Current Exhibitions

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An image of artist Ruth Asawa infront of her Wall of Masks

Ongoing Exhibition

The Faces of Ruth Asawa

July 6, 2022–

In 2019, Aiko and Laurence Cuneo came down to the Cantor Arts Center to help oversee the installation of one of Ruth Asawa’s abstract...

Sung-woo Chun's Ancient Harvest

Ongoing Exhibition

(Rotation)

The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950

August 25, 2021–

A condensed and refreshed iteration of the ongoing exhibition, The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950, features work drawn...

LJ Roberts (American, born in 1980), Hannah (HH) Hiaasen and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, 2020-2021. Embroidery on cotton. © LJ Roberts. Courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York

Temporary Exhibition

LJ Roberts: Carry You With Me

April 27, 2022–November 27, 2022

An image depicting "The Color of Pink" by Allen Ruppersberg

Temporary Exhibition

Art/Object: Contemporary Works between Mediums

October 18, 2021–October 31, 2022

In-gallery view of Yinka Shonibare's "The American Library" at the Cantor

Temporary Exhibition

Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA: The American Library

June 2, 2021–June 4, 2023

Ongoing Exhibitions

Auguste François Willème (French, 1830–1905), "Portrait of Matilde de Aguilera y Gamboa, Lady of Fontagud" (detail), c. 1865. White bisque porcelain. Cantor Arts Center Collection, Robert and Pauline Sears Fund, 2021.94

Ongoing Exhibition

European and American Art: Late Renaissance through 1900

January 19, 2022–

A cityscape from the early twentieth century by Edward Hopper

Ongoing Exhibition

The Early Twentieth Century

September 1, 2021–

Still from Emissary Sunsets The Self, 2017. Live simulation and story.

Ongoing Exhibition

Ian Cheng: Emissary Sunsets The Self

June 30, 2021–

Artist unknown (Greece), Relief of a Warrior, n.d. Marble. Gift of Esther de Lemos Morton, Margaret de Lemos Lyon, and Marie J. Storm, 1962.26

Ongoing Exhibition

Aura: Art and Authenticity

May 14, 2020–

A yellow sculpture with the oversized letters Y and O

Ongoing Exhibition

Deborah Kass: OY/YO

December 20, 2019–

A view of a mourning cabinet

Ongoing Exhibition

The Melancholy Museum: Love, Death, and Mourning at Stanford

September 18, 2019–

Ongoing Exhibition

Richard Diebenkorn at the Cantor

September 4, 2019–

Ongoing Exhibition

Richard Serra: Sequence

January 28, 2019–

Memories

Ongoing Exhibition

In Dialogue: African Arts

September 15, 2017–

Auguste Rodin

Ongoing Exhibition

Rodin: The Shock of the Modern Body

September 15, 2017–

Betelgeuse

Ongoing Exhibition

Spencer Finch: Betelgeuse

September 15, 2016–