# Cantor Arts Center Museum in Stanford, California, one of On View's top museums there. - Address: 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 - Hours: Mon 11–6, Thu 11–8, Fri 11–6, Sat–Sun 10–5 - Website: https://museum.stanford.edu/ - Instagram: [@cantorarts](https://www.instagram.com/cantorarts/) - Directions: - On the map: https://onview.so/sf/map/cantor-arts-center Free; at Lomita Drive and Museum Way, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. ## Exhibitions ### *Solid Pictures: Photosculpture and the Making of Modern Likeness* Sep 17, 2026 – Jan 18, 2027 · on view · Pigott Family Gallery (142) François Willème and others - Thu, Oct 15, 2026: Lunchtime curator talk with Patrick R. Crowley, 12–1 pm - Thu, Dec 10, 2026: Lunchtime curator talk with Patrick R. Crowley, 12–1 pm First major show on photosculpture, the technique François Willème invented in 1859 to turn photographs into portrait busts, with plaster, porcelain and wood figures, lithographs and glass negatives. Full details: [museum.stanford.edu](https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/solid-pictures) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/cantor-arts-center/solid-pictures-photosculpture-and-the-making-of-modern-likeness ### *In Focus: Asian American Art from the Collection* Aug 27, 2026 – Feb 22, 2027 · on view · Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery (211) Pacita Abad, Ching Ho Cheng, Tseng Kwong Chi, Young Joon Kwak, Masami Teraoka, Rupy C. Tut and others Recent acquisitions from the museum’s Asian American Art Initiative, many shown for the first time, including works by Pacita Abad, Tseng Kwong Chi, Masami Teraoka and Rupy C. Tut. Full details: [museum.stanford.edu](https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/focus-asian-american-art-collection) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/cantor-arts-center/in-focus-asian-american-art-from-the-collection ### Carolyn Lazard: *Long Take* Aug 6 – Dec 13, 2026 · on view · Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery (210) Multimedia installation by New York artist Carolyn Lazard built on a dance by Jerron Herman: three-channel video with captions and audio description, a reworked museum bench and a dance floor that collects visitors’ marks. Full details: [museum.stanford.edu](https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/carolyn-lazard-long-take) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/cantor-arts-center/long-take ### *JANE!* Jul 2, 2026 – May 18, 2028 · on view · Stanford Family Room (122) Gowns, keepsakes, portraits, Egyptian antiquities and other relics of university founder Jane Stanford, many never shown before, looking at her Gilded Age life and her mysterious death by poison. Full details: [museum.stanford.edu](https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/jane) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/cantor-arts-center/jane ### *Modern and Contemporary American Abstraction* Nov 19, 2025 – Oct 26, 2026 · on view · Madeleine H. Russell Gallery (105) Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, George Miyasaki, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Miyoko Ito and others Abstract painting newly acquired by the museum, led by 1950s works by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and George Miyasaki, alongside Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Jules Olitski and Miyoko Ito. Full details: [museum.stanford.edu](https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/modern-and-contemporary-american-abstraction) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/cantor-arts-center/modern-and-contemporary-american-abstraction ### *Archive Room: Amalia Mesa-Bains* Aug 6, 2026 – Jul 5, 2027 · on view · Patricia S. Rebele Gallery (207) Prints, objects, installation drawings, journals and letters from Amalia Mesa-Bains’s archive at Stanford Libraries, tracing her altar-based installations and her part in shaping Chicano art history. Full details: [museum.stanford.edu](https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/archive-room-amalia-mesa-bains) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/cantor-arts-center/archive-room-amalia-mesa-bains ### *Archive Room: Irene Poon and Charles Wong* Aug 6, 2026 – Jul 5, 2027 · on view · Rowland K. Rebele Gallery (212) Irene Poon and Charles Wong Photographs, letters and writings from the archives of Bay Area photographers Irene Poon and Charles Wong, from Wong’s 1940s–50s Chinatown pictures to their later life as collaborators and partners. Full details: [museum.stanford.edu](https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/archive-room-irene-poon-and-charles-wong) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/cantor-arts-center/archive-room-irene-poon-and-charles-wong ### *California Current: Art and Histories from the Bay Area* Oct 29, 2026 – Oct 23, 2028 · coming up · Freidenrich Family Gallery (221) Pacita Abad, Saif Azzuz, Robert Bechtle, Bernice Bing, Kota Ezawa, L. Frank, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Mildred Howard, Chiura Obata and others - Thu, Nov 5, 2026: Lunchtime curator talk with Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, 12–1 pm - Thu, Dec 3, 2026: Lunchtime curator talk with Maggie Dethloff, 12–1 pm - Thu, Feb 4, 2027: Lunchtime curator talk with Joanna García Cherán, 12–1 pm - Thu, Mar 25, 2027: Evening curator talk with Maggie Dethloff, 6 pm More than 60 paintings, sculptures, photographs, works on paper and media works by Bay Area artists from the early 1900s to now, grouped around ecology, technology and politics; part of the Further Triennial. Full details: [museum.stanford.edu](https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/california-current-art-and-histories-bay-area) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/cantor-arts-center/california-current-art-and-histories-from-the-bay-area --- On View's listing, as of Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Every gallery and museum in San Francisco: https://onview.so/sf.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt