2021
The Great Migration: A Celebration of Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska
January 19–June 19, 2021
Avian Observations: Great Plains Birds in Art
January 19–May 8, 2021
2020
Over the Edge of the World—Kirsten Furlong: Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence
March 6–November 21, 2020
Another Perspective: Interpretations of the Landscape
September 4–December 19, 2020
Retrospective of Life’s Work: Charles W. Guildner
January 21–August 22, 2020
Up in the Air: Great Plains Weather
January 21–August 22, 2020
Recent Acquisitions: Highlights from the Great Plains Art Museum Permanent Collection
November 1, 2019 – February 22, 2020
2019
In the Bohemian Alps: Photographs by Michael Farrell
September 6 – December 20, 2019
Hills Snyder
July 19 – October 19, 2019
American West Masters
April 23 – August 24, 2019
Montana: Prairies to Peaks: Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence Erin Jones Graf
March 1–June 29, 2019
From Paint Brushes to Camera Lenses: Creative Women of the Great Plains
September 7, 2018 – April 6, 2019
New Farmers
November 2, 2018 – February 16, 2019
2018
Robert Lee Taylor
May 4 – August 25, 2018
Art & Poetry of the Barada Hills
July 13 – October 20, 2018
Oddities
May 4 – August 25, 2018
Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence Henry Payer
March 2 – June 30, 2018
Collection Critters
November 3, 2017 – February 1, 2018
Cowboys from the Collection
January 16 – April 28, 2018
2017
Collecting Nebraska
August 4 – December 16, 2017
Presence of Absence
July 7 - October 28, 2017
Deeply Rooted
April 7 – July 15, 2017
Lari R. Gibbons: Rising
March 3 – June 24, 2017
Bridges: Sharing Our Past to Enrich the Future
January 6, 2017 – March 25, 2017
Glimpses of the Southwest: Native American Art from the Permanent Collection & the University of Nebraska State Museum
November 4, 2016 – February 25, 2017
Paul Johnsgard: Hand-Tinted Prints from the Permanent Collection
January 6 – March 25, 2017
2016
Ten Years of Elizabeth Rubendall Artists in Residence
September 2 – December 17, 2016
Contemporary Indigeneity: Spiritual Borderlands
September 2 – December 17, 2016
Flat Land, Flat Water: Rubendall Artist in Residence B.C. Gilbert
July 12 - October 29, 2016
Cropping to Circles by Kendall McMinimy
June 3 - August 27, 2016
We, The Heartland
April 1 - August 27, 2016
Denizens: Wildlife on the Western Frontier
February 5 – June 25, 2016
We Are Star People: The Art and Poetry of Gwen Westerman
Sept 1, 2015 - Jan. 10, 2016
From This Grass Earth
March 4 – May 28, 2016
2015
Select Photographs by Fred E. Miller: Photographer of the Crows
January 13 - March 28, 2015
Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Civil War
February 3 - June 27, 2015
Looking Back, Looking Forward
April 28 - August 1, 2015
American Plains Artists 30th Annual Juried Exhibition
August 7 - October 26, 2015
2014
The Maximilian-Bodmer Expedition: Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834
January 2 - February 23, 2014
Dry Times:
Ceramics by Jess Benjamin
March 14 - May 18, 2014
LPS Visual Arts Mentoring Program
April 11 - 30, 2014
Contemporary Indigeneity: The New Art of the Great Plains
June 1 - July 27
Cinematic Framing of the West
May - December 2014
Narrow All Horizons
August 1 - December 21
2013
The Great Plains:
America’s Lingering Wild
January 4 - March 30, 2013
Spurs & Spitfire:
Humor of the American West
March 2013 - March 2014
LPS Visual Arts Mentoring Program, OPS Native American Indian Education Program
April 5 - 21, 2013
Molly Murphy Adams
April 23 - May 3, 2013, exhibit extended until June 15
Glimpsed Space;
Forgotten Place
August 2 - September 22
The Degeneration of the Family Farm
September 30 - December 15, 2013
2012
Transported with Wonder
Jan. 3 - March 25
Marking the Prairie Sublime: Paintings and Prints by Jonathan Goodding
Jan. 3 - March 25
Modern Traditions: Seeing with New Eyes
Jan. 5 - April 22
LPS Visual Mentoring Program and Kaneko
Jan. 5 - April 22
Confrontations and Concilatory Acts: Art & Artifacts of United States and Sioux Nation Conflict
March 2012 - March 2013
Longed for Still: The Avian Art of Anne Peyton
April 24 - May 27
Contemporary Indigeneity: The New Art of the Great Plains
June 1 - July 29
Open Richness
Aug. 3 - Sept. 23
Westward Bound: Big Color
Oct. 10 - Dec. 9
Landscape photographs by Michael Farrell
2011
Ceremonial Dancing and Collaborative Spirits: Modern Native American Art
Jan. 3 - March 27
Double Vision: New Works by Hulleah Tsinahjinnie
Jan. 3 - April 14
Lincoln Public Schools Visual Arts Mentoring Program
April
Paper Plains: The Cast Paper Sculpture of Allen and Patty Eckman
March 2012-March 2013
Portraits of the Prairie - The Land that Inspired Willa Cather
April
Amassing Artists: The Collecting Compulsions of the Christliebs
August 2010 - December 2011
Passing America:
The Great Plains
Oct. 8 - Dec. 11
2010
Places and Narratives: Watercolors of Arthur Short Bull
Jan. 5 - March 28
Searching for the Real Nebraska: A Photo Essay on the Great Recession (Part 2)
Jan. 5 - Feb. 28
With the College of Journalism and Mass Communications
Czech memories, Ethnicity and History Preserved in the Built Environment
March 5 - April 4
In combination with the Center's 2010 Great Plains Symposium
Curator's Choice -- Celebrating the Museum's 30 years
June 11 - Aug. 29
The best from the permanent collection
American Plains Artists
Sept. 3 - Nov. 28
Juried exhibit
Lincoln Public Schools Visual Arts Mentoring Program
2010
Pastoral Paintings: Landscapes and Still Lifes by Wendy Hall
2010
Artist-in-Residence program
2009
Celebrating Darwin's Legacy: Evolution in the Galapagos Islands and the Great Plains
Feb. 12 - March 29
Guest curated by Paul Johnsgard
Gail Sundell: Spirit in Stone
April 21 - May 31
Artist-in-Residence Program
Lincoln Public Schools Visual Arts Mentoring Program
2009
The History and Artistry of Plains Beadwork
Summer 2009
IMPACT Nebraska
Sept. 4 - Nov. 1
Juried group of artists
People of the Plains
Nov. 6 - Dec. 13
Photography of John Evasco
Searching for the Real Nebraska: A Photo Essay on the Great Recession (Part 1)
Jan. 5 - Feb. 28
With the College of Journalism and Mass Communications