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Student-curated exhibitions have been presented at the DAC for decades. Some of those shown since the mid-1990s have focused on such topics as these.
The links below lead to pages about all DAC exhibitions that were on view at certain times; in many instances, information about a listed exhibition may be found by scrolling down after following the link.
- A Passion for Prints: The Davison Legacy, curated by Jesse Feiman and Dan Zolli (Wesleyan classes of 2005 and 2007)
- Shades of Black[ness]: Selected Works by African American Artists from the Davison Art Center Collection, curated by six students in Wesleyan's Fall 2004 seminar "Advanced Themes in 20th-Century Afro-American Art" (ARHA 368)
- Jim Dine's Prints, curated by Oliver McCarthy-Foecke, Wesleyan class of 2005, with the assistance of Sophie White
- Duality/Dialectic: New Perspectives on the DAC Collection, curated by eight students in Wesleyan's Fall 2003 Museum Studies course (ARHA 360)
- Staging War: Images and Artists in Conflict, curated by John Blakinger, Wesleyan class of 2006
- Truisms and Essays: A Portfolio by Jenny Holzer, curated by Eliza Spaulding, Wesleyan class of 2004
- Some Things Worth Looking Into: Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and American Pictorial Photography, curated by Rachel Schuldenfrei, Wesleyan class of 2003
- Five centuries of portraiture, curated by students in Wesleyan's Spring 2002 Museum Studies course (ARHA 360)
- Five centuries of landscape art, curated by students in Wesleyan's Spring 2002 Museum Studies course (ARHA 360)
- Ruin and redemption in urban landscape, curated by students in Wesleyan's Spring 2002 Museum Studies course (ARHA 360)
- Images of dance, curated by Alexis Hutson, Wesleyan GLSP student
- Jim Dine prints and photogravures, curated by Timothy Peterson, Wesleyan class of 2000
- James McNeill Whistler and the Etching Revival, curated by Aaron Fox and Katherine Sanderson, both Wesleyan class of 2000
- Rowing at Wesleyan, also curated by Katherine Sanderson
- The snapshot aesthetic from the 1890s to the present, curated by Marisa Kurtzman, Wesleyan class of 1999
- Postmodern works by artists ranging from Warhol and Rauschenberg to Simmons, Sherman, and Richter, curated by Dahlia Schwietzer, Wesleyan class of 1997
- Berenice Abbott's photographs of New York City, curated by Brett Stilwell, Wesleyan class of 1997
- The influence of formalist critic Clement Greenberg, curated by Jesse Weinraub, Wesleyan class of 1998
- Images of women in the early 20th-century American publication Camera Work, curated by Devon Murphy and Kristen Evangelista (both Wesleyan class of 1997)
- Early scientific prints such as maps, anatomical and botanical studies, and images of new inventions, curated by Danielle Schaff, Wesleyan class of 1999
- Prints by Francisco Goya, curated by Aliki Hasiotis and Samantha Morrow, both Wesleyan class of 1997
- Images of urban modernization in New York City, curated by Min Lee, Wesleyan class of 1997
- Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs of children, also curated by Min Lee
- Original and collaborative woodcuts by Keiji Shinohara, curated by Elke Pessl, Wesleyan class of 1997
- Juxtapositions of diverse 20th-century photographs, curated by Lowell Pettit, Wesleyan class of 1996
- Jim Dine's working stage proofs for his 1994 Raven, curated by Deborah Stutz, Wesleyan class of 1996
- Nineteenth-century photographs of South and Southeast Asia, curated by Son Tran, Wesleyan class of 1995
- Images of women in Japanese ukiyo-e prints, curated by Ayako Nezu, Wesleyan class of 1994
- Italian Mannerist prints, curated by Genevieve Schmidt-Camacho, Wesleyan class of 1993
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