Stanford University Department of Art & Art History

Stanford University Department of Art & Art History Welcome to the official page of the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. Check out our current and upcoming events!

This is the official page of the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. Our department in the School of Humanities and Sciences comprises 22 distinguished faculty and 14 professional staff members who serve approximately 70 graduate students and 110 undergraduate majors and minors each year. We host over 80 events annually, including the Art History Lecture Series, Studio Lecture

Series, special lectures and symposia, gallery exhibitions and receptions, film screenings, and design presentations. All events are free and open to the public (unless otherwise noted). Details are subject to change without notice. For complete information about the department, go to http://art.stanford.edu.

2023 Winter MFA Documentary Film ScreeningJoin us tomorrow, March 21st @ 6:00pm | Films by first year MFA students in th...
03/20/2023

2023 Winter MFA Documentary Film Screening

Join us tomorrow, March 21st @ 6:00pm | Films by first year MFA students in the Documentary Film Program

▪️Earthling
By Julia Mendoza Friedman and Claire Haughey
An independent aerospace engineer and a crew of dreamers tinker with the airship they hope one day will carry them to the edge of space.

▪️What Cannot Be Seen
By Julie Gaynin and Dominic Yarabe
Real estate agents share their stories navigating housing discrimination in the Bay Area.

▪️Lacuna
By Carlo Nasisse and Shirley He
An ancient lake was drained leaving behind fertile soil. Now, agricultural machinery, animals, and humans search for water in the dry valley left behind.

*Not in screening order

Q&A with filmmakers and reception to immediately follow the screening. Free and open to the public. 🎬

Tomorrow is Open Studios and you are invited! From 3-5pm, classrooms and studios of the McMurtry Building and Stanford A...
03/16/2023

Tomorrow is Open Studios and you are invited! From 3-5pm, classrooms and studios of the McMurtry Building and Stanford Art Gallery open their doors to the public featuring student artwork right where it was created!



In the meantime, enjoy these photos captured during Open Studios this past fall quarter. 💫

Next week! 😼 Screening of films by first year MFA students in the Documentary Film Program—Tuesday, March 21 // 6:00 PM ...
03/15/2023

Next week! 😼 Screening of films by first year MFA students in the Documentary Film Program—Tuesday, March 21 // 6:00 PM // Oshman Hall

❌❌❌ On the occasion of the publication 𝘈𝘻𝘪𝘻 + 𝘊𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘟𝘟𝘟, a 30-year retrospective of their work, Anthony Aziz and Samm...
02/28/2023

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On the occasion of the publication 𝘈𝘻𝘪𝘻 + 𝘊𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘟𝘟𝘟, a 30-year retrospective of their work, Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher will engage in a wide-ranging, public conversation with Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor of Art History.

5:30 pm | Tuesday, March 7

Register to attend! Link in bio 🔗 or visit art.stanford.edu for more info.

𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now on view in the Coulter Art Gallery! Stop by Monday-Friday, 11am-5pm 💫The MFA Art Practice first yea...
02/21/2023

𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now on view in the Coulter Art Gallery! Stop by Monday-Friday, 11am-5pm 💫

The MFA Art Practice first year show introduces our incoming cohort of five students to Stanford through an exhibition of new artwork created in the short time since arriving on campus in the fall. This group found a common thread in their diverse practices in reorienting towards and from home. Each of these artists reclaim their identities as they look closely at their places of origin and unpack the oppressive systems and intergenerational trauma that have shaped their experiences. For some, this is a transnational experience of migration, colonialism, assimilation, and language barriers. Materials play an important conceptual role across their practices whether it is adobe used in traditional architecture to heal a haunted house, a pulley that is drawing us towards honoring our chosen home, or a rope that once tied us to historical legacies of marginalization can also ground us in a new sense of peace and belonging. These artists center and give shape to the past by reimagining what home can be today. - Associate Professor Terry Berlier, Curator







Opening reception will be held tomorrow, February 22, 4-6pm.

Behind the scenes installation of the First Year MFA Exhibition: Home Landings! 🔨🧰🖼This group exhibition will feature wo...
02/14/2023

Behind the scenes installation of the First Year MFA Exhibition: Home Landings! 🔨🧰🖼

This group exhibition will feature works by five first-year MFA students in Art Practice: Joanna Keane Lopez, Wendy Liu, Jessica Monette, Yunfei Ren, and Pablo Tut.

💫 On view February 21 - March 17 in the Coulter Art Gallery

Featured in this compilation is our newly hired Art Preparator, Daniel Brickman! Daniel is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. He studied architecture at Auburn University before switching to sculpture and earning a BFA from Indiana U. of PA. After a study abroad experience, he spent two years exhibiting and teaching in Zagreb, Croatia. He came to California for graduate school and earned an MFA in Studio Art from UC Davis in 2012. Daniel's artwork combines sculpture and painting with an emphasis on process and craftsmanship. He has exhibited regionally in CA, nationally, and internationally.

