Summer Camps & Teen Studios

Virtual Summer Youth Programs

July 19–August 13, 2021

 

Get ready for a new and exciting summer of art making!

 

Virtual Summer Youth Art Programs give students the opportunity to learn from artist-educators while enjoying the Museum virtually. Designed for elementary, middle, and high school students, Virtual Summer Camps and Teen Studios include a full week of live art instruction, studio activities, and online tours of the Museum. Join us for a summer of art and fun!

SDMA at Home

Virtual SDMA

 

Enjoy the Museum from home with Virtual SDMA.

 

View tours on our SDMA App, see gallery talks and performances on our YouTube channel, and explore even more resources online and through social media. Welcome to the Museum, no matter where you are.

On View

Young Art 2021

 

Through May 9, 2021

The Museum’s biennial student exhibition Young Art returns in 2021 as Young Art 2021: My World, Our Planet. The juried exhibition features works of art created by San Diego County students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade and is complemented by programs and interactive activities bringing the theme of environmental sustainability to life.

On View

Paintings from the Confinement

 

Through May 1, 2022

San Diego-based artist Marianela de la Hoz shares 11 intimate egg tempera paintings created in 2020 to 2021 in response to the transformative circumstances imposed by the global pandemic of Covid-19. The collection of works invites reflection on a variety of experiences lived during the pandemic.

Coming Soon

Cranach to Canaletto: Masterpieces from the Bemberg Foundation

 

Opening June 18, 2021

See more than 80 masterpieces produced between 1500 and 1800 from the Bemberg Foundation, based at the historic Hôtel d’Assézat in Toulouse, France. This exhibition marks the first time these works have been shown publicly in the U.S. and features some of the biggest names from the German and French Renaissance.

Coming Soon

Everything You See Could Be a Lie: Photorealistic Drawings by Ana de Alvear

 

Opening June 18, 2021

Take a closer look at what you see. This selection of works by contemporary Spanish artist Ana de Alvear may first appear as photographs or even paintings of traditional still lifes, but invite a deeper look and investigation. Everything You See Could Be A Lie: Photorealistic Drawings by Ana de Alvear features more than 20 works of art executed in colored pencil, including two extraordinary, large-scale murals. See the hyper-realistic drawings by Ana de Alvear that will have you question what you see.

On View

The Elephant in the Room: Indian Paintings from the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection

 

Through July 18, 2021

In Sanskrit poetry, people and elephants live harmoniously in a shared natural world, where elephants enhance the aesthetic pleasure of the landscape by augmenting almost all of the human senses. Inspired by this inherent reverence for the elephant, an appreciation rooted in India’s rich literary traditions and folklore, artists at the courts of Muslim and Hindu rulers produced splendid paintings and studies of elephants, many of which were admired in albums, and others conceived as independent compositions or as designs for transfer to other media.

On View

Juan Sánchez Cotán and Cauleen Smith: Mystical Time and Deceptive Light

 

Through September 6, 2021

Contemporary artist Cauleen Smith creates a new work of art–a video that premieres at the San Diego Museum of Art that is inspired by one of the most important works in the Museum’s collection, Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber (ca. 1602).

Virtual SDMA

SDMA 360: A Virtual Gallery Experience

 

Step inside the Museum from anywhere with our new 360 tour! Enjoy 360-degree scans of your favorite galleries, zoom in to see art details, and read full label text in both English and Spanish, all from the comfort of home.