Current Exhibitions
Sahar Khoury: Weights & Measures
January 7–June 20, 2026
Sahar Khoury’s largest solo exhibition to date, Sahar Khoury: Weights & Measures, expands on her 2023 solo exhibition, Sahar Khoury: Umm, at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio. The Oakland-based artist is inspired by familial and global histories, food, music and mourning. The exhibition features a reconfigured clock tower sculpture that alludes to market structures in the Eastern Mediterranean Levant region, and new works in ceramic and brass that speak to familial and cultural ties across time.
Curated by Susie Kantor, associate curator and exhibition department head
Image: Installation view, Sahar Khoury, Untitled (the elephant in the room [the tower of silence]), 2025. Steel, ceramic, speakers, motor, glass, altered spiral staircase, Palestinian olive oil from 2022, 144 1/2 x 238 x 54 1/2 in. Courtesy of the artist and CANADA, Rebecca Camacho Presents, and Parker Gallery. Photo courtesy of the Manetti Shrem Museum © Muzi Li Rowe.
Arts & Humanities 2026 Graduate Exhibition
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 Studio and Design faculty and the graduate students of the College of Letters and Science.
On view June 4–20, 2026
Learn more about the opening celebration on June 4
Learn more about the participating students and read the press release
Coming in Fall 2026
Woody De Othello: coming forth by day
August 12–Dec. 5, 2026
Traveling from Pérez Art Museum Miami
ALSO ON VIEW: This Photograph Is My Proof
April–August 2026
Since the medium’s beginnings, photography has been used as documentary evidence. Whether capturing the perfect cloud passing by or a light bulb that has since burned out, the camera has the unique ability to record fleeting moments of time. This installation of photographs and photo-based works from the museum’s Fine Arts Collection considers — and troubles — photography’s perceived dependability. The works on view invite us to experience photography as a medium that both emerges from and can defy the limitations of its documentary function.
On view in the Collections Classroom during open public hours when classes are not in session
Curated by Grace Xiao, curatorial assistant
Image: Diane Althoff, Untitled #3, 2005. Photogram, 11 x 14 in. Fine Arts Collection, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Gift of Foster Goldstrom. Photo owned by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. © Muzi Li Rowe