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Modern Japan

Through August 13, 2017

Combining modernity, scenic tranquility, and Japanese romantic fantasy, Modern Japan: Prints from the Taisho Era (1912–1926) and Beyond showcases several important and well-known Japanese artists and their works from the Museum’s collection of East Asian Art, many for the first time.

Richard Deacon

Through September 4, 2017

A self proclaimed "fabricator"—a maker of things and of meaning, neither carved nor cast—Deacon sidesteps the issue of technique by never focusing on any one material, challenging the viewers' expectations with unusual combinations.

Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection

October 21, 2017 through March 11, 2018

The San Diego Museum of Art celebrates the multifaceted history of Latin American modernism with an exhibition drawn from one of the world’s foremost private collections. Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection charts a trajectory from the late 1800s to the first decade of this century, showcasing the…

The Art of Papua New Guinea from the Valerie Franklin Collection

September 2, 2017 through February 4, 2018

The Art of Papua New Guinea from the Valerie Franklin Collection highlights the proliﬁc artistic traditions of Papua New Guinea. Located off the North coast of Australia, the island nation is considered one of the most culturally diverse in the world. This diversity is reﬂected in the variety of styles,…

Views of Balboa Park

August 26, 2017 through February 18, 2018

While Monet’s sensational water lilies and landscapes are featured in Reflections on Monet, this display highlights a few of the leading artists who have painted outdoors here in Balboa Park. The availability of oil paint in tubes from 1841 replaced the necessity of pig bladders and glass to transport paint,…

Reflections On Monet

Modern Japan

Richard Deacon

Reflections On Monet

Richard Deacon

On View

American Art

Art of Devotion

Art of East Asia

Art of the 20th Century

Art of the Open Air

Art of the Portrait

Arts of Iran

Arts of South and Southeast Asia

Brenda Biondo: Play

Genre and Myth

German Expressionism

Modern Japan

Picturing the Southwest

Reflections on Monet

Richard Deacon

Visible Vaults

Future Exhibitions

Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection

The Art of Papua New Guinea from the Valerie Franklin Collection

Views of Balboa Park

Previous Exhibitions

Young Art 2017: Beyond the ...

Compelled by Color

An Indian Virgin Mary

Louis Kahn: The Power of Ar...

Shape, Shadow, Space

Urban Banality

Ferocious Bronze

Brush and Ink: Chinese Pain...

Quilts and Color from the M...

Brueghel to Canaletto

Sebastião Salgado

East Coast, West Coast, and...

James Hubbell: California W...

The Art of Music

Gregory Crewdson: Dream House

Coney Island

Romantic Views: Mexico at t...

Defining Modernism

Lalla Essaydi

Divine Desire

Young Art 2015

Out of Egypt: Ramesses II i...

American Visions: Place and...

Ron Nagle: Peripheral Cogni...

Gauguin to Warhol: 20th Cen...

Spanish Sojourns

Sorolla and America

Alfredo Jaar

Noah Doely: By the Light

Women, War, and Industry

Looking Towards 2015

Arnold Newman: Masterclass

Arnold Newman: In Context

Double Portraits

Piranesi, Rome, and the Art...

Alternative Accounts

Beneath the Moon II

Marianela de la Hoz

Masterworks in Metal, Ink, ...

Charles Reiffel

Behold, America!

Pacific Horizons

The Human Beast

Imagined as the Truth

The Invention of Glory

Echoes of the Past

Special Installation of Mod...

Dyeing Elegance

Still-Life in the 20th Century

Walk from the Sun

Vochol

Mexican Modern Painting

Experiments in Abstraction