Students viewing paintings at the museum.

Current Exhibitions

Arts & Humanities 2025 Graduate Exhibition

Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition 2025 logo.

 

UC Davis graduate students from a range of arts and humanities disciplines explore new ways of seeing and understanding the past, present and future in this annual multidisciplinary showcase. The exhibition gives students hands-on experience in installing and exhibiting their work in a museum setting.

Organized by the Manetti Shrem Museum in collaboration with Art and Design faculty and the graduate students of the College of Letters and Science.

On view June 5–22, 2025

Learn more about this year's graduate participants

Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection

Artwork by Barbara Kruger titled 'Untitled (Not ugly enough) showing a black and white photo of Eleanor Rosevelt with the words 'not ugly enough' in white in a red box overlaying her image.
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Not ugly enough), 1997. Silkscreen on vinyl, 107¼ x 107¼  in. Courtesy the artist and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

This exhibition brings together painting, photography, sculpture and video by some of the most prominent artists working today, as well as rising new voices. Spanning 45 years of art making, Through Their Eyes spotlights the world as experienced by 30 fiercely original and groundbreaking women artists – and is the first presentation of the renowned collection in the United States.

Featured Artists
Giulia Andreani, Vanessa Beecroft, Berlinde De Bruyckere, June Crespo, Ana Elisa Egreja, Jana Euler, Isa Genzken, Nan Goldin, Mona Hatoum, Barbara Kruger, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Sarah Lucas, Jumana Manna, Wangari Mathenge, Danielle Mckinney, Tracey Moffatt, Jill Mulleady, Shirin Neshat, Katja Novitskova, Paulina Olowska, Catherine Opie, Christina Quarles, Cindy Sherman, Anj Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, Andra Ursuta, Hellen van Meene, Ambera Wellmann and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

 

Curated by Susie Kantor, associate curator and exhibition department head

On view January 26–June 22, 2025