Current Exhibitions

Exhibitions: Current

Sheldon Museum of Art welcomes visitors to a varied and changing schedule of exhibitions. Through April 25, 2010, Museum visitors are invited to view new directions in Native American art, such as My Three Sister, 2004, above, by Star Wallowing Bull, in the MIGRATIONS exhibition. For details about current exhibitions, please click on your choice below.

Current Exhibitions


  • Subject(s) to Change: American Art from the Permanent Collection

    August 25, 2008 thru March 30, 2010

    This fall the reinstallation of artworks from the permanent collection will organized into six galleries: Recent acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Still Life, Portraiture, Landscape, Genre and Figurative Art.

  • MIGRATIONS: New Directions in Native American Art

    January 8, 2010 thru April 25, 2010

    Organized by the University of New Mexico Art Museum and Tamarind Institute, this exhibition includes works from six Native American artists who have completed residencies at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts in Pendleton, Oregon.

  • Rediscovering Slobodkina: A Pioneer of American Abstraction

    January 26, 2010 thru April 18, 2010

    This exhibition is a retrospective of illustrator Esphyr Slobodkina's work, including notable abstractions from the 1930s to the 1950s.

  • The Horse Show

    February 2, 2010 thru May 29, 2010

    The Horse Show is an exhibition of horse objects from the Sheldon's remarkable collection of sculpture as well as two-dimensional holdings and sculpture on loan from private local collections.