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.
May 16, 2017 through July 23, 2017
This summer Sheldon celebrates nonobjective painting with an exhibition of canvases drawn from the museum’s permanent collection.
May 16, 2017 through July 23, 2017
Several important works given to Sheldon in 1971 by New York gallerist and interior designer Bertha Schaefer are shown together to underscore the ongoing legacy of such a significant contribution to the museum.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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