Sculpture in white of figure on all fours on ground.
Winter exhibitions now on view

Gesture: The Human Figure After Abstraction

Learn more
Black and white photo of man with reflective contacts in eyes.

Current Exhibitions

Stephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The End

January 26–May 10, 2020

Hexagon pattern projected onto mirrors in dark room.

Current Exhibitions

NEW ERA, an installation by Doug Aitken

Through June 14, 2020

Photo of man.

February 27

Art Studio Visiting Artist Lecture Series:
Jonathan Calm

 

 

Thursday, February 27
4:30–6 PM

Museum canopy and sign on a sunny day

March 4

Mark C. Jerng
Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction

 

 

Wednesday, March 4
4:30–6 PM

Abstract red, white and black shapes.

March 11

The China Shop: Artists in Science Labs

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 11
4:30–6 PM  

Museum canopy lit in purple light for the gala event.

Help Sustain the Legacy

Grounded in the legacy of UC Davis' world-renowned first generation art faculty, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is a hub of creative practice for today's thinkers, makers and innovators, now and for generations to come.