San Diego, CA—The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will present two exhibitions this fall that highlight work from the Museum’s vast permanent collection. México quiero conocerte: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide and Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World will both open on the evening of Thursday, November 21, at the Museum’s monthly free program, Downtown at Sundown. The exhibitions will remain on view through March 15, 2020.
San Diego, CA—The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) will host its 43rd annual Monte Carlo gala from 6:30 to 11:30 PM on Saturday, September 7, 2019. Themed “An Art Affair II,” the event will be held at the private Rancho Santa Fe home of devoted arts patrons and ARTnews top 200 art collectors, Iris and Matthew Strauss.
San Diego, CA—On the evening of Thursday, June 20, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will present three new exhibitions at its monthly free program, Downtown at Sundown.
Marnie Weber: Songs that Never Die and Other Stories; More like a Forest: Paintings and Sculptures by Richard Allen Morris; and Prospect 2019 will remain on view through November 3, 2019.
WHAT: Eccentricity Has Room: Artists from the MFA Program UC San Diego presents the 13 graduating artists from the UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts Master of Fine Arts program, whose works represent a range of critical investigations that turn inward, grappling with the schisms between lived and perceived experience. Seen together, these works reflect not only the cultivation of their individual practices, but also the community and camaraderie that they built along the way.
San Diego, CA—On the evening of Thursday, February 21, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will open Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen at its monthly free program, Downtown at Sundown. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, June 2, 2019.
San Diego, CA—On the evening of Thursday, November 15, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened Sanctuary Print Shop at its monthly free program, Downtown at Sundown. The project is conceived of by artists Sergio De La Torre and Chris Treggiari, and will remain on view through March 10, 2019.
San Diego, CA—On Wednesday, November 14, at 7 PM, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) Department of Visual Arts will present the annual Russell Lecture at the Price Center Theater at UC San Diego. This year’s featured speaker is acclaimed LA-based multimedia artist Zackary Drucker.
San Diego—The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) broke ground on its long planned for expansion project this morning at a special ceremony led by MCASD’s David C. Copley Director and CEO Kathryn Kanjo, Board President Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, and Founding Principal of Selldorf Architects, Annabelle Selldorf. Congressman Scott Peters, San Diego City Council President Pro Tem Barbara Bry, Assemblyman Todd Gloria, and Supervisor Ron Roberts were all in attendance to celebrate another milestone in this important civic project.
On October 18, 2018, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) will break ground on its highly anticipated $95M expansion project in La Jolla.
This momentous event will be led by the Museum’s David C. Copley Director and CEO Kathryn Kanjo, Board President Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, and Founding Principal of Selldorf Architects Annabelle Selldorf. MCASD Trustees and Capital Campaign supporters will be in attendance.
San Diego, CA— On Thursday, September 20, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened a new exhibition, Being Here with You/ Estando aquí contigo: 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana. Highlighting distinctive practices shaping conversations and communities in our binational region and beyond, the exhibition brings together work by 42 artists and collectives living and working in the San Diego and Tijuana region. The exhibition will remain on view through February 3, 2019.
