Current Exhibitions
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 |
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Subject(s) to Change: American Art from the Permanent Collection
August 25, 2008 thru March 12, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
