PAST EXHIBITIONS

February 16 - March 15, 2008

Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America

CRIMINAL: Art and Criminal Justice in America 2/16-3/15/08 Sandow Birk, Jonathan Borofsky, Boym Partners, Alex Donis, Kota Ezawa, Julie Green, Richard Kamler, Clarence Lin, Deborah Luster, William Pope.L, Rigo 23, Aaron Sandnes, Dread Scott, and Jackie Sumell/Herman Wallace. Prison/Culture: Art, Ideas and Dialog a day-long symposium 3/1/08, Jack Adams Hall, Student Center, SF State. More information about the event can be found at www.theintersection.org/prisonproject

September 22, 2007 through October 20, 2007

Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted 1907 - 2007

Artists: Mark Adams, Ruth Asawa, John Bankston, Robert Bechtle, Chang Dai-chien, Gail Dawson, Susan Marie Dopp, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, James Fitzgerald, Sam Francis, Charles Garabedian, Edward Hagedorn, David Hockney, Charles Houghton Howard, Li Huayi, Judith Linhares, Crystal Liu, Carmen Lomas Garza, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Lucia Kleinhans Matthews, Richard Mayhew, Alicia McCarthy, Francis John McComas, Barry McGee, Richard McLean, Julio Cesar Morales, Tucker Nichols, Chiura Obata, Miné Okubo, Nathan Oliveira, Leslie Kenneth Price, Martín Ramirez, Amy Rathbone, Brett Reichman, Laurie Reid, Andrée Schafer Rexroth, Millard Sheets, M. Louis Stanley, Frances Stark, Masami Teraoka, Wayne Thiebaud, Brian Tripp, Beth Van Hoesen, William T. Wiley, Pamela Wilson-Rykman

April 21 - May 16, 2007

The master of Fine arts Thesis Exhibition

Artists: Allison Watkins, Antonius Kosmadakis, Benjami Meyer, Bradley Hyppa, Chano Uribe, Emily McLeod, Lizabeth Eva Rossof, Michael Ryan, MIsty Gamble.

February 17 - March 15, 2007

Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art

Artists: Thai Bui, Binh Danh, Harrell Fletcher, Joyce Kozloff, An-My Lê, Dinh Q. Lê, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Long Nguyen and Martha Rosler .

November 14 - December 7, 2006

2006 17th Annual Stillwell Juried Graduate and Undergraduate Exhibition

Featured second year MFAs: Steven Allen, Marque Cornblatt, Ian Everard, Dawn Marie Forsyth, Cyane Rollins Tornatsky, Anthony Ryan, and Jessica Walker.

September 23 - October 19, 2006

The California Calligraphy Summit: Cali/Graffi

The California Calligraphy Summit brings together the work of a dozen artists who are now or have been based in California, for whom calligraphy is central to their artistic exploration.

April 22 - May 19, 2006

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Steve Bird, Jesse Houlding, Robbyn Leonard, Terry Marashlian, Marina Shterenberg, Daniela Steinsapir, Luna Topete, Shadi Yousefian.

February 11 - March 16, 2006

BENT: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Scandinavian Art

A project of the International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University ARTISTS Eija-Liisa Ahtila Jesper Just Annika Larsson Annica Karlsson Rixon Curated by Whitney Chadwick.

September 17 - October 15, 2005

HIGH 5: Five Outdoor Sculpture Installations In Celebration of the Reopening of the deYoung Museum

A project of the International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University. ARTISTS: Ann Chamberlain, Lewis deSoto, Mildred Howard, John Roloff, Wang Po Shu.

September 17 - October 15, 2005

ECO: Art About the Environment

ARTISTS: Chester Arnold, Mark Brest van Kempen, Paul Catanese, Cheryl Coon, Robert Dawson, Amy Franceschini + Michael Swaine, Isabella Kirkland, Reuben Lorch-Miller, David Maisel, Hector Dio Mendoza, Philip Ross, Carol Selter, Leslie Shows.

April 23 - May 19, 2005

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Jennifer Brazelton, Ulla de Larios, Karrie Hovey, Mark Leavitt, Larysa Rybchynska, Eric Sanchez, Karen Schwartz, Casondra Sobieralski, Lucrecia Troncoso.

