The University of Sydney Art Collection contains over 3,000 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.
Works from the collection are displayed in a series of temporary exhibitions throughout the year.