Current Exhibitions

Exhibitions: Current

Sheldon Museum of Art welcomes visitors to a varied and changing schedule of exhibitions.
Through Spring 2009, gallery visitors are invited to view six Alexander Calder sculptures on display in the museum's Great Hall.
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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • New Acquisitions: African-American Masters Collection

    December 16, 2008 thru March 2, 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.