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Aaron Kramer: Sense of Wonder

Oceanside Museum of Art presents Sense of Wonder, a playful and inventive exhibition by artist and maker Aaron Kramer. Featuring kinetic sculptures, automata, and drawing machines built from salvaged materials, […]

Maryam Bayat: Unrolling Paradise

The California Center for the Arts, Escondido presents Unrolling Paradise, an exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Maryam Bayat that examines the Persian garden as a living design tradition carried through textiles, […]

David Adey: Sacrificial Bodies

As the first comprehensive mid-career survey of San Diego artist , this exhibition traces more than 25 years of a creative practice defined by a persistent exploration of what it […]

Amoxtlis

José Hugo Sánchez: Amoxtlis Amoxtlis—the Nahuatl word for “codices”—centers Sánchez’s large-scale printmaking practice, which draws from the visual language of Mesoamerican codices while engaging the cultural and political conditions of […]

Cat Gunn: if only by the light of a new moon

Cat Gunn’s first solo museum exhibition, if only by the light of a new moon, explores the complex terrain of inherited memory and the seemingly impossible nostalgia for a home […]

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World

Photographer, fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist, and writer Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) was an extraordinary force in the twentieth-century British and American creative scenes. This is the first exhibition dedicated to […]

25th Annual Paper Theatre Festival

Tiny stages tell big stories at the 25th Annual Paper Theatre Festival Exhibition, on view July 14–September 27, 2026 at Geisel Library on the UC San Diego campus during the […]

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