time], a geomantic diagram in which the drawing, body, city, earth, and universe mirror each other in a grand, cosmic architecture.” In this universe, the forms of life—stone, spirit, machine, and human—are considered equal.
No Fixed Point Durational performance residency by Jordan Munson
2/16/26 - 2/20/26 in the Bershire, Reese, Paul gallery
Overview No Fixed Point is a durational performance residency by Jordan Munson that unfolds over multiple days within the gallery, where a constellation of instruments, electronics, drums, percussion, and other sound sources, remains installed as both an active workspace, listening site, and living document of the performance.
Activated through a series of brief, improvised sets, the installation resists the structure of discrete concerts. Each performance emerges from the residue of the last, allowing tonalities, textures, and rhythms to evolve gradually over time.
Sound is treated as a living material, layered, iterative, and in flux, shaped as much by repetition and return as by intention.
Core Concept Central to the project is an ongoing dialogue between performer, audience, and architecture. The gallery operates as an active collaborator, its resonance and spatial conditions shaping how sound is produced and perceived.
As visitors move through space, they enter the work as participants, encountering shifting acoustic perspectives and fragments of improvisation from different vantage points. There is no single position from which the work can be fully grasped; sound changes as it reflects, dissolves, and re-forms in relation to bodies and walls alike.
In this way, No Fixed Point frames performance as a shared, evolving experience that unfolds through movement, attention, and the continuous interplay of sound and space.
Performances
02.16 || 11:00a
02.17 || 4:00p
02.18 || 11:00a
02.19 || 4:00p
Culminating Event || 02.20 || 7:00p
THE LAST TREE
Expanded Photography by Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo
February 4 – April 4, 2026
Herron School of Art + Design | Basile Gallery
Reception and Artist Talk : February 26, 5:30 - 8pm
This exhibition centers Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo’s investigation of colonialism as a system of extraction—of land, culture, plants, and images—and its ongoing effects on Indigenous communities and the ecologies they protect. Employing nineteenth-century photographic processes historically entwined with ethnography and territorial conquest, the artist critically engages the visual technologies that once classified Indigenous bodies and naturalized resource exploitation.
Through sustained collaboration with contemporary Indigenous land defenders, she reclaims these processes, transforming photography from an instrument of colonial authority into a space of relational exchange and agency. The work traces how colonial logics persist today through religion, global capitalism, the War on Drugs, and climate change, foregrounding those who continue to resist environmental and cultural erasure.
Upcoming exhibitions
Allen Whitehill Clowes Collaborative
MARCH 7 – APRIL 4, 2026
Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries
Eskenazi Hall
The Allen Whitehill Clowes Collaborative exhibition is an annual, invitational showcase featuring Indiana’s top Hoosier Art Salon awardees. Selected works by 26 distinguished artists highlight the connection between artistic innovation and community engagement, presented in partnership with the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, The Hoosier Art Salon, and the Herron Galleries.
Cities in Transition: Transatlantic Perspective
MARCH 6 – APRIL 4, 2026
Marsh Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Herron Goes Global: Virtual Global Learning Experiences, 2023–2025
Herron continues recent virtual global classroom experiences at Indiana University with four projects led each led by a Herron faculty member and an international faculty collaborator who together guided students in an international exchange project within art and design. All projects involved multiple touch points for students to connect with their international peers ranging from virtual video meetups to collaborative online platforms to share ideas visually. These experiential learning opportunities offer a more accessible means of cultural exchange to a wider student audience than is possible with our classic study abroad opportunities.
This project was funded in part by the Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Endowment in International Studies and Virtual Global Learning Fellowships issued by the IUI Office of International Affairs.
Making Books Across the Big Pond
MARCH 5 – APRIL 4, 2026
Basile Gallery
Eskenazi Hall
Making Books Across the Big Pond showcases the creative outcomes of Herron’s Virtual Global Learning Exchanges (VGLE), highlighting how these sustainable, collaborative experiences foster global awareness and cross-cultural communication. Through design, artwork, and shared artifacts, Herron students and their international partners demonstrate the impact of virtual collaboration—without the barriers of travel cost, time, or environmental impact.
Thank you
Virtual tours of Herron's exhibitions are produced in partnership with the University Information Technology Services (UITS) Research Technologies IU3D Initiative at Indiana University and made possible by an anonymous donor.
Parking is free in the Sports Complex Garage adjacent to Eskenazi Hall or on levels 5 and 6 of the Riverwalk Garage, courtesy of The Great Frame Up, with validation from the galleries.
Accommodations for Herron's visiting artists are made possible with support through Aloft Indianapolis Downtown.
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