american minimal
Through June 1, 2025
On View
Through August 10, 2025
See architectural models and designs by Foster + Partners, the global design team led by Lord Norman Foster, one of the most esteemed international architects of our time and recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture. This exhibition showcases the team’s award-winning designs and innovations in sustainability, while demonstrating that rejuvenated spaces can respectfully incorporate the past and also integrate natural lighting and optimal views of the surrounding sky and landscape.
Great Court at the British Museum. © Nigel Young / Foster + Partners
On View at MOPA@SDMA
Through July 13, 2025
Discover the impact of women in photography. This survey of the history of photography demonstrates the pivotal role women have played in the medium since its invention in the 1830s. See 100 works, ranging from a daguerreotype from 1848 by Eliza Balch to more modern works that have broken boundaries across genres.
MOPA@SDMA remains a pay-what-you-wish museum open Thursdays through Sundays 11:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m. in Balboa Park inside the Casa de Balboa building across from the Lily Pond.
Trude Fleischmann, Sibylle Binder, ca. 1932. Gelatin silver print. Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art, Gift of Michael and Joyce Axelrod, M.1993.012.001. © Trude Fleischmann
On View
Through July 27, 2025
Free Gallery
Enjoy large-scale dreamlike landscapes by renowned photographer Ruud van Empel in his first solo show at the Museum. The eight fantastical landscapes on view invite viewers to perceive the world with fascination and even disbelief as they ponder photography’s relationship to truth.
Ruud van Empel, Theatre #8, 2013. Archival pigment print. Gift of the artist in honor of Deborah Klochko. © Ruud van Empel
Opening Soon
February 15–August 10, 2025
Explore the central role printmaking has played in the development of the visual arts in modern Mexico, from early devotional engravings of the 1600s to the satirical lithographs of José Guadalupe Posada around 1900. This intimate exhibition shares 18 works by the Taller de Gráfica Popular, an artists’ collective with shared goals of promoting social justice and combatting the global rise of fascism through art. See artwork by Rufino Tamayo, Leopoldo Méndez, Elizabeth Catlett, and more.
Leopoldo Méndez, On the Way to the Market, 1953. Linocut on paper. San Diego Museum of Art, Gift of Forrest D. Colburn, 2008.7. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City.
Opening Soon
March 8–June 1, 2025
Both a tribute and an introduction to Minimalism in the US, american minimal showcases work by a passing generation of Minimalist greats as well as contemporary artists continuing the art movement. The exhibition also includes photographs by Arnold Newman of Minimalist pioneers across genres. Explore nuances in monochrome, the beautiful square, color and line, forms in space, balance in black, capturing the culture, sound and concrete poetry, and california light and space.
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The Visible Vaults recreates part of The San Diego Museum of Art’s most carefully guarded area, a place that is invisible to most visitors—the vaults—where the thousands of works of art in our collection are stored. See this insider’s look at hidden masterpieces, where visitors are invited to open drawers, peek into virtual storerooms, and take the time to sketch and observe some of the great treasures of the collection.
"Gauri Ragini of Malkos," ca. 1680. Opaque watercolor on paper. Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. 1990.962
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April 5, 2025 through May 18, 2025
May 31, 2025 through April 5, 2026
August 2, 2025 through February 8, 2026
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