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100 Giants of Chair Design
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OMA Regional 2
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OMA Regional 4
The Watercolors of James Hubbell, Meditations on Nature and Life
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Art of the WPA Era From Collections of the San Diego Region
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W. Hasse Wojtyla: A Coincidence of Paintings
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4 San Diego Sculptors
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OMA Regional 5
The 70s: Surf Photography by Jeff Divine and Classic Boards from the Era
Past Exhibitions 2008
Ancient Marks: The Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Marking
Damngorgeous: Millard Sheets and His Southern California Legacy
Levi J Casias: Revealing the Divine
Masterpieces of San Diego Painting: Fifty Works from Fifty Years, 1900-1950
Quilt Visions 2008: Contemporary Expressions
The Vibrant Edge: Paintings of Karl Benjamin from the 1960s, 70s, & 80s
Past Exhibitions 2009
Brian Goeltzenleuchter: Institutional Wellbeing: An Olfactory Plan for Oceanside Museum of Art
Chaos and the Art of Les Perhacs
Commesso Made in America, Gemstone Fine Art
Daniel F Martinez: Café con Muertos – In Celebration of Day of the Dead
Dave Ghilarducci: Delayed Gratification
Eight UCSD Visual Artists: San Diego NOW
Esther Nisenthal Krinitz: Fabric of Survival
Gregg Jabs: An American Dream
John Zabrucky: Industrial Alchemy
Lowbrow Art: Nine San Diego Pop Surrealists
Peggy Jones: Vortex Plastique
Sally Pearce: Weather Series
Valentyna Roenko Simpson: Cell Memory
Past Exhibitions 2010
Allison Renshaw: Plastic Fantastic
Defying Expectations: Contemporary Native American Art from San Diego County
Greg Brotherton: Discoveries in Dystopia
Lee Peterson: Focus on Oceanside
Les Perhacs: Chaos Series
Looking Back / Moving Forward: Contemporary Mexican-American Art
Masterworks of Body Art 2
Michelle Montjoy: Whole
Neville Page: From Page to Screen: Character and Creature Designs
Painting the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: Camp Pendleton Youth Art Exhibition
Painting World War II: The California Style Watercolor Artists
Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries
Richard Gleaves: Liquid
Robin Hall and Jeff Yeomans: Impressions of Southern California
SDSU Graduate Exhibition: Into the Light
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Stathis Orphanos: Honor: Marine Portraits
Steampunk: Vintage Futurism
The Things They Carried: World War II Trench Art
West Coast Drawing: Intimate Views
Past Exhibitions 2011
Adam John Manley: Mapping the Pools of Del Cerro
Beatles: I Saw the Photograph
Beatrice Wood: The Virgin’s Dream, Drawings and Ceramics
Becky Guttin: We Can Work It Out
Benjamin Lavender: Roots
California Art Club: Painting the Golden State
Carolyn Guild: Affirmations of Spirit
Cathy Breslaw: A Matter of Space
Combs from Asia, Africa, and Oceana: A Selection from the Lazar Collection
Everett Peck: It’s Not My Fault
Francoise Gilot: Transitions
Imogen Cunningham: Botanicals
Inspired by Ink
Islands of Color: Polynesian Quilts
Italo Scanga: Looking for a Miracle?
Marianela de la Hoz: Metamorphores
Memento Mori: Remember Your Mortality
Parallel Visions – Visiones Paralelas Transitional Youth Academy Photography Exhibit
Summer Soiree Art Auction
UCSD Visual Dialogues: Vantage Point
Vicki Walsh: Touching the Surface
William Glen Crooks: The Point of View
Past Exhibitions 2012
Contemporary Art Wins a Beachhead: The La Jolla School of Arts, 1960-1964
Cruisin’ Califas: The Art of Lowriding
Dan Jones: Zeitgeist: Dieselpunk Tinkerbots
Enviroscapes: Jen Trute Retrospective
Facing West/Looking East
Fiber Dialogues
Flavia Gilmore: Paper, Wood, Metal
Geoffrey Cunningham: Penumbra: An Ode to Oceanside in a Time of War
Jeanette Bonds: 14.7 PSI
John Taylor: Ghost Fleet
Lee Silton: Evolution
Liquid Capture: Masters of Underwater Photography
Neville Page: The Beauty in the Beast: Crafting Creatures
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Signs and Symbols: African American Quilts From the Collection of Dr Maude Southwell Wahlman
Summer Soiree Art Auction Exhibition
Under Alien Seas: An Artist’s Conception of Life That May Exist Beyond Our Planet
YOU: Investigating Identity
Past Exhibitions 2013
Art Auction 2013
Charles Arnoldi: Intersections
Contemporary Landscape Photography: An International Perspective
