Exhibitions

Exhibit conversation

2018

portrait of Leo D. Stillwell

30th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

February 21 to March 15

2017

Pace Wirtz photography

Recollected: Photography and the Archive

September 23 to November 16

2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition

2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition

April 22 to May 13

Image of Sanaz Mazinani's artwork Threshold

Mashrabiya: The Art of Looking Back

February 18 to March 16

2016

29th Annual Stillwell exhibit

29th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 9 to December 1

Montano A is for Apple

When I Remember I See Red

September 17 to October 13

MFA Exhiition

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 16 to May 14

Art Faculty Show

Art Faculty Exhibition

February 23 to March 17

2015

Play exhibit

PLAY: Process, Activism, Subversion

September 18 to October 14

Existential Emergency Phone by Randy Sarafan

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 24 to May 15

Allan Sekula’s and Noël Burch

Hydrarchy: Power, Globalization and the Sea

February 20 to March 18

Luke Damiani

Luke Damiani: Between Spaces

January 25 to June 14

2014

27th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

27th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 11 to December 3

Visitors at the Gallery

Opening Day Festival

September 27

Allegorical Procedures:

Allegorical Procedures: Bay Area Collage, 1950-Present

September 19 to October 15

Shenny Cruces: Keys

Shenny Cruces: Keys

July 27 to January 4

Master of Fine Arts Exhibit

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 25 to May 23

Isabelle Pelaud

Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora

March 11

Progressive Proof

Progressive Proof: Innovative Prints from the Pacific Rim

February 21 to March 26

Josie Iselin

Josie Iselin: An Ocean Garden

January 26 to June 30

2013

Stillwell poster

26th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 11 to December 4

Desai Dipti

Dipti Desai: The Cartography of Asian and Asian Diasporic Art Activism

October 14

Thomas Ingmire

John Windle and Thomas Ingmire in conversation

October 2

Rainbowing Children's Picture Books Through Textual and Visual Interactions

September 30

Gallery viewing

Creative State Opening Day

September 28

Jason Jägel

Artist Lecture Series: Jason Jägel

September 25

Illuminated library flyer

The Illuminated Library curated by Sharon Bliss with the Fine Arts Gallery

September 20 to October 16

BOOKsmART

August 18 to December 19

Lilac, Toru Sugita

Toru Sugita: Bay Area Lines and Shadows

August 12 to January 14

Fine Arts cover

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 26 to May 24

The Moment for Ink

February 22 to March 22

Bren Ahearn manmade exhibit

Bren Ahearn: An Early Sampling

January 31 to July 31

2012

25th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 12 to December 5

SF State Art Department Faculty Exhibition 2012

September 24 to October 17

2012 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 20 to May 10

SmARTspace

February 20 to March 14

2011

24th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 7 to November 30

Picturing Parallax: Photography and Video from the South Asian Diaspora

September 14 to October 14

2011 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 22 to May 11

México: Política y Poética

February 16 to March 23

2010

21st Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 8 to December 1

2010 Göteborg Book Fair: Focus on Africa

September 22 to September 25

Out of Order

September 17 to October 13

2010 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 23 to May 12

Depth of Surface

February 26 to March 24

2009

Cartographic Imagination

September 18 to October 14

19th Annual Stillwell Student Show

February 23 to March 18

2008

Art Department Faculty Exhibition

September 22 to November 7

2008 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 11 to May 14

CRIMINAL: Art and Criminal Justice in America

February 15 to March 14

2007

18th Annual Stillwell Student Art Show

November 12 to December 10

Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted 1907 - 2007

September 21 to October 19

2007 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 20 to May 15

Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art

February 16 to March 14

2006

2006 17th Annual Stillwell Juried Graduate and Undergraduate Exhibition

November 13 to December 6

Cali/Graffi

September 22 to October 18

2006 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 21 to May 21

BENT: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Scandinavian Art

February 10 to March 15

2005

ECO: Art About the Environment

September 16 to October 14

2005 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 22 to May 18

Afrocuba

February 25 to March 29

2004

2-1/2: Art at the Corner of Two and Three Dimensions

September 17 to October 13

2004 MFA GRADUATE EXHIBITION

April 23 to May 18

Art Department Faculty Exhibition

February 23 to March 17

2003

At Work: The Art of California Labor

September 5 to October 10

2003 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 18 to May 14

Hybrid: Digital/Analog Printmaking

February 21 to March 26

2002

The Erotic Life of Clay

September 21 to October 16

2002 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 19 to May 16

Co-Lab: New Generations, Creative Partnerships in Art & Learning

February 24 to March 20

2001

Conceptual Color: In Albers' Afterimage

September 21 to October 17

2001 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 20 to May 17

Storytellers: The Figure in Time and Space

February 24 to March 21

2000

SFSU Art Department Faculty Exhibition

September 25 to October 18

2000 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 28 to May 19

1999

Chang Dai-chien in California

September 25 to November 19

1999 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 16 to May 18

Metaphor/Commentaries: Artists from Cuba

February 20 to March 23

1998

Sino Ka? Ano Ka?

September 19 to October 20

1998 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 17 to May 19

Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights

February 14 to March 20

1997

Fabric of Life: 150 Years of Northern California Fiber Art History

September 20 to October 17

1997 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 25 to May 22

John Gutmann: Parallels in Focus

February 22 to March 30

1996

Crossing Boundaries: Belfast Contemporary Art from Northern Ireland

September 22 to October 16

1996 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 19 to May 25

Rapture

February 25 to March 20

1995

With New Eyes

September 23 to October 25

1995 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 21 to May 26

Post-Colonial California

February 26 to March 22

1994

Black Power/Black Art

September 18 to October 20

OSMOSIS: 1994 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 24 to May 24