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Exhibitions

For 60 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.

X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022

January 27, 2023 through May 26, 2023 Presenting a snapshot of a point in the evolution of Sheldon’s holdings, X: A Decade of Collecting is a survey of the 1,850 artworks that have entered the collection since 2012.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Figurative Painting from the Collection

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022 The large-scale, figurative works in this exhibition focus attention on artists who use their subjects as both the reason to paint and the embodiment of historical or personal moments.

Sheldon Treasures

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022 From January to July 2022, Sheldon Treasures focuses on smaller gems that are exhibited less often but are no less impressive. Intimate-scale works by Romare Bearden, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Marsden Hartley, Norman Lewis, and Georgia O’Keefe, among others, are featured.

Richard Diebenkorn: 41 Etchings Drypoints

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022 In the 1960s, Richard Diebenkorn began experimenting with printmaking at Crown Point Press, eventually publishing a series of forty-one etchings and drypoints. Displayed in its entirety, the series offers a chance to observe the evolution of a master expanding his craft.