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Reception: September 17, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
September 17 - October 24, 2026
Woo!, San Diego, CA
Lines made from tree limbs descend from the ceiling and run through the space. From different locations these linear forms are projected across the walls, like shadows, in two dimensions. The views coincide, reverse and separate, creating moments of clarity and dislocation: a continual play and reversal between dimensions. 

Preview Party: September 18, 6:00 - 10:00 p.m.
September 19, 2026 - January 17, 2027
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
The exhibition examines artworks that explore a variety of physical environments —dance clubs, dive bars, backyards and bathhouses—as critical sites of queer joy, collectivity, and possibility. Presenting an intergenerational group of Latine and Latin American artists working from the 1990s to the present, this exhibition encompasses painting, performance, photography, sculpture, textile, collage, video, and immersive installation.

Reception: September 19, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
September 5, 2026 - February 7, 2027
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
The 2026 annual exhibition of the San Diego Art Prize features the work of this year’s esteemed recipients, Danielle Dean, Ingrid Hernández, and Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio. Soft Power invites viewers to look more closely at forces that shape our daily lives. Through distinct yet resonant practices, the exhibition considers how identity, environment, and belief systems are constructed and experienced.

Reception: September 19, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
August 22, 2026 – January 17, 2027
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
The exhibition brings together contemporary artists from Southern California and Baja to explore a region in constant transformation. Selected by a curatorial advisory panel including Johnny Bear Contreras and Gabriel Boils Terán, the exhibition offers fresh perspectives on landscape, revealing how environment, culture, history, and community shape our evolving sense of place.

September 20, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
401 B Street, San Diego, CA
This panel for Design Week explores the world of experiential design and the creative thinking behind spaces, installations, activations, immersive environments, and other experiences that invite audiences to participate rather than simply observe.

September 20, 7:30 - 10:30 p.m.
California Theater, San Diego, CA
Human Made: After Dark is a Projection Exhibition that transforms downtown San Diego into a large-scale canvas celebrating the enduring human impulse to imagine, create, and shape the world around us. Projected onto the historic California Theatre, the experience turns architecture into a living gallery and invites the public to experience design at an entirely different scale.

September 12 - October 5, 2026
Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
A concentrated study around the 17th-century era of Dutch flower paintings, Heavy Petal includes a mix of small and large-scale paintings on panel, canvas, and paper, each providing unique surfaces for casein paint to reveal its particular depth of color and vibrance. This selection of works, which the artist has been primarily focused on for the past year, are a characteristic playful but often faithful interpretation of the works of Dutch painters like Ruysch, Seghers, Beert and others.

August 1 – October 9, 2026
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Chosen by internationally acclaimed photographer and artist [Professor] Paul Mpagi Sepuya, the exhibition features 48 works by artists from across the San Diego–Tijuana region. The exhibition brings together both emerging and established artists working across a range of media, perspectives, and approaches.

September 12, 2026 - February 28, 2027
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
The exhibition includes Before There Were Borders, an interactive extended reality mural by OurWorlds (which included Catherine Eng), presented as a digitally connected counterpart to the eponymous mural at the San Diego Central Library in downtown San Diego. Created by OurWorlds in collaboration with members of the Cahuilla, Kumeyaay, Payómkawichum, and Kuupangaxwichem communities.

August 3 - September 25, 2026
The Creative Philadelphia Art Gallery at City Hall
Blaise and Virginia were both CETA artists in NYC, working for the Cultural Council Foundation Artists Project, 1978-79. The exhibit highlights the significance of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the largest federally funded artists employment project since the WPA in the 1930s and demonstrates its relevance in the context of the current cultural sector.

June 12 - September 27, 2026
Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Marking over thirty years of collecting, Fragile Beauty celebrates Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s passion for photography, reflecting their personal taste and unique eye as collectors. Across five thematic sections, the exhibition explores themes such as desire, celebrity, fashion, reportage, and affirmation of identity.

June 1 - September 30, 2026
Digital Billboard at The Worl, Los Angeles, CA
The West Hollywood Moving Image Media Art Program (MIMA) is an exhibition series presenting moving image artworks on multiple digital billboards along Sunset Boulevard. At the top of every hour, MIMA presents "Hand Shapes and Scene Numbers" by Alison O’Daniel, a video of Deaf artist Christine Sun Kim signing scene numbers from O’Daniel’s film The Tuba Thieves.

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