La Trobe Art Institute exhibitions
Current and upcoming
2026 Program Announcement
Announcing new commissions and our exhibition program for 2026
Bendigo Campus: Jenna Lee
Viewers are invited to reconsider the archive — not as a fixed repository of colonial knowledge, but as a living site for reimagining history, sovereignty, and cultural continuity
View St: All That is Alive
Eleven Australian artists and collectives working with living systems in an iterative touring exhibition
View St: Raf McDonald
Attention is given what is buried in Country and the enduring material consequences of a culture of disposal
View St: My Blood Sings Old Songs
First Peoples and diasporic artists honour the echoes and shadows of ceremony and legacy
View St: Beyond the Horizon Beyond the Sea
Light is used by artists as both material matter and transformative vision to subvert and challenge dominant ideologies
View St: Elyas Alavi & Fazil Mousavi
Elyas Alavi and Fazil Mousavi bring their painting practices and work with language into dialogue across oceans
Bendigo Campus: Emily Floyd
Key works from the series Anti-totalitarian vectors are installed in the Heyward Library
View St: Actions for Water
Artists and designers from diverse geographies explore water as both a vital ecology and a site of speculative possibilities
View St: Le Ceol
Song and poetry act as a primary place of sonic and musical texture from which language resists silencing
Bundoora Campus: Changing Times
An exhibition developed in partnership with the Golden Dragon Museum featuring posters from La Trobe's Stuart E Fraser poster collection
Past
View St: Renee Cosgrave and Merryn Lloyd
Playfully exploring how long-term collaborative practice breaks distinctions between making, work, chance, performance and mothering
View St: Parched
A research-led exhibition that draws together artworks from across Australia, with an eye to the south east, to explore representations of drought
View St: Jeremy Eaton and Nicholas Smith
Dressings brings the language of screens, concealment, exposure and the stage to our street-front façade
Bundoora Campus: Jaren | جڑیں | Roots | جذور
A collaborative exhibition between the Islamic Museum of Australia, La Trobe University and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
View St: I wanna be your anti-mirror
An exhibition that reveals new languages, sensations and attitudes in works by 7 early career artists
View St: Roberta Joy Rich
How does one negotiate repatriation or access to cultural materials that lie oceans away from their motherland?
View St: I think future, I think past
In this exhibition colonial and capitalist ruins become both condition and material for revisionist histories and imagined alternative futures
View St: Storytelling Liberation
A new video installation by Australian artist Alex Martinis Roe in collaboration with Katerina Teaiwa, ASKI Contemporary Social History Archives, Gladys Kalichini, Alexandra Juhasz, Andre Ortega and Diana Betanzos
View St: Unbecoming
Unbecoming examines the ‘queer gothic’, characterising it through dark, horror-tinged imagery and themes; states of collapse and decomposition; and a focus on isolation and the individual
View St: Healing: Art & Institutional Care
Contemporary and historic artworks contextualise the practices, processes and ethical considerations that underpin the University's Larundel Collection