Ernest Silva: Volcanos and Full Moons
Herb Turner Realist/Idealist
James Enos: Urban Entropy
James Hubbell: In Search of Shadows
Jay Johnson: Looking for Things
Nature Improved: San Diego Artists Interpret Our Landscape
Outside: Selections from the Doug Simay Collection
Steampunk
Stephen Curry: Scape / Escape
Synesthesia: Manifestations of Energy, Paintings by Ellen Salk and Sound by Christopher Adler
Tony DeLap: Selections from 50 Years
Visions of California and the West: Selections from the Westways Auto Club Collection
Past Exhibitions 2014
Art Auction 2014
California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California
Jean Wells: Icons of Desire
John Daniel Abel: Rank n’ File
Kenneth Capps: Dichotomy
NAKED: 20th Century Nudes from the Dijkstra Collection
Neil Shigley: Invisible People
Omar Lopex: Relámpago
Pablo Mason: My Sister’s Voice
Quilt National
Roy Rogers: Wet Birds Don’t Fly at Night
SDVAN: DNA of Creativity
Spitting in the Wind: Art from the End of the Line
Past Exhibitions 2015
100 Artists, 100 Years: The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 1915-2015
Art Auction 2015
Art Transports Us Out of Bounds: Prison Arts in San Diego
Artist Alliance at the Museum 2015
Baby Tattoo: Carnival of Astounding Art
BB Bastidas: Altering Altars
Bhavna Mehta: GUSH
David Fobes: PEER
In the Abstract: Mid-Century San Diego Painting and Sculpture
Ruth Jameson: Emergence, Imagination Upwelling
Ruth Jameson: Visions 20/20 and Beyond
San Diego Dreaming
Some Assembly Required: A Re-Collection of Community
Past Exhibitions 2016
Alexia Markarian: Desire is Never Enough
Beauties Beasts
Bill Rastetter: Street Art Reinterpreted
California Fibers: Eclectic Threads
Dan McCleary: Etchings and Studies: Taller De Grabado, Oaxaca 2000-2016
Deanne Sabeck: Luminous
Irving J Gill: A Comfortable Fit
John Laddie Dill: Light Sentences and Light Traps
Love Letters in Metal: Jewelry By Svetozar and Ruth Radakovich
Marjorie Nodelman: San Diego Artist
Space, Structure, Light: The Art Of Russell Forester
Trinh Mai: Lifeline
Past Exhibitions 2017
A Time To Heal
Artist Alliance At The Museum 2017
Ellen Dieter: Color, Joy, Shape, Vitality
John Dillemuth: Gomos and Contraptions
Julia San Román: The Infinite Hope
Michelle Montjoy: River
Neil Brooks: Little Doors
Rolly Crump: It’s Kind of a Cute Story
Ted Meyer: Scarred For Life
UnDocumenta
Vet Art: Meaning in Bronze
Wendy Maruyama The WildLIFE Project
Past Exhibitions 2018
AIDS Memorial Quilt Pop Up Exhibition
Art Auction 2018 Preview Exhibition
Artifacts: Allied Craftsmen Of San Diego
Assemble, Re-Assemble, Repeat
David Fokos: The Book Pages Project
Day Of The Dead Altar From The Mingei
Fred Tomaselli
James Hubbell: Seeking Balance
Janell Cannon: The Fuzzhead Tales
Joyce Cutler-Shaw
Maidy Morhous: Ordinary Stuff
National Watercolor Society: Southern California Inspirations, Past And Present
Ragnar Pop Up Exhibition
Sherry Karver: Collective Mythologies
Survival Is Insufficient
The Museum Of Civilization
The Steel Goddess: Works By Faiya Fredman, 1998 To The Present
Past Exhibitions 2019
2023/24 Artist Alliance Biennial
Along The Transect Line
Artist Alliance 2019 Biennial
Artist Alliance 2019 Biennial Gallery
Artist Alliance 2021 Biennial
Brian Kesinger: Dream It Yourself
Dress Rehearsal
Matthew Barnes: Painter Of The Night
Roland Reiss
San Diego Surreal
Six-Word Story
Tiny Canvases: The Art Of Nails
Valya: She
Past Exhibitions 2020
Allan Morrow: After Fires
Art Auction 2020 Preview Exhibition
GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956
Griselda Rosas: Regata Abscisa
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Past Exhibitions 2021
2021 Plein Air Festival Juried Exhibition
Amanda Kachadoorian
Beata Mierzwa: Beauty of Science
Charlotte Bird Exhibition
Color of Sound
Contemporary Portraits from the Simay Collection
Dean Ramos: Divisions
Duke Windsor: Nothing’s Impossible
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MartyO: Social Security
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Neil Kendricks: Temple of Story
Pacific Views
Saki: Birds of a Different Feather
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Twenty Women Artists: NOW
Past Exhibitions 2022
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A Kind of Heaven
Don Bartletti: Elusive Moments–Enduring Stories
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Growing Collection
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Legacy: 25 Years of Art and Community
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