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.
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. More info
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
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
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
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
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
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
