The University of Sydney Art Collection contains over 3000 works of art including paintings, works on paper, sculpture and decorative arts which have been acquired by donation and bequest since 1850.

The University Art Gallery holds regular temporary exhibitions which include works from the University Art Collection.

The collection includes high quality examples of Australian art including landscape, genre, portrait, print and abstract works, a collection of Japanese prints, a nineteenth century colonial collection of European works and works from other areas of interest to University scholars.

2011 exhibitions include:
Exposed; art and the naked body (until 27 March).
Japan in Sydney: Arthur Lindsay Sadler, Japan and Australian Modernism, 1920s to 1930s (3 April until 26 June 2011).