Artadia, Cantor Arts Center, and Minnesota Street Project Foundation present Unruly Futures, a conversation between artists Miljohn Ruperto and Stephanie Syjuco, followed by an audience Q&A moderated by Maggie Dethloff, Assistant Curator of Photography and New Media, Cantor Arts Center.
As Filipinx artists who share an extensive history and familiarity with the greater Bay Area, Miljohn Ruperto and Stephanie Syjuco work at the intersection of history and power, using image-making to challenge official narratives and to question who defines truth and belonging. This event offers an intimate space for dialogue about what it means to make art as a form of resistance and hear from the artists about art’s significance in contending with the present moment.
This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Miljohn Ruperto: Ultimate Days, co-organized by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and the Cantor Arts Center. Through two new artworks, Ruperto considers how the West has envisioned its own end and explores possibilities for shaping more just futures.
Date: Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Time: 5:30pm–6:45pm (followed by a 6:45pm screening of Miljohn Ruperto’s The New Society
Location: 1201 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA
About the artists
MiIjohn Ruperto’s (b. 1971, Manila, Philippines) distinctive multimedia practice considers the elusive nature of knowledge and strives to unsettle our knowledge of nature. Working across film, video, digital animation, performance, photography, and more, Ruperto interrogates the way we conceptualize, categorize, and represent nature to understand our place in the world, chronicle its history, and imagine its future. Ruperto received his M.F.A. from Yale University, and his B.A. in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley. Ruperto has exhibited work internationally at Foto Arsenal Wien, Vienna (2025); ICA LA, Los Angeles (2024); MEP, Paris (2024); Jakarta Biennale (2021); Singapore Biennale (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018, 2012); Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin (2018); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2017); Kadist, San Francisco (2017); Whitney Biennial (2014); among others. In 2019, he participated in the Acts of Life critical research residency at NTU CCA Singapore and MCAD Manila commissioned by the Goethe-lnstitut. His work is in the collections of Cantor Arts Center, MoMA NY, Hammer Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Kadist Art Foundation.
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. Born in the Philippines in 1974, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award and a Tiffany Foundation Award. Her work is in numerous collections, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Getty Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC in 2019–20 and is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. A long-time educator, she is a Professor in Sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, California.
Stephanie is a 1999 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Awardee.
About Minnesota Street Project Foundation
Minnesota Street Project Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides provides access to the space, tools, and support infrastructure for artists at all career stages to create new work. We fulfill our mission through below-market rate studios, artist residencies, and the presentation of contemporary art.
About the Cantor Arts Center
Serving the Stanford campus, the Bay Area community, and visitors from around the world, the Cantor Arts Center provides an outstanding cultural experience for visitors of all ages. Founded when the university opened in 1891, the historic museum was expanded and renamed in 1999 for lead donors Iris and B. Gerald Cantor. The Cantor’s collection spans 5,000 years and includes more than 40,000 works of art from around the globe. The Cantor is an established resource for teaching and research on campus. Free admission, tours, lectures, and family activities make the Cantor one of the most visited university art museums in the country.
Accessibility
The Exhibition Warehouse, located at 1201 Minnesota Street is fully accessible, and this program will be recorded for future online access.
There are sidewalks, crosswalks, and curb cuts to ensure wheelchair accessibility along Minnesota Street, and staff is available to assist with accommodations on site.
Minnesota Street Project Foundation strives to create an accessible environment for all visitors. For specific accessibility requests or questions, please email: info@minnesotastreetproject.org