Stanford University

Past Exhibitions

Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani American, b.1969), "Migrant Love," 2024, stenciled and sprayed pigmented handmade paper; Collection of the Artist, Courtesy of Shahzia Sikander and Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles © Shahzia Sikander
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Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior

September 17, 2025–January 25, 2026
a marble sculpture of two small children
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Edmonia Lewis: Indelible Impressions

September 17, 2025–January 4, 2026
A image of a native american woman looking up with a black background
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Jeffrey Gibson: She Never Dances Alone

May 7–October 19, 2025
Fish Ewer by Salviati & Co.
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Handle with Care

March 19–September 21, 2025
A Child Already Knows, video still
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Tiffany Sia: No Place

April 9–August 24, 2025
a collage of photographic images in various colors
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Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene

February 26–August 3, 2025
An image of artist Bernice Bing in her studio
Archive Rooms

Archive Room: Bernice Bing

Selections from Special Collections at Stanford Libraries

July 17, 2024–July 6, 2025
Black and white photo of negative film strips depicting artist Lynn Hershman Leeson
Archive Rooms

Archive Room: Lynn Hershman Leeson

Selections from Special Collections at Stanford Libraries

July 17, 2024–July 6, 2025
A black and white image of a man standing by a table
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TT Takemoto: Remembering in the Absence of Memory

June 19, 2024–April 6, 2025
An image of two artowkrs side by side. One has three lighter colors while another has more darker hues. The forms are very geometric in nature.
Collection Rotation

First Impressions: Frank Stella’s Early Prints from the Marmor Collection

October 9, 2024–March 9, 2025
An image of a man drinking from a glass
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Livien Yin: Thirsty

August 21, 2024–February 23, 2025
An image of a room and two people in it with an altar
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Spirit House

September 4, 2024–January 26, 2025
An image of a woman on the left and a few other pictures on the right hand side depicting two men and a couple and three pairs of shoes
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Day Jobs

March 6–July 21, 2024
Sofía Gallisá Muriente (Puerto Rican, born in 1986), Celaje (Cloudscape), 2020. 16mm and Super8 film transferred to HD video, color, sound, 40 min. 57 sec. © Sofía Gallisá Muriente. Courtesy of the artist
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Sofía Gallisá Muriente: Celaje (Cloudscape)

December 6, 2023–May 19, 2024
An image of a man jumping behind a wall with a pistol drawn on it
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Beyond Here: The Judy and Sidney Zuber Collection of Latin American Photography

August 9, 2023–January 28, 2024
A black and white photograph depicting black people at high school
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Imvuselelo: The revival

September 27, 2023–January 21, 2024
an image of a couch and a woman with two birds
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Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered

September 6, 2023–January 21, 2024
two men in women's clothing standing before a green background
Collection Rotation

Full Figure

June 7–November 26, 2023
An image of a man on a white tuxedo on a green background
Media Arts Installation

Kenneth Tam: All of M

May 31–November 12, 2023
An image of ladybugs
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Printing Protest

April 19–August 27, 2023
A black and white image of a naked woman floating in a pool
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Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 1929–1941

March 29–July 30, 2023
A black and white photograph of a couple with child in the woods
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A Change of Scenery: Photographs of Leisure in the Landscape

February 8–July 16, 2023
In-gallery view of Yinka Shonibare's "The American Library" at the Cantor
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Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA: The American Library

June 2, 2021–June 4, 2023
image of a person standing on a circle of sand
Media Arts Installation

A young Yu: Mourning Rituals

December 14, 2022–May 14, 2023
A painting depicting three naked women
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East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art

September 28, 2022–February 12, 2023
A black and white photograph of people smiling and posing for the camera
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At Home/On Stage: Asian American Representation in Photography and Film

August 31, 2022–January 15, 2023
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
Collection Rotation

Aura: Art and Authenticity

May 14, 2020–January 8, 2023
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
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LJ Roberts: Carry You With Me

April 27–November 27, 2022
an image of a human figure against a green and white background
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The Marmor Collection: Color as Form in Prints, 1953–1971

August 24–November 27, 2022
Still from Emissary Sunsets The Self, 2017. Live simulation and story.
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Ian Cheng: Emissary Sunsets The Self

June 30, 2021–November 13, 2022
An image depicting "The Color of Pink" by Allen Ruppersberg
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Art/Object: Contemporary Works between Mediums

(Online Only)

October 18, 2021–October 31, 2022
Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923–2015). White Bar with Black, 1973. Lithograph with pencil on Special Arjomari paper. © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation and Gemini G.E.L. LLC. Cantor Arts Center, Gift of the Marmor Foundation (Drs. Michael and Jane Marmor) from the collection of Drs. Judd and Katherine Marmor, 2015.67
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The Marmor Collection: Black and White Prints from the 1970s

April 20–August 7, 2022
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A Loaded Camera: Gordon Parks

