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Featured Exhibition

Exploding Native Inevitable

February 7, 2025 through July 13, 2025

Exploding Native Inevitable is a traveling exhibition, originally organized by Brad Kahlhamer and Dan Mills for Bates College Museum of Art, that features the work of twelve contemporary Indigenous artists and two collaboratives from lands we now call America.

Highlights

"Sacred Peaks" (2014), a photograph by Jaque Fragua.

Exploding Native Inevitable

February 7, 2025 through July 13, 2025

Infinite Hopper: An Algorithmic Journey Through Light and Space

January 21, 2025 through July 13, 2025

This exhibition uses cutting-edge generative technology and works from Sheldon's collection to produce an endless flow of Edward Hopper–inspired imagery that never repeats or loops.

"Grasp Tight the Old Ways," a 2011 painting by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

Visualizing Survivance, Visualizing Permanence

January 21, 2025 through July 13, 2025

Drawn from Sheldon's collection, the works in this exhibition illustrate the spirit of visual sovereignty, a term used to describe contemporary Native American art that prioritizes the perspective of the artist and reclaims physical and cultural space.

Collection Galleries

August 15, 2024 through July 13, 2025

Sheldon Museum of Art’s collection galleries are reimagined through installations that spark inquiry and dialogue on topics that transcend time, place, and media. The themes they present emphasize human ingenuity, imagination, and our interconnectedness with one another and our surroundings.