American Art
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On View
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.
Featured Exhibition
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.
Collection Galleries
Through June 20, 2021
Defining what it means to be American is not an easy feat. It’s a question that has been posited since the country’s founding and the answer is not finite, but rather ever-changing and subjective. Here, the works of American artists including Audrey Flack, Beverly McIver, Alison Saar, and Fritz Scholder are highlighted in an effort to give voice to the breadth of artists whose work engages with questions of identity.
On View
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
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).
Coming Soon
Opening May 1, 2021
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.
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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
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.
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Collection Galleries
Through September 6, 2021
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Collection Galleries
Through June 20, 2021
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Featured Exhibitions
Through May 9, 2021
June 18, 2021 through September 27, 2021
Built by Argentina-born French collector and Harvard-trained scholar, Georges Bemberg, the collections ranges from Venetian portraits and view paintings to masterworks of the German and French Renaissance. Organized by the Bemberg Foundation, based at the historic Hôtel d’Assézat in Toulouse, the exhibition features over 75 works produced between…
June 18, 2021 through September 27, 2021
Ana de Alvear (born 1962), is an artist and filmmaker from Madrid, Spain who has exhibited throughout Asia, Europe, and South America. This is her first solo exhibition in the United States. Despite seemingly traditional subject matter, the title of this exhibition invites the public to question the veracity of…
May 1, 2021 through May 1, 2022
This new installation in the American art galleries comprises 11 intimate egg tempera paintings by San Diego-based artist Marianela de la Hoz. The group of works all were created in 2020 to 2021 in response to the transformative circumstances imposed by the global pandemic of Covid-19. A related installation features…
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