Unruly Futures: a conversation between artists
Miljohn Ruperto and Stephanie Syjuco
Thursday, March 26, 2026
5:30pm - 6:45pm
Exhibition Warehouse
1201 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Free, RSVP requested
Join Artadia, the Cantor Arts Center, and Minnesota Street Project Foundation for 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 in the present moment.
After the talk, visitors are invited to view the once-daily screening of Miljohn Ruperto’s The New Society (2026) at 6:45 pm.
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.
Miljohn Ruperto: Ultimate Days is on view at Minnesota Street Project Foundation March 14- April 18, 2026 and is presented in conjunction with the Cantor Arts Center’s exhibition, Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto, on view March 12 - September 14, 2026.
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 (b. 1974, Manila, Philippines) 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. 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.