Past exhibitions at Sheppard Contemporary

View the past exhibitions at Sheppard Contemporary.

Torn By Light: Triennial Faculty Art Exhibition

Aug. 28 - Dec. 10, 2025

This exhibition featured recent work from over forty participating artists, including tenured and tenure-track faculty, emeritus faculty and actively working artists in the Department of Art, Art History and Design who serve as administrative faculty, staff, lecturers and adjunct teaching faculty. Torn By Light extended to include artists who serve as faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe, as well as the most recent Visiting Artist Faculty in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program who teach at the University remotely year-round from locations ranging from New York and Los Angeles to Berlin. The exhibition title refered to a 1993 poetry collection from the late Nevada artist and poet Joanne de Longchamps, edited by poet Shaun Griffin.

Participating Artists: Adam Benedict, Ahren Hertel, AmyKhoshbin, Antone Dolezal, Ashley Fuchs, Austin Pratt, Bobby Lee, Camryn Maher, Chris Lanier, Daniel Giroux, David Horvitz, Edw Martinez, Eunkang Koh, Ivy Guild, Julie Weitz, Kelly Chorpening, Kristin Hough, Leta Seletzky, Lily Sommerfeldt, Luke Rizzotto, Mark Combs, Matt Franks, Meg Pohlod, Michael Sarich, Miya Hannan, Molly Allen, Mykola Haleta, Neda Khalafi, Nina Elder, Rebekah Bogard, Richard Jackson, Rick Parsons, Rob Reynolds, Roman de Salvo, Samantha Buchanan, Scott Hinton, Stephanie J. Woods, Tamara Scronce, Teri Barnes and Tyler Calkin.

In Real Life: Camberwell College, London & University of Nevada, Reno

Jan. 20 - 31, 2025

A showcase of the collaborative efforts of over 20 artists from the Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea College of Art in London, and the Art Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. This innovative project explored the boundaries of object manipulation, 3D scanning technology and digital reinterpretation, blending the physical and digital realms to redefine traditional art-making practices.

The exhibition features work created through the use of cutting-edge 3D scanning, printing and experimental metal casting techniques (including bronze and aluminum). Artists from both institutions have employed these technologies to reproduce, distort, scale and transform ordinary objects - ranging from toys and burgers to clay models, drawings and paintings.

Wet Incantation: Poetics of Water and Language

Sept. 4 - Dec. 6, 2024

Curated by Austin Pratt, Wet Incantation is an open and shimmering reflection on water and language. This group exhibition explores the complex and profound relationship between these two essential elements–one a fundamental resource and the other a foundation of human communication. Featuring six artists, the works in this exhibition come from varying aims and positions, ranging from the use of the dynamic and ephemeral qualities of water as a literal medium, or employing linguistic elements—such as text, narration, and translation—to evoke the fluidity and complexity of water's role in human thought and culture.

Featuring: Sofía Córdova, Rubens Ghenov, David Horvitz, M Jiang, John Roloff, and Julia Schwadron Marianelli.

Toward a Tangled Turn: Knots, Nets, Threads, and Loops

Aug. 31 - Dec. 15, 2023

Loosely and carefully woven together, this group exhibition features a wide-ranging collection of artworks that point or speak to the ideas of “knots, nets, threads, & loops”. This open and poetic meditation on form invites reflection on paradox, ambiguity, mystery and metaphor. From avant-garde electronic noise music through to traditional indigenous woven and beaded baskets; from archival collection of global folk games and narrative devices to contemporary painting and sculpture, this exhibition examines these guiding and tangled forms in many possible ways: as intellectual curiosities, mental models or frames, mathematic diagram, functional and material tools, or totemic magical and spiritual objects, each discrete but non-trivial.

Curated by Austin Pratt, this exhibition features work from Throbbing Gristle, Harry Smith, Julian Hoeber, Thomas Ockerse, FM3, Abigail Lucien, Fernanda Mello, Rebecca Eagle Lambert, Sandra Eagle, Celia Delorme, David R. Harper, Kieran Riley Abbott, Nate Clark, Chris Herald and Jean Stamsta.