New Image Gallery is a university gallery that features contemporary art by regional, national, and international artists.
New Image Gallery hosts two exhibitions each semester with accompanying visiting artist lectures and events. It is co-located with ArtWorks Gallery and Madison Art Collection in a second-floor loft space above the Office of Creative Propulsion. The gallery is sponsored by the School of Art, Design, and Art History, the Studio Art Area, The New Image Gallery Foundation, and other partners.
For more information, contact Corinne Diop at diopcj@jmu.edu.
New Image Gallery
The Arts at 131 West Grace
131 W. Grace Street
Harrisonburg, Va. 22801
Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 12-4 pm
and by appointment
Current Exhibition
Jawshing Arthur Liou:
Kora | Feb. 2–Mar. 7, 2026
Human-Cannabis Trilogy | Mar. 9–May 6, 2026
Artist talk: Monday, Feb. 23 at 5pm
New Image Gallery will be open before and after the talk, 4–6:30pm.
Parking for non-JMU visitors available in front of & beside the building during event hours.
Liou’s video Kora is now on view in New Image Gallery until March 7. The work is also part of the Depth Soundings exhibition in Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Arts, which runs concurrently.
In the contemplative atmosphere of the gallery, viewers are invited into the sounds and sights of a pilgrimage around Mount Kailash, a mountain sacred to Buddhism, Hinduism, Bön, and Jainism in Tibet. The video captures the spiritual gravity of this landscape and the ritual of circumambulation with immersive, meditative clarity.
The second part of Liou’s exhibition will be Human–Cannabis Trilogy, featured from March 9 – May 6. In this video series, Liou explores the deep and complex relationship between humans and cannabis across world cultures, from prehistory to the present. Through a quasi‑documentary approach, the work weaves together stories of the plant’s mystical, religious, and medicinal significance, while also addressing its economic impact and potential for misuse.
Liou is a Taiwanese American artist with a background in photography, digital media, film, and journalism. His work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows internationally, including Chi-Wen Gallery in Taipei, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Rubin Museum in New York, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Indianapolis Museum of Art, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Seoul Museum of Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, Art Basel: Hong Kong, Sharjah Biennial, and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Indiana University.
Views and positions expressed in exhibitions are those of the artists and do not necessarily reflect the views and positions of the university.
