THACHER GALLERY
Past Exhibitions
Since its inception, the gallery has been committed to presenting a range of artistic media and expression, from regional to international, from traditional to experimental. Each year the gallery presents a diverse range of exhibitions, including an annual student showcase.
Previous group exhibitions and solo shows include:
- Bay Area icons, past and present, such as Eleanor Dickinson, David Lance Goines, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Tom Killion, Henry Evans, Carleton Watkins and William Keith;
- Emerging California artists such as Desiree Holman, Tahiti Pehrson, Mitra Fabian and Jamil Hellu;
- Exemplary spiritual and historical exhibitions such as Georges Rouault’s Miserere et Guerre, Sacramental Light: Latin American Devotional Art, Galleons and Globalization: California Mission Arts and Pacific Rim and Interwoven: Native California Basketry Arts from the Missions Forward;
- And innovative collaborations with groups such as the Indigenous Arts Collective, 3.9 Collective, Taller Tupac Amaru, Women’s Environmental Artists Directory (WEAD) and the Faithful Fools/Kopanang Women’s Group from South Africa.
2024
- Reorienting Towards Remembrance: The 25th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Visions of the Past, Islands of the Future
2023
- Offerings Somatic — the body as substance of ritual
- Yolanda M. López: Women’s Work is Never Done
- The State of Being: Before, During, and After
- If I’d known then: the Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial
2022
- Stitching Communities & the AIDS Memorial Quilt
- Lost Keys: Recent Works by Mercy Hawkins
- Soft Power: Recent Projects by Alexander Hernandez
- The Light Is Still On: The 23rd Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Commonstrust: artists and the commons
- Elemental Exposures: Revisions of the American Landscape
2021
- All that you touch: art and ecology
- Unmuted: The 22nd Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Pulled Apart
2020
- Become The Monuments That Cannot Fall
- A Matter of Liberation: Artwork from Prison Renaissance
- Chrysalis: The 21st Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Studio Visit: The Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial
2019
- Emboldened, Embodied
- Anja Ulfeldt: Selectively Informed
- Studio Misión: The Artist Studio as Medium by René Yañez
- Feeding a Thousand Souls: Kōlam by Bay Area Makers
- I Contain Multitudes: The 20th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Jenifer K Wofford: Limning the Liminal
2018
- POROUS: New Works by Jonathan Anzalone
- Quiet Spaces: Picturing Sanctuary in the Illustrated Book
- Allan deSouza: Through the Black Country...
- Eudaimonia: 19th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Anting Anting | Magic Objects by Michael Arcega
- Portale by Paz de la Calzada (Sculpture Terrace)
2017
- Modern Myth: South Asian Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper
- The Goal Is to Extend the Non-Mediocre Part of Life: New Work by Marshall Elliott (Sculpture Terrace)
- Something from Nothing: Art and Handcrafted Objects from America’s Concentration Camps
- Thinking FWD: The 18th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Carry On: the Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial
- Superstruct: New Work by Eric Hongisto (Sculpture Terrace)
2016
- The Depravities of War: Sandow Birk and the Art of Social Critique
- Worlds in the Making: New Ecological Rituals by Christina Conklin (Sculpture Terrace)
- Once Upon a Time by Jamil Hellu
- Im{print}ed: the 17th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Adjacent Shores: Hughen/Starkweather
2015
- InterMedia: 16th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Interwoven: Indigenous Contemporary
- Interwoven: Native California Basketry Arts from the Missions Forward
- Just Passing Through: Sculptures and Installations (Sculpture Terrace)
- Hiraeth: the 3.9 Collective searches for home
- Reformations: Dürer & the New Age of Print
2014
- Dobles Vidas: Folk Art from the Mexican Museum
- ¡Escultura! Selections from The Mexican Museum's Permanent Collections (Sculpture Terrace)
- From Here: The 15th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- On Site: New Work by Mitra Fabian
- Steamed: Faculty Art Triennial
2013
- In Nature's Temple: Early California Art and Ecology—William Keith, Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins and John Muir
- Paradox: New Ceramics by Arturo Araujo, SJ
- Strange Attractors: New Work by Mark Baugh-Sasaki (Sculpture Terrace)
- The 14th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- Taller Tupac Amaru: A Decade of Radical Printmaking
- Active Synchrony: New Work by Tahiti Pehrson
2012
- Made in China: Ming to Mass Market & Ming Ren: Mysterious Ink World
- Unearthed: USF's Hidden History
- Silent Poetry: Woodcut Prints of the California Landscape by Tom Killion
