University Galleries include three exhibition spaces for art on the University campus:
- Sheppard Contemporary (Northwest wing on second floor of Church Fine Arts Building)
- McNamara Hallway Gallery (second floor of Church Fine Arts Building)
- Student Galleries South (Rooms 107 and 107A in Jot Travis Building)
These galleries maintain a full and intensive program of professional art exhibitions featuring work from regional, national, and international contemporary artists, as well as supporting faculty research, student exhibitions such as MFA and BFA Thesis exhibits, and popular programming like the Annual Student Art Show and the biennial Valentine Art Auction.
The University Fine Arts Gallery opened in 1960 in the new Church Fine Arts building. In 1978, the art gallery was renamed the Yolande and Craig Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, after the artist Yolande Jacobson Sheppard and beloved University Gallery Curator and Emeritus Professor of Art Craig Sheppard. In 1987, the gallery moved into the new expansion of the north wing of Church Fine Arts building, and in 2013 the gallery was renamed Sheppard Contemporary.
Sheppard Contemporary and University Galleries maintain close relationships with the Lilley Museum of Art at the University, and the galleries at UNR-Lake Tahoe campus. University Galleries engages the campus community, the growing Reno arts communities, and the region at large by exhibiting innovative, contemporary artwork.