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.
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
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
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
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
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
Contemporary artists speak to the human condition of negotiating both literal and figurative borders of geography, society, psychology, gender, and spirituality. More info
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
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
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. More info
