Past Exhibitions


Past Exhibitions


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  • 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.

  • Journals of the Days: Jacobshagen Notebooks Tour Nebraska's Arboreta

    October 7, 2008 thru November 30, 2008

    Keith Jacobshagen, a professor of painting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explores the Midwest landscape in the exhibit, Journals of the Days: Jacobshagen Notebooks Tour Nebraska's Arboreta.

  • The Purpose of Labor

    August 26, 2008 thru December 7, 2008

    Gail Kendall, a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presents ceramic artworks responding to Robert Bly's translations of The Kabir Book.

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

    August 25, 2008 thru June 30, 2009

    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.

  • Agency of Time, a Leighton Pierce Video Installation

    August 12, 2008 thru October 19, 2008

    Video artist Leighton Pierce has created a site-specific, video installation for Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. To view a short clip of the installation, please click: Agency of Time.

  • Elizabeth King: The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye

    July 19, 2008 thru October 12, 2008

    This exhibition presents a mid-career survey of the work of sculptor and animator Elizabeth King. She combines meticulously wrought figurative sculptures with stop-frame film animation in installations that blur the boundary between actual and virtual space.

  • Peace, Love and the Psychedelic Sixties

    June 6, 2008 thru August 3, 2008

    From its permanent collection, Sheldon offers a glimpse of art from the 1960s - a time of great change in America.

  • Blakelock Paintings on View with Works from Sheldon's Collections

    May 6, 2008 thru August 24, 2008

    This summer paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) will be on view with paintings from Sheldon's outstanding collections.

  • Poets on Painters

    April 25, 2008 thru June 29, 2008

    A visual and literary exhibition that pairs 20 contemporary poets with 20 contemporary paintings, Poets on Painters opens at the Sheldon on April 25. The poem that responds to the painting will be displayed alongside the artwork.

    To view a slide show of the artworks, please click: Poets on Painters Slide Show.

  • Luis Gonzalez Palma: Metaphors of the Heart

    March 28, 2008 thru June 1, 2008

    Sheldon presents an exhibition of approximately 20 photographs by Guatemalan artist Luis Gonzalez Palma. Viewers find his work spell-binding and spiritual.

    A slide show of the exhibition and works by Palma is available by clicking Luis Gonzalez Palma: Metaphors of the Heart.



  • The Unknown Blakelock

    January 25, 2008 thru April 5, 2008

    A retrospective of Ralph Albert Blakelock's (1847-1919) paintings reveals a proto-modern vision and many works beyond the themes he has been historically associated with. On view for the first time these works explore Blakelock's surprising breadth of themes.

  • Art Farm @ Sheldon

    January 4, 2008 thru April 27, 2008

    This exhibition focuses on design proposals for Art Farm, a non-profit art residency site in Marquette, Nebraska. Work on display includes architectural models, renderings, diagrams, drawings and rotating installations.

  • Winter Wonderland: Prints from the Collection of Norman and Judith Zlotsky

    December 17, 2007 thru March 23, 2008

    More than 30 prints, dating from 1860 to 1960, from the Norman and Judy Zlotsky collection, offer insights into how artists have responded to the subject of winter and how the craft of printmaking developed in the United States after the Civil War.