- 13th Annual Art and Architecture
- Aroused Tranquility: Graphic Botanicals by Henry Evans
- Richard Kamler: A Retrospective
2011
- Monsters in the Bookshelf: Artwork from Studio 5
- Nature's Effigies: Tor Archer (Sculpture Terrace)
- The 12th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- The Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial
- Textimonies: Early Etchings and Stencils by Glenn Ligon
2010
- Ancestral Stones (Sculpture Terrace)
- Galleons & Globalization: California Mission Arts and the Pacific Rim
- The 11th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
- The Urban Unseen: Examining San Francisco's Interstitial Spaces
- Genesis and the Rocks, Packed Up + Ready to Go: Topher Delaney (Sculpture Terrace)
- Positively Sixth Street: A Retrospective, 1992–2009
2009
- Eric Gill — Iconographer
- Detour: New & Selected Works by Wanxin Zhang
- New Climates: The 10th Annual Thacher Student Showcase
- Make Believe: Video Works by Desiree Holman
- As the Stars Go By: Textiles by Anna Von Mertens
2008
- The Celluloid Bible: Film Posters Inspired by Scripture
- Night Blooming: Sculptures by Ann Weber
- Revolution 9: The 9th Annual Thacher Student Showcase
- Power Up: Corita Kent
- Between the Lines: the 2008 USF Faculty Exhibition
2007
- Gleeson Library Associates 50th Anniversary Book Arts Exhibition with Terry Braunstein and Pia Pizzo
- LAND: Leyya Tawil, Topher Keyes, and David Szlasa
- To Hedonopolis, from Melancholy
- Sight Circus: The 2007 Thacher Student Showcase
- Sacramental Light: Latin American Devotional Art
2006
- Rattlesnake in a Moving Car: Life with HIV
- Earthly Concerns: Activist EcoArt Curated by WEAD—Women Environmental Artists Directory
- [Re]mark: the 7th Annual Thacher Student Showcase
2005
- Legacy and Promise: a Cabinet of Curiosities celebrating the history and lore of USF, formerly St. Ignatius College, at 150 years
- Sense the Raw: 6th Annual Thacher Student Showcase
- Carpe Lumen: Illuminated Sculpture from Faculty and Staff at The Crucible
- Vandals: Artwork examining censorship and first amendment rights
2004
- Human / Nature: Sukey Bryan and Janice Nakashima
- From the Ground Up: Sculpture by Francisco “Pancho” Jiménez
- New Geometries: Cherie Raciti and Patricia Walsh
- For Good Measure: The 5th Annual Thacher Student Showcase
- Adorned: Mixed Media Works by Ione Citrin & Jerry De La Cruz
- Unframed: Janet Allinger, Alissa Kaplan, Lori Markman & Leslie Nemour
2003
- Visual Inventions: Photomontage by Clifton Albergotti & Sr. Adele Rowland
- Absence: New Work by Matthew Gehring
- Give & Take: Sculpture / USF / 2003
- The Cosmic Walk: Tapestries by the Kopanang Women's Group
- A Delicate Balance: the 4th Thacher-USF-Annual Student Showcase
- Radical Printmaking: Innovations in Contemporary Printmaking
- Dancers: New Work by Borbála Kováts with Dance in California: 150 Years of Innovation
2002
- Cuatro Voces: Recent work by Zulema Di Marco, Santiago Gino Gervasi, Veronica Rojas, and Gabriel Navar
- Breakages: USF / Sculpture / 2002
- Masterworks in Hot Type: Andrew Hoyem Exhibition
- Thresholds: the 3rd Thacher-USF-Annual BFA Show
- Indifference & the Fifth Horseman: Surrational Paintings by Fritz Hirschberger
- Cultures and Community: The 16th USF Faculty / Staff Exhibition
2001
- Bringing the Dark Madonna to Light: Contemporary Interpretations
- Shooting Farm Workers: Photographs by Richard Steven Street
- Resonance: The 2nd annual Thacher>>USF>>Annual BFA Show
- Miserere et Guerre: The complete series of etchings by Georges Rouault
- Pencil and Paper: Drawings by Samuel Fleming Lewis
2000
- Gravity's Pull: Sculpture by Pamela Blotner and Kit Cameron
- Sculpture / USF / 2000: Curated by Richard Kamler
- Revelations: Selected works by Eleanor Dickinson
- First Harvest: The first annual juried exhibition of works by USF BFA upper division students
- Table of Voices by Richard Kamler
- Birthing the Crone: Aging into Full Creativity
- The Image and the Word: Works by Carlos Villa
1999
- David Lance Goines: Retrospective
- China: A Contemplation of Place
- First, I Dream / Primero Sueno
- Snakes in the Grass: The Deadly Legacy of Landmines & The Art of Peace and Justice: Art & Artifacts from the Friends of The Center for Law & Global Justice
- 15th Annual USF Faculty-Staff Art Exhibit
- From "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" to "Grandfather's Journey": 20th Century Illustrations for Children's Literature
1998
- Ferlinghetti: Lyrical and Political Paintings by San Francisco's Poet Laureate, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Diffused Limits: An Exhibit of Latin American Artists
- The Road Less Taken: Works by Manuel Rodriguez, Sr.
- Return from the Heritage: Mihail Chemiakin
- Icons from the Celestial Kingdom
- Igor Medvedev: View of Toledo
- Gold!
- Coyolxauhqui • Madre Cósmica, An Installation by Gloria Osuna Pérez