Past Exhibitions

Sam Francis Centennial

Image: Sam Francis, The Beaubourg, 1977. © 2023 Sam Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Reproduction, including downloading of ARS member works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Born in San Mateo in 1923, Sam Francis began his […]


Convergence Zone

Image: Deborah Butterfield, Three Sorrows (quake, tsunami, meltdown from Gretel Ehrlich’s Facing The Wave), 2016. Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM. Image courtesy of the artist and LA Louver, Venice, CA. Recent destructive storms in California shone a spotlight, once again, on how vulnerable our communities are to the forces of nature. When we consider other […]


Stephanie Syjuco: White Balance/Color Cast

Image: Stephanie Syjuco, Cargo Cults: Head Bundle (Small), 2016. Pigmented inkjet print. Edition of 15 + 2AP; 21 x 16 inches framed. Courtesy of the artist, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. Utilizing the instruments of photography, video, installation, and social practice, artist and educator Stephanie Syjuco interrogates the construction […]


Color Shift (Correctional Overlay)

Image credit: Stephanie Syjuco. Color Shift (Correctional Overlay), 2022. Color printed window film and black vinyl. Courtesy of the artist, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York Color Shift (Correctional Overlay), (2022), remains on view in the front window of the Anderson Collection following the recent exhibition, Stephanie Syjuco: White Balance/Color […]


Responsive Structures: Ephemeral

A membrane tensegrity system balances the compressive and tensile structural elements to produce a stable whole. Buckminster Fuller, who coined the term tensegrity (combining the words tensional and integrity) in 1962, described compressive struts (i.e., rods) as “islands of compression in a sea of tension.” In this context, Stanford students taking the course CEE32H: Responsive […]


Wendy Red Star: American Progress

April 6, 2022 - August 28, 2022

Wendy Red Star: American Progress presents work by the artist, Wendy Red Star, who was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. Red Star’s work is informed by her cultural heritage and engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. This exhibition, installed throughout the first floor […]


Richard Diebenkorn: A Centennial Celebration

Image: Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled #32 (Sausalito), 1949, oil on canvas, 57 x 39 1/2 in. (144.8 x 100.3 cm), Courtesy of Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, © 2022 Richard Diebenkorn Foundation     Born 100 years ago, Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) produced a body of work whose beauty and mysteriously empathy-inspiring nature has long attracted many devotees worldwide. He […]


Eamon Ore-Giron: Non Plus Ultra

September 23, 2021 - February 20, 2022

Eamon Ore-Giron, Infinite Regress CLXXXI, 2021, mineral paint and flashe on linen, 18 x 18 in. (45.7 x 45.7 cm), Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York, Photo: Charles White / JWPictures.com PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCY ON THE FUTURE OF THE ARTS 2020-2022 In the Stanford tradition of providing a home for art and artists […]


Sam Richardson: Islands, Ice, and Sand

September 23, 2021 - March 13, 2022

Sam Richardson (1934-2013), a California native, created small-scaled, finely crafted poetic sculptures that influenced a generation of artists and students and helped push the boundaries of landscape art in the West. The exhibition, which includes Most of that Iceberg is Below the Water (1969) from the permanent collection and works on loan from private lenders, […]


Reaching Towards Warmer Suns

July 29, 2021 - December 5, 2021

Kiyan Williams is a visual artist and writer from Newark, NJ who works fluidly across performance, sculpture, video, and 2D realms. Rooted in a process-driven practice, they are attracted to quotidian, unconventional materials and methods that evoke the historical, political, and ecological forces that shape individual and collective bodies. Kiyan Williams’ Reaching Towards Warmer Suns, […]


Hostile Terrain 94

October 15, 2020 - January 30, 2022

Dates subject to change Hostile Terrain 94 is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project. The installation is composed of more than 3000 hand-written toe tags, each representing a migrant who has died trying to cross the US-Mexico border at the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. […]


Formed and Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics

March 13, 2020 - May 2, 2021

Ceramics have played a fundamental role in the lives of many for centuries, as objects rooted in ritual, utility, and decoration. The medium of clay and the variety of finishing processes allows for infinite, and at times, unexpected expressive forms. This exhibition presents the work of four groundbreaking contemporary artists whose practices provide insight into […]


Left of Center

September 20, 2019 - March 1, 2021

From the beginning, a sense of place and a meaningful connection to the American West—or, “Left Coast”—have been prominent themes in the Anderson’s collecting practice. Left of Center: Five Years of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University celebrates the fifth anniversary of the museum and demonstrates the distinct relationship between artists in the collection and […]


Jim Campbell

September 5, 2019 - March 1, 2021

Contemporary artist Jim Campbell uses technology to filter images of daily life, mediating the audience’s encounter with his subjects and amplifying the flow of time and memory. While many of Campbell’s public projects have been physically sweeping in scale, such as Day for Night (2018) atop the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, this exhibition focuses […]


Process and Pattern

August 15, 2019 - February 17, 2020

Memory, history, and making collide in the work of contemporary artists McArthur Binion, Charles Gaines, Julie Mehretu, and Analia Saban. Their artworks—through process, subject, or medium—signal the presence of the artist and engage the viewer in the acts of exploration, decoding, and discovery.     This exhibition is organized by the Anderson Collection at Stanford […]


Kerry Tribe

February 28, 2019 - July 29, 2019

  Standardized Patient, 2017 on view February 28 – May 6, 2019 Exquisite Corpse, 2016 on view May 16 – July 29, 2019   The Anderson Collection will be presenting two films by Los Angeles–based visual artist Kerry Tribe. The first, Standardized Patient (2017), on view from February 28 through May 6, explores issues of performance, communication, and […]


Spotlight on Elizabeth Murray

September 27, 2018 - March 25, 2019

Elizabeth Murray, This Pair, 1987   Elizabeth Murray’s (1940-2007) work expands the definition of painting and challenges its conventions. This installation in the second floor galleries focuses on large-scale shaped, multipart canvases and related works on paper composed of dynamic forms in striking color, both from within and outside of the museum’s collection.


Studio 2: Inspired by Process

September 22, 2018 - December 14, 2018

Studio 2 is a portable art studio constructed with salvaged materials at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in September 2015. The studio was built by Stanford students in David Szlasa’s Arts Intensive course, “Tiny Eco Houses for Artists: Social Practice, Design/Build.” This fall the Anderson Collection at Stanford University presents Inspired by Process, a Studio 2 […]


Salon Style II

September 20, 2018 - February 18, 2019

Jess, The 5th Never of Old Lear, 1974, paper collage (paste up), 33 ⅛ x 27 15/16 in. Collection of  Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson. © 2018 The Jess Collins Trust   The unique works on paper found within Salon Style provide an increasingly rich and diverse view of the artists represented in the Anderson Collection […]


Nebulate

May 21, 2018 - June 5, 2018

The installation’s structure is comprised of plastic bubbles of varying sizes, assembled to form a translucent, cloud-like mass.Students explored how surface deformation, through dimpling and curvature, increased the strength of the panel. The final form embodies a viral mass upon its environment as it ebbs and ows, while creating a lens through which to see […]


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