February 26 - March 30, 2005

AfroCuba: Works on Paper, 1968 - 2003

A project of the International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University

September 18 - October 14, 2004

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

ARTISTS: Kim Anno, Leo Bersamina, Adriane Colburn, Reanne Estrada, Christian Maychack, Cherie Raciti, Hitoshi Sasaki, William Swanson, Tony Treadway. Project conceived by Paul Mullins.

April 24 - May 19, 2004

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Holly Brown, Bohdanna Kesala, Tomoko Nakazato, Michael Rich, Tiffany Schmierer, Shirley Shor.

April 24 - May 19, 2004

Art Department Faculty Exhibition

ARTISTS: Irene Poon Andersen, Candace Crockett, Gail Dawson, Lewis de Soto, Jeff Downing, Barbara Foster, Leonard Hunter, Mark Johnson, Dale Kistemaker, Mario Laplante, Paula Levine, Julia Marshall, Paul Mullins, Francisco Perez Cardona Paul Pratchenko, Cherie Raciti, Sylvia Solochek Walters, Steve Wilson.

September 2 - October 11, 2003

At Work: The Art of California Labor

Exhibitions were presented simultaneously at the Fine Arts Gallery and at the California Historical Society.

April 19 - May 15, 2003

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Amanda Best, Andrew Chung, Raymond L. Haywood, Netty Lindner, Kerry Loewen, Matthew Moore, Toru Sugita, Lena Wolff.

February 22 - March 27, 2003

Hybrid: Digital/Analog Printmaking

ARTISTS: Richard Barnes, Ray Beldner, Sandow Birk, Rebeca Bollinger, Ann Chamberlain, Dewey Crumpler, Binh Danh, Stephen Galloway, Xylor Jane, Mario Laplante, Jimin Lee, Paulina Wallenberg Olsson, Shazia Sikander, Wayne Smith, Stephanie Syjuco, Kazuko Watanabe, Marian Winsryg. Curated by Barbara Foster, Professor of Art, SFSU.

September 22 - October 17, 2002

The Erotic Life of Clay: A group exhibition of contemporary and historic ceramics Featuring Sex Pots and Jun Kaneko: On the Edge and in the Round

Conceived by Paul Mathieu.

April 20 - May 17, 2002

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Chloe Atkins, Rebecca Barten, Arthur Blair, Stew Ellington, Deborah Gibbon, Martha Gorzycki, Christian Maychack, Heather Ponts, Chris Wubbena, Kenneth Marc Zinc.

February 25 - March 21, 2002

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

Exhibitions were presented simultaneously at the Fine Arts Gallery and at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

September 22 - October 18, 2001

Conceptual Color: In Albers’ Afterimage

ARTISTS: Josef Albers, Anne Appleby, Jo Babcock, Jean Paul Bourdier, Jim Campbell, Lewis deSoto, Carlos A. Estrada-Vega, Bean Finneran, Jacob Hashimoto, Maxwell Hendler, bell hooks, Rachel Lachowicz, Dinh Q. Le, Meridel Rubenstein. Curated by Mark Johnson.

April 21 - May 18, 2001

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Daniel P. Doherty, Debra J. Gardner, Lara King, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Constance Maher, Micah Messenheimer, Patricia Rodriguez, Faye Zhang.

February 25 - March 22, 2001

Storytellers: The Figure in Time and Space

ARTISTS: Wes Christensen, Timothy Cummings, F. Scott Hess, Margo Humphrey, Stephen Namara, Paul Pratchenko, Iggy Scam, Greta Snider, M. Louise Stanley, Marta Thoma, Naomi Uman, Ruprecht Von Kaufmann, Ruth Weisberg, Joseph Wolek. Curated by Barbara Foster, Candace Crockett and Sylvia S. Walters.

April 29 - May 20, 2000

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Frank Haines, Susannah Israel, John Leaños, Brian Notz, Paul Stout, Lisa Zagone.

