Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Past Exhibitions
Barry La Vea runs straight to a wall, as performance art.

Previously on view at MCASD
Projections: Anti-Materialism

Since the MCASD’s founding in 1941, exhibitions curated from within the Collection and from around the globe have made the MCASD a place where audiences can truly experience their world, their region, and themselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Explore past exhibitions from the MCASD’s rich history in this archive (exhibitions are listed under the year they opened).

Exhibition Archive
2020s

Previously on view at MCASD
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

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

Previously on view at MCASD
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability

More Exhibitions from the 2020s
2010s
Uses of Photography displayed inside museum.

Previously on view at MCASD
The Uses of Photography: Art, Politics, and the Reinvention of a Medium

Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface

Previously on view at MCASD
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface

More Exhibitions from the 2010s
2000s
Irwin Light Space. Viewers stand in empty space, absorbing bright lights that beam off the wall.

Previously on view at MCASD
Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries

Ultrabaroque

Previously on view at MCASD
Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art

More Exhibitions from the 2000s
1990s
Prints by the artist John Baldessari, featuring typography and photography, are framed neatly inside this museum.

Previously on view at MCASD
John Baldessari: National City

La Frontera

Previously on view at MCASD
La Frontera/The Border: Art about the Mexico/United States Border Experience

More Exhibitions from the 1990s
1980s
Alice Aycock

Previously on view at MCASD
Sitings: Alice Aycock, Richard Fleischner, Mary Miss, George Trakas

1970s
Barry La Vea runs straight to a wall, as performance art.

Previously on view at MCASD
Projections: Anti-Materialism