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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.

Person of Interest

February 1, 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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Barriers and Disparities: Housing in America

January 22, 2021 through July 3, 2021

To contribute to better understanding of the close relationship between residential instability and poverty, this exhibition explores selected moments in the history of inequitable access to housing in America. More info

Sheldon Treasures

January 22, 2021 through July 3, 2021

From January to July 2021, the works featured in Sheldon Treasures will be placed in pairs to encourage new ways of looking at familiar objects, facilitating fresh and unexpected conversations between the works — and among the museum's visitors. 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

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

Convergence on Paper: Printmaking and Photography from Piranesi to Pop

August 9, 2019 through December 31, 2019

Surveying Sheldon’s collection of works on paper, this exhibition presents selected instances when printmaking and photography are in dialogue with one another. More info

Unquiet Harmony: The Subject of Displacement

August 9, 2019 through December 31, 2019

Featuring works by painter Carlos Alfonzo, multimedia artist Tiffany Chung, and the artistic collective SUPERFLEX, this exhibition examines individual and global perspectives from which artists have engaged with issues surrounding migration. More info

Sheldon Treasures

August 9, 2019 through December 31, 2019

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

Intersecting Identities

August 9, 2019 through December 31, 2019

Drawn from Sheldon’s collection, this exhibition offers a selection of artworks that present the complexities of lived experience. More info

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