September 26 - October 19, 2000

SFSU Art Department Faculty Exhibition

ARTISTS: Irene Poon Andersen, Judith Bettelheim, Whitney Chadwick, Candace Crockett, Lewis deSoto, Barbara Foster, Leonard Hunter, Mark Johnson, Dale Kistemaker, David Kuraoka, Mario Laplante, John Leighton, Paula Levine, Richard Mann, Julia Marshall Keith Morrison, Francisco Perez y Cardona, Paul Pratchenko.

September 26 - November 20, 1999

Chang Dai-chien in California

April 17 - May 19, 1999

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Heidi Buscher, Emily Payne, Ani Gregorians, Alyson Belcher, Donald L. Cain, Suzan Friedland, Max Kelly, Jeff Levine, Sylvia Ríos Metcalf.

February 21 - March 24, 1999

Metaphor/Commentaries: Artists from Cuba

ARTISTS: Juan Carlos Alom and Cerenaica Moreira, Enrique Álvarez, Tania Bruguera, Marlon Castellanos, José Manuel Fors, Pavel Giroud, Abigail González, Luisa Marisy, Antonio Núñez, Ramón Pacheco, René Peña, Manuel Piña, Sandra Ramos, With video documentation of a performance by Danze Abierto.

September 20 - October 21, 1998

Sino Ka? Ano Ka? San Francisco Babaylan, Who Are You? What Are You?

An exhibition of contemporary art by eight San Francisco Bay Area women.

April 18 - May 20, 1998

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Julia Babiarz, Lisa Galli, Christine Hirsch, Martine Jardel, Kyung-Hee Lee, Tina Schneider, Elizabeth Selna, Kim Shuck.

February 15 - March 21, 1998

Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights

ARTISTS: Luis Cruz Azaceta; Claudia Bernardi ; De la Torre, Morales + Nuño; Barbara Foster; Rupert Garcia; Barbara Hammer; Hisako Hibi; Alfredo Jaar; S. Brett Kaufman; Käthe Kollwitz; Frank La Pena; Yolanda Lopez; Hung Liu; Alice Neel; Shirin Neshat; John Outterbridge; Pamela Shields; Tibetan Association of Northern.

September 21 - October 18, 1997

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

April 26 - May 23, 1997

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Wayne Black, Robin Carmichael, Andrew Cox, Susan Prather Ginnever, Jenny Harris, Francisco (Pancho) Jimenez, J. Patrick Kelly, Cynthia Milionis, Robyn Spencer.

February 23 - March 21, 1997

John Gutmann: Parallels in Focus Featuring the original "Talking Pictures"

September 23 - October 17, 1996

Crossing Boundaries: Belfast Contemporary Art from Northern Ireland

ARTISTS: Rita Duffy, Alastair MacLennan, Belfast Muralists: photo-documentation of more than 70 murals from Western Belfast. Curated by Whitney Chadwick and Cherie Raciti.

April 20 - May 26, 1996

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Bruce Chaban, Kelly Connole, Diane Jacobs, Blake Leeman, Laurie Long, Moana Rumi Nikou, Gustavo Rojas, James Sleeper.

February 26 - March 21, 1996

Rapture

ARTISTS: Don Gregorio Anton, Stephen de Staebler, Michiko Itatani, Oliver Jackson, James Lavadour, Younhee Paik, Cherie Raciti, David Wojnarovicz, and Ben Neill.

September 24 - October 26, 1995

With New Eyes Toward an Asian American Art History in the West

Organized and curated by Irene Poon Anderson, Mark Johnson, Dawn Nakanishi and Diane Tani.

February 27 - March 23, 1995

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Ella Delaney, Guy Kitchen, Dikran Kotchounian, D. Richard Nyhagen, Heidi Solbrig, Diane Stevens.

February 27 - March 23, 1995

Post-Colonial California: An interdisciplinary examination of multiple histories and global alliances in contemporary California art

Curated by Mark Johnson

September 19 - October 21, 1994

Black Power/Black Art… and the struggle continues Political Imagery from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

April 25 - May 19, 1994

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS: Kimberly Austin, Stephanie Cress, Janet Dodson, Marjorie Franklin, Stephen Galloway, Lisa Goldschmid, Collette Hellwig, Josephine Iselin, Megumi Kido, Domingo Nuño, Maritza Perez, Becerra Nanilee, Robarge Daniel, John Stingle, Kathryn Weinstein.