Herman Mhire

Herman Mhire is an artist, educator, curator and arts administrator. As Founding Director of the Hilliard Art Museum he collaborated with the Eskew+Dumez+Ripple architectural firm of New Orleans and M. Goodwin Museum Planning of Los Angeles on the museum design which won numerous national and regional awards including the 2005 American Institute of Architects National Honor Award, and was published in Architectural Record and “U. S. Architecture” Braun Publishing, Berlin.

Herman Mhire received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette (1969) and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arkansas (1972). He joined the faculty of the Department of Visual Arts, University of Louisiana Lafayette, in 1977 where he taught courses in drawing, basic design, printmaking, art history, and arts administration until his retirement in 2005.

2017 Beauty and the Beast, College of the Arts, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

2014 The Art and Science of Shells, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge

2013 Herman Mhire: Photographs, Melissa Bonin Gallery, New Orleans

2011 Altered States, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans

Altered States, Sara Nightingale Gallery, New York

2010 Interplay, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans

2009 Altered States, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette