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Exhibitions

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.

Grace Hartigan's 1954 painting Grand Street Brides from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention

August 15, 2026 through January 3, 2027 This exhibition explores the creative exchange between Grace Hartigan and the bold New York poets who inspired her, sharing a fresh perspective on a pioneering American artist.

Rochelle Feinstein, "Someone Else’s Country," 2022. Acrylic, cotton drop cloth, rainbow thread, 60 × 58 inches.

Gender, Genre, Generation: Women Painting Abstraction

August 15, 2026 through January 3, 2027 This exhibition explores the lasting potency of abstraction to address critical issues in both aesthetics and politics through recent work of four female painters, the artists who offer the most consequential proposition for abstract painting today: Candida Alvarez, Rochelle Feinstein, Carrie Moyer, and Amy Sillman.

Black-and-white painting of a documentary photograph of people standing in front of Pablo Picasso's painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."

Remembering Modern Art: Collection of the Museum of American Art, Berlin

August 15, 2026 through January 3, 2027 This exhibition showcases the collection of Museum of American Art (MoAA), an artist-run institution established in 2004 in Berlin, Germany, that is dedicated to preserving and telling the story of how the canon of modern art was created in the United States.

Burning grass fields under a soft, cloudy sky during dusk.

New Horizons

August 15, 2026 through January 3, 2027

This exhibition presents photographs of the Great Plains that explore the horizon—the region’s defining feature—as a point of connection. This exhibition was organized by University of Nebraska–Lincoln students in ARTS 498/898: Landscape Photography Seminar.

Colorful jazz band mixed media artwork framed by green, blue, and yellow watercolor layers.

Sheldon Statewide: Hyphen American

August 28, 2026 through June 2, 2027

Traveling Across the State 2026–2027

How might an artist’s work reflect the American experience? How can “Americanness” reveal itself through artwork, especially in the presence of diverse American identities? This explores this question during the United States’ celebration of the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its founding by showcasing how identity is presented and interrogated in visual art.

Outdoor Sculpture

Discover Sheldon’s collection—outside.
Explore outdoor sculptures from Sheldon’s collection displayed year round across the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City and East Campuses.