Brickman’s professional focus leading up to an Art Preparator role at Stanford included teaching art at primary, secondary, and collegiate levels, theater and dance set fabrication and installation, assisting artists, rough and finish carpentry, bronze casting, and metal working. He is keenly interested in finding elegant solutions to material problems and working with artists to realize their vision for an exhibition. If you see him around McMurtry, be sure to say hi! 👋🏼

Bissera V. Pentcheva’s 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 interdisciplinary project brings two more public facing events this week, in add...
02/09/2023

Bissera V. Pentcheva’s 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 interdisciplinary project brings two more public facing events this week, in addition to 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘴: 𝘚𝘵𝘦. 𝘍𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴 on view now through March 17 in the Stanford Art Gallery:

Friday, 2/10: 𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦
7:30pm at Bing Concert Hall

Saturday, 2/11: 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪-𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘶𝘮
9am-6pm at McMurtry, Room 350

🔗 Visit link in bio for more information! Stanford Art Gallery will be open outside of normal visiting hours for those on campus attending these events.

Photos by Susana Barron

That basement POV📸: Chris Nguyen
02/08/2023

That basement POV

📸: Chris Nguyen

Tomorrow! Visiting artist Hito Steyerl will deliver a talk titled “Failed works. Pandemia, energy crisis, inflation, war...
02/01/2023

Tomorrow! Visiting artist Hito Steyerl will deliver a talk titled “Failed works. Pandemia, energy crisis, inflation, war, 2020-.” 🔗 Visit link in bio to register.

This lecture is made possible by a generous grant from Carmen M. Christensen.

The application deadline for the Metaspore incubator this spring at Stanford is this Friday, February 3rd. Open to all s...
02/01/2023

The application deadline for the Metaspore incubator this spring at Stanford is this Friday, February 3rd. Open to all students enrolled .

Metaspore is a student fellowship (including a weekend retreat for all student participants) and a spring course led by and co-instructed by alumni MFA 22.

The course will question how we can augment our own perceptions and intuitions, while also considering the diverse sensory ecologies of other life forms and incorporating these ideas into our immersive technologies and practices.

Visit metaspore.org for more information and to apply.

Hosted by Stanford, the Office of the Vice President for the Arts, in collaboration with Stanford Arts Institute, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, and the Human and Planetary Health Working Group.

Congratulations to Amy Elkins (MFA ‘22), Xandra Ibarra (Art Practice Lecturer), Dana Hemenway (Art Practice Lecturer), R...
01/31/2023

Congratulations to Amy Elkins (MFA ‘22), Xandra Ibarra (Art Practice Lecturer), Dana Hemenway (Art Practice Lecturer), Rodrigo Reyes (Doc Film Adjunct Faculty), and the 8 other recipients of the 2023-2025 Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship Program! 👏🏼

Founded in 1986, the Eureka Fellowship Program offers unrestricted financial support for visual artists to continue to live and create in the San Francisco Bay Area. Artists are selected on a three-year cycle, with four fellowships annually. A total of $35,000 is provided to each selected artist, making the Eureka awards among the largest visual arts fellowships in Northern California.

💫 Don’t forget to register for “Unexpected Partners: Self-Taught Art and Modernism in Interwar America” on January 27! ➡...
01/17/2023

💫 Don’t forget to register for “Unexpected Partners: Self-Taught Art and Modernism in Interwar America” on January 27! ➡️ Link in bio.

In this one-day virtual symposium, Morris Hirshfield’s remarkable production and contentious reception serve as a springboard for a broader consideration of modernism’s complex interchange with self-taught art in the U.S. during the mid-twentieth century. Talks will highlight the important contributions that self-taught artists made to the development of modernism in the U.S., redressing the artists’ gradual exclusion from the art-historical canon in the postwar era and fleshing out a more representative narrative of American Art. List of speakers includes our very own Richard Meyer and Marci Kwon, Professors of Art & Art History.

This symposium is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Left: Hermann Landshoff, André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst [standing behind Morris Hirshfield’s N**e at the Window (Hot Night in July)], and Leonora Carrington (seated) at Peggy Guggenheim’s townhouse, Fall 1942, New York, NY, Digital print (original: gelatin silver print, 60 x 60 in.). © bpk. Digital image: bpk-Bildagentur/Münchner Stadtmuseum/Hermann Landshoff/Art Resource, New York

Right: Morris Hirshfield, N**e at the Window (Hot Night in July), 1941, Oil on canvas with collage, 54 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches. © Carroll Janis, licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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