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Exhibitions

For more than 50 years, Sheldon Museum of Art has provided a venue for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and visitors to engage with art and one another. As an academic art museum, Sheldon schedules its exhibitions to coincide with the academic calendar.

Sheldon Treasures: Before Sheldon

January 27, 2023 through May 26, 2023

Sheldon Museum celebrates early entries into the collection with a selection of historic acquisitions made prior to the opening of the museum’s current building in 1963. More info

X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022

January 27, 2023 through May 26, 2023

X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012-2022, a survey of artworks acquired by Sheldon Museum of Art in the past decade, offers a snapshot of how the museum’s collection has continued to evolve since its opening 60 years ago. More info

Beyond Eve and Mary: Premodern Representations of Gender, Power, and Religion

January 27, 2023 through May 26, 2023

Through thematic groupings of artworks, this exhibition examines representations of two biblical figures—Eve and Mary—and asks viewers to consider how multifaceted gender could be in the premodern period. More info

Reigning Queens: Modern and Contemporary Representations of Women, Power, and Religion

January 27, 2023 through May 26, 2023

Building on the adjoining exhibition Beyond Eve and Mary, this exhibition examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century representations of women in art. More info

From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez

January 27, 2023 through May 26, 2023

This exhibition celebrates the unprecedented gift of more than ninety works donated by fifty American photographers to honor the writer Barry Lopez, who died in 2020 at age seventy-five. More info

Outdoor Sculpture

More than thirty sculptures from Sheldon’s collection are displayed year-round across the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City and East Campuses. Use this map to create your own self-guided tour.
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