The Stuart Collection is a collection of public art on the campus of the University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

. Founded in 1983, the Stuart Collection's goal is to spread commissioned sculpture throughout the campus, including both traditional sculptures and integration with features of the campus such as landscaping and buildings. It is supported by the UCSD Department of Visual Arts

Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...

, the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...

, and many other organizations and individuals.

Installations

Year	Name	Artist	Location
1983	Sun God Sun God (statue) Sun God is a statue by French sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle located on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. The statue is a 14-foot multicolored bird-like creature, perched atop a 15-foot-tall horseshoe-shaped rock pedestal....	Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès-Brandon Fal de Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker.-The early years:...	Muir College John Muir College John Muir College is one of the six undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego . The college is named after John Muir, the environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club. It has a humanitarian emphasis focused on the "spirit of self-sufficiency and individual choice"...  near Faculty Club
1983	Two Running Violet V Forms	Robert Irwin Robert Irwin (artist) Robert Irwin is an American Installation artist. He lives and works in San Diego, California.-Beginnings:Robert Irwin was born in 1928 in Long Beach, California to Robert Irwin and Goldie Anderberg Irwin...	Eucalyptus grove behind Faculty Club
1984	La Jolla Project	Richard Fleischner Richard Fleischner Richard Fleischner is a Providence, RI based environmental artist. Born in New York in 1944, he received a BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and began working in the 1960s.-Installations:-Awards:*Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts...	Revelle College Roger Revelle College Revelle College was the first college founded at the University of California, San Diego, and named after oceanographer Roger Revelle in 1964...  near Theatre District
1986	Trees	Terry Allen	Eucalyptus grove near Geisel Library Geisel Library The Geisel Library is the main library building on the University of California, San Diego campus and contains four of the six libraries located on campus...
1986	Something Pacific	Nam June Paik Nam June Paik Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....	Communication/Media Center building
1987	UNDA	Ian Hamilton Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE, was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.-Biography:Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas of Scottish parents. He was educated in Scotland at Dollar Academy. At the age of 13, with the outbreak of World War II, he was evacuated to family in the countryside...	Marshall College Thurgood Marshall College Thurgood Marshall College is one of the six undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego. The college, named after Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and lawyer for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v...  north playing field
1988	Vices and Virtues	Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives in Galisteo, New Mexico....	Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory
1988	La Jolla Vista View	William Wegman William Wegman (photographer) William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...	Theater District
1991	Untitled	Michael Asher	South of Price Center
1991	Terrace	Jackie Ferrara	Cellular and Molecular Medicine Facility
1992	Green Table	Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.-Education:...	Muir College John Muir College John Muir College is one of the six undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego . The college is named after John Muir, the environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club. It has a humanitarian emphasis focused on the "spirit of self-sufficiency and individual choice"...  quad
1992	Snake Path	Alexis Smith	East of Geisel Library Geisel Library The Geisel Library is the main library building on the University of California, San Diego campus and contains four of the six libraries located on campus...
1996	Red Shoe	Elizabeth Murray	Eucalyptus grove near Torrey Pines Road
1998	Standing	Kiki Smith Kiki Smith Kiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century...	Medical School campus
2001	READ/WRITE/THINK/DREAM	John Baldessari John Baldessari John Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...	Geisel Library Geisel Library The Geisel Library is the main library building on the University of California, San Diego campus and contains four of the six libraries located on campus...
2005	Bear	Tim Hawkinson Tim Hawkinson Tim Hawkinson is an artist from the United States of America who mostly works as a sculptor.- Education :Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from San Jose State University; in 1989 he earned an MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles.- Work :Hawkinson′s work is...	Jacobs School of Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering The Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego is an undergraduate and graduate-level engineering school offering Bachelors of Science , Master of Engineering , Master of Science , and Doctorate degree programs...
2008	Another	Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...	Price Center East
2011	Fallen Star	Do Ho Suh	Jacobs School of Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering The Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego is an undergraduate and graduate-level engineering school offering Bachelors of Science , Master of Engineering , Master of Science , and Doctorate degree programs...

External links

• Stuart Collection Web Site