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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.

Conflict and Consequence: Photographing War and Its Aftermath

January 18, 2017 through May 7, 2017 Conflict and Consequence brings together more than seventy original photographs that illuminate the social and political complexities of the human condition during war and its aftermath.

Ron Jude: Lago

August 12, 2016 through December 31, 2016 Oregon-based artist Ron Jude returned to the California-desert landscape of his childhood as if a detective in search of clues to his own identity.

Saya Woolfalk | ChimaTEK: Kaleidoscopic Camouflage

August 12, 2016 through December 31, 2016 In response to the museum and its collection, multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk creates a new, site-specific chapter in her decade-long fictional utopian narrative.

Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux

August 12, 2016 through December 31, 2016 Contemporary artists speak to the human condition of negotiating both literal and figurative borders of geography, society, psychology, gender, and spirituality.

Building a Legacy Collection: A Survey of Invitational Acquisitions

May 20, 2016 through July 31, 2016 Since 1888, stewards of Sheldon Museum of Art’s growing collection have organized exhibitions that feature recent masterworks of contemporary art. This survey will include approximately twenty works acquired from these exhibitions.

It Was Never Linear: Recent Painting

May 6, 2016 through July 31, 2016 Twelve artists have been invited to participate in It Was Never Linear, a celebration of abstraction in contemporary painting and drawing.

Sheldon Statewide | Shape Up! Visualizing the Geometric World

May 20, 2016 through July 31, 2016 Paintings, sculpture, photographs, and prints from the collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art spark exploration of the many ways in which geometry influences and defines our world.

Some Place… Not Too Far Away: Bruce and Jean Conner at the University of Nebraska

January 20, 2016 through May 8, 2016 Artists Bruce Conner and Jean Sandstedt met in a painting class at the University of Nebraska and were married in 1957. This exhibition examines the sustained influence of politics, culture, and the environment on their respective artwork.

The Unfolding Center: Susan York and Arthur Sze

January 20, 2016 through May 8, 2016 This collaboration of visual artist Susan York and poet Arthur Sze explores how their disciplines may work synergistically. Sze first composed the poems. Then, with input from Sze, York created minimalist images to accompany the verse.

A Century of Sculpture at Sheldon

January 20, 2016 through April 24, 2016 Demonstrating one of the museum’s collecting strengths, A Century of Sculpture at Sheldon surveys three-dimensional artworks, acquired through gift, bequest, and purchase, that serve as the prologue for what is yet to come.