Montgomery’s recent video, sculpture and photography will be on display from Jan. 15 through March 7, 2026, alongside art she selected as juror for the 50th Annual Juried Student Exhibition.Works by award-winning experimental filmmaker and multimedia artist Virginia L. Montgomery will be on exhibition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham opening Jan. 15, 2026.

UAB’s Abroms‑Engel Institute for the Visual Arts will present Montgomery’s “Blue Moon Cocoon,” an exhibition of recent video, sculpture and photography.

AEIVA is open noon-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free and open to the public. Visit uab.edu/aeiva for more information.

Montgomery, also known as VLM, is based in Austin, Texas. VLM’s surreal, synesthetic artworks unite elements of mysticism, physics and neuroscience through an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary of recursive symbols and gestures, including imagery of luna moths the artist hand-raises in her studio. Orbits, circles and spheres invoke scientific principles like the Coriolis Effect — the theory that matter swirls into circular formations — unifying the work around a sense of cosmic awe at the interconnectedness of matter and motion, from the microscopic to the planetary.

VLM works across video, performance, sound design and sculpture. She received her MFA degree from Yale University and her BFA degree from the University of Texas at Austin. VLM has had solo presentations with The New Museum and Times Square Arts (New York), Museum Folkwang (Germany), Wright Lab at Yale University in Connecticut, The Lawndale Art Center (Texas), and False Flag and Hesse Flatow (New York). VLM has exhibited in group exhibitions at institutions including SculptureCenter (New York), Ballroom Marfa (Texas), Blanton Museum (Texas), Contemporary Austin (Texas), La Panacée-MoCo (France), The Hessel Museum at Bard College (New York), Banff Centre (Canada), Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark) and Tate Film at Tate Modern (United Kingdom), among others.

Her work will be exhibited at AEIVA alongside student work she selected as juror for the 50th Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Presented by AEIVA and the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Art History, the Annual Juried Student Exhibition is an experiential learning opportunity open to all students who have taken art or art history courses in the past two years.