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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.

Small Abstractions: Highlights from Sheldon’s Permanent Collection

January 31, 2020 through December 23, 2020

Underscoring the distinction of Sheldon’s collection of twentieth-century abstract paintings, this exhibition features small-scale works that give insight to a wide range of abstraction’s visual vocabulary. More info

Sheldon Treasures

January 31, 2020 through December 23, 2020

Now in its sixth iteration, Sheldon Treasures continues to highlight of some of the museum’s most important and best known objects. More info

Tales of Genji I

August 11, 2020 through December 23, 2020

Recently acquired by the museum, Helen Frankenthaler’s woodcut Tales of Genji I is a tour de force of printmaking and creative collaboration between the trailblazing twentieth-century abstract painter and the master printmaker Kenneth Tyler. More info

Person of Interest

January 31, 2020 through July 3, 2021

Exploring nuances in portraiture from the late nineteenth century to today—and testing the very definition of the genre—Person of Interest presents depictions of the literal and abstracted body from Sheldon’s rich holdings and selected loans.
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Outdoor Sculpture

More than thirty sculptures from Sheldon’s permanent 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. More info