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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.

Wright Morris: Nebraska Pictures

May 16, 2017 through July 23, 2017

This exhibition presents a selection of photographs from Sheldon’s collection that exemplifies writer and photographer Wright Morris’s sensitivity in capturing details of rural Nebraska in the 1940s. More info

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. More info

15 Photographs, 15 Curators

January 18, 2017 through May 7, 2017

Fifteen University of Nebraska faculty, staff, and students were invited to become curators for an exhibition drawn from Sheldon’s permanent holdings of nearly 3,000 photographs. More info

An-My Lê: 29 Palms

January 18, 2017 through May 7, 2017

Photographer An-My Lê’s 29 Palms is a series of black-and-white photographs made in the California desert where US Marines train for battle prior to deployment. More info

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. More info

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. More info

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. More info

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. More info

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. More info

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. More info

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