Past Exhibitions


Past Exhibitions


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  • Flowers, Lies and Revolution: Contemporary Cuban Art

    May 21, 2010 thru July 18, 2010

    This exhibition examines the intersection between personal and national histories in post-revolutionary Cuba.

  • Shrew'd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists

    February 12, 2010 thru May 9, 2010

    Shrew'd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists, Sheldon’s biennial invitational exhibition, is a survey of American women artists. The exhibition will concentrate on the work of a diverse group of women who who use aesthetic media to question social norms of representation in art, popular culture and everyday life.

  • The Horse Show

    February 2, 2010 thru May 23, 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dan Christensen:
    Forty Years of Painting

    October 23, 2009 thru January 31, 2010

    This survey of paintings by Dan Christensen (1942-2007), a Nebraska native, documents his quest to understand the possibilities of color, paint and pictorial space.

  • Agents of Change: Mexican Muralists and New Deal Artists

    September 29, 2009 thru January 17, 2010

    Agents of Change presents works from the 1920's and 1930's in the Museum's permanent collection by Mexican Muralists and artists in the United States' Works Progress Administration.

  • Visionary Photography

    September 15, 2009 thru January 3, 2010

    Visionary Photography consists of 11 artworks spanning more than 80 years from the permanent collection.

  • Altered Land, Photography in the 1970s

    August 7, 2009 thru January 3, 2010

    Selected photographs created in the 1970s from Sheldon's permanent collection explore changes in landscape photography.

  • Play's the Thing: The Paintings and Objects of Jun Kaneko

    June 19, 2009 thru October 11, 2009

    Jun Kaneko is internationally recognized for his large ceramic dangos (the Japanese word for dumpling) but few people know that he was first a painter. This summer a two-part exhibition will explore the relationship between Kaneko's painting and sculpture.

  • James McNeill Whistler: 40 Years of Printmaking

    May 26, 2009 thru September 20, 2009

    Approximately 40 etchings and lithographs by James McNeill Whistler are on view. The works, dating from 1859 to 1899, include prints from two well-known portfolios called the Thames Set and the French Set.

  • Jun Kaneko Sculptures

    May 11, 2009 thru October 11, 2009

    Large ceramic sculptures by Jun Kaneko are on view in the Great Hall through October 11.

  • Art by Women

    March 6, 2009 thru April 26, 2009

    In celebration of Women’s History Month, Sheldon Museum of Art will host Art by Women from the Wachovia A G Edwards Corporate collection.

  • Book and Journal Design Winners

    February 24, 2009 thru March 1, 2009

    Books and journals recognized by the American Association of University Presses for their superior designs in 2008 will be on view in the print studies room.

  • Exposures of Landscape and Life: Photographs from the Sheldon's Permanent Collection

    February 6, 2009 thru May 17, 2009

    This exhibition presents pioneers of photography whose work, approach and teachings have influenced contemporary artists.

  • Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives

    February 6, 2009 thru May 31, 2009

    The Sheldon Museum of Art is proud to present Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives during Lincoln PhotoFest, a community celebration of photography. Artists Arno Minkkinen, Hans Eijkelboom and Edward Burtynsky express diverse viewpoints and a collective consciousness of the human experience.



  • Calder Sculpture In Context

    January 28, 2009 thru May 1, 2009

    Sheldon's Great Hall has been turned into an Alexander Calder corridor with mobiles and stabiles.

  • New Acquisitions: African-American Masters Collection

    December 16, 2008 thru March 1, 2009

    Newly acquired artworks by eight 20th century African-American artists will be on view. The artists are: Charles White, Alvin Loving, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Charles Alston, Lois Mailou Jones and Aaron Douglas.

  • Portraits and Personalities: Prints from the F. M. Hall Collection

    December 5, 2008 thru March 1, 2009

    Alison Stewart, a professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has chosen approximately 20 prints from the Sheldon Museum of Art's permanent collection to augment her course, the History of Prints.

  • TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art

    November 1, 2008 thru January 18, 2009

    Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego presents this exhibition of contemporary Latin American and Latino art. TRANSactions features artists from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Chile.