Past Exhibitions

A hanging circular sculpture with a red, orange, and green abstract design inside, resembling an open mouth.

Gay Outlaw Mutable Object

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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A San Francisco based artist, Outlaw is recognized for her rigorous and unexpected explorations of material—from printmaking and photography to wood, glass, and bronze. For this exhibition she employs a range of materials to create a dialogue between shape, color, light, surface, and interiority.

Artwork depicting a figure saluting, wearing a black shirt with a gold logo and standing against a background of gold and white stripes with a floral pattern.

Art of the Athlete V

Education Corridor

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This year’s exhibition features the work of athletes Megan Conder, women’s golf; August Raskie, volleyball; and football players Ugo Amadi, Gary Baker, Evan Baylis, Tyrell Crosby, Cameron Hunt, Dylan Kane, Canton Kaumatule, Fotu Leiato, Malik Lovette, Austin Maloata, Rex Manu, Jonah Moi, Tyree Robinson, Arrion Springs, Tui Talia.

A photographic portrait of a young girl in a black outfit, styling her hair with a knife against a vivid red background. The juxtaposition of the innocent and the dangerous creates a striking image.

Cuba Ocho

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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This exhibition features contemporary Cuban art that responds to the volatile political, economic, and cultural climate of Cuba today.

Colorful painting depicting a chaotic football game with players, referees, and a crowd.

Scrimmage Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present investigates the history of football imagery by prominent American artists and photographers beginning with Winslow Homer’s engravings for Harper’s Weekly at the close of the Civil War and culminating with the work of contemporary artists such as Catherine Opie and Shaun Leonardo.

An older couple with light skin stand on the left side of the image. They are smiling and wearing oversized clothes. On the right is a heavy-set topless man in red pants. His arms and face are medium-light skinned, but the flesh that would otherwise be covered with a short sleeved shirt is as pale as the couple’s.

¿Identity? Victoria Suescum and Lee Michael Peterson

Artist Project Space

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¿Identity? is an English word contained within Spanish punctuation. It is what might be considered “Spanglish,” an English–Spanish hybrid for a Latino reality experienced in and between two languages. The paintings and drawings on view explore the emotional and physical realities inherent in the multiple heritages of two artists, Victoria Suescum and Lee Michael Peterson.

A circular collage featuring various motivational phrases such as "Don't Let Pain Get in the Way" and "Think Big," alongside images of nature, flowers, and scenic landscapes. Words like "Fitness," "Friends," "Kids," and "Vacation" are also included.

Arts and Healthcare My Canvas is My Story

Education Corridor

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My Canvas is My Story features art created by diverse populations, ranging from oncology patients, parents of infants in neonatal intensive care units, young adults coping with trauma, children and adults with disabilities, and children who have recently lost a parent or guardian due to illness.

From Past to Present Selected Masterworks of Korean Art

Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art

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This exhibition features traditional and contemporary Korean art in many media. One gallery focuses on contemporary paintings, ceramics, and sculptures and includes a number of exciting recent acquisitions created by artists such as KIM Hanna, KIM Yik-yung, and PAIK Nam June. The other gallery displays traditional Korean folk paintings and celadons.

Black and white drawing of a modern man and hominids fighting with clubs on a cliff ledge while two hominids watch from a small cave with pterosaurs flying in the background

Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen The Art of EC Comics

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen celebrates the achievements of the most artistically and politically adventurous American comic-book company of the twentieth century: Bill Gaines’s Entertaining Comics, better known to fans all over the world as EC.

Photograph of a distorted reflection of a light-skinned face with pink lips in a makeup mirror. The mirror is in front of a window with several houseplants in the corner.

Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst Relationship

Artist Project Space

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Relationship, created by Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, debuted at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. The JSMA exhibition features 26 photographs from the project, which chronicles Drucker and Ernst's private moments, from 2008 to 2013, as an opposite-oriented transgender couple, during which time Ernst transitioned from female to male and Drucker transitioned from male to female.

A blurry, enlarged photograph of a hand reaching upwards, displayed across two pages. The out-of-focus effect gives the image an ethereal and mysterious quality.

Call and Response

Focus Gallery

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Call and Response brings together four recent acquisitions that invite viewers to consider our own role in artistic communication. Inspired by the JSMA’s recent acquisition of Ann Hamilton’s Signal (2010), the title is derived from a technique in music, where a melody sung by one person is echoed by another.