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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.

Photographic Abstraction

August 16, 2022 through December 22, 2022

Since the advent of photography, artists have used cameras for more than straightforward documentation. This exhibition surveys the work of twentieth-century lens-based artists whose abstract visual vocabulary encourages the viewer to participate in the creation of meaning. More info

Clocking In: Visions of Labor

August 16, 2022 through December 22, 2022

Six galleries touching on themes of gender, place, resources, and politics provoke questions about what it means to work. Clocking In presents art that challenges expectations about who engages in particular types of work and what kinds of jobs are valorized. More info

Kelli Connell: Double Life

August 16, 2022 through December 22, 2022

Sheldon presents recently acquired works by Kelli Connell from her ongoing series Double Life in which an individual model portrays both partners in photographs of a couple. More info

Storyville: The Intersection of Abstraction, Allusion, and Depiction

August 16, 2022 through December 22, 2022

At the intersection of abstraction, allusion, and depiction, the artist and viewer share equally in the creation of a work’s meaning. Storyville presents works from the museum’s collection that vacillate between recognizable subject matter and abstraction, providing various readings of each narrative. More info

Sheldon Treasures

August 16, 2022 through December 22, 2022

For this iteration of Sheldon Treasures, we highlight the museum’s extensive holdings of American landscape paintings. Hung chronologically from 1826 to 2004, this selection of works shows a gradual transformation in depictions of the outdoors. 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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