Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Past Exhibitions
Exhibition Archive
2026

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Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

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Art Auction 2026

2025
print of pizza

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A Decade of Pop Prints and Multiples, 1962 to 1972: The Frank Mitzel Collection

Alex Katz, "Last Look," 1986.

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Alex Katz: Theater and Dance

gallery installation shot

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Prospect 2025

Large black and white canvas depicting a burial.

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Yan Pei-Ming: A Burial in Shanghai

Matt and Iris Strauss by a painting.

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An Artful Life: A Tribute to Matthew C. Strauss

2024
A still from Les Goddesses. A person holds a black and white photograph of four femme-presenting people.

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Film and Video Gallery: For Dear Life Film Series

Intricate weaving artwork.

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Prospect 2024

A close-up of a colorful abstract painting. The painting has thick brushstrokes of many colors, including blue, green, yellow, and red.

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On View: Art Auction 2024

Acrylic painting showing image of a woman looking sideways wearing a bathing cap

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For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability

silhouette of two men swinging masks against a cloudy sky

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Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today

2022
A fleet of kayaks hangs suspended from the roof of a white building, as if ready to embark on a new adventure.

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Sculpture Garden

Large scale installation, comprising of 50,000 nickels and 50,000 matchsticks that represent Soviet Union fighting tanks which outnumbered the Western bloc.

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The Reason for the Neutron Bomb

La Santa Muerte, Yo, y El Diablo, 2021 watercolor and ink on paper

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Figurative Vocabularies: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection

Documentation of the making of For Florence

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Carmen Argote: Filtration System for a Process-based Practice

Splattered, saturated paint drips over a mock up of New York's cityscape by Niki de Saint Phalle

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Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s

A directors chair with Alexis Smith printed on the blue fabric.

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Alexis Smith: The American Way

2023
Black and white image of rubber boots staged diagonally from lower left to top right on a rectangular picture. Ducks are walking toward the opposite direction.

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Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian

Flame-worked borosilicate glass in the form of flowers and lost-wax cast bronze in the form of a hand holding on to the flowers

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Kelly Akashi: Formations

Image of enlarged slingshots leaning on a white wall

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Griselda Rosas: Yo te cuido

Celia Alvarez Muñoz, Petrocuatl, 1988. Courtesy of the artist.

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Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding

2021
Geometric twist to the horizon by incorporating an orange post, that stands in front of abstract pieces on display at MCASD downtown

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Abstract Vocabularies: Selections from the Collection

Joan Jonas video and sculptural installations that use repetition, transformation, and ritual to explore the traditional forms of theater and literature

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Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things

Large scale, charcoal, portraits of women, titled Three Generations, Tres Mujeres by Yolanda Lopez

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Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist