Past Exhibitions


Past Exhibitions


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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Sheldon Survey: An Invitational

    November 9, 2007 thru January 6, 2008

    Sheldon Survey: An Invitational will present artworks from more than 20 contemporary artists now working throughout the United States.

  • Sheldon Connections

    September 14, 2007 thru October 14, 2007

    Sheldon Connections 3, exhibitions and performances by regional artists, continues through October 14.



  • Seasonal Celebrations, Daily Life

    September 7, 2007 thru December 9, 2007

    A 30-year retroperspective on the photographs of Graciela Iturbide.

  • Bougie

    August 28, 2007 thru December 2, 2007

    Artist Wanda Ewing, an assistant professor of art and art history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, explores the concept of beauty inspired by popular fashion magazines by creating satirical covers for her own fictional magazine, Bougie.

  • Sheldon Connections

    August 10, 2007 thru September 9, 2007

    Sheldon Connections is a new program this summer transforming the museum's exhibition galleries on the north side of the second floor into dynamic public sites for events and exhibitions by regional artists.

    Sheldon Connections 2 is the second of three sessions in the program. To view a short videocast about the exhibition, please click Connections 2 Videocast

    Sheldon Connections Calendar

  • Sheldon Connections 1

    July 13, 2007 thru August 5, 2007

    Sheldon Connections is a new program this summer transforming the museum's exhibition galleries on the north side of the second floor into dynamic public sites for events and exhibitions by regional artists.

  • The Anatomy of Charley Friedman

    May 11, 2007 thru August 11, 2007

    This exhibition is a 10-year survey of the work of Lincoln native and New York-based artist Charley Friedman.

  • Sculptors on Paper

    April 13, 2007 thru July 1, 2007

    This exhibition explores the important role that works on paper have played in the work of sculptors. Drawn from the Sheldon’s permanent collection, drawings and prints will be presented that suggest important clues to the working process of sculptors and the relationship between two- and three-dimensional aesthetic vocabularies.


  • Chris Ware

    February 16, 2007 thru April 29, 2007

    This installation features drawings, sketches, models, and selected ephemera related to Chris Ware’s new graphic novel that takes place in Omaha, Nebraska, his birthplace.