February 23–July 3, 2022
Petra Cortright (American, born in 1986), Hellscape Nº17, 2022. Digital painting on banner.
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A Cool Million: Petra Cortright

April 22–May 30, 2022
An in-gallery shot of the past exhibition "The Marmor Collection: Bruce Nauman" on view at the Cantor from Jan 12 through Apr 3, 2022
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The Marmor Collection: Bruce Nauman

January 12–April 3, 2022
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Paper Chase: Ten Years of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Cantor

September 29, 2021–January 30, 2022
An image depicting "Flowers in a Glass Vase," by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder
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Object Lessons: Art & Its Histories

June 21, 2017–January 18, 2022
A study of ice cream cones
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The Marmor Collection: Frank Stella and Claes Oldenburg

August 25, 2021–January 2, 2022
An image of Rothko's "Pink and White over Red," depicting a red faded square with a white square inside in the top third portion of it, with faded edges that turn to pink.
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The Anderson Collection at the Cantor

May 12–August 15, 2021
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When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art

February 5–May 30, 2021
photo
Collection Rotation

The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950

February 23, 2019–February 28, 2021
I AM AN
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Stephanie Syjuco: “I AM AN…”

November 14, 2018–November 19, 2020
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Do Ho Suh: The Spaces in Between

May 9, 2018–September 28, 2020
⁠Jennifer Steinkamp (U.S.A., b.1958), Still-Life 1, 2016. Video installation. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. L.20.1.2019
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Still-Life 1

February 26–July 27, 2020
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A Gift of Art from Marilyn F. Symmes

November 20, 2019–May 18, 2020
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Surf Sequence by Ansel Adams

November 20, 2019–May 18, 2020
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Crossing the Caspian: Persia and Europe, 1500–1700

January 22–April 26, 2020
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Outside Looking In: John Gutmann, Helen Levitt, and Wright Morris

January 22–April 26, 2020
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Katharina Fritsch’s 6. Stilleben (6th Still Life)

May 1, 2019–April 6, 2020
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Kahlil Joseph: BLKNWS

October 10, 2018–February 17, 2020
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Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze

Now extended through February 2

September 29, 2019–February 2, 2020
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West x Southwest: Edward Weston and Ansel Adams

September 26, 2019–January 6, 2020
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"Afropick" by Sanford Biggers

May 22–October 28, 2019
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"Breakdown" by Jeffrey Gibson

March 27–October 28, 2019
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How the West Was Won

Yinka Shonibare MBE, "Cowboy Angels"

April 24–October 28, 2019
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Kerry Tribe: The Elusive Word

February 23–September 30, 2019
image
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Painting Nature in the American Gilded Age

August 31, 2018–August 25, 2019
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Josiah McElheny: Island Universe

February 23–August 18, 2019
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STRAY: A GRAPHIC TONE

February 23–June 16, 2019
Sowei mask
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The Dancing "Sowei:" Performing Beauty in Sierra Leone

March 21, 2018–April 29, 2019
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Alphabété: The World Through the Eyes of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

June 20, 2018–March 3, 2019
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Gallery Shift

Freidenrich Family Gallery and Pigott Family Gallery

January 7–February 22, 2019
image
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Blackboard

September 19, 2018–January 27, 2019
image
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Contact Warhol: Photography Without End

September 29, 2018–January 6, 2019
Katherine Van Kirk
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Through Diebenkorn’s "Window": Transitions in Time

April 18, 2018–January 6, 2019
Zhou image
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墨境 Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang

May 23–September 3, 2018
skeleton
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Betray the Secret: Humanity in the Age of "Frankenstein"

April 4–August 5, 2018
Point Bonita
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Framing in Time: Photographs from the Cantor Arts Center Reimagined

January 24–May 28, 2018
Oscar Muñoz, Línea del destino, 2006.
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The Matter of Photography in the Americas

February 7–April 30, 2018
Three Sided World
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Working Metal in 20th-Century Sculpture

January 31–April 30, 2018
Vase with peach-bloom glaze
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Earthly Hollows: Cave and Kiln Transformations

October 18, 2017–March 18, 2018
Pages from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
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The Buddha’s Word @ Stanford

October 18, 2017–March 18, 2018
Nancy Newhall
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About Face: Intimacy and Abstraction in Photographic Portraits

November 1, 2017–March 4, 2018
Through the ruins of capitalism to the universal brotherhood of workers!
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The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution

October 18, 2017–March 4, 2018
Artist Hope Gangloff
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Artist at Work 2017: Hope Gangloff

April 5, 2017–February 12, 2018
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Montage Fever

October 18, 2017–January 21, 2018
Seat Assignment
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Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser

September 15, 2017–January 7, 2018
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Please, Please, Pleased to Meet'cha

In the oak tree grove in front of the Anderson Collection

January 7–January 7, 2018