Past

Californiana is a site-specific contemporary installation focused on the period of missionization (1769 – 1833) in present-day California, exploring the enduring impact of this history, which continues to exert its influence on the people, land, and culture of California.

Flat Files of Curiosity: Shifting Relationships with Land, invites visitors to touch objects and open flat file drawers to explore aspects of the changing relationship between people and land within what is today the extended Bay Area.

Jonathan Calm’s exhibition To Wherever, Forever: Archives of Absence & Sites of Passage, unfolds across two venues at Santa Clara University: the de Saisset Museum and the Art Gallery of the Department of Art & Art History.

Screening for one day: The weekend of the Super Bowl LX, the de Saisset, in partnership with Santa Clara University’s Center for the Arts and Humanities, is pleased to present, National Anthem (2018), a 2-minute video by Kota Ezawa.

Root Me in the Soil  builds upon Monette's recent work exploring familial memory, presence & absence, and place.

Our Islands 11°16’58.4” N 123°45’07.0”E, Martha Atienza’s acclaimed video work, takes the form of a dreamlike underwater rendition of a parade originating from the artist’s native Philippines.

Where From / Where To? , part of the Faculty-Driven Exhibition series, showcases visual art and responding texts created by members of the Santa Clara University campus community.

The Plague Archives is a site-specific installation comprising videos, a dense collection of archival material, and interactive components that present a multi-layered transhistorical and intercultural discourse on the shifting attitudes and definitions of disease.

The Tax Collectors: 500 years and counting ….   is organized by students in the Winter 2025 ArtH 196: Senior Art History Capstone Seminar (Professor Blake de Maria)

The Infinite Library presents the multidimensional work of Los Angeles-based artist Julia Haft-Candell, comprising large-scale ceramic sculptures, drawings, paintings, and animations.