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Reception: September 10, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
September 10 - October 17, 2026
Storey Gallery, New York, NY
For its inaugural exhibition at 1 Rivington Street, STOREY GALLERY is ecstatic to announce ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD. Bringing together artists across generations and disciplines, the exhibition traces survival amidst fragility, rupture, and collective grief—and the ways artists continue to make, gather, and desire in their wake.

Reception: September 10, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
September 10 - December 12, 2026
Counterpublic, St. Louis, MO
Envisioning a shared near future with boldness and hope in a time of global upheaval, Coyote Time brings together fifty new artist commissions and selected historical artworks presented at public sites throughout the city. Counterpublic’s third triennial edition, Coyote Time, will present daring new artist projects, public programs and events, and long-lasting civic initiatives centering urgent crises including climate, education, and immigration.

Reception: September 11, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
August 24 – November 7, 2026
Judith Harris Art Gallery, San Diego Central Library, CA
Becoming Heirlooms considers the moment when a crafted object transcends authorship and utility to become a site of collective feeling—when an artist’s intention resonates beyond the individual viewer and ignites a shared emotional consciousness. These works become gathering points for empathy, reflection, and recognition.

Reception: September 12, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
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.

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.

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.

June 12, 2026 - March 28, 2027
MÉCA, Bordeaux, FR
The exhibition brings together nearly fifty artists whose work engages with the legacies of colonial slavery. The artists seek to expand the forms memory can take, to illuminate and inhabit the "gaps" in official history, and to create from the gestures and traces of resistance. They are grounded in the premise that the world we inhabit cannot be understood without this "blackground"—a black backdrop that resists from within the very history of domination.

MFA student Charles Glaubitz has two works in the collection of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: El Borracho (2019), an ink-on-paper drawing, and El Show del Niño Burro (2014), a portfolio of five two-color etchings. Both works are part of Glaubitz’s larger narrative practice, which draws from comics, mythology, popular culture, and the visual language of the U.S.–Mexico border to construct speculative worlds and contemporary mythologies. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art celebrates the power of visual storytelling.

June 26 - September 13, 2026
ICA at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
A Sea of Particles explores the lasting effects of shared interactions over time. Working in a range of media, the artists research themes such as familial relationships, cultural inheritance, value systems, modes of transmission, accumulation, grief and memory, touch and repetition, and more.

June 13 - September 13, 2026
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
This exhibition emerges from The Amplification Project, a living, crowd-sourced digital archive documenting art shaped by forced migration, displacement, and cultural survival. Focusing on contemporary Arab women artists connected to Detroit, it explores migration, inheritance, and life between cultural geographies.

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